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way's Songbook . cs To All onway's Singl Plus . •. Pi<£tures and Stories Alieut C0nway Con way Twitty is one of country music's unheralded songwriting geniuses. He has written or co-written 17 of his 46 #J records. (This count is as of October, 1983). Con way knows how important the song is to a recording artist. He says, "I learned a long time ago it's the song, not the singer, that's the most important thing. There are a lot of great singers who are not picking the right songs. A lot of artists reached the point to where they would not record songs they didn't write or publish or both. They begin to think it's them. I know it's 99% the song, not what I do to it." It's obvious Conway has a great respect for songwriters and their songs. And he's very aware of the important role they play in his career. On the following pages you'll find the words to some of the great songs Conway's come across and released as singles. This book is dedic at e d to the writers of these songs and songwriters everywhere. 2 CONWAY TWl'l"l'Y SONGBOOK CONTENTS A BRIDG E THAT JUST W O N'T BURN . . . . . . . . . . . 30 (LOST H ER LOV E) ON OUR LAST DATE . . . . . . . . . 18 AFTER AU. TH E GOOD IS GO NE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 AFTER THE FIRE IS GON E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 AS SOON AS I HANG UP THE PHONE . . . . . . . . . . 17 BAB Y' S GO NE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 BOO GIE GRASS BAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 DARLIN G, YO U KNOW I WOULDN 'T LIE . . . . . . . . 6 DON'T CRY JONI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 DO N'T PU T YO U R HURT IN MY HEART . . . . . . . . . 5 DON'T TAKE IT AWAY . . .. . . .. ....... . ...... . 32 FEELIN S' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 FIFTE E N YEARS AG O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 FROM SEVE N TILL TEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 FUN NY , BUT I'M N OT LAUGH ING . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 GEOR GIA KEEPS PULLING ON MY RING . . . . . . . 22 GOD BL ESS AM E RI CA AGAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 GRA ND OLE BL UES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 GUESS M Y EYES WERE BIGG ER THAN MY HEART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLIN ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 HELLO DARLIN ' .. ............... . ......... . . 10 HOW M UCH M OR E CAN SH E STA N D (AN D STILL STA ND BY ME) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 I AM TH E DREAM ER (YOU ARE THE DREAM) . . . . 36 (I CA N 'T B ELIEV E) S HE GI VES IT ALL TO ME . . . . . 22 I CAN'T LOVE Y OU EN OU GH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 I CAN'T SEE ME WITH O U T YOU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 I C AN'T ST O P LOV I N G Y OU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 I DON'T WANT T O BE WITH ME ....... . . . ..... . 7 I LOV E YOU MOR E TODAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 I MAY NE VER GET T O HEAVEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 I SEE TH E WANT TO IN Y OU R EYE S ........... 22 I WOND ER WHAT SHE'LL THINK ABOUT ME LEAVING . . .......... . ... .... . . 18 I'D LOVE T O LAY YO U DOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 IF YOU WERE MINE TO LQSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 I'LL TRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 I'M CHE CKING OUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 I'M NOT THROUGH LOVING YOU YET . . . . . . . . . . 21 IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ITS TRU E LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 IVE ALREADY LOVED YOU IN MY MIND . . . . . . . . 24 IVE NEVER SEEN T HE LIK ES OF YO U . . . . . . . . . . 32 LEAD ME ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 (LYING HERE WITH ) LINDA ON MY MI ND . . . . . . . 18 LONELY BLUE BOY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 LOOK INTO MY TEARDR OPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 LOST IN THE F EELING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 LOUISIANA WOMAN , MI SSISSIP PI MAN ...... . . 16 LOVI N' WHAT YO UR LOVIN ' DO ES TO ME . . . . . . 17 MONA LISA .... . ..... .. ..... . .......... . ... 6 NEXT IN LINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 OVER THIRTY (NOT OVER TH E HILL ) . . . . . . . . . . 31 PLAY GUITAR PLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 RED N ECKIN ' LOVE MAKIN ' N IGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 REST YOUR LOVE ON M E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 SHE NEEDS SOM EON E T O HOL D H E R (WH EN SHE CRIES) ............ . ..... . ..... 19 SLOW HAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 THAT KIND OF GIRL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 THAT 'S WHEN SHE STAR TE D T O STOP LOVIN G YOU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 THE CL OWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 THE GAMES THAT DADDI ES PLAY ...... . . . . . . 23 THE GRAND EST LADY OF TH EM ALL . . . . . . . . . . 24 THE IMAGE OF M E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 THE LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE ROSE ............... . ........... . ..... 35 THE SADNESS OF IT A LL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 THERE 'S A HONKY TONK A N GEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 THIS TIME I'V E H URT HE R M OR E (THAN SHE LOVES M E) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 TIGHT FITTIN ' JEANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TO SEE MY ANG EL CRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 TOG ETHER FOR EVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 TOU CH THE HAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 WALK ME TO THE DOOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 WE DID BUT NOW YOU DON'T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 WE HAD IT ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 WE STILL BELIEVE IN WALTZE S . ........... . .. 13 WHAT AM I LIVING FOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 YOU KNOW JUST WHAT I' D DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 YOUR LOVE HAD TAKEN ME THAT HIGH ... . ... 23 YOU ' RE THE REASON OUR KIDS ARE UGLY ... 15 YOUVE NEV ER BEEN THIS FAR BEFORE ....... 21 "It's Onl y Make B eliev e" was my first million seller . It remains on e of my most requested songs and I still clo se eve ry sh ow with it. "It's Only Make Believe" Conway Twitty and .lack Nance Co pyrig ht © 19 58 Conway Twitty Music. Internationa l Copyright Secured . All Rights Reaerved . Used by Permission . "What Am I Living For" Art Hanle and Fred Jay Copyright @ 1958 by U nlcha ppcll M uolc, Inc. and Tide.land Mus ic Publlahlng Co. All Rights Admlnlltettd by Unldlappell Music, &le. (Righ tlOng Music. Publilher) h tematlonal Copyright Secured. AD Rights Raerved. "Lonely Blue Boy" Fred Wlae and Ben Wiseman Copyright © 1958 by Cha ppell & Co .. Inc. a nd Gladys Music . All Righ ts Controlled by Chappell & Co., In c. (lnterwong Music. Publis her). lntemallonal Copyright Secured . All Rig h ts R eserved. Used by Perm ission. "111 Try" Conway Twitty and Jack Nance Copyright © 1958 Conway Twitty Music. Internation al Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Pem1lsslon . 3 "Walk Me To The Door" Conway Twitty Copyright ©1962 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. lntemallonal Copyright Secured. All Rights Re1;erved.U sed by Permission. "Don't Put Your Hurt In My Heart" Conwaw Twitty Copyright ©1967 Twitty Bird Music Publlshlng Co. International Copyright Secwed. All Rights Reserved. Used by PennlsslOn. "U You Were Mine To Lose" Conway Twitty Copyt1gh1© 1966T wlrty Bird Music Publishing Co. lnlematlonal Copyt1ghtS ecured. All Rlghis R.,..,n,ed, Uoed by Permission . "Walk Me To The Door" was the first song Conway had written to be recorded by another artist. Ray Price had a single on it in 1962. 6 "Darling, You Know I Wouldn't Lie" Wayne Kemp and Red Lane Copyright © 1968 Tree Publishin g Co. , Inc. Inte rnat iona l Copyright Secured. All Righ ts ReseNe d. Used by Penn lss lon. "I Love You More Today" LE. White Copyright © 1968 Strlng be rg Music Co. lntem atlo nal Copyright Se cured . All Rights Reserved. "Mona Lisa" Jay Livingston and Ray Evans Copyright © 1949 Famous Music Corp. Copyright Renewed 1976 Famous Music Corp . International Copyright Secured.A ll Rlghts Reserwcl . "I Don 't Want To Be With Me" Conway Twitty ..opyrlghl © 1966 Twitty Bird Music Publis hing Co. lnternaltona l Copyright Sec ured . All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission . "I'm Checking Out" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1968 Twitty Bird Music Publishi ng Co. Inte rna tion al Copyright Secured. All Rights R1!$erved. Used by Perm ission. "That Kind Of Girl" Conway Twitty and Joe E. Lewie Copyrtght © 1965 Twitty Bird Music Publlshlng Co. International Copyrtght Secured. All Rights ReseM!d.U s«t by Pe!Tl'llslson. "Next In Line" Wayne Kemp and Curtis Wayne Copyright © 1968 Tree Publishing Co., Inc. International Copyright Secured. All Rights R<!served. Used by Permission. 7 8 "Funny But I'm Not Laughing" Conway Twitty Copyright ©1967 TwittyB lrdyM usicP ublishingC o. InternationalC oP\ll'loht Secured. AU Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. 'Together Forever" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1965 Forrest HIiis Music. Inc., 1609 Roy Acuff Pl., Nashville, TN 37203 . All Rights Reserved. "Look Into My Teardrops" Harland Howard and Don Bowman Copyright © 1965 Tree Publishing Co., Inc. and Harlan Howard Song•. lnt•ma. tlonal Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "The Image of Me" Wayne Kemp Copyrigh t © 1967 Tret Publishing Co., Inc . lntemnllonal Copyngh t Secured. AJ RlgM Reserved. Used by Pennlsslon. Conway and The Lonely Blue Boys first publicity picture after getting Into Country Music (L to R) Joe E. Lewis, John Hughey, Tommy .. Porkchop" Markham and Conway. "Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart" IJz Anderson :opyright © 1965 Tree Publishing Co., Inc. and Harlan Howard Songs. International Copyright Sec ured . All Righ ts Reserved. u .. d by Permission. 'To See My Angel Cry" L E. White, Charles Haney and Conwa17 Tarittl, <:opyright© 1969 Twitty Bird MusicP ublishingC o. InternationalC opyright Secured. AU Rights Reseived. Used by Permission. "Fifteen Years Ago" Ravmond A. Smith Copyright © 1969 Helo Darlin Music (SESAC) "I Can't See Me Without You" Conway Twitty Copyright ©1971 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. AD Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "I remember writing Hello Darlin' very well. It was while I was on tour in 1960. I was doing rock music then and didn't get to record it until 1970!" <i'-, <i'-, <i'-, "Hello Darlin'" Conway Twitty Copyright ©1969 TwittyB ird Music PublishingC o. lntemattonal Copyright SeclD'edA. ll Rights ReselVEd. Used by Permission. "Hello Darlin'" was written by Conway in 1960 while he was performing rock'in'roll music. It was ten years later before he could record the song. It went on to be one of his biggest records to date. Whenever you hear these two simple words, you immediately think of Conway. This song not only made country music history, but is now a part of world history, too. General Tom Stafford a friend of Conway's, was to be one of the astronauts during the Apollo-Soyuz mission. He called Conway and explained that when the two capsules linked-up they were going to exchange gifts from their respective countries. One of the things he wanted to give was some American music -country music more specifically Conway's music. Conway was thrilled to take part and wanted to do something special. After some thought he decided to record his biggest country record "Hello Darlin,., in Russian. He hired a Russian language professor from the University of Oklahoma to coach him. After several lessons, Conway and the professor went into the studio and recorded the song. On the news as the world watched the two space capsules link-up, you could hear Conway singing, "Hello Darlin'". MCA Records later released a special version of this. The A-side was "Hello Darlin'" in English and the B-side was the Russian version. "THE DIAMOND DUET'' Conway and Loretta were introduced in 1969 by their mutual friend and producer, Owen Bradley. Conway had arrived at Bradleys Barn for a recording session only to find they were running over on the previous session. Owen, who was the producer on both sessions, was well aware of the respect these two artists at the studio had for each other. So he took this opportunity to introduce Conway and Loretta. Shortly after this meeting Conway and Loretta were touring Europe as part of a large country music ackage show. During this time, they became good 'iends and decided it would be fun to record a duet ogether. They both agreed however, it was important o keep their individual careers going. The best way to 10 this, they felt, was to record only one album a year ogether. Owen Bradley and MCA Records loved the idea of combining these two music giants. They had their first 111 record in 1970, with a song called "After The Fire Is Gone" and went on to become country music's most successful, most award-winning duet. IN CONWAY'S WORDS: Conway, Loretta and producer Owen Bradley during their first recording session. 'In 1969 Loretta and I went to England, where we did the very first Wembley festival. It was the first time I was with her for any ength of time. I learned she had been a Conway Twitty Jan since 1958, and I let her know I was a big Loretta Lynn Jan. We talked a lot, and sang a lot of songs together on the bus. "We decided we'd have to do some tracks together, and when we got back to the States we started recording. Our styles were close anyway, so we just went through material we had and picked songs that would be good for singles. The fan reaction was mme dtate. We felt it from the beginning. I think our first single sold over 400,000 copies. "We felt the duet could be so strong, it might actually hurt us as Individual acts. From the start we agreed that we would release only one LP each year. "I couldn't pick a single reason for our success if I had to. It's a blend of everything-material, artists, and much more. We're aware that our songs have changed over the years. The business is always changing, and you have to change with it, or you die." IN LORETTA'S WORDS: "Conway and I sang a lot of songs together at that.first Wembley, backstage, on the bus, every time we met . Wefound we knew each other's songs, and we felt our voices went together well on them. "I might go through 300 songs to find four that I think are right to record. Conway and I are both real particular about the material we choose. We just listen for a hit when we're picking songs-there's no guidelines we have in our heads. The one kind of song we won't do is fightin' songs. I can do one of them myself, but it's never directed at the man. It's like 'You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man.' "Me and Conway each has a tremendous amount of fans, and I think the duet kind ofp uts them all together. A lot of people still assume we're married. Conway got a lot of letters from upset people after we did ~s Soon As I Hang Up the Phone'! "When we first put records out together, we thought people might not be able to afford my records, Conway's and ou~. But things have really changed, and we've gotten a lot of awards as a duet, even though we only put out one album a year." 12 "After The Fire Is Gone" LE. White Copyright © 1969 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. lntematlonaJ Copyright Secured. AU Rishta R«ervcd. Used by Permls,lon, "Lead Me On" Leon Copeland Copyright ©196 9 Shade Tree Music. Inc. "God Bless America Again" Bobby Bare and Boyce Hawkins Copyright © 1969 ATV Music Corp., 6255 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028. A Rights Reserved.U sed by Permission. "Feelin's" Troy Seals, Don Goodman and WW Jennings Copyright © 1974 lrvlng Music, Inc. and Oanor Music. Inc. (BMI) All Rights Resezved. ln1ematlonal Copyright Secured. "The Letter" Charles Haney and Conway Twitty Copyright © 1973 Twitty Bird M,..ole P,..l,Uohln9 Co . lntcrnoHonol Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "From Seven Till Ten" Troy Seat. and Max D. Barn .. Copyright © 1977, 1978 Irving Music. Inc. & Down 'N Dixie Music & Saeen Gems- EMI Music, Inc. (BMI). International Copyright Secur«I. All Rights Reserved . "We Still Believe In Waltzes" Michael Dennis Hughes, Johnny MacRae, and Bob Morrison Copyright ©1980 Southern Nights Music. