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Conway Twitty

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Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty
Informação geral
Nome completo Harold Lloyd Jenkins
Nascimento 1 de setembro de 1933
Origem Friars Point, Mississippi
País  Estados Unidos
Morte 5 de junho de 1993 (59 anos)
Local de morte Springfield, Missouri
Gênero(s) Música country
rock 'n' roll
Ocupação(ões) cantor, letrista
Período em atividade 1955—1993
Gravadora(s) MCA Records, Elektra Records, MGM, Decca Records
Afiliação(ões) Loretta Lynn

Conway Twitty, nome artístico de Harold Lloyd Jenkins, (Springfield, 1 de setembro de 1933Springfield, 5 de junho de 1993) foi um cantor e letrista americano. Uma de suas parcerias com Loretta Lynn, "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (Mulher de Louisiana, homem do Mississippi) figurou na trilha sonora do jogo eletrônico Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, mais precisamente na rádio K-Rose. Já foi citado várias vezes no seriado Family Guy e canta uma música inteira no 9º episódio da 7ª temporada chamada "I See The Want to In Your Eyes".

Embora nunca tenha sido um membro da Grand Ole Opry, ele foi introduzido tanto no Hall da Fama da Música Country, quanto no Hall da Fama do Rockabilly.

Academy of Country Music
  • Melhor dueto de vocal de 1971 com Loretta Lynn
  • Melhor dueto de vocal de 1974 com Loretta Lynn
  • Melhor dueto de vocal de 1975 com Loretta Lynn - "Feelin's"
  • Melhor vocalista masculino de 1975
  • Melhor dueto de vocal de 1975 com Loretta Lynn
  • Melhor dueto de vocal de 1976 com Loretta Lynn
Country Music Association
  • Dueto de vocal do ano de 1972 com Loretta Lynn
  • Dueto de vocal do ano de 1973 com Loretta Lynn
  • Dueto de vocal do ano de 1974 com Loretta Lynn
  • Dueto de vocal do ano de 1975 com Loretta Lynn
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Adicionado em 1999
Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame
  • Nomeação póstuma
Grammy Awards
  • Grammy Award para melhor performance country por um dueto ou grupo com vocal de 1971 com Loretta Lynn - "After the Fire is Gone"
  • Hall of Fame Award de 1991 - "Hello Darlin'"
Rockabilly Hall of Fame
  • Nomeação póstuma

Álbuns de estúdio

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Ano Álbum Posições nas paradas RIAA Gravadora
Country dos EUA EUA
1958 Conway Twitty Sings MGM
1959 Saturday Night
1960 Lonely Blue Boy
A Rock and Roll Story
1961 The Conway Twitty Touch
1962 Portrait of a Fool
1964 Hit the Road
1966 Conway Twitty Sings 25 Decca
Look Into My Teardrops 22
1967 Conway Twitty Country 32
1968 Here's Conway Twitty & His Lonely Blue Boys 12
Next in Line 9
1969 Darling, You Know I Wouldn't Lie 6
I Love You More Today 7 161
You Can't Take Country Out of Conway MGM
1970 To See My Angel Cry 8 Decca
Hello Darlin' 1 65 Ouro
Conway Twitty MGM
Fifteen Years Ago 4 140 Decca
1971 How Much More Can She Stand 5 91
I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving 5 142
1972 Conway Twitty Sings the Blues MGM
I Can't See Me Without You 10 130 Decca
I Can't Stop Loving You 3
1973 She Needs Someone to Hold Her 3 MCA
You've Never Been This Far Before 1 134 Ouro
Clinging to a Saving Hand 13
Who Will Pray for Me
1974 Honky Tonk Angel 1
I'm Not Through Loving You Yet 4
1975 Linda on My Mind 1
High Priest of Country Music 3
Twitty 3
1976 Now and Then 4
1977 Play, Guitar Play 3
I've Already Loved You in My Mind 4
1978 Georgia Keeps Pulling on My Ring 13
Conway 13
1979 Country Rock
Cross Winds 11
1980 Heart & Soul 10
Rest Your Love on Me 12
1981 Mr. T 5
1982 Southern Comfort 5 144 Elektra
Dream Maker 15
1983 Lost in the Feeling 27 Warner
Merry Twismas 37
1984 By Heart 18
1985 Don't Call Him a Cowboy 7
Chasin' Rainbows 29
1986 A Night with Conway Twitty MCA
Fallin' for You for Years 37 Warner
1987 Borderline 25
1988 Still in Your Dreams 28 MCA
1989 House on Old Lonesome Road 39
1990 Crazy in Love 35
1991 Even Now
1993 Final Touches 29 135
1995 Sings Songs of Love
2007 A Twismas Story Conway Twitty

