Conway Twitty: Early Years and King of Hits!

This is one of two VHS home video's that were issued in the early 1990's on Conway Twitty from the people associated with Willie Nelson. Willie, in fact, appears on the two video's at the beginning offering commentary about Conway and some background information for newcomer's to Conway's career. The Early Years focuses on material picked at random from the early to mid 1970's and material from the 1980's. Throughout the video, an off-screen narrator is heard between the songs. Each group of songs are fit under a banner like "Heart Throb" and "Hit Songwriter", etc etc. The performance of "Linda on My Mind" comes from an early 1980's appearance on Pop! Goes the Country. It's an acoustic performance...sitting in front of the host, Tom T Hall. The rest of the songs, pretty much, are selected from the era's in which they were recorded.

The play-list on this home video is as follows:

1. Linda On My Mind {1981)
2. To See My Angel Cry {1970}
3. Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries- with Loretta Lynn
4. God Bless America, Again- with Loretta Lynn
5. Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man- with Loretta Lynn {1985 awards show}
6. This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me {1976}
7. The Games That Daddies Play {1976}
8. That's When She Started To Stop Loving You {1970}
9. Georgia Keeps Pulling On My Ring {1978}
10. Don't Call Him a Cowboy {1985}
11. Somebody's Needin' Somebody {1984}
12. Goodbye Time {1988}


On this particular home video, Willie Nelson appears in the beginning telling us about Conway's famous #1 hits... "over 50 and growing". Throughout the video a scroll of number one songs fly up the screen between song performances. When it comes to the song about ready to appear next, the title comes up onto the screen closer and fades into the performance. The graphics carry a baseball design...using the term "hitting one out of the ball park" to describe a #1 song. Conway's interest in baseball is highlighted as well. There is a minor problem with this certain video. I have a copy as you see in the picture and it lists "Rest Your Love On Me" as one of the songs in the list but it isn't on my video. It goes from "Tight Fittin' Jeans" to "The Clown"...even though it shows "Rest Your Love On Me" in between those two songs on the video song list, it isn't on the video. For those who want to see him perform that song, track down the various DVD's called "Country Legends Live" and search for it. Anyway, here is the video list...

1. It's Only Make Believe {early 1970's}
2. I'd Love To Lay You Down {1980}
3. Hello Darlin' {1981; performed acoustically on Pop! Goes the Country}
4. I See The Want To In Your Eyes {1974}
5. Touch the Hand {1975}
6. You've Never Been This Far Before {1974}
7. I Can't Believe She Gives It All To Me {1977}
8. Don't Take It Away {1979}
9. Tight Fittin' Jeans {1982}
10. The Clown {1982}
11. Slow Hand {1982}