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "You Know Just What I'd Do" Jen,, Foster and Bill Rice ;opyrlght © 1975, 1979 Jack and BIii Music Company (c/ o The Welk Music roup, Santa Monic a , CA 90401 ) International Copyright St cured. All Righi$ Reserved . Used by Permission. "You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" L E. White and Lola Jean DWon Copyright © 1977, 1978 Twitty Bird Music Publlshlng Co. and Coal Miners Music, Inc. lntematlonal Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by PerrnlSston. When you look back on the array of music awards Loretta and Conway have won over the years as a duet, it's mind-boggling when you realize they did it all with just one album and one single per year! In addition to the many awards they have earned as solo artists, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty netted the Country Music Association's Duet of the Year award four years in a row (1972-75), won a Grammy in 1971, won duet awards from the Academy of Country Music and NARAS (the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences)-and they even got the Truckers' Award in 1974. "It's True Love" Randy Goodrum Copyright © 1979 by Chappell & Co., Inc. and Sallmaker Music. All Rights Admlnhtered by Chappell & Co .. Inc. lnternatkmal CoP\lright Secured. All Rights Reseved. 15 "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" Becki Bluefield and Jim Owen <Apyrlght © 1983 Dunbar MUSI<I:n, c. All 11ghtsc ontrolled by UnlchappelM usic, Inc. lntematlonal Col>l/right Secured . AD Rights ReseN<!d. 'The Sadness of It AU" Russell WoUe DI Copyright ©1979 Side Pocl<etM usic (BMI) "I Can't Love You Enough" Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes Copyright © 1977 lrvtng Music, Inc. , Down 'N Dixie Music . Screen Gems -EM! Music, Inc. (BMI). "As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone" Conway Twitty Co pyrtgh1 © 1974 Twitty Bird Music Pub lishing Co., International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Pe nnlsslon. "Lovin' What Your Lovin' Does To Me" Jane Crouch and Toni Dae Copyright © 1980 Sawgrass Music Publishers , Inc., 1520 Demonbreun St., NashvUle, TN 37203 18 "(Lying Here With) Linda On My Mind" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1973 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright SECured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Pennfsslon. "I Wonder What She11 Think About Me Leaving" Merle Haggard Copyright ©1 970 Blue Book Music, Bal<ersfteld, CA. All Right, Reserved. International Copyright Secured. "(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date" Conway Twitty and Aoyd Cramer Copyright ~ 1972 Acuff-Rose Publicattons, Inc. Used by Permission of the Publisher. All Rights Reserved. "How Much More Can She Stand (And Still Stand By Me)" Han,, Compton Copyrigh t © 1972 Brothers Two Music (ASCAP) "She Needs Someone To Hold Her (When She Cries)" Raymond A. Smith Copyright © 1972 Hello Darun· Music (SESAC) "Boogie Grass Band" Ronnie Reno Copyright © 1977, 1978 Bucksnort Music Co., P.O. Box 24265, Nashville, TN 37203. International Copyright Secured. "There's A Honky Tonk Angel" Troy Seals and Denny Rice Copyright ©1973 Irving Music, Inc. & Danor Music, Inc. (BMI). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. 'That's When She Started To Stop Loving You" Wayne Kemp Copyright © 1969 Tree PubllshJng Co., Inc. lntema donal Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. 20 'Touch The Hand" Ron Peterson and Conway Twitty Copyright © 1972 MeredJth Music, lnc., P.O . Box 120547, Nashvllle, TN 37212. lnternatlOnal Copyright Secured. All Rlghls R-!'VEd. "I Can't Stop Loving You" Don Gibson Copyright © 1958 Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. Used by Permission of the P\,bllsher. All Rtshts Reserved. "Don't Cry Joni" was originally the B Side of Conway's single, "Touch The Hand. " It was Joni's first time to ever record and led to her own recording contact with MCA records. "Don't Cry Joni" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1975 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. '"You've Never Been This Far Before' is one of my most-discussed hits. A disc jockey friend of mine called me up when it was released and said, "Conway, we can't play this record. It's a little suggestive and our station people won't let us play it! I had never thought about that ... the line that really got 'em was 'As my trembling fingers touch forbidden places,' but I still don't think it's a dirty song! Women understood what I meant by that line. It was about stepping outside the boundaries of mar - riage for the first time and just holding hands would have been forbidden." "You've Never Been This Far Before" Conway Twitty ,yrlght © 1973 Twitty Blrd Music Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights R-!'VEd. Used by Pennlsslon. "I'm Not Through Loving You \'et" Conway Twitty and L. E. White Copyright © 1973 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "This Time I've Hurt Her More (Than She Loves Me)" Earl Conley and Mary Loul8e Larkin Copyright © 1975 and 1976 Blue Moon Music. Administered by April Music Inc. lntem atlonal Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Perml•slon . "After All The Good Is Gone" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1975 Twitty Bird Music Publlshlng Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. 21 22 'The last song I wrote was in 1977. It was originally written as a duet for me and Loretta. After I finished I thought it would be a good solo. It was called, 'I've Already Loved You In My Mind." "(I Can't Believe) She Gives It All To Me" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1974 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "Baby's Gone" Copyright © 1973T witty Bird MusicP ublishing Co. International Copyright Secured.A ll Rights R-rved. Used by Permission. "I See The Want To In Your Eyes" Wayne Carson Copyright © 1973 Rose Bridge Music, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used by Perml slon. 0v "Georgia Keeps Pulling On My Ring David Wilkens and Tim Manhall "Play Guitar Play" Conway Twitty Jright © 1974 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright SeGured. All Rlghls Reserved. Used by Permission. "(Did You Know) Your Love Had Taken Me That High" Jack Dunham and Galen Raye Copyright © 1977, 1978 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. 'The Games That Daddies Play" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1975 Twitty Bird Music Publlshlng Co. lntemattonal Copyright Secwed. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. 23 24 Conway Twitty and The Twitty Birds "I've Already Loved You In My Mind" Conway Twitty Copyright © 1977 Twitty Bird Music Publishing Co. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Re•erved. Used by Permission. 'The Grandest Lady Of Them All" Mel McDaniel and Bob Morrison Copytlght ©1976 Music City Music, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. CONWAY TW11TY-CHANGED Change is difficult for most people. And in the fickle world of show business, an inability to adapt with the times is J ally the beginning of the end for many careers. Conway has been accused of inflexibility In recent years, but since the ginning of 1979 he has shifted his musical approach. Conway is now sporting a more relaxed, wavy hairstyle; he switched producers after 14 years with Owen Bradley, Is .lizing new material and new session pickers. He has always made changes, and the time was right for a new direction. "I've made little changes down through the years, but I never do it all at once," said Twitty. "Longevity is what I am ·ere sted in. I love this business and want to be In it a long time. For Instance, I went about seven years and never said a ord on stage. Nothing. It was something different. When I did start talking on stage, it was something new. "I have been recording country music in Nashville since 1965, and Owen Bradley has been my producer and he got e into country music. It has been a very successful thing. My decision to make a change didn't have anything to do with tat we were doing. It was still successful. "I went and sat down with Owen Bradley and had a long talk about it. I told him that I had been thinking about It • 'ld it wasn't something I had come up with overnight. The record company had been after me for a couple of years to 1ake a few little changes. I told Owen this, but I told him most of all, I thought it was time for a change. He said, ,::onway, I don't think you have a choice. I think you need to do it.' That speaks well of Owen and he has a lot of class. \Jatu rally, I knew there would be parts of him that would resent it. But he has been like a father to me in this business and I never would want to do anything that would destroy the relationship we have. "I went into the studio with a boy named David Barnes, who is a friend of mine with talent and fresh Ideas." Twitty continued. "We used new pickers, and I really, really enjoyed these sessions. It got my adrenalin going again. I think what we have done is in the groove with what is going on In country music today. I think country music is changing a little bit, and I don't think there is anything wrong with that. I think the only thing that is consistent is change. If it had never changed before, we'd still sound like Jimmie Rodgers." New Look At MCA 25 CONWAY TWITTY 26 "CONWAY TWITTY'' Somewhere in the soul of Conway Twitty there's a place where all the music of the South boils and brews. There must be: the long career of the champion hit-maker has touched virtually every musical genre that Dixie has ever given to America-rockabilly, blues, honky-tonk, rock'n'roll, Dixieland, rhythm and blues, gospel and mainstream country. His commmand of such diverse styles has been especially apparent since his signing with Warner Brothers and his first two releases on the label. "The Clown" was an evocative, haunting ballad while his tre atment of "Slow Hand" had enough rhythm and rauch to make it a dancing favorite. They were his 42nd and 43rd #J. singles respectively. Twitty is a child of the Mississippi River, that legendary meeting place of America's musical currents. His father, a riverboat pilot, taught him his first chords on a small guitar that was given to him by ' is grandfather when he was only four years old. The family lived in a tiny river town called Friars Po t, Mississippi , a largely black settlement of cotton patches and tenan,t farms. Next door lived an olc' ,lack man Twitty fondly called, "Uncle Fred." Twitty idolized him and learned music at his knees. "T 1t old black man who lived next door played guitar and harmonica," Twitty recalls. 'Td sit out th e for hours and he'd teach me the blues-type stuff. I loved to sit there with him. l remember one so J he did was 'Somebody's Been Pickin' My Potatoes and Trampin' On My Vines.' I use to sing it w , him . I spent hours with him, and yet I never did know his last name." That was just the start of Twitty's interest in music. There was a black church around the corner fr 1 their house and he'd spend hours sitting out on the ditch bank listening to the sound of gospel rr ic coming from inside. And every Saturday night Twitty and his family would gather around the ra o to liste n to the Grand Ole Opry . When he was 10 his parents moved up the river about 14 miles to Helena, Arkansas . It was in H ena that Twitty put his first band together, ''The Phillips County Ramblers.'' By the age of 12, he h I his own radio show every Saturday morning on station KFFA in Helena . It was also in Helena that Twitty discovered his second love, baseball. It soon became the center o 1is life a nd Conway decided he wanted to play professional baseball more than anything on earth. A er gra duating from high school, he wound up with the Philadelphia Phillies, but before he could s n, he was drafted by the Army. Although he had his own band while he was in the Army, Twitty still had never thought of music a 1 profession . His idols were people like Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Ray F ce and Faron Young. To Twitty these people were so great that the idea of competing with them \ s unthinkable. When he was discharged from the Army, the first thing he heard was Elvis Presley's, "Mystery ,.. :1in." Its completely new sound really knocked him out, just as it was doing to millions of other p aple a cross the nation. "Although I loved country music , I didn't think I was good enough to comr, te with my idols," Twitty explained. "But I did think I could sing Elvis' style of music. I had to make a Jecision . I threw down the baseball bat and picked up the guitar . I've been pickin' ever since." Twitty soon found that after he sang the songs of Presley, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley and a handful o others, there was no other music like that for him to learn. His solution? He wrote some himself a ,d set off to find the musical hotbed as Sun Studios in Memphis. There he found Jerry Lee Lewis, Presley, Perkins, Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich and Roy Orbison working on the same musical synthesis of country and black music that he'd grown up with. ''That was a new kind of music then," he recalls. "So you either had to write something with that kind of feel to it or you had to take an old song and rearrange it, like Elvis did with "Blue Moon of Kentucky." Looking back, the creative part of all of it was the most fun. Somebody would come up with a new guitar lick and it would go through that whole bunch down there in Memphis. You could feel it growing; it was really exciting. Everything was new-you didn't have a thing to draw from." 27 28 Ironically. Conway Twitty didn't break through with rockabilly music the way the others did . Despite excellent uptempo performances for Sun and Mercury, he scored his first hit with the powerful teen ballad, "Ifs Only Make Believe" on MGM in 1958. It was the first of dozens of emotion-packed Conway Twitty compositions that have hit the top of the charts, and it made him a teenage idol. Eight years and three gold records later, Twitty decided to make a change. Despite his wide success as a rock'n'roll star, Twitty was writing purely country songs as early as 1960. But he had no outlet for them. "Finally/' he says, "I thought I'd lived long enough and experienced enough to com - pete with my heroes and do justice to a country song." The frustration he felt as a rocker with a country heart finally came to a head one evening in a New Jersey nightclub. Unable to continue the charade any longer, Twitty abruptly left the rock'n'ro ll stage, never to return. It was a courageous, emotional decision, but one he's never regretted. The memory of that night has never left him: ''The place was a huge club where all the college kids went . I was there for eight weeks. After I finished this tour, my manager had promised me I could start doing country music. Well, during my last two weeks there, a big package came for me. It contained contracts to play all those same rock clubs I'd been playing ... all the way up into the following year. I was right in the middle of a show. And all of a sudden, I just couldn't sing another song, I just couldn 't. I had never done anything like that in my life. I took my guitar, set it down and explained the situatio n to the club owner. I told the band, 'We're headin' south and we ain't comin' back! "My management said I was crazy," Twitty continues. "People said, You're gonna go from selling hundreds of thousands of records to selling 30,000 - 40,000. You'll be going from making thousand s of dollars a day to making a couple hundred a day. You're out of you're mind! And sure enough, in a week or two, I was pickin' in them little clubs making a couple hundred dollars, just like they said." A good friend of Twitty's, Harlan Howard, took him to meet Owen Bradley at Decca Records . Bradley took a chance on Twitty and signed him as a country act to Decca/MCA. The disillusioned rocker had scored four straight country #l's by the dawn of the 1970's. By mid-decade .all of his 23 successive singles had hit the top in one of all three trade magazines charts. By 1980 he had an astounding 38 #1 records, more than anyone else in the field of popular music. More than Sinatra. More than Elvis. More than the Beatles. The most consistent hitmaker in the history of country music now holds 46 chart-topping singles. Twitty wrote or co-wrote 17 of those #J. singles and is one of coutry music's unhearlded songwriting geniuses. His grippingly real mini-dramas of love, regret, longing and desire have included the memorable "Hello Darlin," "You've Never Been This Far Before," "Linda On My Mind," and "(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date." As a song interpreter Conway had given country music such classics as "There's A Honky Tonk Angel," "I See The Want-To In Your Eyes," "I'd Love To Lay You Down" and "Don't Take It Away." Merle Haggard, Earl Thomas Conley and The Bee Gees have all written hits for him. Since 1979, when