Such a terrible loss! A beautiful man with a beautiful voice! There will never be another one like him! RIP Conway! You are loved by so many and always will be!
We saw Conway in Branson on his last night there. Imagine our shock when we learned that he had passed away on his way home! I’ve loved Conway since the first song I heard him sing! RIP
I remember hearing what had to have been among the earliest reports of his death (if not THE earliest). I was in a little town in southwestern Pennsylvania (Mononagahela). I was in the parking lot of McDonalds and it came over the car radio. A few minutes earlier, there'd been a report that Conway had been rushed to the hospital. I don't remember the exact time, but it was in the morning. I remember the date-June 5, 1993.
I was fortunate enough to see Conway Twitty in the 80's at Ponderosa park. He was my favorite singer and I still listen to his song's. He was the best singer ever! Rest with Jesus, Conway!
At the time I lived just 100 miles from where it happened. It was so shocking in that he was 59 and now gone. I never heard of any health issues. It was one of those silent killers in our bodies. Appreciate every day you are alive and be grateful for it.
i met Conway in 1991 when I was only 19 and I was sure devistated when I heard he'd passed away. We were supposed to go see him in concert that year. So heart broken. And I still think of that day I met him even to this day. Such great time :). Thank you Aunt Jan for getting me and my sister in line that day to meet him :).
First time I heard Conway was way back in the late 60's on an oldies station. I remember hearing this guy that sounded a bit like Elvis, the song was "Only Make Believe" I wasn't much into country until I moved to Houston in 1976 and I heard this song "After All The Good Is Gone" I feel in love with it and rediscovered Conway!
If my memory serves me correctly, Loretta Lynn's husband was in the same hospital they carried Conway to for this emergency. She was up in the room with her husband and was notified that Conway was in the emergency room and she went down to see him before he actually passed away. MAY THEY BOTH R I P 🙏
I bumped into him once - literally. I was a musician and our band was setting up our equipment, one day, to work for a couple of weeks at the Astro Village Hotel across from the Astrodome in Houston. The Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show was on that week and Conway was in town to perform. It was afternoon and I was rushing from the bar, back out to my truck, to get more musical equipment. I was hurrying and walked out the bar door into the lobby looking down. I ran right into some guy, kinda head on, and said, "Whew...excuse me." I looked up to see I had almost bowled over Conway Twitty who was headed into the bar. I had a big piano belt buckle....don't know if he saw that or not. But he had a big grin on his face when he saw the recognition on my face. This may sound trite but he had this big smile and very kind eyes. He just chuckled and had this friendly look. I never forgot that. He made a lot of great music. As a musician I was in bands that covered many of his tunes. Rest in peace, sir.
Problem is, that many of these discomfort signals are attributed by victim as "old age" or they're just not severe enough to think about going to a doctor.
To listen to Conway Twitty, and Sam Moore singing “Rainy Night In Georgia “ does something for my soul! Those two together make the perfect combination of rhythm, country and blues. Conway truly had a one of a kind voice.
I know Conway Twitty pretty well he went to school my grandpa when he was in town doing a show he would always stop and stay the night with my grandma and grandpa so I knew the man long before I knew his music cuz I was so young I really didn't listen to music into my later years and I learned appreciated music too but he was a great guy some of those pictures of him in my house that picture is out there with me on his shoulder holding up my finger like number one he definitely had the ladies crushing on him that's for sure Conway Twitty is the goat of country music in my mind 55 number one hits at the time of his early death and reason will tell you he would add a few more in him if he had not died when he did it he's also the only artist to have a number one hit in five different decades 50 60 70 80s and 90s never been done before and haven't been done since rip Conway
I’ll never forget being a kid and me and my mom are in the car driving out these country roads when it came across the radio. She ran off the road and came to a screeching halt and started crying. She stayed up for 2 night on the phone with her best friend playing Conway records.
My grandpa got to visit and interview Conway Twitty at an awards show in the 1980s down in Nashville. Said he was the nicest guy. In recent years I've taken deep dives into his discography, and all the while thought how lucky my grandpa is to have known such a great and talented man
My father was found to have this health issues in his early 70's. Luckily the doctors caught this before a rupture and successfully repaired the artery. It did leave a large scar basically from his lower breast bone to below his belly button. I just remember I had just taken my dad for a doctor's visit and we had just gotten home when the phone rang. His doctor told me to take him straight to the hospital that he had called ahead and they would be waiting for him. I believe surgery was done the next day. My father lived to be into his mid-80s before passing. Not sure why I just mentioned all that I'm guessing it was because my dad loved Conway Twitty. Anyway another great job there sir really enjoyed the video.
Thank you for sharing. It’s scary to think that it could be over quickly if something like this isn’t detected. I actually got a screening myself after doing this research. I’m glad to know it can be repaired and that your dad made it out the other side!
HE was one of the Greatest Country Singers who ever lived I listened and still do to his songs I have everything he ever recorded and have wore out and replaced his songs he is greatly missed RIP Conway and God bless you and your Family....
I knew him. He lived in Oklahoma City, and I hung around with his niece at the Kip's Big Boy restaurant on the south side. He would come in and stop at our booth to say "hello." He insisted us kids call him "Uncle Connie." A nice guy and gracious gentleman! He kept his twin Aero Commander at Downtown Airpark where I flew from. I'll always remember the Titty Bird emblem on the tail. Often took my high school sweetheart to the Twitty Burger Restaurant in our neighborhood, first of his chain of restaurants. Conway Twitty, Wanda Jackson and our respective families were all "southside trash!" LOL!
