Conway Twitty made the Country Hall Of Fame back in 1999, but still remains overlooked when it comes to rock’n’roll
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Features about rock and pop stars tend to fall into two categories. There are the ones about the accepted greats, where no superlative is too extreme. And there are the ones about the underrated performers, many of them overlooked during their performing careers. Conway Twitty – real name Harold Jenkins – belongs in neither category.
He was an artist who took what relatively average talent he had and squeezed it for every drop of success it could yield. He did some good, if not particularly original, Elvis-style rockabilly. He co-wrote one of the all-time great rockaballads It’s Only Make Believe and had a smash cross-Atlantic hit with it, but it was Glen Campbell who really gave this great song the full kitchen sink treatment that it deserved a few years later.