he began producing himself, Conway Twitty feels he has been making the most creative and innovative records of his career. He's done some of this by combining bluegrass and country-rock, Dixieland and country blues and rock and honky-tonk. Commenting on his remarkable ability to adapt and change, Twitty says, "I never make a chang e either in my career or in my personal life, without giving it a lot of thought. I believe in change. It's the only thing I know of that's constant. When things stop changin', they die. When I began to produce myself it was because I felt like I needed to change. There were things I wanted to do that I felt Owen wouldn't agree with. It was a tough decision, but I felt like I needed a fresh approach. I wanted to spend more time getting everything just right. I went and sat down with Owen and had a long talk about it. He said, "Conway, I don't think you have a choice. I think you need to do it." "I felt like with a better recorded sound and newer pickers with fresh ideas, I'd have more to draw from," Twitty continued. "I believe in being versatile and I've got a lot of different musical back grounds I can draw from. I wanted to start using all this. But I have never wanted to alienate one country fan. Not one, but I did want to pick up some new ones and I think I've accomplished that." Twitty credits much of his success with choosing the right song. "I know right now that 99 percent of my next record is how strong that song is, not what I do to it. I really believe that." When looking for songs to record, Twitty will go through more than 1500 to find the 10 he'll use in an album. "I look for songs I know a woman's going to Hke," he says. "Secondly, I try to find songs that say the th ings I know a man wants to say." Besides being a major music figure, Twitty is known as one of the most honest, forthright men in Nashville. Putting decency and dignity above all else, he's also a very successful businessman whose business ventures include a restaurant, travel agency, music publishing companies and a booking agenc y (he owns with Loretta Lynn). And he's the majority stockholder in two minor league baseball teams , including the Nashville Sounds, the most successful minor league baseball team in America. In June 1983, Twitty celebrated the first anniversary of ''Twitty City," a nine acre tourist complex just outside Hendersonville, Tennessee. Twitty developed the complex with the country music fan in m nd. In one place, fans can find everything they want to see when they go to Nashville. "Twitty City" fe tures "Conway's Showcase" (an entertainment center that tells Twi~ty's life story through sound, Ii 1ts and visual displays), landscaped grounds, the "Twitty City Pavilion" (a place to watch live entert 'lme nt, have a snack while you wait for your tour) and a gift shop. But what really makes it a unique p ce is that Conway's home is also on the grounds. He spends as much time as possible visiting with tl fans, the people who Twitty says, "have made all this possible for me." "I'm more excited now than I've been at any other time in my career," Twitty asserts. "Every once i while, to recharge myself in a certain way, to rededicate myself and to stay new and fresh to my f s, I do something a little different. It seems healthy to me. That's what makes this business grow, c J th at's what Conway Twitty is all about. Conway Twitty never did swat a baseball to fame. Instead he wound up owning a couple by r king hits another way. On the Warner Brothers label he's putting out his new ones and polishing l some from the past. They're all hits because he countinues to draw from his heritage, the rich uthe rn musical traditions of his boyhood. Every track he records is part of a musical biography f m a man, unmatched by any living performer in popular music who says, "I only hope I can live 1 g enough to put back into country music just a portion of what I've gotten out of it." 29 Conway and Barry Gibb at The Gibbs Studio in Florida. "Rest Your Love On Me" Barry Gibb Copyright © 1976, 1979 bv Brothers Gibb B.V. All Rights Assigned to Sany Gbb, Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb. Controlled in the U.S.A. by Gibb Brot hers Music (Unlchappell Music, Inc., Administrator).lnternatlonal Copyright Secured. AD Rlghts Reserved. Used by Permission. "A Bridge That Just Won't Bum" Roger Murrah and Jim McBridge Copyright © 1980 Blackwood Music, Inc. and Magic CaatJe Music (BMI). All Rlghts Reserved. Used by Permission. "I May Never Get to Heaven" Buddy Killen and Bill Andenon Copyright © 1960 Tree Publlshlng Co., Inc. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "Over Thirty (Not Over The Hill)" Bucky Jones ( ~right © 1980 Crooe Keys Publlshlng Co., In<:. International Copyright ~ured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Pennlsslon. "I'd Love To Lay You Down" Johnny MacRae Copyright © 1979 Mu.sic Oty Musk, Inc. All Rlghts R..erved. Used by Permls$lon. "Grand Old Blues" Troy Seals and Billy Sherrill Copyright © 1979 Down 'N Dixie Music & Irving Music, Inc. & Julep Publishing Co. (ASCAP) 32 "Tight Fittin' Jeans" Mike Huffman Copyright © 1981 Plater Music, Inc. "I've Never Seen The Likes of You" Bob McDW and Wayland Holyfield Copyright © 1979 Hall-Clement Publlcatlons and Bibo Music Publishers (c/ o The Welk Music Group, Santa Monica, CA 90401) International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved . Used by Permissio n . "Don't Take It Away" Troy Seals and Max D. Barna Cow-igh t © 1975 IJ'\llng Music, Inc. and Danor Music, Inc. (BMI). All Rights Administered by lrvlng Music, Inc. (BMI). All Rights ReseM!d. lntemallonal Copyright Seeured. "Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night" Troy Seals and Max Bames Copyright © 1981 Blue Lake Music/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. / Face The Music. The Twitty Birds of today are left to right: Charlie Archer, Jack Hicks, John Hughey, Gene Hughey, Tommy "Porkchop" Markham and Mike Schrimpf. 34 "'The Clown' is a super song. It's on my album, 'Southern Comfort.' I think it's one of my best vocal performances." 'The Clown" Wavne Carson, Charles Chalmers, Brenda Barnett And Sandra Rhodes Copyright © 1981. 1982 Rose Bridge Music, Inc. and MammOlh Springs Music. All Rights ReseM!d. Used by Permission. Conway and country music radio/ tv personality Ralph Emery. "I had thought about recording 'The Rose' for several years before I finally did. I think it has some of the prettiest words I've ever heard." "The Rose" Amanda McBroom Copyright c' l 977. 1979 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. "Slow Hand" Michael Clarlt and John Bettis Copyright © 1980 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Flying Dutchman Music, & Sweet Harmony Music, In<:. All Rights Administered Jointly by WB Music Corp. & Warner-Tamerlane Publlshlng Corp. All Rights Resewed. U~ by Permission. "We Did But Now You Don't" Berni Clifford, Pat McManas and Woody Bomar Copyright © 1982 Music City Music. Inc. All Rights R--i. Used bv Permission. 35 36 "We Had It All" Troy Seals and Donnie Fritts Copyright © 1973 Irving Music, Inc. (BMI) All Rights Administered by Irving Music, Inc . (BMI). All Rights Reserved. lntematlonal Copyright Secured. "Happy Birthday Darlin'" Chuck Howard Copyright @)1977, 1979 Butter Mwlc , Holloywood, CA 90046. lnternallonal Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. "Lost In The Feeling" Lewis Anderson Copyright © 1982 Old Friends Music (BMI). International Copyright Sec ured . All Rights Reserved. "I Am The Dreamer (You Are The Dream)" Dave Hall. Ruu Alllson and Dalla• Cody Copyright © 1980 Ra!ndance Mu,lc. NASHVILLE - "I'm just a guy trying to make it in this world and am very fortunate to be doing something I love to do and making a living at it. I have never lost sight of that." 37 00 Conway and Amanda McBroom. writer of "The Rose" Conway and Dean Martin at studio during Dean's session when he recorded "My First Country Song" which Conway wrote. \ ,._,L__ CONWAY TWITIY - Discography Year Title(•) Label Notes 1956. Born To Sing The Blues Sun (unissued) • A Crazy Dreams Sun (unissued) Give Me Some Love Sun (unissued) (Rockhouse ) Sun (unissued) B (Lawdy Miss Clawdy) Sun (unissued) (Jim Dandy) Sun (unissued) (Long Black Train) Sun (unissued) (Baby Let's Play House) Sun (unissued) 1957 • /" I Need Your Lovin' / Born To Sing The Blues Mercury 71086 ·;· Shake It Up / Maybe Baby Mercury 71148 Doubletalk Baby/ Why Can't I Get Through To You Mercury 71384 1959• ; It's Only Make Believe / I'll Try MGM 12677 C 1959• ; The Story Of My Love / Make Me Know You're Mine MGM 12748 r Hey Little Lucy / When I'm Not With You MGM 12785 r Mona Lisa / Heavenly MGM 12804 Danny Boy / Halfway To Heaven MGM 12826 1960 r Lonely Blue Boy / Star Spangled Heaven MGM 12857 D What Am I Living For / Hurt In My Heart MGM 12866 r Is A Bluebird Blue? / She's Mine MGM 12911 r What A Dream / Tell Me One More Time MGM 12918 I Need You So / Teasin' MGM 12943 r Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On / The Flame MGM 12962 1961 C'est Ci Bon / Don't You Dare Let Me Down MGM 12969 r The Next Kiss / Man Alone MGM 12998 A Million Teardrops / I'm In A Blue Blue Mood MGM 13011 Sweet Sorrow / It's Driving Me Wild MGM 13034 1962 r Portrait Of A Fool / Tower Of Tears MGM 13050 Comfy'n' Cozy / A Little Piece Of My Heart MGM 13072 Unchained Melody / There Is Something On Your Mind MGM 13089 r The Pickup / I Hope, I Think, I Wish MGM 13112 1963 Got My Mojo Working / She Ain't No Angel When MGM 13149 1964 . r Go On And Cry / She Loves Me ABC-Paramount 10507 My Baby Left Me / Such A Night ABC-Paramount 10550 1965·;- Together Forever/ That Kind Of Girl Decca 31833 1966 Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart/ Honky Tonk Man Decca 31897 E r Look Into My Teardrops/ If You Were Mine To Lose Decca 31983 1961· r I Don't Want To Be With Me / Before I'll Set Her free Decca 32081 ·;· Don't Put Your Hurt In My Heart / Walk Me To The Door Decca 32147 ·; funny, But I'm Not Laughing / Working Girl Decca 32208 40 41 Year Title(s) Label Notes Year Title(s) Label Notes 1968 The Image Of Me / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke r Decca 32272 F ·r I've Already Loved You In My Mind / I Changed My Mind MCA 40754 r Next In Line / I'm Checking Out Decca 32361 G I' Georgia Keeps Pulling On My Ring / Talkin' 'Bout You MCA 40805 Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie / Table In The Corner Decca 32424 H 1978 The Grandest Lady Of Them All / I'm Used To Loving You MCA 40805 1969;·-r I Love You More Today/ Bad Girl Decca 32481 From 7 Til 10 / You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly MCA 40920 To See My Angel Cry/ I Did The Best I Could Decca 32546 (with Loretta Lynn) I' Boogie Grass Band / That's All She Wrote MCA 40929 1970 That's When She Started To Stop Loving You Decca 32599 - ;- Your Love Had Taken Me That High / My Woman Knows MCA 40963 ·1· Hello Darlin' / Girl At The Bar Decca 32661 I r Fifteen Years Ago / Up Comes The Bottle Decca 32742 1979 Don't Take It Away / Draggin' Chains MCA 41002 T I May Never Get To Heaven / Grand Ole Blues MCA 41059 1971 What Am I Living For? MGM 14205 Happy Birthday Darlin' / Heavy Tears MCA 41135 (reissued) Sadness Of It All/ You Know Just What I'd Do MCA 41141 After The Fire Is Gone / The One I Can't Live Without Decca 32776 J (with Loretta Lynn) (with Loretta Lynn) r How Much More Can She Stand / Just Like A Stranger Decca 32801 1980 I'd Love To Lay You Down / She Thinks I Still Care MCA 41174 I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving Decca 32842 K It's True Love / Hit The Road Jack (with Loretta Lynn) MCA 41232 What A Dream MGM 14274 I've Never Seen The Likes Of You / Soulful Woman MCA 41271 (reissued) A Bridge That Just Won't Burn / You'll Be Back MCA 51011 Lead Me On (with Loretta Lynn) Decca 32873 L • 1 • I Can't See Me Without You / I Didn't Lose Her Decca 32895 1981 Lovin' What Your Lovin' Does To Me / Silent Partner MCA 51050 (with Loretta Lynn) 1972' (Lost Her Love On) Our Last Date Decca 32945 Rest Your Love On Me / MCA 51059 u Walk On By MGM 14408 I Am The Dreamer You Are The Dream (reissued) I Still Believe In Waltzes / Oh Honey, Oh Babe MCA 51114 I Can't Stop Loving You Decca 32988 (with Loretta Lynn) Boss Man MGM 14447 Tight Fittin' Jeans / I Made You A Woman MCA 51137 (reissued) Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night / Hearts MCA 51199 V She Needs Someone To Hold Her When She Cries Decca 33033 1982 The Clown / The Boy Next Door Elektra E-47302 w 1913• r Baby's Gone / Dim Lonely Places Places MCA 40027 Slow Hand / When Love Was Something Else Elektra E-47443 X Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man / Living Together MCA 40049 M We Did But Now You Don't / A Good Love Died Tonight Elektra 7-69964 Alone (with Loretta Lynn) Over Thirty (But Not Over The Hill) ·1 You've Never Been This Far Before MCA 40094 N The Rose / It's Only Make Believe Elektra 7-69854 1914 r There's A Honky Tonk Angel / MCA 40173 1983 We Had It All Don't Let It Go To Your Heart Lost In The Feeling / You've Never Been This Far Before Warner Bros. 7-29636 y ·1· I'm Not Through Loving You Yet / Before Your Time MCA 40224 Heartache Tonight / Hello Darlin' Warner Bros. 7-29505 As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone / MCA 40251 0 Three Times A Lady / I Think I'm In Love Warner Bros. 7-28395 A Lifetime Before (with Loretta Lynn) I See The Want-To In Your Eyes / Girl From Tupelo MCA 40282 • Songs written or co-written by Conway Twitty. He has written 17#1 singles . • • Billboard, unless otherwise specljled. RW = Record World; CB = Cash Box . 1915• r Linda On My Mind / She 's Just Not Over You Yet MCA 40339 A The Sun material was recorded as Harold Jenkins. These first titles remained unlssued until r·1 Touch The Hand Of The Man MCA 40407 1970, when they appeared on Birch 587 In Canada. Feelin's / You Done Lost Your Baby MCA 40420 p (with Loretta Lynn) B No tapes have ever been found of Twltty's last five Sun recordings. ·1 Don't Cry Joni MCA 40407 C "It's Only Make Believe" (1958) is his blggest-selllng hit record. This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me MCA 40492 Q D The success of "Lonely Blue Boy" (1960) may have been helped by the hit musical of that same ·1 Hello Darlin' (Russian version) MCA 60180 R year, "Bye Bye Birdie," whose character Conrad Birdie was a parody of Elvis and Conway. E Conway had been writing country songs since 1960, but did not have the opportunity to record 1976· /' After All The Good Is Gone / MCA 40534 them until 1965-66. I've Got A Good Thing Going F "The Image Of Me" (1968) was his first Top 10 country single. ·1 The Letter / God Bless American Again (with Loretta Lynn) MCA 40572 G "Next In Line" (1968) was his first country #1. ·1 The Games That Daddies Play MCA 40601 s H "Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie" (1968) was nominated CMA "Song OJ The Year." ·1 I Can't Believe She Gives It All To Me MCA 40649 I "Hello Darlin" (1970) was nominated CMA "Single OJ The Year," "Song OJ The Year" and "Album Of The Year." 1911· r Play Guitar Play / One In A Million MCA 40682 J Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty won the CMA "Vocal Duo Of The Year" award four straight I Can't Love You Enough (with Loretta Lynn) MCA 40728 times, In 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975. 44 K Merle Haggard wrote "I Wonder What She7I Think About Me Leaving" (1971). L "Lead Me On" was nominated for CMA "Album OJ The Year" in 1972. M "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" was nominated for CMA "Album Of The Year" in 1973. N "You've Never Been This Far Before" (1973) is unquestionably Twitty's most-discussed composition and performance. It received a CMA "Album OJ The Year" nomination in 1974. 0 "As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone" (1974) was nominated CMA "Single Of The Year" in 1974. P "Feelin's" (1975) received a CMA "Album Of The Year" nomination in 1975. Q Earl Thomas Conley wrote "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me" (1975) for Twitty . R "Hello Darlin"' was recorded and pressed in a Russian-language version for the cosmonauts. When MCA reissued the original song in Its Oldies series, the Russian version was put on the flip side. S Conway Twitty was nominated for CMA "Entertainer OJ The Year" in 1971 and 1975. In 1976, he received his fifth nomination as CMA "Male Vocalist OJ The year." The others were in 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1975. T He began producing himself in 1979. U "Rest Your Love On Me" (1981) was written by The Bee Gees. V "Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night" (1981) was his 41st #1 record. W "The Clown" (1982), Twitty's first E/ A single, became his 42nd #1 record. X "Slow Hand" (1982), his second E/A single, became his 43rd #I record. Y "Lost In The Feeling" (1983), his first release on Warner Brothers became his 46th #1 record. 