I also have an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. They are known as a silent killer because they usually don’t show symptoms until it is almost to late. Mine was spotted by my urologist using a CT Scan to figure out why I was having so many urinary infections. It was repaired in 2011 and if you look at the diagram of the Aorta, it was several inches below the heart. The stent was an upside down (Y) with the single part went up to the heart an the other two going down each vein in the legs as in the diagram. Some famous people who died from a Triple A were George C Scott, Michael Rennie from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and one of the smartest scientist known to mankind, Albert Einstein.
@@TheAppalachianSon Thank you but I had a very dear friend who didn’t make it. His aneurysm was in an inoperable spot and had to wait till it ruptured and die. One symptom that might be noticed is if it only begins to leak like Conway’s did. The blood will slowly begin to make your stomach bloat outwards as the blood fills the abdominal cavity. There is a chance a rupture can be repaired if you’re in the hospital when it happens.
My husband died of Aortic Aneurysm also, 2001. They tried to save him but they said his heart was hamburger. They kept him "breathing" so we could say our goodbyes but he didn't look like himself. He was so swollen!
I was doing shows at the same theatre that Conway was doing shows at. I literally saw him the day before he died. A very good friend of mine that I went to school with, worked at that hospital at the time, and was part of the hospital staff that tended to Conway. My friend said that he apologetic to the staff for having to care for him, he didn’t want to be an inconvenience. It was truly a heartbreaking ordeal, and was even more heartbreaking after his death, with everything his children had to through with some legal issues that they had to deal with, with Conway’s wife at the time.
This condition is extremely common and many older people live with it and never even realize it, since it never actually ruptures. You’d also be surprised at how many celebrities have died from this condition…actor John Ritter and musician Peter Steele of Type O Negative being a couple that I can recall off the top of my head. My own grandmother actually had to have surgery to repair one of these, which is a fairy complex surgery…especially back when she had it in the late ‘90s.
Man, I remember the women, and I mean plural. I'm 42 now and I was raised by a good ol honky Tonk loving grandmother that made NO attempt at hiding her overly affectionate love of this man. I would a lot of times wake to hearing playing on the stereo, which my grandmother said was made for his voice, and usually he was playing when I returned home from school. I remember disliking him simply because of how much she loved him, but what does a adolescent boy know about what makes people tick. I was eventually swayed in my early 30s while paying a debt to the state and got a hold of a C.D. for my walkman. I fell in love with this dude's voice. I don't know if I could pick a favorite band, song, etc, but when I heard Conway Twitty sing "Play, Guitar, Play", I was hooked. It became a nearly every single day song for the last 12 years. I never met the man, he died when I was only 11 and I remember my Grandmother's heartbreak at finding out. I was standing an arms length away from her when the t.v. spouted off that Conway had passed and the silence that came over that room and turning to look at her and the look she had haunts, and I mean Haunt's my memory. I'll never forget it. Broke her heart, but she has long passed herself and all I can say is that I hope they met wherever they are and he, being the Gentleman he was, asked her to dance.
Proud Appalachian son here too. I'm a great great great grandson of a Tennessee Confederate soldier, NC Confederate soldier, SC Confederate soldier and Mississippi Confederate soldier. As such, we LOVE Conway Twitty, it's a must to be a true southern. Harold Jenkins was one of our most beloved country music singers. My mama saw him with Loretta 15 times.
Great video. I saw Conway in concert (and spent time with him backstage) a few weeks before he died, when he came to town with George Jones (my longtime friend). Great show and even better people.
Conway Twitty was without a doubt, my favorite country singer of all times as far as male singers go. I love the song, Linda on my mind, and I love the song you’ve never been this far before he will be surely missed and he is loved rest in peace, Conway.
Oh geez, I fit every risk factor as Conway did. I truly need to change my life. I’m only 2 years younger than he made it to. It’s been on my mind a lot lately.
It’s never too late to stop. I know how hard it can be. I gave up drinkin a couple times. Been sober for 11 years this go around. Don’t pick up cigarettes any longer, but this damn Copenhagen is the hardest to give up. I’m about 6 years older than you and have been dipping snuff about 50 years. I’m going to try kickin it this year but I don’t dare gain a bunch of weight. Good luck! Ps..I already had five stents put in.
Just enjoy your life. Live it how you want and do whatever you want. In the end; healthy or sickly we all rot away in the grave. Enjoy your life. If you live it right, you’ll be prepared for the unknown hour and won’t be burdened with regrets and needing more time. Eat, drink, smoke, just don’t harm anyone. The boohooing is for people left standing around your coffin whose own time is coming. Enjoy your life.
Enjoyed your show! II have always been a fan of Conway Twitty. I saw him at Lakeside Park in Roanoke, Virginia. He gave ALL when he performed and of course, the ladies were lined up wooing over him! You are so right about "Lay you down", that one stood out. 👍
I have loved hearing this man sing the first time I heard him! I also loved hearing him and Loretta Lynn sing. There's been alot of great country music 🎶 singers who left to soon but the great thing is they're in "Hillbilly Heaven 🙏" now with the Father 🙏 and someday we will All be there!! We still love 💕 listening to your music 🎶 and miss you dearly!!!
I'm very late replying - sorry. "Hillbilly Heaven" - I met Tex Ritter thanks to my dad who was tight with the local radio station and knew he'd be in town. I might've been 10 years old, and just fell right in love with him! He was the ideal grandfatherly type, very kind, all smiles. It could've been a pain to meet a starstruck kid, but he acted like he was so happy to talk with me. Memories.
