Audio CD review:
Conway Twitty - Gold

Conway Twitty - Gold

Band: Conway Twitty Title: Gold Rating: Release Date: 2006-03-07 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: It's Only Make Believe 2: Mona Lisa 3: Lonely Blue Boy 4: What Am I Living For 5: Next In Line 6: To See My Angel Cry 7: Hello Darlin' 8: Fifteen Years Ago 9: After The Fire Is Gone 10: How Much More Can She Stand 11: (Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date 12: I Can't Stop Loving You 13: She Needs Someone To Hold Her (When She Cries) 14: Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man 15: You've Never Been This Far Before 16: I See The Want In Your Eyes 17: Linda On My Mind 18: Touch The Hand 19: After All The Good Is Gone 20: I Can't Believe She Gives It All To Me 21: Play, Guitar Play 22: I've Already Loved You In My Mind 23: Don't Take It Away 24: I May Never Get To Heaven 25: Happy Birthday Darlin' 26: I'd Just Love To Lay You Down 27: Rest Your Love On Me 28: I Still Believe In Waltzes 29: Tight Fittin' Jeans 30: Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night 31: The Clown 32: Slow Hand 33: The Rose 34: I Don't Know A Thing About Love 35: Desperado Love 36: Julia 37: That's My Job 38: She's Got A Single Thing On Her Mind 39: Crazy In Love 40: I Couldn't See You Leavin'

impressive "15 Years Ago," "Hello Darlin," "Julia," "Desperado Love," and many others of his greatest hits are on this 2-disc collection. This was one of my favorite collections, not just by Conway Twitty but by anyone. Any fan of Conway will love this, and it will make a fan of non-fans. It met and exceeded my expectations. Great Collection! This CD had alot of Conway Twitty hits and his early Rock and Roll stuff. Im not a huge country fan, but I just fell in love with the song Hello Darlin which I heard from a clip that The Family Guy TV show used in a HEE HAW mocking. Plus the songs sounded of great quality (Remastered). Huge fan now. . . . . . thanks Family Guy!. Conway Twitty At His Best It has all his great songs, from the very beginning, to his last ones, and all the great hits in between. I love this CD. The two songs that made me decide to buy this CD are "Loney Blue Boy" (which was very hard to find) and "That's My Job". Any true Conway fan will literally fall in love with this CD. Nice overview, but get the box set if you can Yet his amply annotated and illustrated Gold forgoes 10 (including "Somebody's Needin' Somebody," "The Games That Daddies Play" and a few duets with Loretta Lynn) that spent a single week at the top in order to expand the chronological set's reach, hold it to 40 songs and provide four 1958-60 MGM charters predating his country career. Stretching from 1968's "Next In Line" to 1986's tame "Desperado Love," Conway Twitty's string of #1 country hits is indeed impressive. A set titled Gold inevitably skips his long-unissued Sun sessions recorded under his original name, Harold Jenkins, and obscure Mercury sides done after he became Conway Twitty, somewhat based on Bye Bye Birdie's character Conrad Birdie. The emphasis is hits: partly narrated "Happy Birthday Darlin'," nostalgic "Play, Guitar, Play," a not-too-disco "Slow Hand," three duets with Lynn. So personal is his tone that any woman could imagine he's singing "I Would Love To Lay You Down" just to her in her home. His voice holds its own against "I May Never Get To Heaven"'s grandiose backup. An abdominal aneurysm felled Twitty in 1993, at a young 59, just two years after his final top-10 country hit, the package's finale "I Couldn't See You Leavin'. " Get the four-disc The Conway Twitty Collection (1994) for the most complete picture of his career if you can afford it. A worthy collection For some reason Conway (and others) had a habit of re-recording songs 3 or 4 times a decade only to be released on compilation albums. This Conway Collection is one of the few out there with all original recordings. This one, however, contains 40 original recordings, with great sound. While I'm not a fan of his later stuff (the late-'70's onward), the first Cd of this 2-CD collection contains some of the finest country gold ever to hit the air. Such hits as "Linda On My MInd", "15 Years Ago", and "Next in Line" make this first Cd a favorite in my CD rotation. The 2d CD however, contains a lot of his later stuff that lacks the soul and sincerity that made Conway a Country legend. However, if you're a fan of the Pop Country sound, you'll enjoy this 2d CD as well. For the true Conway Twitty fan, this Cd should be on the top of your list. You can see a complete list of all Conway Twitty discography, or go back to the Conway Twitty tabs