1 46 ..._____ _________ --====-J • ® 47 48 WhenC onwayTwi~s a~ thatf ansa rep arto fh isf amily, he meansit ! Andi nvitest hemh ome. To Twitty City. A special kind of family feeling built Twitty City . Makes it a place where count ry music fans can come close, as never before, to a star. At home. \Vhere he-and his family-live and work. It's Conway's tribute to the fans who have made everything possible for him. He wants them to come visit.To enjoy #1 Music Village Blvd. Hendersonville, TN 37075 Phone (615) 822-6650 strolling through his beautifully landscaped "from yard." Share his life and career through an exciting multi-media entertainment experience in "Conway's Showcase ." Perhaps even visit with Conway . It's a family place. With a warm welcome for a special part of Conway's family. His fans. KMD Y -SSOAM Laura Deni 2813 Vegas Valley Drive Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 (702) 457 - 0120 comedy Broadcasting Compa ny, 2701 Thousand oa ks Btvct , Thous and Oaks, CA 91362 Phone (805> 497-8511 Morning Show Friday Nov. 22, 1985 Good Morning , Conway Twitty , currently starring at the Frontier Hotel with Dotty West was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins. A New York agent gave Harold Lloyd Jenkins his new name from a map taking Conway from l.,onway, Arkansas and 'l'wi tty from Twitty , Texas. Conway' s hit, Hello Darlin' recently became part of world history . General Tom ~tafford, an astronaut on the Apollo-Soyuz mission, requested Hello Darlin ' be part of the cultural exchange between Russia and the United States when the two capsules joined in space. Twitty was thrilled and honored. He hired a Russian professor to coach him and he recorded Hello Darlin' in Russian. As the world watched the link up the song was playing in the background. Another Vegas star whose music has been in orbit is Debbie Reynolds, Her song Abba Dabba Honeymoon was included on that famous,-they really ought to do something about those cages -- space flight with the monkeys. Baseball players are going to become arm wrestlers at the Imperial Palace this week-end. Pro baseball players will battle for personal glory and prize money as well as the honor of their teams. The big men of arm wrestling, the heavyweights, which mearis 295 pounds and under will compete for the Professional Men's World Championship, and professional women arm wrestlers will face each other in a special Tourname nt of Champions. Sixteen pro baseball teams will be represented. At l:J0 p.m. tomorrow the pro baseball play~rs will be available to meet their fans for pictures and autographs on the 4th floor of the Imperial Palace. Doors open to the showroom for the Sunday tournament at 11:J0 a.m . Admission is free . This is the last week-end to catch Johnny Mathis at Caesars palace . Lou Rawls opened last night at the Golden Nugget and Bobby Vinton and the McGuire Sisters are at the Desert Inn. I ' ll return at 10 minutes of 7 telling you about A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum . This is Laura Deni for Comedy Radio AM 8.50 I<JVIDY. CONWAY TWITTY The Beatles never did it. Elvis never did it. Hank Williams never did it. In the whole world of American popular music only Conway Twitty has had 50 number one hit records. "Don't Call Him A Cowboy,,, Twitty's 50th, reached the top of the country charts in June 1985; 27 years after his first release, "It's Only Make Believe,, had completed its inch-by-inch struggle to the top of the pop charts. You can talk about the voice - a deep powerful country instrument with a rich vocabulary of bluesy slurs and the wonderful Twitty "growl" that melts his audiences - to explain 50 number one hits. You can talk about the crisp, caring production that makes so many of the number one records classics of their genre. You can talk about the man himself, the singer with an incredibly loyal following that buys album after album and flocks to "Twitty City" by the hundreds of thousands. But the answer, says Conway, lies in the song; always the song, ten per album, carefully selected from among the 1,500-plus Conway listens to personally before he steps into the studio. Conway's message is to the women who, he says, "get it" quicker than the men do. However, these messages are also for the man who has something he'd like to say to a woman, but has trouble saying it. All he has to do is "drop a quarter in the juke box, press the right buttons and squeeze her at the appropriate time and she'll understand," Conway explains. Throughout his long career, he has touched virtually every popular musical category of the nation - rockabilly, blues, rock 'n' roll, Dixieland, R&B, gospel and mainstream country. Twitty is a child of the Mississippi River. His father, a riverboat pilot, taught him his first chords on a small guitar when Conway was only four years old. The family lived in the tiny river town of Friars Point, Mississippi, a largely black settlement of cotton patches and tenant farms. Next door lived an old black man Twitty fondly called "Uncle Fred." Twitty idolized him and learned music at his knees. That was just the start of Twitty's interest in music. There was a black church around the comer from the house and he spent many hours sitting out on the ditch bank listening to the sound of gospel music coming from inside. And every Saturday night, Twitty and his family would gather around the radio to listen to the Grand Ole Opry. When he was 10, his parents moved up the river about 14 miles to Helena, Arkansas. It was in Helena that Twitty put his first band together, "The Phillips County Ramblers." By the age of 12, he had his own radio show every Saturday morning on station KFF A in Helena. It was also in Helena that Twitty discovered his second love, baseball. It soon became the center of his life and Conway decided he wanted to play professional baseball more than anything on earth . After graduating from high school, he was offered a contract to play with the Philadelphia Phillies; but before he could sign, he was drafted by the Army. Although he had his own band while he was in the Army, Twitty still had never thought of music as a profession. His idols were people like Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and Faron Young. To him, these people were so great that the idea of competing with them was unthinkable. After his discharge from the Army, he again became caught up in music. The first thing he heard was Elvis' "Mystery Train ". Its completely new sound really knocked him out, just as it was doing to millions of other people across the nation. "Although I loved country music, I didn't think I was good enough to compete with my idols," Twitty explained. "I did think I could sing Elvis' style of music. I had to make a decision, so I threw down the baseball bat and picked up the guitar.'' Twitty soon found that after he sang the songs of Presley, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley and a handful of others, there was no music like that for him to learn. His solution? He wrote some himself and set off to find the musical hotbed at Sun Studios in Memphis. There he found Jerry Lee Lewis, Presley, Johnny Cash, all working on the same musical synthesis of country and black music that he'd grown up with. ''That was a new kind of music then,'' he recalls. ''So you either had to write something with that kind of feel to it or you had to take an old song and rearrange it, like Elvis did with "Blue Moon of Kentucky". Looking back, the creative part of all of it was the most fun. Somebody would come up with a new guitar lick and it would go through that whole bunch down there in Memphis. You could feel it growing; it was really exciting. Everything was new -you didn't have a thing to draw from." Ironically, Conway Twitty didn't break through with rockabilly music the way the others did. Despite excellent up-tempo performances for Sun and Mercury, he scored his first hit with the powerful teen ballad "It's Only Make Believe" on MGM in 1958. It was the first of dozens of emotion-packed Conway Twitty compositions that have hit the top of the charts, and it made him a teenage idol. Eight years and three gold records later, Twitty decided to make a change. Despite his wide success as a rock 'n' roll star, Twitty was writing purely country songs as early as 1960. But he had no outlet for them. "Finally," he says, "I thought I'd lived long enough and experienced enough to compete with my heroes and do justice to a country song.'' A good friend of Twitty's, Harlan Howard, took him to meet Owen Bradley at Decca Records. Bradley took a chance on Twitty and signed him as a country act to Decca/MCA. The disillusioned rocker had scored four straight country #1 's by the dawn of the 1970's. By 1980, he had become the most consistent hitmaker in the history of country music. Although he has written many (17) of his best known hits, including "Hello Darlin' ", "Linda On My Mind", and "You've Never Been This Far Before", it's his ability to hear the great songs, written by others that has kept him on top, Conway believes. He credits much of his success with choosing the right song. "I know right now that 99 percent of my next record is how strong that song is, not what I do to it. I really believe that.'' Since 1979, when he began producing himself, Conway Twitty feels he has been making the most creative and innovative records of his career. 1979 also brought about another change for Conway. One that created quite a stir. He traded his famous, pompadour hairstyle for a curlier, looser style. Commenting on his remarkable ability to adapt and change, Twitty says, "I never make a change either in my career or in my personal life, without giving it a lot of thought. I believe in change. It's the only thing I know of that's constant. When things stop changin', they die. When I began to produce my own records it was because I felt like I needed to change. There were things I wanted to do that I felt Owen wouldn't agree with. It was a tough decision, but I felt like I needed a fresh approach. I wanted to spend more time, getting everything just right. I went and sat down with Owen and had a long talk about it. He said, 'Conway, I don't think you have a choice. I think you need to do it.' "I felt like with a better recorded sound and newer pickers with fresh ideas, I'd have more to draw from," Twitty continued. "I believe in being versatile and I've got a lot of different musical backgrounds I can draw from. I wanted to start using all this. But I have never wanted to alienate one country fan. Not one, but I did want to pick up some new ones and I think I've accomplished that.'' Twitty is very protective of his career and attributes part of his longevity in this business by avoiding over-exposure. He shys away from interviews and doing too much television - he prefers to let his image live through his songs. However, in 1982, Conway gathered some of his closest friends in the business to do his first television special Conway Twitty On The Mississippi. In 1983, it won Country Music TV Special Of The Year in the fan-voted Music City News Awards. Besides being a major music figure, Twitty is known as one of the most honest, forthright men in Nashville. Putting decency and dignity above all else, he's also a very successful businessman whose ventures include music publishing companies, restaurants, and a travel agency. And he's the majority stockholder in three minor league baseball teams, including the Nashville Sounds, one of America's most successful minor league baseball teams. In June, 1985, Twitty celebrated the third anniversary of "Twitty City", a nine acre tourist complex just outside Nashville, in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Twitty developed the complex with the country music fan in mind. In one place, fans can find everything they want to see when they come to Nashville. "Twitty City" features Conway's Showcase (an entertainment center that tells Twitty's life story through sound, lights and visual displays), landscaped grounds, the Twitty City Pavilion (a place to watch live entertainment, have a snack and relax while you wait for your tour) and a gift shop. But what really makes it unique, is that Conway's home and the homes of his four children are also on the grounds. He spends as much time as possible visiting with the fans, the people who, Twitty says, "have made all this possible for me." This year, in addition to continuing a tradition which has made him part of the fabric of great American music, Conway will continue to work on an animated television special, based on his successful Christmas album "Merry Twismasfrom Conway Twitty and His Little Friends". Conway Twitty never did swat a baseball to fame. Instead he wound up owning a couple of teams by making hits another way. On the Warner Bros. label, he'll keep on making hit records, drawing from his heritage: the rich Southern musical traditions of his boyhood. Every track he records is part of a musical biography from a man, unmatched by any living performer in popular music who says, "I only hope I can live long enough to put back into country music just a portion of what I've gotten out of it. Conway Twitty Enterprises #1 Music Village Boulevard Hendersonville, TN 37075 (615) 822-3210 7/85 WarnerB ros. P.O. Box 120897 Nashville, TN 37212 (615) 320-7525 Representationf or Performances: Jim Halsey Co. Inc. 3225 Norwood Tulsa, OK 74135 (918) 663-3883 CONWAY TWITTY Somewhere in the soul of Conway Twitty there's a place where all the music of the South boils and brews. There must be: the long career of the champion hit-maker has touched virtually every musical genre that Dixie has ever given to America - rockabilly, blues, honky-tonk, rock 'n' roll, Dixieland, rhythm & blues, gospel and mainstream country. His command of such diverse styles was especially apparent on Southern Comfort, his January '82 debut album for Elektra/ Asylum. Among that album's tracks were two chart-topping discs as different as night and day. "The Clown" was an evocative, haunting ballad while Twitty's treatment of "Slow Hand" had enough rhythm and raunch to make it a dancing favorite. They were his 42nd and 43rd #1 singles, respectively; no other artist has hit the top that many times. Twitty's second E/ A release, Conway's #1 Classics- Volume One (August '82) features newly-recorded versions of songs that represent the length and breadth of his remarkable career, from his teen idol years to the country superstar he is today. That the 10 songs included are so different, yet so unmistakably Conway Twitty, is testimony to his masterful synthesis of many musical styles. One might think an artist of Twitty's magnitude would call it a year after releasing a new studio LP and a freshly-recorded hits package. But while "Slow Hand" was on its way up the charts and the Classics album was being prepared for release, he was hard at work on Dream Maker, his second new studio LP of the year and third E/ A album. Produced and mixed digitally at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville by Twitty and E/ A Nashville Vice President Jimmy Bowen, Dream Maker was released in early September '82, with "We Did But Now You Don't" released in late August as the LP's advance single. Twitty is a child of the Mississippi River, that legendary meeting place of America's musical currents. His father, a riverboat pilot, taught him his first chords on a small guitar that was given to him by his grandfather when he was only four years old. The family lived in a tiny river town called Friars Point, Mississippi, a largely black settlement of cotton patches and tenant farms. Next door lived an old black man Twitty fondly called Uncle Fred. Twitty idolized him and learned music at his knees. "That old black man who lived next door played guitar and harmonica," Twitty recalls, "and I'd sit out there for hours and he'd teach me the blues-type stuff. I loved to sit there with him. I remember one song he did was 'Somebody's Been Pickin' My Potatoes and Trampin' On My Vines'. I used to sit there and sing it with him. I spent hours with him, and yet I never did know his last name.'' That was just the start of Twitty's interest in music. There was a black church around the corner from their house and he'd spend hours sitting out on the ditch bank listening to the sounds of gospel music coming from inside. And every Saturday night, Twitty and his family would gather around the radio to listen to the Grand Ole Opry. When he was 10 his parents moved up the river about 14 miles to Helena, Arkansas. It was in Helena that Twitty put his first band together, The Phillips County Ramblers. By the age of 12, he had his own radio show every Saturday morning on station KFF A in Helena. It was also in Helena that Twitty discovered his second love, baseball. It soon became the center of his life and Conway decided he wanted to play professional