My favorite singer is Loretta Lynn. My daughter Mary's favorite singer is Conway Twitty. She loves him. She wasn't even born yet when he died. She was born in 1995
I loved Conway so much!!!! My husband died at 57 suddenly from an Aortic Aneurysm. He was a heavy smoker too. I have been watching Conway videos all evening and just reliving all those wonderful songs. He was my Elvis!
Yes,Conway was the sexiest, I wanted to dance close to him, I have most of his songs on CDS 45s and lPA Albums.R.I.P.CONWAY Twitty...ThankYou for sharing Michael You are awesome.
Conway twitty is a wonderful man and a wonderful singer I always loved him and I would buy all the CD and his cassettes I could find. I play them all the time. From your biggest fan Elizabeth.from Ohio I miss you so much
I and my family was at the restaurant in Seymour Missouri when Conways bus stopped there. They went back out and found him on the floor and rushed him to Cox in Springfield. One thing that was left out was at Cox Medical he asked for Loretta Lynn. They contacted Loretta who was in concert. She apologized to the audience and said Conway needs me and she flew into Springfield to be with him.
Aortic dissection has over a ninety percent chance of killing you and always fatal except in a very small percent! My husband is a very rare exception! He lived but it wasn’t easy. He was on life support six months and every single day a doctor was threatening me with a DNR! I had to constantly tell doctors who were quoting statistics to me that when I get back he better be alive or they could explain it to a team of lawyers! Then on a Friday they said he may never talk well but we believe with years of therapy he can. I came back on Monday and my husband said in flawless English for first time in six months they never come check on me! Several doctors were shocked silent, before they could find their speech I said oh this is going to be fun! I’m tired! I’m going home to help my baby graduate and I’m no longer needed. Believe me Sergeant can more than speak for himself and if I was you all I would listen close the first time because he doesn’t like repeating himself! From there he got off life support quickly and all were in agreement especially the doctors that God healed him.
My dad had a AAA rupture, for some reason, he regained consciousness and survived not one ambulance trip but two, the last being over an hour drive because life flight was grounded due to snow. He did lose a lung but we still have our dad by miraculous intervention I'm sure. IF you have family history INSIST on being screened
@@TheAppalachianSon thank you, I just wanted to help stress the points you made. The doctor who saved my dad did share with us many of the things you pointed out!
❤I love Conway I listen to him every day I was in Missouri when i turned radio on and heard Conway had passed away on way home 59 years old. i sit down and cried
I got to see him at the Stanley theatre in Utica n y in 1986 or 87. Earl Thomas Conley opened for him. Then the whole place went dark and the light shines to the right side and "hello darling walks out in a blue suite. Great show. I had fourth row tickets and they only were 20.00.
I had plans to go see him that summer with my wife. I was out in the field at Camp Gurber, Oklahoma with the guard doing my two weeks training when i heard that he had died on my small radio. I told my men in my squad about it. Lot of us older guy's felt bad, as for the younger ones didn't know who he was. Still enjoy he music.
I'd have to say he was buried so quickly to allow the family to be able to properly mourn his loss without a massive crush of fans. Also,not known to many people at least at that time but Conway died without a last will and testament. Also too and I'd like to see opinions here provided any would have such. Well,before I get into this part I'm getting much of my information from a TV show I watched several years ago forgive me now as I can't remember what network it was on but it was called simply "the will" it talked of people who were famous that passed with no will. It spoke of an incident where he fell as he exited his bus and struck his head rendering him unconscious. Could that have been a factor in his eventual passing??
I have lost two brothers and a niece to this horrible disease and it nearly cost a nephew and yours truly our lives. If you smoke you are a sitting duck. I had massive surgery and am forever thankful that I live in the grater Chicago area and had access to some of the best medical care available. It's been 10 years and so far, so good. When it starts to leak, you will pray for death, the pain is that bad. Our's is obviously a family affliction. IF YOU SMOKE, STOP DAMMIT!
That’s pretty much what my dad died from. He was 70 and drank and smoke most of his life. The look that was frozen on his face after death look like he was in quite a bit of pain. I’ll never forget that look.
One of the many memorable classic country (for me, early-mid 70s to mid-late 90s, and some early 00s) artists I grew up with thanks to my parents, who always had the radios in our vehicles tuned to WCMS FM 100, our #1 local country music station in our area (Hampton Roads, Va.) for years…love Lay You Down to this day. God bless you, Conway…rest easy, sweet angel.
I was there in town on vacation when he died. We were in the highway and couldn’t figure out why the traffic was gridlocked. Then someone said Conway twitty just had a medical emergency (later on someone told us he didn’t make it )&We saw TwittyCity in Nashville and all remembered when he died. I was 6 or 7 when he died and remember it like it was yesterday. Ambulances 🚑 fire trucks etc
I've been a huge Conway fan since my teens. Got to know his music because my grandparents always had the radio dialed into country music. Anyways, small fact, doesn't really matter, but Conway quit smoking approx. a decade before his death...and why the burial was so speedy, I'm not sure, what I do know is, Dee Henry(his second wife) and his kids did not get along. Settling the estate got real ugly. So ugly in fact, all of Conway's belongings, even love letters to his first wife, were put up for auction. I myself was lucky enough to purchase, "The Very Best of Conway Twitty", RIAA Platinum Record Award that Conway received.
