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Often billed as "The best friend a song ever had," Conway Twitty was highly regarded for his ability to transform other writers' words and melodies into hit records. His success as a sensual stylist sometimes overshadowed his own skills as a writer, but he was more than a good friend to others' songs: He was also a gifted creator who penned 11 of his 40 #1 Billboard country hits.
The Mississippi kid born Harold Jenkins turned out to be a good ballplayer whose professional baseball aspirations were waylaid when he was drafted into the military during the Korean War.
Once discharged, he headed to Memphis' Sun Records in hopes of becoming an Elvis Presley-style rockabilly artist, but his Sun recordings were not released. However, he did land a cut with Sun artist Roy Orbison, who recorded his "Rock House." In 1957, he changed his name to Conway Twitty, after the towns of Conway, Arkansas and Twitty, Texas.
Subsequently, he scored 14 hits on the pop charts between 1957 and 1962, i