The Top-40 Hits

There were some songs released by Conway Twitty that did not reach the Top-10. There was a handful of singles that peaked outside the Top-10 but ranked in the Top-40 (singles ranging in peak positions of #40 through #11). Conway's statistics are mind-blowing because when you go by the numbers and factor in both his pop and country success Conway placed 97 singles on the Top-40 charts during a 36 year career span: 1958-1996. The amazing statistics are of those 97 Top-40 singles, 78 of them entered the Top-10 and 55 of those 78 reached #1. The difference is 19. There are 19 singles that entered the Top-40 for Conway that did not go into the Top-10.

Here is the list of the handful of Top-40 singles:

1. The Story of My Love; 1959 Top-30 pop
2. Mona Lisa; 1959 Top-30 pop
3. What Am I Living For?; 1960 Top-30 pop
4. Is A Bluebird Blue; 1960 Top-40 pop
5. C'est Ci Bon; 1961 Top-30 pop
6. Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart; 1966Top-20 country
7. Look Into My Teardrops; 1966 Top-40 country
8. I Don't Want To Be With Me; 1967Top-40 country
9. Don't Put Your Hurt In My Heart; 1967 Top-40 country
10. The Grandest Lady of Them All; 1978 Top-20 country
11. The Legend and The Man; 1985 Top-20 Cashbox
12. You'll Never Know How Much I Needed You Today; 1985 Top-30 country
13. House On Old Lonesome Road; 1989 Top-20 country
14. Who's Gonna Know?; 1990 Top-20 Cashbox
15. Fit To Be Tied Down; 1990 Top-30 Radio and Records
16. One Bridge I Didn't Burn; 1991 Top-40 Cashbox
17. She's Got a Man On Her Mind; 1991 Top-20 Radio and Records
18. Don't It Make You Lonely; 1994 Top-40 Cashbox 
19. Rainy Night In Georgia; 1994 with Sam Moore Top-40 Canada Adult-Contemporary

The 18th single was issued by MCA with little fan-fare. Also, it appeared nearly a year after Conway had passed away. It is on his final studio album for MCA, entitled Final Touches, and it can be found on the career look-back box set MCA released in 1994 called The Conway Twitty Collection. The single at 19 was the last thing Conway ever recorded. It happened in the spring of 1993 for a duets project of various artists titled Rhythm, Country, and Blues.

The music video became a popular staple of The Nashville Network...showing Conway and Sam inside the recording studio performing the song. Throughout the clip we see footage of Conway, Sam, producer Don Was, producer Tony Brown, and others kidding around in the studio during the instrumental solo's. The duet reached the Adult-Contemporary chart in Canada for a brief run in 1994. In spite of the duet having both Conway and Sam Moore, two legendary music figures, it didn't reach the mainstream country or pop charts in America.

The single at 17 was the last major hit for Conway, reaching the Top-20, as you can see. That single is on Even Now which featured another single, "Who Did They Think He Was". That particular recording was the last single of his on the charts in his lifetime. It peaked at #45 on the Cashbox chart in early 1992. A music video was made of this song. It was his second music video...his first being his 1990 #1 "Crazy In Love".