My brother died at the age of 53 from abdominal aortic aneurism while having a heart catherization. By the time he coded it was to late because aneurism had ruptu red and when we were able to go in to see him blood was coming from everywhere. It is an awful sight to see ,
The best friend a song ever had. I saw him about a year or so before his death at a small theatre in Houston a theatre in the round with a rotating stage he did a good show as always, I had seen him several times at the Houston Rodeo where he would get out and mingle and tour the livestock and exhibits. Conway often donated his fee back to the livestock Show for youth education which is the benefactor of the show. I was in bed recouping from a surgery when I heard tht he had died I was shocked. Conway worked shows right up till the end even though he should have been at the hospital and he was on his way back to Nashville for Fan Fair, he did want to disappoint his fans and now days you have a new comer pop country star disappointing fans and canceling shows so he can watch the final four?
My mom was driving when we heard about his death on the radio. She started crying and took a spell. We had to pull over. He laid her down, but not the way anyone wanted. 😢🖤
I saw him in concert in Wayne Michigan. My first concert ever. My sister and my self sat in the back of a small concert hall and he started singing hello darling my sister and I did not know you could not walk up to the stage and we get up out of our seats and walk down to the stage . He is sitting on a chair and he looks at us and he smiles at us and we are like ooh my Gosh Conway is smiling at us, lol . Little did we know we had security coming up the isle on our ass. Lol. When concert was over we were in the lobby buying suvaneer and we got invited back to a party they were having at the Ramada inn at the airport and we did not go. Missed opportunity to meet him. I was about 23 yrs old and married and did not want to go . I didn’t want the band to think they were going to get something they were not. I’m 64 now and it was a great memory.
Lost both dad and brother from same. Both were smokers, both were doing slightly strenuous events. Dad was 59 building a shed, brother was 46 walking on a treadmill for a job interview. Both bled to death internally before getting to the hospital.
I remember the day he died. I was driving home when it came over the radio. I pulled over and cried. Conway and Marty Robbin’s were my favorite singers. It was a tragedy what happened to his beloved Twitty city after he died!! It built it for his family and fans. Yet his family turned his dreams into a greed filled nightmare!!
We do need a movie of this great musician!!! I grew up hearing this man singing!!! His death was a bad one!!!! RIP Conway Twitty!!! I Love 💕 how u, and ur daughter did, Don’t Cry 😭 Joni, One of my favorites of yours!!!! ❤️🙏
Plain old sad he should of survived he was n still is my favorite favorite singer n country star n absolutely love him n till I die hes gorgeous beautiful voice hes charming hes forever missed love u Conway twitty ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Damn. Cigerrets my sister-in-law passed away because of heavy smoking from smoking like there was no tomorrow. Couldn’t make her listen and now she’s dead due to the same ailment that killed Conway. If you smoke quit and quit now before it’s too late!
Conway Twitty quit smoking in 1985 and as a result found new vocal range. Around that time he began a diet and exercise routine. And because his father was a heavy drinker, he never drank. That should have made a major difference. But then shit happens.
Such a terrible loss! A beautiful man with a beautiful voice! There will never be another one like him! RIP Conway! You are loved by so many and always will be!
Hello how are you doing 😊
I listened to Conway Twitty all my life ,I love him now and forever .I grew up listening to him all the time Gone but never forgotten.
I love all of Conway Twittys songs.
He had the best voice ever, him and George Jones are my 2 favorite singers of all time, mercy
Why do we still not have a Conway movie??
That would be rad!
Good question! I think there needs to be one.
Need a movie would be great
Agreed
Because nobody alive is good enough to play his role.i also would like one about waylon and merle
We saw Conway in Branson on his last night there. Imagine our shock when we learned that he had passed away on his way home! I’ve loved Conway since the first song I heard him sing! RIP
Did he show any signs of being ill during his performance? I have never forgotten as I lived in St. Louis and was so upset when hearing this.
RIP Conway, your music will never die. thank you Conway for all the beautiful music you left us with.
Hello how are you doing
I remember hearing what had to have been among the earliest reports of his death (if not THE earliest). I was in a little town in southwestern Pennsylvania (Mononagahela). I was in the parking lot of McDonalds and it came over the car radio. A few minutes earlier, there'd been a report that Conway had been rushed to the hospital. I don't remember the exact time, but it was in the morning. I remember the date-June 5, 1993.
I was fortunate enough to see Conway Twitty in the 80's at Ponderosa park. He was my favorite singer and I still listen to his song's. He was the best singer ever! Rest with Jesus, Conway!
No one like Conway, never was, never will be. Missing him. RIP. Conway Twitty. ❤️
At the time I lived just 100 miles from where it happened. It was so shocking in that he was 59 and now gone. I never heard of any health issues. It was one of those silent killers in our bodies. Appreciate every day you are alive and be grateful for it.
i met Conway in 1991 when I was only 19 and I was sure devistated when I heard he'd passed away. We were supposed to go see him in concert that year. So heart broken. And I still think of that day I met him even to this day. Such great time :). Thank you Aunt Jan for getting me and my sister in line that day to meet him :).
That's amazing! I imagine that he was really down to earth regardless of being Conway Twitty. Thank you for sharing with us.
I was finally going to see him and he died 2 mos. before.
His voice and music lives on even if it's been a long time.
Rest in peace Conway, you are not forgotten.
Never will be forgotten either.
First time I heard Conway was way back in the late 60's on an oldies station. I remember hearing this guy that sounded a bit like Elvis, the song was "Only Make Believe" I wasn't much into country until I moved to Houston in 1976 and I heard this song "After All The Good Is Gone"
I feel in love with it and rediscovered Conway!
I grew up with my parents playing Conway in the house all the time. One of the greats.
If my memory serves me correctly, Loretta Lynn's husband was in the same hospital they carried Conway to for this emergency. She was up in the room with her husband and was notified that Conway was in the emergency room and she went down to see him before he actually passed away. MAY THEY BOTH R I P 🙏
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You are correct
That's wild..