Álbuns com Loretta Lynn

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Ano Álbum Posições nas paradas RIAA Gravadora
Country dos EUA EUA
1971 We Only Make Believe 3 78 Ouro Decca
Lead Me On 2 106 Ouro
1973 Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man 1 153 MCA
1974 Country Partners 1
1975 Feelins' 1
1976 United Talent 1
1977 Dynamic Duo 3
1978 Honky Tonk Heroes 8
1980 Diamond Duet 22
1981 Two's a Party 28
1984 Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
1988 Making Believe 62
1992 Country Gospel Greats
Ano Álbum Country dos EUA RIAA Gravadora
1960 Greatest Hits MGM
1971 Hits
1972 Conway Twitty's Greatest Hits Vol. I 11 Ouro Decca
1976 Conway Twitty's Greatest Hits Vol. II 1 Ouro MCA
1978 The Very Best of Conway Twitty 13 Platina
1979 The Very Best of Loretta and Conway
(com Loretta Lynn)
19 Ouro
1982 Number Ones 20 Ouro
1983 Conway's #1 Classics, Vol. 1 21 Elektra
Conway's #1 Classics, Vol. 2 35
Classic Conway 57 Warner
1984 Conway's Latest Greatest Hits-Volume I 25
1990 Greatest Hits Volume III 54 MCA
1995 Super Hits 71
2001 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection 65
2004 The Legend 73 Disco Platina
25 Number Ones 29 MCA
Ano Single Máxima posição atingida Álbum
Country dos EUA EUA CAN Country CAN
1957 "I Need Your Lovin'" 93 Single only
1958 "It's Only Make Believe" 1 Sings
1959 "Story of My Love" 28
1959 "Hey Little Lucy (Don'tcha Put No Lipstick On)" 87 Saturday Night
"Mona Lisa" 29 Sings
"Danny Boy" 10 Saturday Night
"Lonely Blue Boy" 6 Lonely Blue Boy
1960 "What Am I Living For" 26 Greatest Hits
"She's Mine" 98 Saturday Night
"C'est Si Bon" 22 Single only
1961 "Next Kiss (Is the Last Goodbye)" 72 Portrait of a Fool
"Portrait of a Fool" 98
1966 "Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart" 18 Conway Twitty Sings
"Look Into My Teardrops" 36 Look Into My Teardrops
1967 "I Don't Want to Be With Me" 21
"Funny (But I'm Not Laughing)" 61 Country
1968 "The Image of Me" 5 2 Here's Conway Twitty
"Next In Line" 1 2 Next In Line
"Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie" 2 2 Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie
1969 "I Love You More Today" 1 2 I Love You More Today
"To See My Angel Cry" 1 1 To See My Angel Cry
"That's When She Started to Stop Loving You" 3 4
1970 "Hello Darlin'" 1 60 2 Hello Darlin'
"Fifteen Years Ago" 1 81 1 Fifteen Years Ago
"What Am I Living For" (re-release) 59 Hits
1971 "How Much More Can She Stand" 1 1 How Much More Can She Stand
"What a Dream" (re-release) 50 26 Hits
"I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving" 4 3 I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving
"I Can't See Me Without You" 4 1 I Can't See Me Without You
1972 "(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date" 1 1 I Can't Stop Loving You
"I Can't Stop Loving You" 1 1
"She Needs Someone to Hold Her (When She Cries)" 1 8 She Needs Someone to Hold Her
1973 "Baby's Gone" 2 2 You've Never Been This Far Before
"You've Never Been This Far Before" 1 22 1 30
1974 "There's a Honky Tonk Angel (Who'll Take Me Back In)" 1 1 Honky Tonk Angel
"I'm Not Through Loving You Yet" 3 1 I'm Not Through Loving You Yet
"I See the Want to In Your Eyes" 1 1
1975 "Linda on My Mind" 1 61 1 51 Linda on My Mind
"Touch the Hand" 1 8 The High Priest of Country Music
"This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me" 1 1 This Time I've Hurt Her More
"Don't Cry Joni" (com Joni Lee) 4 63 2 94 The High Priest of Country Music
1976 "After All The Good Is Gone" 1 1 Now and Then
"Games That Daddies Play" 1 1 Greatest Hits 2
"(I Can't Believe) She Gives It All to Me" 1 1 Play Guitar Play
1977 "Play Guitar Play" 1 1
"I've Already Loved You In My Mind" 1 4 I've Already Loved You In My Mind
"Georgia Keeps Pulling on My Ring" 3 1 Georgia Keeps Pulling on My Ring
1978 "Grandest Lady of Them All" 16 12
"Boogie Grass Band" 2 1 Conway
"Your Love Had Taken Me That High" 3 1
1979 "Don't Take It Away" 1 1 Cross Winds
"I May Never Get to Heaven" 1 1
"Happy Birthday Darlin'" 1 13
1980 "I'd Love to Lay You Down" 1 1 Heart and Soul
"I've Never Seen the Likes of You" 6 7
"A Bridge That Just Won't Burn" 3 6 Rest Your Love on Me
1981 "Rest Your Love on Me"/ 1 9
"I Am the Dreamer (You Are the Dream)" flip
"Tight Fittin' Jeans" 1 8 Mr. T
"Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night" 1 3
"The Clown" 1 7 Southern Comfort
1982 "Slow Hand" 1 6
"Over Thirty (Not Over the Hill)" 69 Mr. T
"We Did But Now You Don't" 2 2 Dream Maker
1983 "The Rose" 1 1
"Lost in the Feeling" 2 1 Lost in the Feeling
"Heartache Tonight" 6 3
"We Had It All" 44 Mr. T
"Three Times a Lady" 7 4 Lost in the Feeling
1984 "Somebody's Needin' Somebody" 1 3 By Heart
"I Don't Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song)" 1 1
"Ain't She Somethin' Else" 1 1 Latest Greatest Hits
1985 "Don't Call Him a Cowboy" 1 1 Don't Call Him a Cowboy
"Between Blue Eyes and Jeans" 3 7
"Legend and the Man" 19 21 Chasin' Rainbows
"You'll Never Know How Much I Needed You Today" 26 35
1986 "Desperado Love" 1 1 Fallin' for You for Years
"Fallin' for You for Years" 2 2
1987 "Julia" 2 3 Borderline
"I Want to Know You Before We Make Love" 2 2
"That's My Job" 6 4
1988 "Goodbye Time" 7 11 Still in Your Dreams
"Saturday Night Special" 9 *
"I Wish I Was Still in Your Dreams" 4 *
1989 "She's Got a Single Thing in Mind" 2 4 House on Old Lonesome Road
"House on Old Lonesome Road" 19 28
"Who's Gonna Know" 51
1990 "Fit to Be Tied Down" 30 Greatest Hits 3
"Crazy in Love" 2 4 Crazy in Love
"I Couldn't See You Leavin'" 3 3
1991 "One Bridge I Didn't Burn" 57
"She's Got a Man on Her Mind" 22 43 Even Now
"Who Did They Think We Was" 56 93
1993 "I'm the Only Thing (I'll Hold Against You)" 62 55 Final Touches
"Don't It Make You Lonely"
1994 "Rainy Night in Georgia" (com Sam Moore)

