Line #5 Music/ConwayTwitty


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2	->''[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty."]]''
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4	Harold Lloyd Jenkins (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993) was a prolific American CountryMusic singer. He first recorded {{Rockabilly}} for Mercury in The50s. His first hit was "It's Only Make Believe", a major pop hit. After Ray Price cut one of his songs, Twitty shifted gears and went Country in The60s. From then until his 1993 death, he was a constant presence on the charts, both as a solo artist and as a recurring duet partner with Music/LorettaLynn.
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6	In his career, Twitty sent forty singles to number one on the Hot Country Songs charts, a record that stood until 2006 when Music/GeorgeStrait broke it.
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8	!!Tropes present:
9	* AgeProgressionSong: "That's My Job." Starts with the singer as a young child, then a teenager/young adult trying to start his music career, then finally a grown man eulogizing his father.
10	* BallisticDiscount: The song "Saturday Night Special" features a variation of this. The narrator buys a pistol from a pawn shop with the intention of using it to kill himself presumably after something happened to his wife, but as he is about to leave, he witnesses the shop's greedy dealer attempt to take advantage of a desperate woman attempting to hock her wedding ring. He then asks the dealer what his life is worth and gets the woman more than a fair price [[RescueRomance and himself potentially a new wife]].
11	* CommonMeter: "Tight Fittin' Jeans".
12	* DisappearedDad: The 1976 {{Tearjerker}} "The Games That Daddies Play," about a 7-year-old boy whose father abandoned him and his mother six years earlier. The boy's longing for a father figure becomes evident in the first two verses, where he asks his mother for permission to go on a camping trip with a friend and his father, wherein he'd engage in hiking, fishing and having man-to-man talks. The mother tearfully informs her son that, indeed, his birth father had left years ago and isn't coming back; whether that means she gave her son is allowed to go camping is never explicitly stated and thus is left to the imagination of the listener.
13	* DualMeaningChorus: "That's My Job": his dad's job to protect him; his dad's job to support him; his job to eulogize his dad.
14	* GenreShift: His jump from {{Rockabilly}} to Country in the 1960s.
15	* IWillWaitForYou: Present in "Don't Cry Joni".
16	* IntercourseWithYou: Most of his 1970s material was ''made'' of this trope, but "I'd Love to Lay You Down" is a pretty strong example.
17	** "You've Never Been This Far Before" is obviously about preparing to make love to a virgin.
18	* LineOfSightName: He picked his stage name by spotting Conway, Arkansas and Twitty, Texas on a road map.
19	* MelancholyMoon: "I Don't Know a Thing About Love" features a "Man in the Moon" who's just as melancholy as the observer, insisting he doesn't really have any answers to anyone's questions.
20	* ParentalLoveSong: "That's My Job" between the narrator and his father. The first two sections are about the singer's father reassuring him after the singer has a nightmare of his dad dying as a small child, followed by the father supporting the singer's dreams of [[QuestToTheWest go out west]] to start his music career despite the two fighting constantly during the singer's teenage years. The final section of the song is the singer eulogizing his late father.
21	* PosthumousCollaboration: He was subject to a strange one by singer Anita Cochran in 2004. She and producer Jim Ed Norman spliced his voice together from existing recordings to create a "duet" vocal on "I Wanna Hear a Cheatin' Song".
22	** His "appearances" on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' as a running joke. However, in one episode, where Peter and his friends meet God, God says to them, "Oh, by the way, Conway Twitty says, 'Cut it out. Just write a joke.'" From then on, no Twitty songs were ever used.
23	* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "Tight Fittin' Jeans".
24	* TheManInTheMoon: Referenced in "I Don't Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song)":
25	-->I talked to the man in the moon\
26	I said, "Sir, is she coming back soon?"\
27	He smiled and he stated\
28	"Son, I'm over-rated\
29	I've had to much credit in those old love tunes\
30	I don't know a thing about love\
31	I just kind of hang here above\
32	I just watch from the sky\
33	Will love grow or will it die\
34	I don't know a thing about love"
35	* TruckDriversGearChange: Inverted on "I'd Love to Lay You Down", which repeats the chorus in progressively lower keys at the end.
36	* WithLyrics: In 1972, he wrote lyrics to Floyd Cramer's instrumental piano piece "Last Date" and had a #1 hit with the now-titled "Lost Her Love on Our Last Date". Ten years later, Emmylou Harris did likewise with a [[TheCoverChangesTheGender gender-flipped version]] of Twitty's lyrics.

Context Music / ConwayTwitty