After much agonizing (and quite a few wonderful hours re-listening to things I hadn’t heard in a long while), I have ranked my 30 favorite Conway Twitty songs.
Note that this is the list of MY favorites, not what I consider to be his most important songs, most commercially successful, most significant or impressive artistically. I’ve ranked them according to how much I love them.
Feel free to share your favorites with me through my website at www.MichaelBerryshow.com .
If there is a song I’ve left off, please send that to me, and share why that song is special to you. If you just want to share that there is a song that you like that isn’t on the list, please trust that I’ve searched up literally every song Conway ever recorded, and I am aware of the song, it just did not make my list.
I stuck to 30, which isn’t easy with Conway. I hope you’ll take the time to listen to these songs anew and enjoy them with a fresh air. For instance, I don’t think the song “Play Guitar Play” ever got its due. After I finished working on this list for quite some time, and listening to Conway for many hours on end, I went back and compared my list to the lists made by music magazines and critics. Nobody put that song on any list, which just baffles me. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this list, and I hope you go back and listen to a song whose name you recognize but – upon listening to it again today – now realize that you liked that song more than you remembered.
Rest Your Love is my #1 favorite Conway song.
Goodbye Time is #2.
Take it from there. A few thoughts are down below.
NOTE: Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man*
Easy Lovin*
Lead Me On*
Rainy Night in Georgia***
After The Fire Is Gone*
*Duet with Loretta Lynn
**Duet with Conway’s then-16-year-old daughter, Joni. Conway’s only duet with a woman other than Loretta. He did the duet with Sam Moore late in his career, and he did a duet in ’88 for a remake of It’s Only Make Believe with Ronnie McDowell (kinda in the vein of Buck Owens joining Dwight Yoakum on Streets of Bakersfield)
***Duet with Sam Moore