baseball more than anything on earth. After graduating from high school, he wound up with an offer to play with the Philadelphia Phillies, but before he could sign, he was drafted by the Army. Although he had his own band while he was in the Army, Twitty still had never thought of music as a profession. His idols were people like Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Ray Price and Faron Young. These people were so great to Twitty that the idea of competing with them was unthinkable. When he was discharged from the Army, the first thing he heard was Elvis Presley's "Mystery Train." Its completely new sound really knocked him out, just as it was doing to millions of other people across the nation. "Although I loved country music, I didn't think I was good enough to compete with my idols," Twitty explained. "But I did think I could sing Elvis' style of music. I had to make a decision. I threw down the baseball bat and picked up the guitar. I've been pickin' ever since." Twitty soon found that after he sang the songs of Presley, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley and a handful of others, there was no other music like that for him to learn. His solution? He wrote some himself and set off to find the musical hotbed at Sun Studios in Memphis. There he found Jerry Lee Lewis, Presley, Perkins, Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich and Roy Orbison working on the same musical synthesis of country and black music that he'd grown up with. "That was a new kind of music then," Twitty recalls. "So you either had to write something with that kind of feel to it or you had to take an old song and rearrange it, like Elvis did with 'Blue Moon Of Kentucky.' Looking back, the creative part of all of it was the most fun. Somebody would come up with a new guitar lick and it would go through that whole bunch down there in Memphis. You could feel it growing; it was really exciting. Everything was new - you didn't have a thing to draw from." Ironically, Conway Twitty didn't break though with rockabilly music the way the others did. Despite excellent uptempo performances for Sun and Mercury, he scored his first hit with the powerful teen ballad, "It's Only Make Believe" on MGM in 1958. It was the first of dozens of emotion-packed Conway Twitty compositions that have become Top 10 hits, and it made him a teenage idol. Eight years and three gold records later, Twitty decided to make a switch. Despite his wide success as a rock 'n' roll star, Twitty was writing purely country songs as early as 1960. But he had no outlet for them. "Finally/' he says, "I thought I'd lived long enough and experienced enough to compete with my heroes and do justice to a country song.'' The frustration he felt as a rocker with a country heart finally came to a head one evening in a New Jersey nightclub. Unable to continue the charade any longer, Twitty abruptly left the rock 'n' roll stage, never to return. It was a courageous,e motionald ecision,b ut one he's neverr egretted. The memoryo f that night has never left him: "The place was a huge club where all the college kids went. I was there for eight weeks. After I finished this tour, my manager had promised me I could start doing country music. Well, during my last two weeks there, a big package came for me. It contained contracts to play all those same rock clubs I'd been playing ... all the way up into the following year. I was right in the middle of a show. And all of a sudden, I just couldn't sing another song, I just couldn't. I had never done anything like that in my life. I took my guitar, set it down and explained the situation to the club owner. I told the band, 'We're headin' south and we ain't comin' back.' "My management said I was crazy," Twitty continues. "People said, 'You're gonna go from selling hundreds of thousands of records to selling 30,000 - 40,000 records. You'll be going from making thousands of dollars a day to making $100 - $200 a day. You're out of your mind!' And sure enough, in a week or two, I was pickin' in them little clubs makin' $100- $200, just like they said." A good friend ofTwitty's, Harland Howard, took him to meet Owen Bradley at Decca Records. Bradley took a chance on Twitty and signed him as country act to Decca/MCA. The disillusioned rocker had scored four straight country #1 's by the dawn of the 1970's. By mid-decade all of his 23 successive singles had hit the top in one of all three trade magazines charts. By 1980 he had an astounding 38 #1 records, more than anyone else in the field of popular music. More than Sinatra. More than Elvis. More than The Beatles. The most consistent hitmaker in the history of country music now holds 43 chart-topping singles. Twitty wrote 17 of those #1 singles and is one of country music's unheralded songwriting geniuses. His grippingly real mini-dramas of love, regret, longing and desire have included the memorable "Hello Darlin,,, (1970), "After All The Good Is Gone" (1976), "I Can't See Me Without You" (1971), "The Games Daddies Play" (1976), "You've Never Been This Far Before" (1973), and the Loretta Lynn duet •~s Soon As I Hang Up The Phone (1974). Fresh new versions of all those are featured on Conway's #1 Classics - Volume I. As a songwriter, he's also introduced "Linda On My Mind," "Play Guitar Play" and "(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date." As a song interpreter Conway has given country music such classics as "There's A Honky Tonk Angel, " "I See The Want-to In Your Eyes, " "I'd Love To Lay You Down" and "Don't Take It A way. " Merle Haggard, Earl Thomas Conley and The Bee Gees have all written hits for him. He's combined bluegrass and country-rock ("Boogie Grass Band"), Dixieland and country blues ("Grand Ole Blues'') and rock and honky-tonk ("Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night''). Since 1979, when he began producing himself, Conway Twitty feels he has been making the most creative and innovative records of his career. Commenting on his remarkable ability to adapt and change, Twitty says, "I never make a change, either in my career or in my personal life, without giving it a lot of thought. I believe in change. It's the only thing I know of that's constant. When things stop changin', they die. When I began to produce myself, it was because I felt like I needed to change. There were things I wanted to do that I felt Owen wouldn't agree with. It was a tough decision, but I felt like I needed a fresh approach. I wanted to spend more time getting everything just right. I went and sat down with Owen and had a long talk about it. He said, 'Conway, I don't think you have a choice. I think you need to do it.' "I felt like with a better recorded sound and newer pickers with fresh ideas, I'd have more to draw from," Twitty continued. "I believe in being versatile and I've got a lot of different musical backgrounds I can draw from. I wanted to start using all this. But I have never wanted to alienate one country fan. Not one. But I did want to pick up some new ones and I think I've accomplished that.'' Twitty has continued to prove that point since joining the Elektra/ Asylum roster in Nashville. Southern Comfort, released in January 1982, "is one of the best albums I've ever done," he says. "I love 'Slow Hand.' It's a great song and the words kind of fit my image - and the way I am, really. I think it came off real well. 'The Clown' is a super song and I think it's one of my best vocal performances . I'm real proud of that one!'' Of the already-famous tunes on Conway's #1 Classics- Volume I, the singer has several comments: "I remember writing 'Hello Darlin' 'very well. It was while I was on tour in 1960 and I didn't get to record it until 10 years later!" "You've Never Been This Far Before" is certainly Conway Twitty's most-discussed hit. "A disc jockey friend of mine called me up when it was released and said, 'Conway, we can't play this record.' And I asked, 'Why?' He said, 'Well, it's a little suggestive and our station people won't let us play it.' Well, I had never thought about that. .. the line that really got 'em was 'As my trembling fingers touch forbidden places,' but I still don't think it's a dirty song! Women understood what I meant by that line. It was about stepping outside the boundaries of marriage for the first time and just holding hands would have been forbidden.'' Twitty credits much of his success with choosing the right song. "I know right now that 99 percent of my next record is how strong that song is, not what I do to it. I really believe that." When looking for songs to record, Twitty will go through more than 1500 to find the 10 he'll use in an album. "I look for songs I know a woman's going to like," he says. "Secondly, I try to find songs that say the things I know a man wants to say.'' Since the Classics album's songs seem so timeless, it was fitting that Twitty re-record them for his new label. He feels this music is now better than ever and his new approach to recording gives them all the freshness and excitement of the new material heard on Southern Comfort and Dream Maker. "With the Southern Comfort, Classics and Dream Maker albums, the Elektra/ Asylum Nashville people and Twitty City, my new tourist complex, I'm more excited now than I've been at any other time in my career,'' Twitty asserts. ''Every once in a while, to recharge myself in a certain way, to re-dedicate myself and to stay new and fresh to my fans, I do something a little different. It seems healthy to me. That's what makes this business grow, and that's what Conway Twitty is all about.'' • Besides being a major music figure, Twitty is known as one of the most honest, forthright men in Nashville. Putting decency and dignity above all e1se, he's also a very successful businessman whose business ventures include a restaurant, travel agency, music publishing companies and a booking agency (he owns with Loretta Lynn). And he's the majority stockholder in five minor league baseball teams, including the Nashville Sounds, the most successful minor league baseball team in American. In June 1982, Twitty held a grand opening for his latest venture, the aforementioned nine-acre tourist complex in Hendersonville, Tennessee called Twitty City. Twitty developed the complex with the country music fan in mind. In one place fans can find everything they want to see when they go to Nashville. Twitty City features Conway's Showcase (an entertainment center that tells Twitty's life story through sound, lights and visual displays), landscaped grounds and a gift shop. But what really makes it a unique place is that Conway's home is also on the grounds. He spends as much time as possible visiting with the country fans, the people who Twitty says ''have made all this possible for me.'' Conway Twitty never did swat a baseball to fame. Instead he wound up owning several teams by making hits another way. On E/ A he's putting out his new ones and polishing up some from his past. They're all hits because he continues to draw from his heritage, the rich Southern musical traditions of his boyhood. Whether from Southern Comfort, or Conway's #1 Classics - Volume I, every track is part of a musical biography from a man, unmatched by any living performer in popular music who says, "I only hope I can live long enough to put back into country music ju st a portion of what I've gotten out of it." Conway Twitty Enterprises #1 Music Village Boulevard Hendersonville, TN 37075 Phone: 615/ 822-3210 9/82 Exclusive Bookings by: United Talent P. 0. Box 23470 Nashville, TN 37202 6151329-9900 Warner Brothers Records, Inc. 1710 Grand A venue Nashville, TN 37212 Phone: 615/ 320-7525 Year 1956 * * 1957 */* */* 1958 * / 1959 * / I* I* 1960 /* /* I* /* 1961 I* l 962 I* I* 1963 1964 * /* CONWAYTWITTYDiscography Tide(s) Label Born To Sing The Blues Sun (unissued) Crazy Dreams Sun (unissued) Give Me Some Love Sun ( unissued) (Rockhouse) Sun N (Lawdy Miss Clawdy) Sun " Uim Dandy) Sun " (Long Black Train) Sun " (Baby Let's Play House) Sun I Need Your Lovin'/ Born To Sing The Blues Mercury 71086 Shake It Uf / Maybe Baby Mercury 71148 Doublctal · Baby I Why Can't I Get Through To You Mercury 71384 It's Only Make Believe/ I'll Try MGM 12677 The Stor} Of My Love I Make Me Know You're Mine MGM 12748 I Icy Little Lucy/ \Xlhcn I'm Not With You MGM 12785 Mona Lisa / Heavenl} MGM 12804 Danny Boy / Halfway To Heaven MGM 12826 Lonely Blue Boy I Star Spangled Heaven MGM 12857 What Am I Living For/ Hun In My Hean MGM 12866 Is A Blucbird Blue? I She's Mine MGM 12911 What A Dream/ Tell Me One More Time MGM 12918 I Need You So/ Teasin' MGM 12943 Whole Lona Shakin• Going On / The Fl.tme MGM 12962 C' est Ci Bon / Don't You Dare Let Me Down MGM 12969 The Next Kiss / Man Alone MGM 12998 A Million Teardrops / I'm In A Blue Blue Mood MGM 13011 Sweet Sorrow I It's Driving Me Wild MGM 13034 Portrait Of A Fool / Tower Of Tears MGM 13050 Comfy 'n' Cozy I A Little Piece Of My Hean MGM 13072 Unchained Melody I There ls Something On Your Mind MGM 13089 The Pickup/ I Hope, I Think, I Wish MGM 13112 Got My Mojo Working/ She Ain't No Angel When MGM 13149 Go On And Cry I She Loves Me ABC-Paramount 10507 My Baby Left Me I Such A Night ABC-Paramount 10550 High Chart#'' Notes A B 1193 (pop) Ill (pop) C 1128 " 1187 . 1129 " 1110 " II 6 • D 1126 " 1135 N #55(pop) #22 ,, 1172 N 1198 (pop) 1965 */* Together Forever / That Kind Of Girl Decca 31833 1966 Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Hean/ Honky Tonk Man Decca 31897 #18 (country) E /* Look Into My Teardrops/ If You Were Mine To Lose Decca 31983 #35 ,, 1%7 */* I Don't Want To Be With Me/ Before I'll Set Her Free Decca 32081 #21 II */* Don't Put Your Hurt In My Hean/ Walk Me To The Door Decca 32147 #32 ,, */ Funny, Bue I'm Not Laughing/ Working Girl Decca 32208 #61 II 1968 The Image Of Me / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke De(ca 32272 # 5 " F /* Next In Line / I'm Checking Out Decca 32361 # I ,, G /* Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie/ Table In The Corner Decca 32424 II 2 (#1-R\Xf & CB) H 1969 /* I Love You More Today/ Bad Girl Decca 32481 II 1 (country) */* To See My Angel Cry / I Did The Best I Could Decca 32546 # 1 (country) 1970 That's When She Started To Srop Loving You Decca 32599 # 3 (#1-RW) */* Hello Darlin' / Girl At The Bar Deem 32661 # 1 (country) I* Fifteen Y cars Ago / Up Comes The Bottle Decca 32742 1160 (pop) II 1 (country) 1181 (pop) 1971 What Am I Living For? MGM 14205 (reissued) 1159 (country) A fcer The Fire Is Gone I The One I Can't Live Decca 32776 # 1 (country) J Without (with Loretta Lynn) /* How Much More Can She Stand / Just Like A Stranger Dcxca 32801 # 1 ,, I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving Decca 32842 # 4 (country) (#1-RW) K What A Dream MGM 14274 (reissued) #50 (country) Lead Me On (with Loretta Lynn) Decca 32873 II l II L */* I Can't Sec Me Without You/ II 4 II I Didn't Lose Her Decca 32895 (111-RW) 1972 * (Lost Her Love On) Our Last Date Decca 32945 # 1 (country) Walk On By MGM 14408 (reissued) I Can't Stop Loving You Decca 32988 II 1 (country) Boss Man MGM 14447 She Needs Someone To Hold Her When (reissued) She Cnes Decca 33033 # 1 (country) 1973 */* Baby's Gone / Dim Lonely Places Places MCA40027 II 2(country) (#1-RW & CB) Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man / MCA40049 # 1 (country) M Living Together Alone (wuh Loretta Lynn) */ You've Never Been This Far Before MCA40094 # 1 (country) N 1974 /* There's A Honky Tonk Angel / Don't Let It Go To Your Heart MCA40173 # 1 (country) */* I'm Not Through Loving You Yet / # 3 ( country) Before Your Time MCA40224 (#1-RW & CB) As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone/ A Lifetime Before (with Loretta Lynn) MCA40251 #1 (country) 0 I See The Want-To In Your Eyes/ Girl From Tupelo MCA40282 # 1 II 1975 * /* Linda On My Mind/ She's Just Not Over You Yet MCA40339 # 1 II *I Touch The Hand Of The Man MCA40407 # 1 II I* Feelins' / You Done Lost Your Baby (with Loretta Lynn) MCA40420 # 1 II p */ Don't Cry Joni MCA 40407 #4 II (#1-RW) This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me MCA40492 # 1 (country) Q *I Hello Darlin' (Russian version) MCA 60180 R 1976 */* After All The Good Is Gone / I've Got A Good Thing Going MCA40534 # 1 (country) */ The Letter / God Bless America Again (with Loretta Lynn) MCA 40572 # 3 II (#1-RW & CB) */ The Games That Daddies Play MCA40601 # 1 (country) s *I I Can't Believe She Gives It All To Me MCA 40649 # 1 ,, 1977*/* Play Guitar Play / One In A Million MCA 40682 // 1 II I Can't Love You Enough (with Loretta Lynn) MCA 40728 # 2 II *!* I've Already Loved You In My Mind/ I Changed My Mind MCA40754 # 1 II !* Georgia Keeps Pulling On My Ring / Talkin' 'Bout You MCA40805 # 3 II 1978 The Grandest Lady Of Them All/ I'm Used To Loving You MCA 40857 #16 II From 7 Ti! 10 / You' re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly (with Loretta Lynn) MCA40920 # 6 II !