I do believe I remember hearing this, too.
Cox south springfield mo.
I bumped into him once - literally. I was a musician and our band was setting up our equipment, one day, to work for a couple of weeks at the Astro Village Hotel across from the Astrodome in Houston. The Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show was on that week and Conway was in town to perform. It was afternoon and I was rushing from the bar, back out to my truck, to get more musical equipment. I was hurrying and walked out the bar door into the lobby looking down. I ran right into some guy, kinda head on, and said, "Whew...excuse me." I looked up to see I had almost bowled over Conway Twitty who was headed into the bar. I had a big piano belt buckle....don't know if he saw that or not. But he had a big grin on his face when he saw the recognition on my face. This may sound trite but he had this big smile and very kind eyes. He just chuckled and had this friendly look. I never forgot that. He made a lot of great music. As a musician I was in bands that covered many of his tunes. Rest in peace, sir.
Absolutely incredible!! Thank you for sharing 🙌
What a great story!!!!!!
❤ very lucky to have that moment
Been almost 30 years. If Conway were alive today, he'd be Willie Nelson's age. Goes to show how young he was when he left us...
Conway did complain of a discomfort in his side several days prior to his death. Great video.
Did you know him?
Problem is, that many of these discomfort signals are attributed by victim as "old age" or they're just not severe enough to think about going to a doctor.
To listen to Conway Twitty, and Sam Moore singing “Rainy Night In Georgia “ does something for my soul! Those two together make the perfect combination of rhythm, country and blues. Conway truly had a one of a kind voice.
I know Conway Twitty pretty well he went to school my grandpa when he was in town doing a show he would always stop and stay the night with my grandma and grandpa so I knew the man long before I knew his music cuz I was so young I really didn't listen to music into my later years and I learned appreciated music too but he was a great guy some of those pictures of him in my house that picture is out there with me on his shoulder holding up my finger like number one he definitely had the ladies crushing on him that's for sure Conway Twitty is the goat of country music in my mind 55 number one hits at the time of his early death and reason will tell you he would add a few more in him if he had not died when he did it he's also the only artist to have a number one hit in five different decades 50 60 70 80s and 90s never been done before and haven't been done since rip Conway
So you knew my uncle Harold????
@BRENDA PAINTER same here
I’ll never forget being a kid and me and my mom are in the car driving out these country roads when it came across the radio. She ran off the road and came to a screeching halt and started crying. She stayed up for 2 night on the phone with her best friend playing Conway records.
Hello how are you doing today
That sure is some beat friend your mom had. 😅
Conway Twitty was a true legend. He transcended music genres.
I loved him so much as a singer he could have sung the newspaper and I would have loved it
I have been a Conway Twitty fan for many years and it is sad that he passed so soon and so fast
I feel you. I grew up in my grandparents honky-tonk so he was definitely a staple in my musical life.
Michael Darren Story my gram and grandpa loved Conway Twitty and we I heard is death I cried so much
I still have his autographed last album. He played here in South Dakota, it was amazing seeing him in concert! Always loved his music.
I grew up on Conway's music and have about 40 of his cassettes and still listen to his music to this day, but on UA-cam.
Be sure to hang on to them cassettes they are making a comeback! Real albums... I can’t believe it’s almost a lost art.
My grandpa got to visit and interview Conway Twitty at an awards show in the 1980s down in Nashville. Said he was the nicest guy. In recent years I've taken deep dives into his discography, and all the while thought how lucky my grandpa is to have known such a great and talented man
My father was found to have this health issues in his early 70's. Luckily the doctors caught this before a rupture and successfully repaired the artery. It did leave a large scar basically from his lower breast bone to below his belly button. I just remember I had just taken my dad for a doctor's visit and we had just gotten home when the phone rang. His doctor told me to take him straight to the hospital that he had called ahead and they would be waiting for him. I believe surgery was done the next day. My father lived to be into his mid-80s before passing.
Not sure why I just mentioned all that I'm guessing it was because my dad loved Conway Twitty.
Anyway another great job there sir really enjoyed the video.
Thank you for sharing. It’s scary to think that it could be over quickly if something like this isn’t detected. I actually got a screening myself after doing this research. I’m glad to know it can be repaired and that your dad made it out the other side!
Can’t believe he’s been gone 29 years ago today. Saw a Conway tribute artist in Branson a few years ago. May he Rest In Peace.
Probably Glen Templeton
HE was one of the Greatest Country Singers who ever lived I listened and still do to his songs I have everything he ever recorded and have wore out and replaced his songs he is greatly missed RIP Conway and God bless you and your Family....
I knew him. He lived in Oklahoma City, and I hung around with his niece at the Kip's Big Boy restaurant on the south side. He would come in and stop at our booth to say "hello." He insisted us kids call him "Uncle Connie." A nice guy and gracious gentleman! He kept his twin Aero Commander at Downtown Airpark where I flew from. I'll always remember the Titty Bird emblem on the tail. Often took my high school sweetheart to the Twitty Burger Restaurant in our neighborhood, first of his chain of restaurants. Conway Twitty, Wanda Jackson and our respective families were all "southside trash!" LOL!
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Twitty bird or titty bird? 🤔
@@SlickArmor 🤌 Or bird tits 🤔
I also have an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. They are known as a silent killer because they usually don’t show symptoms until it is almost to late. Mine was spotted by my urologist using a CT Scan to figure out why I was having so many urinary infections. It was repaired in 2011 and if you look at the diagram of the Aorta, it was several inches below the heart. The stent was an upside down (Y) with the single part went up to the heart an the other two going down each vein in the legs as in the diagram. Some famous people who died from a Triple A were George C Scott, Michael Rennie from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and one of the smartest scientist known to mankind, Albert Einstein.
