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Conway Twitty - 20 Greatest Hits

Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn - Conway Twitty - 20 Greatest Hits Audio CD

A fair review of the Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn "Conway Twitty - 20 Greatest Hits" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn reviews here, or go back to the Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn tabs.

Band: Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Title: Conway Twitty - 20 Greatest Hits
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hello Darlin' 2: Fifteen Years Ago 3: I Can't See Me Without You 4: (Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date 5: Baby's Gone 6: You've Never Been This Far Before 7: I'm Not Through Loving You Yet 8: Linda on My Mind 9: There's a Honky Tonk Angel (Who Will Take Me Back In) 10: (I Can't Believe) She Gives It All to Me 11: I See the Want in Your Eyes 12: Don't Cry Joni 13: Georgia Keeps Pulling on My Ring 14: I've Already Loved You in My Mind 15: Don't Take It Away 16: I May Never Get to Heaven 17: I'd Love to Lay You Down 18: Rest Your Love on Me 19: Tight Fittin' Jeans 20: Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night

1990 re-issue/1987 compilation
This CD was originally issued in 1987 by MCA in celebration of his return to the label after a four year run with Warner Brothers. There are several collections being offered on Amazon titled "20 Greatest Hits" and after listening to the song samples on the other collections I will inform consumers who want the original hit recordings to seek out this CD.

The 20 songs on this 1987 CD are all original recordings. There are a couple of other CD's with this same name that were issued several years ago but the recordings on those collections are from 1982, the year Conway re-recorded a lot of his 1970's and 1960's classics for a couple of albums called "Classics".

If you are wanting the original recordings of these songs, look for this CD with Conway sitting backwards on a chair in a black shirt with his hands resting on top of the chair similar to the picture of Conway that appears on ULTIMATE COLLECTION from 1999.

The songs contained on this 1987 collection feature classic Conway, 1970-1981. This is one of the few career retrospective collections to not include any duets with Loretta and this is because in 1987, when this CD was originally issued, MCA already had out a collection called "20 Greatest Hits" showcasing 20 of Conway and Loretta's duet recordings.

Track List:

1. Hello Darlin'
2. Fifteen Years Ago
3. I Can't See Me Without You
4. Lost Her Love On Our Last Date
5. Baby's Gone
6. You've Never Been This Far Before
7. I'm Not Through Loving You Yet
8. Linda On My Mind
9. There's a Honky Tonk Angel Who'll Take Me Back In
10. I Can't Believe She Gives It All To Me
11. I See The Want To In Your Eyes
12. Don't Cry, Joni
13. Georgia Keeps Pulling On My Ring
14. I've Already Loved You In My Mind
15. Don't Take It Away
16. I May Never Get To Heaven
17. I'd Love To Lay You Down
18. Rest Your Love On Me
19. Tight Fittin' Jeans
20. Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night

The other collections called "20 Greatest Hits" not only include country songs he re-recorded in 1982 but they also contain a few rock songs from the late 1950's that he re-recorded in 1982. . . so those are some clues as to how you can tell which collection features re-recordings and which one features original recordings.

Although Conway is in fine voice on those re-recordings on the other collections, they're not the originals as you have on this 1987 compilation that was issued first on a vinyl LP in 1987 as well as on cassette, then it was issued on CD in 1990, and then re-issued on CD in 1993 after Conway passed away.

HE WAS A COUNTRY CROSS-OVER TURNED ROCK IDOL
HE HAD AN ELVIS INFLUENCE IN HIS VOICE AND WHEN HE BELTED "IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE" AND 'BURNING BRIDGES" HE BECAME A CULT IDOL, WITH HIS GOOD LOOKS,AND HE HAD HIS OWN FOLLOWERS. CONWAY TWITTY CROSSED-OVER FROM COUNTRY TO ROCK POP SINGER IN THE 50'S. AS THEY SAY. . . "HE HELD HIS OWN". THERE WAS ANOTHER SINGER, WHO WAS HIS CONTEMPORARY, NAMED JACK SCOTT ("WHAT IN THE WORLD'S COME OVER YOU"). I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHICH WAS WHICH BECAUSE I WAS JUST A KID AND THEY SANG IN A SIMILIAR STYLE. CONWAY TWITTY HAD ALOT OF NUMBER ONE HITS AND WAS LIKE THE MALE CONTERPART TO PATSY CLINE. AFTER THE 60'S HE WENT ALL COUNTRY AND LOST THAT TOUCH OF RTHYM AND BLUES IN HIS MUSIC. I RECOMMEND HIS EARLY RECORDINGS ON MGM. BUY THIS C. D. YOU'LL BECOME A FAN!.

20 Greatest Hits (TeeVee)
I have been to concerts of his over and over. I have listened to Conway Twitty from a little girl for about 35 or 40 years. His has sign pictures for me , I have been kiss right on the lips by him. I have all his CDS when there is a new that come out I buy it. HE IS NUMBER ONE AND ALWAY WILL BE NUMBER ONE TO ME. I cryed like a baby when he pasted away but I listen to his music all the time and his is still alive and alway will be to me and my girls they say that no body can take his place (AMEN) to that. I have my grandchilden listening to him they come in and say put DON'T cry Joni on for us and I do. They ask me what my favor one is it hard to pick but I guess if I had to it would be It's only make Believe the words says it all. I still have 45s and lps of his, sometime I take them out and play them. But I just put the CDS on because some of them have 25 songs on them and I can do what I want and enjoy the voice of Conway. All I can say is <"HE IS NUMBER ONE">. I haven't found no one to take his place yet and I will be 47 I love him. You are the Greatest of them all CONWAY you live on for ever and ever LOVE YOU.

Conway at his best; all tracks are original studio quality.
If you desire Conway T or just good Country Ballads on a continuous hit packed CD, then you won't go wrong adding this to your collection. I've been listening to Conway Twitty for some 30 years and this CD has the best coverage of his hit songs that I have seen on any one recording release.

A classic country album "must have" for your collection
If you don't own any of his albums, this will cover you. This is a great collection of Conway Twitty's hits.

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