* Boogie Grass Band / That's All She Wrote MCA40929 # 2 ,, /* Your Love Had Taken Me That High / My Woman Knows MCA40963 # 3(country) 1979 Don't Take It Away/ Draggin' Chains MCA41002 # 1 ,, T I May Never Get To Heaven/ Grand Ole Blues MCA41059 # 1 " Hdipy Birthday Darlin' / Heavy Tears MCA41135 # 1 II Sa ness Oflt All / You Know Just What I'd Do (with Loretta Lynn) MCA41141 II 9 ,, 1980 I'd Love To Lay You Down / She Thinks I Still Care MCA41174 # 1 II It's True Love/ Hit The RoadJack (with Loretta Lynn) MCA 41232 # 5 II Year Title Label High Chart# Note I've Never Seen The Likes Of You / Soulful Woman MCA41271 # 6 (country) A Bridge That Just Won't Burn/ You'll Be Back MCA 51011 # 3 II 1981 Lovin' What Your Lovin' Does To Me / Silent Partner ( with Loretta Lynn) MCA 51050 Rest Your Love On Me / # 7 II I Am The Dreamer You Are The Dream MCA 51059 # 1 II u I Still Believe In Waltzes / MCA 51114 # 2 " Oh Honey, Oh Babe (with Loretta Lynn) Tight Fittin' Jeans/ I Made You A Woman MCA 51137 # 1 JI Red Neckin' Love Makin' Nights/ Hearts MCA 51199 # 1 II V 1982 The Clown / The Boy Next Door Elektra E-47 302 # 1 II w Slow Hand/ When Love Was Something Else Elektra E-47443 # 1 " X Over Thirty (Not Over The Hill) / Love Salvation MCA 52032 #69 II y WeDidButNowYouDon't / A Good Love Died Tonight Elektra 7-69964 # 1 II The Rose I It's Only Make Believe Elektra 7-69854 # 1 II z 1983 We Had It All/ Cheatin' Fire MCA 52154 #44 II AA Lost In The Feeling/ You've Never Been # 2 ,, This Far Before Warner Bros 7-29636 # 1 (R&R) BB Heartache Tonight / Hello Darlin' Warner Bros 7-29505 # 6 (country) # 5 (R&R) Three Times A Lady / I Think I'm In Love Warner Bros 7-29395 # 8 (country) 1984 Somebody's Needin' Somebody I (Lying Here With) Linda On My Mind Warner Bros 7-29308 # 1 ,, I Don't Know A Thing About Love (The Moon Song) I Don't Cry Joni Warner Bros 7-29227 # 1 II Ain't She Somethin' Else / The Games That Daddies Play Warner Bros 7-29137 # 1 II cc White Christmas / Happy The Christmas Clown Warner Bros 7-29129 No Chan No. DD 1985 Don't Call Him A Cowboy I After All The Good Is Gone Warner Bros 7-29227 * Songs wntten orco-wntten by Conway Twitty. He has wntten 17 #1 singles. ** Billboard,u nlesso therwises pecified RW = RecordW orld,·C B = CashB ox; RR = Radio & Records. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N 0 p Q R s T u V w X y z The Sun materialw asr ecordeda s HaroldJ enkins. Thesef irst titles remained unissued until 1970, when they appeared on Birch 587 in Canada. No tapes have ever been found of Twitty 's last five Sun recordings. "It's Only Make Believe" (1958) is his biggest-sellingh it record The successo f "Lonely Blue Boy" (1960)m ay have been helped by the hit musicalo f that same year ''Bye Bye Birdie. '' whose characterC onradB irdie wasp arody of Elvisa nd Conway. Conway had been writing country songs since 1960. but did not have the opportunity to record them until 1965-66. ''The Image Of Me'' (1968) was his first Top 10 country single. · 'Next In Line'' (1968) was his first country #1. "Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie" (1968) was nominated CMA ''Song Of The Year." "Hello Dadin" (1970) was nominated CMA "Single Of The Year," "Song Of The Year" and ''Album Of The Year. '' LorettaL ynn & Conway Twitty won the CMA '' VocalD uo Of The Year·· awardf our straightt imes, in 1972, 1973. 1974 and 1975. Merle Haggard wrote "I Wonder What She 'II Think About Me Leaving" (1971). ''Lead Me On'' was nominatedf or CMA ''Album Of The Year·' in 1972 . "LouisianaW oman, MississippiM an" wasn ominatedf or CMA "Album Of The Year'' in 1973 . "You've Never Been This FarB efore'' (1973)t s unquestionably Twitty 's most-discussed compositiona ndp eiformance.I t receiveda CMA ·· A/bum Of The Year'' nominationi n 1974. ''As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone·· (1974) was nominatedCMA ''Single O/The Year'' in 1974. "Feelin's'' (1975) received a CMA "Album O/The Year'' nomination in 1975. EarlT homas Conley wrote ·' This Time f've Hurt Her Afore Than She LovesM e'' (1975)f or Twitty. ''Hello Darlin·'' was recordeda nd pressed in a Russian-languagev ersionf or the cosmonauts. When MCA reissuedt he angina/ song in its Oldiess enes, the R11ssiav.ne rsionw asp ut on the flip side. Conway Twitty was nominated for CMA "Entertainer Of The Year" in 1971 and 1975. In 1976, he receivedh isf ifth nomination as CMA ''Male VocalistO f The Year. '' The others werei n 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1975. He began producing himself in 1979. · 'Rest Your Love On Me'· {1981) was written by The Bee Gees. "Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night" {1981) was hts4lst #1 record. "The Clown'' {1982), Twitty'sfirst E!A single, became hir42nd#J record. "Slow Hand" (I 982), his second El A single, became his 4 3rd# 1 record This song wasr eleasedo n MCA after Conwayh ad signed with Elektra.A lso, it wasr eleaseda t the same time as ''Slow Hand '' Tht:rs ingle had a picture sleeve.f eatun·ng a picture of Conway. • AA BB cc DD 3/85 This wast he lasts ingle MCA releasedo n Conway. This wast he first singler eleasedo n WarnerB ros.a fter the Elektra/W B merger. This was Conway's4 9th #1 record. This singlew ast akenf rom Conway'so nly Chnstmasa lbum, "MerryT wirmas"from ConwayT witty And His Little Fnends, whichf eatures The Twitty Bird'ss inging debut. THE JIM HALSEY COMPANY ISE XTREMEPLRYO UDTO A NNOUNCE EXCLUSIWVEO RLDWIRDEEP RESENTATOIFO N MOR#E1 SONGS! FIFTY# 1 HITS! #1 BOXO FFICE! Nowb ooking1 985/198to6u rs. THE JIM HALSEYC O., INC. msS .N ORWOOD 1930C ENTL'RPYA RKW EST 11111 6THA \ENU5E0 t;TH Tll.SA,O K7 4135 LOSA NGEi.E. CSA9 006" tlA$H\I'LI.E, TN 3"212 (918)<x>Hl83 (215)S5l l lOO (&15)3291·'00 TELEX-1m9 s CAILN OW! (918) 663-3883 Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: An Interview With CONWAY TWITTY How did you get started in music? I used to ride in the pilot house of the riverboat with my father. He knew how to play the guitar a little and he taught me what he knew. When I was 10, I formed my own band, The Phillips County Ramblers, and we had our own radio show on station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas. Is it true you were once a major league baseball player? No. I was offered a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies when I was 17, but I was drafted by the Army before I could accept. Although the offer was still good when I was discharged, I heard an Elvis Presley record and decided to make music my career. What were the movies you starred in and why did you stop making films? They were College Confidential, Platinum High School, (which was later released as Trouble at Sixteen, and Rich, Young and Deadly) and Sex Kittens Go To College. The reason I didn't do any more was because I thought I was taking up somebody's spot who had worked harder for it than I had. I didn't think that was fair. You were a successful rock 'n' roll idol. Why did you suddenly quit and go into country music? Although I'd always loved country music, I didn't think I was old enough or good enough to sing it back when I first started in this business. In country music, the lyrics, the stories you deal with, well, you wouldn't want to hear a kid singing about all the things that a country song is about. You can't accept that from a kid because he hasn't lived it yet. Also, I didn't feel like I could compete with my heroes in country music; people like Faron Young, Webb Pierce, and Ray Price. Anyway, I felt like I could compete in the rock field, even though my heart was in country . I told my managers, producers, and booking agents I felt I was finally good enough to sing country. They kept promising me I could after I had fulfilled my obligations - even though they thought I was crazy. I was on my last date of the tour when a big package came for me. It was contracts to play all the same rock 'n' roll clubs again, all the way up into the following year. I knew then that they really didn't care what I wanted and whether I was happy or not. I just put my guitar down and told the band to finish the set. I went out, told the club owner what my problem was and said, "I can't take it no more!" He understood and said, "Don't worry about it, Conway. We've been friends a long time. You've made me a lot of money; and if you wanna go home, you go home!" That night we headed home, started playing country music and never looked back. How do you find the songs you record? When I'm ready to record an album, my people and I comb all the publishing companies and writers for their songs. Before we ever go in the studio I put all my efforts into finding the best songs I can find. I'll go through 1500-plus before choosing the ten that finally make it on the album. Why do you put so much emphasis on the song? Well, I learned a long time ago it's the song, not the singer, that's the most important thing. There are a lot of great singers who are not having hit records anymore. I think it's because they are not picking the right songs. A lot of artists reach the point to where they won't record songs they don't write or publish or both. They begin to think it's them. I know it's 99-percent the song, not what I do to it. . . Question: Conway: What do you look for in a song? First, I would never do a song that would in any way put women down or put them in a bad light. Women are very easy to communicate with; they've got really deep feelings and are very sensitive. They can read between the lines in a song. So when I'm writing a song or listening to one, I make sure that there's nothing in it that would offend a woman, and that it's something they would like to hear. Second and very close to that, I try to find a song that I know a man would like to say to a woman, but doesn't know how. If you can make it easy for him, where all he had to do is go pick up an album or drop a quarter in a jukebox and kinda give her a squeeze when he hears those words, then you've made a fan of him too. He appreciates the fact that you've said it for him. Question: What's your biggest record? Conway: It's Only Make Believe was my first million seller. It remains one of my most requested songs, and I still close every show with it. Question: How many number one records have you had? Conway: Don't Call Him A Cowboy, which reached Number One in June, 1985, was my 50th Number One record. Question: You can't possibly do aU of these during your performance. How do you pick the songs that go into your show? What determines what will stay and does that change yearly? Conway: We change whenever we need to. I don't really pick the songs, they pick themselves. It's the songs that fans pick - through record sales, requests and by their applause at the end of the songs at our concerts. I listen closely to that. Some songs have that magic and therefore have that longevity in the show. Others are big records for a short length of time and people kind of get tired of them. I can tell. And when they let me know (consciously or subconsciously) that the song really doesn't move them that much anymore, then I'll take it out of the show and put another one in. Question: Some of your biggest hits were self-written songs; in fact, 17 out of your 50 Number One Records. Are you still writing your own material? Conway: No, I haven't written any songs in seven or eight years. I think I've Already Loved You In My Mind was the last song I wrote and recorded. Songwriting demands a lot of time. Not only time, but it demands a lot of attention. I guess I've just gotten busy on so many other things that I find it hard to take the time, get somewhere by myself and spend the time and effort it takes to sit down and write songs. I still have a lot of things I want to say as a writer and I believe one of these days I'll slow down enough to a point where I can take the time to go off and write some more. I hope so. Question: When you wrote "It's Only Make Believe," did you feel the song would be the turning point in your career? Conway: Yes, I did. I've always known the song was the most important thing. I knew it was a good song and that it would either get me over the hump or out of the business. I felt like if it didn't make it, it was because of me. Question: Conway, what is your advice to those who want to break into Country Music? What do you recommend? Conway: Forget it! (Laughter). No, there is no certain way, no path or road leading to it. If you talked to ten successful entertainers, you would find ten different ways. If I knew how to do it, I could stay at home and become a rich man. My own kids are trying to get into this business and there's nothing I can sit down and tell them. All I can say is try hard. Determination is more than 70 percent of it. Other factors deal with talent, luck, and being in the right place at the right time. Again, I can't stress enough how important it is to have the right song. • • Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Question: Conway: Why don't you do many interviews? I'd rather communicate with the fans through my songs. An entertainer like Conway Twitty is no more or less than what that country music fan sitting out there thinks Conway Twitty is. He's strictly an image, and I would never want to do anything to destroy that image. I don't have the right to do that. The only way they know Conway Twitty is through his music . I'd rather keep it that way. Why do you think you've been so successful for so long in this business? I have to say it again; it's because I've never lost sight of how important the song is. But another reason is I've never been overexposed. I'dl rather be around a long time and not hype, promote and push to where all you hear and see is Conway Twitty. I do very little television and interviews. You can get overexposed and people get sick of you. Another reason is because I manage my business, it doesn't manage me. I've looked around at some of my friends in this business, and saw what could happen to you if you really didn't run your life. The demand on your time and person is tremendous. It never lets up. And it's easy to get a big head because people are always around telling you how great you are. But you don't have a problem until you start believing everything you hear. The little things in your life have to be the most important. I believe I'll be all right as long as I hang on to that. You've been in this business more than 20 years. You've had 50 Number One Records and yet you've never won any awards. How do you feel about that? I can honestly say it doesn't bother me. The only thing I have won from CMA is ''Duet Of The Year" with Loretta. But every night when I walk out on that stage, the fans make me feel like entertainer of the year. Tell us a little bit about "Twitty City." "Twitty City" is a nine acre tourist complex just outside of Nashville, in Hendersonville, Tennessee. It features an entertainment center, "Conway's Showcase," which tells my life story through my music, lights and visual display; landscaped grounds; gift shop and a pavilion area to watch live entertainment or have a snack while you wait for your tour. My offices are there and what makes it really different is my home and the homes of my four children sit right in the middle of all this. I spend as much time as I can visiting with the fans. Is it hard to live in the middle of a tourist attraction? You know, for most artists, it would be. That's why you don't see another "Twitty City;" it's one of a kind. For me, it's not hard. In fact, I really enjoy it. Usually when I leave my house and there's a group of people on tour, I try and spend a few minutes visiting with them. But sometimes, I'm in a hurry and can't. I hope they understand that. If I didn't enjoy the fans, I never would have built "Twitty City." Country Music videos are all the rage these days. Do you have any plans to make one, and if so, for what song? No, I don't have any plans to do one. I've been watching this video thing since they first came about. I think with country music you have to be very careful because the visual thing is so powerful. That's what's so great about country songs and radio. You can sit and listen to the songs a thousand times and apply it to your own life, whichever way you interpret it. If you really like a song, it is probably a page right out of your life somewhere. You can identify with it somehow and that's what makes the song strong. But if someone comes along and does a video of that song and you see it, you're locked into their interpretation of that song. In my opinion, it could hurt. I may be wrong, but that's the way I look at it. Some day we may find a way to do a country video and not destroy that part of the song that allows a country fan to sit there and fantasize. • Question: Many Country performers have written their biographies. Have you entertained the thought of doing your autobiography?W ould you like to see your life story as a movie? Conway: You know, some day I think I'd like to see a movie about my life. I think anybody would. But especially if you 're in a position to leave tracks that people like to follow. Fans are naturally inquisitive and they like to know about people in the entertainment business; whether it be a country singer, football player or movie star. In this country, you can go from a cotton patch in Mississippi, like I did, to wherever you want to go. It can happen only in this country. Even though it doesn't happen to a lot of people, they like to know it's possible. We are involved right now with an authorized biography. It will be published around the summer of 1986 by Doubleday. We've turned people down for a long time, but finally ran across a couple of guys that we liked a lot, and they agreed to let me have a lot of say-so about the book. I don't want anything out there that's not true. With this book, I have the authority to delete something from it, if it's not true. Question: Do you have any plans of slowing down, and if so, what would you do in your spare time? Conway: I don't have any plans for slowing down. I never even think about something like that. Conway Twitty Enterprises #1 Music Village Boulevard Hendersonville, TN 37075 (615) 822-3210 Warner Bros. P.O. Box 120897 Nashville, TN 37212 (615) 320-7525 Representationfo r Performances; Jim Halsey Co. Inc. 3225 Norwood Tulsa, OK 74135 (918) 663-3883 Country musk singing stars Dottie West and Conway Twitty, above and right, open a 10-day engagement at the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel on Monday. Roy Clark and Brenda Lee follow on Nov. 28. These performers are appearing during the annual winter vacation of the resorfs regular showroom stars, Siegfried &: Roy. Singer Tom Jones, below, will be appearing in the Celebrity Room of the MGM Grand Hotel through Nov. 27. 