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge! I know that can’t be easy to do, but you may have just helped someone 🙏
@@TheAppalachianSon Thank you but I had a very dear friend who didn’t make it. His aneurysm was in an inoperable spot and had to wait till it ruptured and die. One symptom that might be noticed is if it only begins to leak like Conway’s did. The blood will slowly begin to make your stomach bloat outwards as the blood fills the abdominal cavity. There is a chance a rupture can be repaired if you’re in the hospital when it happens.
Why were you getting so many urinary infections? Were you raw dogging dirty whores?
@@darksu6947 Sorry to disappoint you but I was born with a defective kidney that caused them and still does at 79yo.
Believe I read that Lucille ball died from one
I live in Hendersonville, he put so much into this town. We love him here
My husband died of this within 12 hours, vascular surgeon tried to save him but could not he bled out . He was 72 years old
My husband died of Aortic Aneurysm also, 2001. They tried to save him but they said his heart was hamburger. They kept him "breathing" so we could say our goodbyes but he didn't look like himself. He was so swollen!
I was doing shows at the same theatre that Conway was doing shows at. I literally saw him the day before he died. A very good friend of mine that I went to school with, worked at that hospital at the time, and was part of the hospital staff that tended to Conway. My friend said that he apologetic to the staff for having to care for him, he didn’t want to be an inconvenience. It was truly a heartbreaking ordeal, and was even more heartbreaking after his death, with everything his children had to through with some legal issues that they had to deal with, with Conway’s wife at the time.
This condition is extremely common and many older people live with it and never even realize it, since it never actually ruptures. You’d also be surprised at how many celebrities have died from this condition…actor John Ritter and musician Peter Steele of Type O Negative being a couple that I can recall off the top of my head. My own grandmother actually had to have surgery to repair one of these, which is a fairy complex surgery…especially back when she had it in the late ‘90s.
I lost my husband to this. We had no idea he had it. Since then I've learned it's a lot more common than I realized.
Man, I remember the women, and I mean plural. I'm 42 now and I was raised by a good ol honky Tonk loving grandmother that made NO attempt at hiding her overly affectionate love of this man. I would a lot of times wake to hearing playing on the stereo, which my grandmother said was made for his voice, and usually he was playing when I returned home from school. I remember disliking him simply because of how much she loved him, but what does a adolescent boy know about what makes people tick. I was eventually swayed in my early 30s while paying a debt to the state and got a hold of a C.D. for my walkman. I fell in love with this dude's voice. I don't know if I could pick a favorite band, song, etc, but when I heard Conway Twitty sing "Play, Guitar, Play", I was hooked. It became a nearly every single day song for the last 12 years. I never met the man, he died when I was only 11 and I remember my Grandmother's heartbreak at finding out. I was standing an arms length away from her when the t.v. spouted off that Conway had passed and the silence that came over that room and turning to look at her and the look she had haunts, and I mean Haunt's my memory. I'll never forget it. Broke her heart, but she has long passed herself and all I can say is that I hope they met wherever they are and he, being the Gentleman he was, asked her to dance.
Proud Appalachian son here too. I'm a great great great grandson of a Tennessee Confederate soldier, NC Confederate soldier, SC Confederate soldier and Mississippi Confederate soldier. As such, we LOVE Conway Twitty, it's a must to be a true southern. Harold Jenkins was one of our most beloved country music singers. My mama saw him with Loretta 15 times.
Great video.
I saw Conway in concert (and spent time with him backstage) a few weeks before he died, when he came to town with
George Jones (my longtime friend). Great show and even better people.
Conway Twitty was without a doubt, my favorite country singer of all times as far as male singers go. I love the song, Linda on my mind, and I love the song you’ve never been this far before he will be surely missed and he is loved rest in peace, Conway.
Oh geez, I fit every risk factor as Conway did. I truly need to change my life. I’m only 2 years younger than he made it to. It’s been on my mind a lot lately.
It’s never too late to stop. I know how hard it can be. I gave up drinkin a couple times. Been sober for 11 years this go around. Don’t pick up cigarettes any longer, but this damn Copenhagen is the hardest to give up. I’m about 6 years older than you and have been dipping snuff about 50 years. I’m going to try kickin it this year but I don’t dare gain a bunch of weight. Good luck! Ps..I already had five stents put in.
Just enjoy your life. Live it how you want and do whatever you want. In the end; healthy or sickly we all rot away in the grave. Enjoy your life. If you live it right, you’ll be prepared for the unknown hour and won’t be burdened with regrets and needing more time. Eat, drink, smoke, just don’t harm anyone. The boohooing is for people left standing around your coffin whose own time is coming. Enjoy your life.
Enjoyed your show! II have always been a fan of Conway Twitty. I saw him at Lakeside Park in Roanoke, Virginia. He gave ALL when he performed and of course, the ladies were lined up wooing over him! You are so right about "Lay you down", that one stood out. 👍
I have loved hearing this man sing the first time I heard him! I also loved hearing him and Loretta Lynn sing. There's been alot of great country music 🎶 singers who left to soon but the great thing is they're in "Hillbilly Heaven 🙏" now with the Father 🙏 and someday we will All be there!! We still love 💕 listening to your music 🎶 and miss you dearly!!!
I'm very late replying - sorry. "Hillbilly Heaven" - I met Tex Ritter thanks to my dad who was tight with the local radio station and knew he'd be in town. I might've been 10 years old, and just fell right in love with him! He was the ideal grandfatherly type, very kind, all smiles. It could've been a pain to meet a starstruck kid, but he acted like he was so happy to talk with me. Memories.