Singles com Loretta Lynn

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Ano Single Máximas posições atingidas Álbum
Country dos EUA EUA Country do Canadá
1971 "After the Fire Is Gone" 1 56 4 We Only Make Believe
"Lead Me On" 1 1 Lead Me On
1973 "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" 1 1 Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
1974 "As Soon as I Hang up the Phone" 1 1 Country Partners
1975 "Feelin's" 1 2 Feelin's
1976 "The Letter" 3 1 United Talent
1977 "I Can't Love You Enough" 2 1 Dynamic Duo
1978 "From Seven Till Ten" 6 2 Honky Tonk Heroes
"You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" flip
1979 "You Know Just What I'd Do" 9 5 Diamond Duet
"The Sadness of It All" flip
1980 "It's True Love" 5 2
1981 "Lovin' What Your Love Does to Me" 7 5 Two's a Party
"I Still Believe in Waltzes" 2 3
1988 "Makin' Believe" Makin' Believe
"—" indica que o single não figurou na parada

Participações especiais

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Ano Nome Artista Posições nas paradas Álbum
Country dos EUA Country do Canadá
1988 "It's Only Make Believe" (re-gravação) Ronnie McDowell 8 5 I'm Still Missing You
2004 "(I Wanna Hear) A Cheatin' Song" Anita Cochran 57 God Created Woman

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