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Per Person Double Occupancy • 3 Days. 2 Nights Package Includes: • Deluxe Accommodations • Admission to ··splash'' in the Versailles Theatre with two cocktails or admission to ..A n Evening at La Cage"' In the la Cage Room. • Your choice of a Breakfast. lunch or Dinner at the Riviera's Gourmet Buffet. Riviera Funbook (a $75 value}. • Unlimited cocktails in the Star Bar or Mardi Gras Bar. JIii Kutam'J ... IIN llll.lJIICIIOEO F JJIVSJ&CD RNCE Lou Paciocco & Norbert Aleman present EVENN'G; .'.'~-~/W& MAlEI MPRES~Q\JCIST S EXTRAORDINAIRE Call Riviera Room ReservationsT oll Free at 800-634-6753 Or Call Your Travel Agent, Your Travel Expert. Ask Hotel For Available Dates. 1VIERA HOTEL& . CASINO LAS VEGAS ening at Frontier CONWAY TWITTY & DOTTY WEST, two of country music's biggest selling recording artists, open a 10-day engagement in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. Siegfried & Roy, in 'Beyond Belief, the Frontier's regular showroom attraction, will appear through Sunday, theh will take their annual winter I(· /5". . r--~u r/ Conway and Dottie offer different country styles at Frontier_ Two entirely different personalities share the Frontier stage in Conway Twitty and Dottie West. Twitty 1s the no :nonsense, laconic coun~ry purist contrasted to West's loquacity and pop• country bubbling. A subtle change in Twitty is under way. From the onetime plain, reserved person a new person is de,cloping. He has a new hairstyle and he's putting mo're physical accents into his lyrics. This is probably due to new management, the Jim Halsey Co., now holding exclusive worldwide representation of the country star who has racked up more No. 1 record hits 50 - than any other artist. Halsey, be it known, is head honcho of the largest countl') music talent agency in the world with offices across the U.S and around the globe. Also in the Halsey stable are West and upcoming Frontier headliners replacing the vacationing Siegfried and Roy, Roy Clark and Brenda Lee, Lee Greenwood and Sylvia. Twitty began with rockabilly in com~y with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and the late Buddy Holly among other prominent early <'hangers of the combinM bluegrass and rhythm and blues; Perkins, who wrote "Blue Suede Shoes" said rockabilly i5 ''bluw with a country beat.'' Twitty turned his back on those roots about 20 years ago. The stra4ts of that style, however, are echoed m this backup band, The Twitty Birds. With the funny: Pork Chop Mo.rkham top center on drums, driving the group including Twitty, no one is going to nap for long. There is a number sung by Twitty, for instance, titled "Boogie Grass Band" that reveals a notso- subtle flashback to roclcnbilly. Donegan•• Wake ... Here I go with &Dothcr hot suggestion for some of our sleepy entertainment bos.,qes. r..onsider pianist/singer/entertainer Dorothy Donegan, who completely capsized everyone Monday night dur• ing her Alan Grant Monday Night Jazz date. Remembered from her Gotham years on 62nd Street and the Hickory House, Donegan drew a crowd of worshipers, local and even from her present hometown of Los Angeles. Donegan's powerful hand.<1 on the keyboard transformed that instrument into not only rhythm BIii WIiiard excitement, but crooning, lilting expressions Backed nobly by II • Z l • ye- Cnrson Smith, bass and Eagle Eye Shields, drums the Donegan The other tunes, sung with no magic touched "September Song" spoken introductions by Twitty, to start, tripped through "Misinclude many of his alltimc top ty" and beheld her chesty vocal on pers, some lugubnous and t.earjerk- "Embraceable You." A dedicaing and .others somewhat dar- t.ion to "one of my favorite Ken• ing. Consider the "Tight Fitten' nedys - Edward Kennedy El- Jeans" with Twitty boldly tell- lington" - brought forth a ing everyone he can "see right completely transformed-to-Donethrough those tight fitten' gan "Satin Doll." With a wink at jeans," A couple of tunes lat.er, he two ladies in the audience she licks his chops in "I'd Love To began "Stardust" as if ahe were a Lay You Down," about bis woman tinkling cocktail pianist, then "hair up in curlers, faded cotton moved deeper into classy chords nightgown/ But l'd love to lay you and variations fo1 "Send in the down" Clowns," to finally march bravely Aha! Do you suppose those with "Battle Hymn of the Reofficious Washington D.C. wives- public" counterpointed by "Bye /censors Tipper Gore and Susan Bye Blackbird" which had over- Baker know about Twitty& &ala• tones of "Pine Top Boogie Woo• cious twittcrings on record? gie." It was sensational finish West 1s a lusty type, friendly, for her opening set, leaving her warm and outgoing with all of her r talk and tunes. Her tribute to Patsy Chne has always been a top favorite and another ode in song to Hank Williams in "Your Cheatin' Heart" is another highlight of her 40 minutes. But West sums her own essential nature in song and sentiment at the top when she leads of with "Nothin' Like a Woman." audience panting for more. Sleepers awake! Give Dorothy Donegan some time and space in your lounge and you will discover some dynamite action, transformed audiences and definit.ely an uplift for our beloved tourists and con\'entioneers. More HaHa Store ... Mitzi Shore'a Comedy Store at the Dunes is a magnet, pulling me nnd hundreds of others into the Dunes for the weekly laugh fix. Discover Ronny Kenney, Licassi and Siegel, Tamayo Ot.suki, Reir. Meredith and Angel Sala• zar, a'l primed and shooting their better material. For this particular Shore battery, I zero in on Ronny Kenney, not having spent too many previous thoughts and words with the amusing gent. He'e announced as the model for the Pillsbury doughboy, but that must have been two other guys. Kenney reveals his family background, son of a cop who always called him "Suspect," and u,mally described his son as "typical Caucasian male." Another insight on Kenne: ts old man - "Dad caught me smoking a cigarette when I was a kid. He made me smoke the whole carton. I wonder what he would have done if he'd caught me with a girl." Thts, a more less natural lead-in to smoke.rs and non-smokers brings on some hilarious observations about opposite camps in this new glowing war which may have its own Summit in time. Linkage of smoking to alcohol finds Kenney exposing the usual police sobriety tests arriving at reverse results and his dire warning to drinkers, "Alcohol cauees ladies to look better than they are," a remark which everyone knows can be turned around to the feminine point of view. Licassi and Siegel with their madcap antics have m&erted a new routine, "Ml"an Streets," also Otsuki has rerouted and added strong lines for smash results. She had all of the Comdex dele gates doubling over in laughter when she told them with her delightful accent that IBM computers are pure Japanese - "IBM'., Imported By Mitaubishi." Rex Meredith cooks with his sendup impressions and Angel Salazar, handed 25 minutes to spread out, takes advantage of every aecond for hia manic, ethnic veracity which emerge& as pure pui888Dce. Twitty on the mark - Dottie West too talky JOE DELANE;;,.Y,:__ __ _ " 4 //·2Z·~ ..al - ON AND OFF THE RECORD LAS VEGAS - Siegfried & Roy are on their semi-annual vacation and the Frontier Hotel bas gone country once more ... Conway Twitty and Dottie West played to extremely responsive audiences, very respectable crowd counts Monday, opening night for a tenday stand ... Glamorous Dottie could talk a little less and sing an extra song or two. Conway Twitty's hoar was right on tbe mart-.Twltty is a DOTTIE WEST - Could sing more and talk less. straight allead, no-nonsense song salesman ... "Hello" and a few ''Thank yous," thafs all . .Jle btlll to a strong climax witll "Don't Take It Av.oy," "Why Me, Lord" and "It's Only Make Believe." West's best was "We've Got Tonight" and an outstanding rendition of Hank Williams' '·Your Cheating Heart" plus the now timely Patsy Cline "Sweet Dreams" Tr1bute ... Botb backup groups are first-rate with a special nod to Dottie's countryjaZ2 fiddler, Ron Lavine. Jim Halsey has booked 31 straight days at the Frontier _.Roy Oark & Brenda Lee follow Twltt y- West on Nov. 28; Lee Greenwood & Svlvia are there Dec. s-1a •. Tbe Halsey Company also bas the Oak Ridge Boys-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at the MGM Grand Nov. 28-Dec. 4; Tammy Wynet1e-George Lindsey at tbe Hilton Dec. 4-17 and Merle Haggard- The Judds (Caesars Palace) Dec. 10-15. There's more: Donna Far10 does a Hilton one-nigbter Dec. 6 ud Freddy Fender is at the Hacienda Dec. 6-15 ... Credit the National Flnals Rodeo with a laage assut as all of LV goes country Dec. 7-15. New arrivals : Twitty-West (Frontier) and Mark & Clark (Maxim) on Monday; a new Dunes Comedy Store lineup plus Frank Sinatra Jr. and a big swinging band (Four Queens) Tuesday; Cork Proctor in "Giggles & Voeks" (Marina) and George carliD (Sahara) Wednesday. Lou Rawls cbeckt Into the Golden Nugget Cabaret at 8 p.m ... Star policy holdovers include Johnny Mathis-Jeannine Burnier (Caesars Palace) for your must-see list; Bobby Viaton- McGaire Sisters (Desert Inn), meat and potatoes plus three desserts; Redd (Tbe Raunchiest) Fon (Hacienda) and Tom Jones- George Wallace {MGM Grand). Charo & George Kirby in "Bal do Moulin Rouge" (Hilton); Joey Villa, "Splash" (Riviera); Kenny Kerr, "Boy-lesque" (Silver Slipper): Bobby Berosini & bis 0raog11tans, "Lido" (Stardust) and Ronn Lucas & Friends plus magician Lance Burton, "Folies Bergere" (Troplcana) are the present production show •tan. Legit theater fans have two excellent choices: "A Chorus Line" (Sahara) , as good as there is, and " Mind With The Dirty Man," starring Phil Ford & Mimi Hines, two of the very best at their best. MGl'tf's "Jubilee," $10 million worib; .. City Lites, " quite sprigbtly (Flaml.ago); "Roaring '20s Revue, " a happy romp (Holiday Casillo); "Legends In Concert ," amazing reereations (Imperial Palaee); "FlamBOYant Follies ," boys as girls (Mint); "An Evening At La Cage, " more of the same, lavishly done (Riviera) and "Outrageous, " not really (Sands) complete tbe production sbow list. Marjorie Barrick, Tom Bell, Joe Foley, David Goldwater, Oran Gragson, Oalr Haycock, Art Lurie, John Moran Jr., Ray I Norvell , Dave Pearl, Harry Wald & Harry White plus past Chief LOU RAWLS - Now appearing at the Golden Nugget. Barkers Al Benedict, Gil Cohen, Jackie Gaogban and Harley Harmon are Variety Club's 1986 Crew, congrats all. Past and present Chief Barker Cecil Simmons continues in office as does this columnist ... Please attend Variety's Christmas Party- New Members get-to-gether on Dec. 8 at the club's Sundance Hotel headquarters. Phil Ford & Mimi Hines and Tom Jones' favorite comecUaa George Wallace entertained at Variety Club's annual Heart of Variety Awards Dinner lul Frlday ... Howard Maarer's music with Nat Copus, Joluuly Jay, Jimmy Rassel, Allen Taylor and Mite Trevino was exemplary as always; it was a great nigbt_.see you Sunday WEEKEND · __ · On the Strip Editor's note: Prices and shows subject to change or cancellation without notice. Costs do not include taxes and gratuities. BARBARY COAST Irish Showband The Irish Showband entertains ' at 8 and 10 p.m. and midnight nightly except Mondays. Cock· tails and show, $4 por person. Two-drink minimum. Danny Gale , & Co. appear nightly except Mondays from t-6 a.m. No minimum. 737-7111. CAESARS PALACE ~ohnny Mathis Singer Johnny Mathis and comedian Jeannine Burnier are appearing In tne Circus Maxtmus through Monday. Showtime is 10 p.m. nightly. Cocktails and show, $30 per person. Dark Tuesday. David Copperfield and Jim Stafford open Wednesday. 731- 7333. Free circus acts are presented dally from 11 a.m. to midnight. DESERT INN Bobby Vinton Singer Bobby Vinton and The McGuire Sisters are appearing in the Crystal Room through Wednesday. Showtimes are 8 and 11 p.m. except Wednesdays and Thursdays, 9 p.m. Dark Mondays. Cocktails and show, $20 per person except Fridays and Saturdays , $22 per person. Larry Gatlin & The Gattin Brothers Band and T.G. Shepard open Thurs• day . 733-4566. DUNES Comedy Store The Comedy Store is presented in the Casino Theatre. This week's lineup includes Rex Meredith, Llcassi & Siegel, Tamayo Ot- CONWAY TWITTY ... Frontier Hotel suki,Ronny Kenney and Angel Salazar . Showtimes are 9 aRd 11:30 p.m. Cocktails and show, $10 per person. Dark Mondays. 737-"741. FLAMINGO HILTON City Lltee The stage spectacular "City Lites" is presented in the main showroom. Dinner and 7:45 p.m. show from $15.95 per person . Cocktails and 11 p.m. show, $10.95 per person. 733-3333. FOUR QUEENS Frank Slnab'a Jr. Singer Frank Sinatra Jr. is appearing in the French Quarter through Dec. 1. Showtimes are 9 and 11 p.m. with a 12:30 a.m. show added on Fridays and Saturdays. Cocktail and show, $4, one-drink minimum. 385-4011. FRONTIER Conway Twitty Country singers Conway Twitty and Dottle West are appearing in the main showroom through Wednesday. Showtimes are 7 and 11 p.m. Cocktails and show, $19.50 · per person. Roy Clark and Brenda Lee open Thursday. 734-0240. GOLDEN NUGGET Lou Rawl• Singer Lou Rawls is appear- Ing In The Cabaret Room through Tuesday. Showtlmes are 8 and 11 p.m. Cocktails and show. $20 per person. Dark Wednesday. Paul Anka opens Thursday. 386- 8100. HACIENDA A~dd Foxx Comedian Redd Foxx Is appearing In the Fiesta Showroom Wednesday through Sunday. Showtime is 10 p.m. Cocktails and show, $14.95 per person . 798- 0571. HOLIDAY CASINO The Roaring '20• ··The Roaring ·20s " starring Sue & The Kim Brothers. ia presented In the Mark Twain The• ater. Showtlmes are 9 and 11:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 8 and 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Saturday. Cocktails and show, $6.95 per person. Dark Sundays. adults only. 369-5222. IMPERIAL PALACE Legend• In Concert "legends In Concert" and comedian Dave Swan are presented In the main showroom at 8 and 11 p.m. daily except Sunday. Cocktails and show, $11.95 per person. 733-0234. LANDMARK The Mickey Finn Show The Mickey Finn Show is presented 1n the Empire Showroom nightly except Sundays. Showtimes are 8 and 10:30 p.m. Cock· tails and show, $9.95 per person. 