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My favorite singer is Loretta Lynn. My daughter Mary's favorite singer is Conway Twitty. She loves him. She wasn't even born yet when he died. She was born in 1995
"its Only Make Believe", on my transistor radio . it was a Big Hit on rock n roll stations , back in the late 50`s . that guy could really sing .
I loved Conway so much!!!! My husband died at 57 suddenly from an Aortic Aneurysm. He was a heavy smoker too. I have been watching Conway videos all evening and just reliving all those wonderful songs. He was my Elvis!
Thank you so much for sharing. I’m tremendously sorry for your loss, but so happy you found something you were needing in my video.
@@TheAppalachianSon Thank you so much and thank you for posting these videos!
I'm native American love music, Conway was and still my favorite singer
Yes,Conway was the sexiest, I wanted to dance close to him, I have most of his songs on CDS 45s and lPA Albums.R.I.P.CONWAY Twitty...ThankYou for sharing Michael You are awesome.
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When ever Conway was in Virginia Hampton l would see his show❤
Conway twitty is a wonderful man and a wonderful singer I always loved him and I would buy all the CD and his cassettes I could find. I play them all the time. From your biggest fan Elizabeth.from Ohio
I miss you so much
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God Bless His Soul 👋 !!! He had such an Amazing voice 😍. We Loved Him so much. God Bless His Soul 🙏 !!!
I and my family was at the restaurant in Seymour Missouri when Conways bus stopped there. They went back out and found him on the floor and rushed him to Cox in Springfield. One thing that was left out was at Cox Medical he asked for Loretta Lynn. They contacted Loretta who was in concert. She apologized to the audience and said Conway needs me and she flew into Springfield to be with him.
Conway was the BEST MALE COUNTRY SINGER EVER!. No one was ever close to this man. We lost a treasure when we lost Conway. Conway fan forever.
Aortic dissection has over a ninety percent chance of killing you and always fatal except in a very small percent! My husband is a very rare exception! He lived but it wasn’t easy. He was on life support six months and every single day a doctor was threatening me with a DNR! I had to constantly tell doctors who were quoting statistics to me that when I get back he better be alive or they could explain it to a team of lawyers! Then on a Friday they said he may never talk well but we believe with years of therapy he can. I came back on Monday and my husband said in flawless English for first time in six months they never come check on me! Several doctors were shocked silent, before they could find their speech I said oh this is going to be fun! I’m tired! I’m going home to help my baby graduate and I’m no longer needed. Believe me Sergeant can more than speak for himself and if I was you all I would listen close the first time because he doesn’t like repeating himself! From there he got off life support quickly and all were in agreement especially the doctors that God healed him.
Hello Darlin was my favorite song, and probably still is..he was a great country music singer..
My dad had a AAA rupture, for some reason, he regained consciousness and survived not one ambulance trip but two, the last being over an hour drive because life flight was grounded due to snow. He did lose a lung but we still have our dad by miraculous intervention I'm sure. IF you have family history INSIST on being screened
Wow.. thank you so much for sharing! I’m very happy to know you still have your dad 🕊
@@TheAppalachianSon thank you, I just wanted to help stress the points you made. The doctor who saved my dad did share with us many of the things you pointed out!
The best friend a song ever had
Great work on this, Mick!
I appreciate you taking the time. Thank you, Cliff!
I grew up listening to Conway Twitty. Loved his music!!
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❤I love Conway I listen to him every day I was in Missouri when i turned radio on and heard Conway had passed away on way home 59 years old. i sit down and cried
I got to see him at the Stanley theatre in Utica n y in 1986 or 87. Earl Thomas Conley opened for him. Then the whole place went dark and the light shines to the right side and "hello darling walks out in a blue suite. Great show. I had fourth row tickets and they only were 20.00.
I had plans to go see him that summer with my wife. I was out in the field at Camp Gurber, Oklahoma with the guard doing my two weeks training when i heard that he had died on my small radio. I told my men in my squad about it. Lot of us older guy's felt bad, as for the younger ones didn't know who he was.
Still enjoy he music.
Took my mom to see his show in Branson the night before he collapsed on the stage...He's a great person when you get to meet him
I'd have to say he was buried so quickly to allow the family to be able to properly mourn his loss without a massive crush of fans. Also,not known to many people at least at that time but Conway died without a last will and testament. Also too and I'd like to see opinions here provided any would have such. Well,before I get into this part I'm getting much of my information from a TV show I watched several years ago forgive me now as I can't remember what network it was on but it was called simply "the will" it talked of people who were famous that passed with no will. It spoke of an incident where he fell as he exited his bus and struck his head rendering him unconscious. Could that have been a factor in his eventual passing??
I have lost two brothers and a niece to this horrible disease and it nearly cost a nephew and yours truly our lives. If you smoke you are a sitting duck. I had massive surgery and am forever thankful that I live in the grater Chicago area and had access to some of the best medical care available. It's been 10 years and so far, so good. When it starts to leak, you will pray for death, the pain is that bad. Our's is obviously a family affliction. IF YOU SMOKE, STOP DAMMIT!
That’s pretty much what my dad died from. He was 70 and drank and smoke most of his life. The look that was frozen on his face after death look like he was in quite a bit of pain. I’ll never forget that look.
You’re a unequivocally brilliant story teller, young man, and yet you’re funny as hell pointing out your mistakes.😂❤
One of the many memorable classic country (for me, early-mid 70s to mid-late 90s, and some early 00s) artists I grew up with thanks to my parents, who always had the radios in our vehicles tuned to WCMS FM 100, our #1 local country music station in our area (Hampton Roads, Va.) for years…love Lay You Down to this day. God bless you, Conway…rest easy, sweet angel.
Miss You Conway.You are Missed.
word is Conway always respected and treated his fans marvellously
I've been to his grave. Love some Conway. His drummer is buried in Conway Arkansas where I live.
You will always be my favourite singer such wonderful music 🎶 ❤
Hey, thanks for doing this. Loved it!
I was there in town on vacation when he died. We were in the highway and couldn’t figure out why the traffic was gridlocked. Then someone said Conway twitty just had a medical emergency (later on someone told us he didn’t make it )&We saw TwittyCity in Nashville and all remembered when he died. I was 6 or 7 when he died and remember it like it was yesterday. Ambulances 🚑 fire trucks etc
Conway will always live on in his music.Loved this man
A great country western singer which lives on in his beautiful 🎶 music thank you Conway and thank you for this information
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A Icon of his time ,lov his music. Tks. ❤😊
I got to meet him at Twitty City. Got his autograph for myself & my mom! He was so sweet!
I've been a huge Conway fan since my teens. Got to know his music because my grandparents always had the radio dialed into country music. Anyways, small fact, doesn't really matter, but Conway quit smoking approx. a decade before his death...and why the burial was so speedy, I'm not sure, what I do know is, Dee Henry(his second wife) and his kids did not get along. Settling the estate got real ugly. So ugly in fact, all of Conway's belongings, even love letters to his first wife, were put up for auction. I myself was lucky enough to purchase, "The Very Best of Conway Twitty", RIAA Platinum Record Award that Conway received.
LOVE CONWAY HE WAS A GREAT PERSON AND A GREAT SANGER
And he's a great songwriter as he wrote most of the songs that he did and country music that net, usually you have writers but I'm we didn't need one
My brother died at the age of 53 from abdominal aortic aneurism while having a heart catherization. By the time he coded it was to late because aneurism had ruptu
red and when we were able to go in to see him blood was coming from everywhere. It is an awful sight to see ,
Lord, he could give me chills
The best friend a song ever had. I saw him about a year or so before his death at a small theatre in Houston a theatre in the round with a rotating stage he did a good show as always, I had seen him several times at the Houston Rodeo where he would get out and mingle and tour the livestock and exhibits. Conway often donated his fee back to the livestock Show for youth education which is the benefactor of the show. I was in bed recouping from a surgery when I heard tht he had died I was shocked. Conway worked shows right up till the end even though he should have been at the hospital and he was on his way back to Nashville for Fan Fair, he did want to disappoint his fans and now days you have a new comer pop country star disappointing fans and canceling shows so he can watch the final four?
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I like doing his songs at karaoke he is in a class of his on different than most country singers he had his on style let so smooth and natural
I'm 59 years old have grown up with his music Loretta Lynn to
My mom was driving when we heard about his death on the radio. She started crying and took a spell. We had to pull over. He laid her down, but not the way anyone wanted. 😢🖤
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I'll never forget that day! I cried most of the night
I saw him in concert in Wayne Michigan. My first concert ever. My sister and my self sat in the back of a small concert hall and he started singing hello darling my sister and I did not know you could not walk up to the stage and we get up out of our seats and walk down to the stage . He is sitting on a chair and he looks at us and he smiles at us and we are like ooh my Gosh Conway is smiling at us, lol . Little did we know we had security coming up the isle on our ass. Lol. When concert was over we were in the lobby buying suvaneer and we got invited back to a party they were having at the Ramada inn at the airport and we did not go. Missed opportunity to meet him. I was about 23 yrs old and married and did not want to go . I didn’t want the band to think they were going to get something they were not. I’m 64 now and it was a great memory.
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We lost a great one, conway,you will be missed, you were one of the best!we still.listen to your music❤
Desperado Love. Best song he ever sang (in my opinion)
Lost both dad and brother from same. Both were smokers, both were doing slightly strenuous events. Dad was 59 building a shed, brother was 46 walking on a treadmill for a job interview. Both bled to death internally before getting to the hospital.
I remember the day he died. I was driving home when it came over the radio. I pulled over and cried. Conway and Marty Robbin’s were my favorite singers. It was a tragedy what happened to his beloved Twitty city after he died!! It built it for his family and fans. Yet his family turned his dreams into a greed filled nightmare!!
We do need a movie of this great musician!!! I grew up hearing this man singing!!! His death was a bad one!!!! RIP Conway Twitty!!! I Love 💕 how u, and ur daughter did, Don’t Cry 😭 Joni, One of my favorites of yours!!!! ❤️🙏
Plain old sad he should of survived he was n still is my favorite favorite singer n country star n absolutely love him n till I die hes gorgeous beautiful voice hes charming hes forever missed love u Conway twitty ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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My grandmother and my great grandmother loved this men
The older his memory and vibes lives on the greater he was and will live on and Rock on. R.I.P who's going to fill them shoes
Damn. Cigerrets my sister-in-law passed away because of heavy smoking from smoking like there was no tomorrow. Couldn’t make her listen and now she’s dead due to the same ailment that killed Conway. If you smoke quit and quit now before it’s too late!
Very good video. Thank you. Blessings.
Did I hear right. He died at COX SOUTH MEDICAL CENTER in Springfield, MO.
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This ghy was great sorry I missed Twitty city
Conway Twitty quit smoking in 1985 and as a result found new vocal range. Around that time he began a diet and exercise routine. And because his father was a heavy drinker, he never drank. That should have made a major difference. But then shit happens.