733-1110. LAS VEGAS HILTON Moulln Rouge The stage spectacular "Bal du Moulin Rouge de Paris," starring Charo and Impressionist George Kirby is presented in the main showroom nlghtty except Mon• .F..r _id_a_Ny__,o v~e_m__2b2_e__,_r 1___9___a___s D[ Q) ')1,.._.._,_ ____ L_A_s_v_E_G_A_. s_New album sums up '60s poet Dylan's life/3C Twitty on the mark - Dottie West too talky LAS VEGAS - Siegfried & Roy are on their semi-annual vacation and the Frontier Hotel has gone country once more .. . Conway Twitty and Dottie West played to extremely responsive audiences, very respectable crowd counts Monday, opening night for a tenday stand ... Glamorous Dottie could talk a little less and sing an extra song or two. Conway TwiUy's hour was right on the mark ...T witty is a DOTTIE WEST - Could sing more and talk less. straight ahead, no-nonsense song salesman ... "Hello" and a few "Thanky ous," that's all ...H e built to a strong climax with "Don't Take It Away," "Why M e, Lord" and "It's Only Make Believe!' West's best was "We've Got Tonight" and an outstanding rendition of Hank Williams' "Your Cheating Heart " plus the now timel y Patsy Cline " Sweet Dreams " Tribute ...B oth backup groups are first-rate with a special nod to Dottie's countryjazz fiddler , Ron Lavine. Jim Halsey bas booked 31 straight days at the Frontier ...R oy Clark & Brenda Lee follow Twitty -West on Nov. 28; Lee Greenwood & Sylvia are there Dec. S-18.. .T be Halsey Company also bas the Oak Ridge Boys-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at the MGM Grand Nov. 28-Dec. f; Tammy Wynette-George Lindsey at the Hilton Dec. 4-17 and Merle Haggard- The Judds (Caesars Palaee) Dec. 10-15. There's more: Donna Fargo does a Hilton one-nighter Dec. 6 and Freddy Fender is at the Hacienda Dec. 6-15. ..C redit the National Finals Rodeo with a huge assist as all of L V goes country Dec. 7-15. New arrivals: Twitty-West (Frontier) and Mark & Clark (Maxim) on Monday; a new Dunes Comedy Store lineup plus Frank Sinatra Jr. and a big swinging band (Four Queens) Tuesday; Cork Proctor in "Giggles & Yocks" (Marina) and George Carlin (Sahara) Wednesday. DICK MAURICE NTERTAINMENETD ITOR Lou Rawls checks into the Golden Nugget Cabaret at 8 p.m ... Star policy holdovers include Johnny Matbis ..J eannine Burnier (Caesars Palace) for your must-see list; Bobby Vinton- McGuire Sisters (Desert Inn), meat and potatoes plus three desserts; Redd (The RaUDchiest) Fol!x (Hacienda) and Tom Jones- I George Wallace (MGM Grand). Charo & George Kirby in "Bal du Moulin Rouge" (Hilton); Joey Villa, "Splash" (Riviera); Kenny Kerr, "Boy-lesque" (Silver Slipper) ; Bobby Berosini & bis Orangutans," Lido"( Stardust)a nd Ronn Lucas & Friends plus magician Lance Burton, "Folies Bergere" (Tropieana) are the present production show stars . Legit theater fans have two excellent choices: "A Chorus Line" (Sahara), as good as there is, and "Mind With The Dirty Man," starring Phil Ford & Mimi Hines, two of the very best at their best. MGM's "Jubilee," $10 million worth; "City Lites," quite sprightly (Flamillgo); "Roaring '20s Re - vue,'' a happy romp (Holiday Casino); "Legends In Concert," amazing recreations (Imperial Palace); "FlamBOYant Follies," boys as girls (Mint); "An Evening At La Cage," more of the same, lavishly done (Riviera) and "Outrageous," not really (Sands) complete the production show list. Marjorie Barrick, Tom Bel], Joe Foley, David Goldwater, Oran Gragson, Clair Haycock, Art Lurie, John Moran Jr. , Ray I Norvell, Dave Pearl, Harry Wald & Harry White plus past Chief LOU RAWLS - Now appearing at the Golden Nugget. Barkers Al Benedict, Gil Cohen, Jackie Gaughan and Harley Harmon are Variety Club's 1986 Crew, congrats all. Past and present Chief Barker Cecil Simmons continues in office as does this columnist ... Please attend Variety's Christmas Party- New Members get-to-gether on Dec. 8 at the club's Sundance Hotel headquarters. Phil Ford & Mimi Hines and Tom Jones ' favorite comedian George WalJace entertained at Variety Club's annual Heart of Variety Awards Dinner last Friday ... Howard Maurer's music with Nat Copus, Johnny Jay, Jimmy Russel, Allen Taylor and Mike Trevino was exemplary as always; it was a great night.. .S ee you Sunday ENTERTAINMENTN EWS & PERSONALITiES Dick Maurice is in Loa Angele• Interviewing entertainment peraonalitiH, Hi1 column WIii return to thi1 apace on Wednetday. Inside ShowBiz Daily OUT OF THIS WORLD - Conway Twitty, now appearing at the Frontier, was honored when his song was chosen for the Apollo-Soyuz space ~ission. Van Patten honored on Walk of Fame HOLLYWOO-D Broadway and television star Dick Van Patten, who r ec ently celebrated his 50th year in show business, has been honored with the 1,815th star on the Walk of Fame. Van Patten, who re<:ently spent five years portraying the patient father Tom Bradford in the television series "Eight is Enough," said getting a shiny gold star on the famous walk was "the most exciting thing" in his life. The star was unveiled in a noontime ceremony Wednesday on Vine Street in front of Merv Griffin Productions, with his three sons - actors Nels, Jimmy and Vincent Van Patten - all in attendance . Also among the nearly 300 fans and colleagues attending the unveiling, were Milton Berle, Merv Griffin, Dom De Luise, Connie Stevens, Lyle Wagonner, Jerry Vale, Bernie Kopell, Ed Ames, Ricky Schroder and several members of the "Eight is Enough" cast. "I imagine I'll visit my star from time to time,'' he said in a recent interv iew. "There are so many stars of the past who have been forgot• ten, but once they're in the Walll of Fame people realize that sometime in their lives they made an impression." COVER STORY By any name, Conway Twitty is still No. 1 country star _________ firsLt,A tSh e VneEwG AnaSm e- theAyt gave Harold Lloyd F t• t , Jenkins was for the ron 18r S 8r S birds. But the name, name C&ffle ~onway Tw!tty, was the first step m a career f r0ffl a map that's ~n anything but fly.by-mght. Twitty, now appearing at the Frontier Hotel with Dottie West, became one of the country's first rock 'n' roll idols back in 1958 - when ordinary names weren't good enough. Twitty grew up in Mississippi and Arkansas, loving country music and blues. But it was the exciting new sound of Elvis Presley that convinced him to pass up a career as a professional baseball player to pursue another kind of hit. A New York agent got his new name from a map - Conway, Ark. and Twitty, Tex. It's a good bet that Twitty would have been a sensation no matter what they named him. "It's Only Make Believe," a song he wrote in one night, sold millions of records worldwide, becoming the No. 1 song in 22 countries and launching Twitty as a teen idol. There were pin•up posters, bad teen movies like "Sex Kittens Go to College" and "Platinum High School" and a string of hit records. Conrad Birdie, the teen idol in Broadway's "Bye Bye Birdie" was actually based on Twitty. But soon be found himself longing for his country music roots. In 196-0a, t the height of bis rock 'n' roll career, Twitty began writing country songs- "Hello (Continued on Page 2C) 'Bad Medicine' is not a bad comedy/5C 'Star Trek' hurt James 'Scotty' Doohan's career~ By Bob Shemeligian SUN Staff Writer LAS VEGAS - You'd think actor James Doohan would be thrilled with the public's recognition of him as Scotty through all those "Star Trek" TV reruns and through three movies, with more on the way. Not true , he told a relatively small band of Trekkies in Artemus Ham Hall, UNLV, last Friday night. He was invited to speak by tbe student government. "If they bad even given me an inkling of what would happen (with his character), I wouldn't have done it. 'Star Trek' bas cut my work by 20 times, because I was type cast. Who knows wllat I could have become?" But what about those three lucrative movies he and other "Star Trek" alumni have made in the 1980s, and "Star Trek IV," planned for release next summer, and then the next one, and the next one. "Well, it's about time, we started making something from 'Star Trek,"' he said without the familiar Scottish brogue. "You gotta remember. 'Star Trek' ran on TV 1966 through 1969. I made $750 {an episode) the first year, and $850t he next two years. After 1971, we didn't make a dime in residuals, because of our cont.racts," he said. Today, he said, because of the lesson actors learned from " Star Trek,'' their contracts stipulate they get paid for as long as the series . lasts in syndication. It's been 20 years since veteran Canadian actor James Montgomery Doohan auditioned for the part as starship engineer in a new sci-fi series. A master of accents, Doohan did six for the casting crew, and they chose him with the Scottish accent, and named the character Montgomery Scott. "It's funny bow many people tell me I did a great Job witb that role. It took me half a second to create that character." Scotty didn't have many lines in the early days of "Star Trek," "but when they realized that I read teehnical manuals , they broadened my character. " His favorite movie is "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kban," he said, ''because Ricardo Montalban did such a fabulous job. He really was a joy to work with." Doohan is well-known for his role in a current Citibank commercial, broadcast nationally, and soon he will play the lead in "Tbe Grand Finale," a play, written by Mel Atkey. ''It's about an actor who just died and doesn't know it, but he's auditioning for a place in heaven. I'll be doing it in Canada,'' said Doohan, who is part-owner of the play. ·,.;:fJij_ \;•:\t/'· :: ·-: . ::•~ ::::--t: ·.: ,•. ···:::: f) JAMES DOOHAN - The well-known actor from 'Star Trek' will soon star in a new movie. Show Guide .. 2C Movies .......... 4C Music ............ 3C Television ..... 6C TRAILBLAZER - Redd Foxx is a trailblazer in the world of comedy. His noholds- barred performance is packing them in at the Hacienda Hotel's Fiesta Showroom. LATIN BOMBSHELL - The Las Vegas Hilton's stage heats up when Charo appears with George Kirby and a huge cast of dancers in the extravaganza "Bal du Moulin Rouge." WONDERFULW, ONDERFUL- Singing star Johnny Mathis is in the spotlight of Caesars Palace's Circus Maxlmus Showroom on a double bill with comedienne Jeannine Brunier. POLISH PRINCE - Bobby Vinton, now appearing at the Desert Inn Hotel's Chrystal Room, is a versatile performer who has his audiences dancing in their seats. It LAS VEGASS UN Friday,N ovembe2r 21 1985 Entertainment - . , lwitty known to Choctow Nation as Hatako-Chtokchito-A-YakniT-oloa (Continuedfr om Page IC) I>~lin"' was one of them. But his u:ianagement refused to let him x-e;cordor perform them. : · Finally, in frustration, Twitty literally walked out on his career, rfgh t in the middle of a l)erf ormance. "I got iD my car and beaded South,"h e said. "Theya ll tbougbt I ·was crazy." Crazy like a fox. By 1970, he ~ad no trouble convincing anyone to let him record "Hello Darlbi'." By then he was a major country star and "Hello Darlin"' became one of his biggest hits - one of 50 No. 1 records he has had to date, more than any other singer in music history . . The song recently became a part of world history. General TomS tafford,a n astronaut on the .Apollo-Soyuzm ission, requested "Hello Darlin"' be part of the c1dtrual exchange between Rtissia and the United States when the two capsules joined in space. Twitty was thrilled and honored . He hired a Russian professor to coach him and he recorded "Hello Darlin"' in Russian. As the world watched the link-up, the song was playing in the background. Country fans have long considered Twitty's duet with the "Coal Miner's Daughter," Loretta Lynn out of this world. Besides having several hits together, they h~ve four times been named the Country Music Association's Vocal Duo of the Year. . Twitty has come to like his ac1opted name well enough to name his nine-acre tourist comp 1e x outside Hendersonville, Tenn. "Twitty City." It is the site of Twitty 's baronial estate, restaurants , gift shops and an en• tertainment center telling Twitty's life story with music and visual displays. ShowBiz Quote 'I got in my car and headed south, They all thought I was crazy., ConwayT witty ' i . .. . . ... ,f ' ,, . <r"I' : '., \ BOGIE'S Res. 736-0668 ON ST AGE: One of las Vegas' top hot spot s. It features "Viva tne Boys" nightly 7:30 p.m . The main attract km , Ameri ca's to p ma le strip show, now in Its 5th exciting year. Shows nightl y, se.en days a week, at 9:15 p.m . Men are welcome . Dancing nightly aft er 11 p.m. CAESARS PALACE Re s. 731 - 7333 CIRCUS MAXIMUS: JOHNNY MATHIS . Mallre d': Angelo GIOUlells. CIRCUS CIRCUS Res. 734-04 10 MAIN ARENA: Children of ell ages WIii love the world famous circus acts that perform contlnuoUllly in the main arena. It's free of charge dally from 11 am .-rnldnlght . One of the most popular tourist attractions. Shows Include world famous trapeze artists. Flylng Michaels , plu s trained animals , atunt cycllsts, etc . For the kids , there Is an endless array of carnival and video games and other exciting things to do awayf rom the casino area. DESERT INN Res. 733-4566 CRYSTAL ROOM : Now appearing BOBBY VINTON and THE McGUIRE SISTERS. Cocktail show 8 p.m. & 11 p.m . except Wed. & Thurs , (Showtlme 9 p.m. only.) Dark Moodays. Maltre d' : Frank Shane. DUNES Res. 737-47 41 CASINO THEATRE: THE COMEDY STORE. Showtlmes : 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m, Dark Mondays. Maltre d': Chester Klelnecke . FLAIIINQO HOTEL Res. 733-3333 FLAM• INGO SHOWROOM: "City Lites." a dazzl.. lng, spectacular revue featur ing Incredibly staged numbers, ice extr avaganzas and superb novelty acts, all of It put together In a well-paced, exciting show. A long-running . highly acclaimed hit. Dinner shows are 7:45 p.m ., cocktail shows at 11 p.m. Maitre d' : Walter Morini . FRONTIER Res . 734-0240 BEYOND BELIEF SHOWROOM : Now appe aring CONWAY TWITTY and DOTTY WEST. Shows are 7:45 p.m. and 11 p.m. Dark Mondays . Maltre d': Bobby Miranda . GOLD~N NUGQl!T Re a . aeo-e100 CABARET: Now appearing LOU RAWLS. Showtlmes 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Maltre d': Johnny Joseph , HACIENDA Res. 798-0571 FIESTA SHOWROOM: REDD FOXX appears 10 p.m ., Wed-Sun , Meltre d' : Colby MIiier. HOLIDAY CASINO Res. 369- 5222 MARK TWAIN SHOWROOM: "ROARING '20s RE· VUE one of Las Vegas' most popu lar musical and comedy revues. Showtimes: Mon ,-Frl.. 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m .. Sat. . 10 p.M. and 12:30 a.m., Derk Sundays. Maltre d' : Sven Levin . IMPERIAL PALACE Res. 731-3311 IMPERIAL THEATRE : "LEGENDS IN CONCEAl ·· Is needing into It's thir d year. The show features nve re-crea tions of legen - dary superstars wf1h dazzling special effects, and has become so popular It was voted " 1985 Show of the Year" by the Greater Las Vegas Chamber of Comm,rce . Shows at 8 p.m , and 11 p.m . night ly. Dark Sundays. LANDMARK Res. 733-1110 EMP IRE SHOWROOM : THE MICKEY FINN SHOW. Shows nightly , expect Sun. at 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Mallre d ': Kelly Finn, LAS VE OAS Hll TON Ras. 732 - 6756 SHOWROOM: " BAL OU MOULIN ROUGE DE PARIS," a nuge extravaganza patterned after the famou s French "B al" and starring CHARO and GEORGE KIRBY. Plus a huge cast of dancers, showgirls and to p novelty acts Including renowned Juggler Nino Fred iani, fantastic acrobats the Garza Brothers , singer Eric GIiiette and world famous Tanya the elephant. 8 p.m. Dlnn8f Show & Midn ight Cocktail snow . Dari< Mondays . Mallre d': Howle Welner . MAXIM Res. 731-4300 CABARET SHOWROOM: MARK-CLARK EXPO . Showtimes: Wed.-Thurs ., 8 p.m.: Frl.-Sun . 8 and 10 p.m., $7.95. Dark Tuesdays. Maitre d': Craig Smith. MINT Res . 385-7440 MERRI-M INT THEATER : " FLAMBOYANT FOLLIES ." Showtimes : Mon.-Fr l. 8 p.m., 11 p.m.; Sat. 6:30 p.m., 8 p.m. end 11 p.m .; $4.95 per person . SANDY HACKETT TALENT SHOWCASE. Sunday, 8 p.m., no cover no minimu m. Maltre d' : Al Borohessa. MGM GRAND Res. 739-4567 CELEBRITY ROOM: TOM JONES. ShoWllmee: Sun. thru Thurs., 8:30 p.m.; Frl.-Sat. 8:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Maltre d' : Pete Bella. ZIEGLIED ROOM: "JUBILEE," t~ spec. tacu lar "$ ho"' of tha Oecaae" tnat epitomizes lncredll>IY dazzling stages effects, ranging from a World War I aerial dOg fight to the sinking of the Titani c. Huge cast, goregous lines of dancers and show girls , stun ning costumes. A revue of phenomen al scope . Two cocktails shows nightly at 7:30 and 11:30 p.m. Dark Wednesday. Maltre d' : Sam Barbee. RIVIERA Res . 734-5301 VERSA1L LES THEATRE : "SPLASH," an exc itin g aquacada show. Showt lmes: 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Dark Tuesday. Maltre d'; Rudy Guerrero. MAR DI GRAS ROOM: Res. 734-5110 "AN EVENING AT LA CAGE." Female Impersonator s pay tribute to such ahow bl% greats as Metfl yn Monroe, Judy Garland, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson , s nowtlm es 7 p.m ., 9 p.m and 11 p.m. Dark Wednesday. SAHARA ReiJ, 737-2424 CONGO ROOM: GEORGE CARLIN. Showtlmes: Thurs. 9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat 9 p.m . and midnight. Closes Saturday . A CHORUS LINE. Showtimee: (this week) Thurs .• 11:30 p.m,; Sun., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. oar'k Fri., Sat. and Mon.; (next week) Tue. and Sat., 8 p.m. end 11:30 p.m .; Wed .-Frl. and Sun., 8 p.m . Mallre d': Jesse Miranda. SANDS Res, 733-5453 COPA ROOM: " OUTRAGEOUS" : A mu alcal revue. Showt imes 8 p.m., 10 p,m . and 12 midnight . Dark Mondays . Maltre d': George Levine. SILVER SLIPPER Res. 734-1212 GAIETY THEATER: "BOY -LESQUE" starring Kenny Kerr is a far-out, orf-the-wall show featuring eye popping female lrTlpe(80natora. One of the most talked about shows In tovm . snow11mes 8 p.m ., 10 p.m. & midnight. Dark Thursday , Maltre d' : Betty Bohlen . STARDUST Res. 732-6325 CAFE CONTINENTAL : The famous "LIDO" starring BOBBY BEROSINI & HIS PERFORMING ORANGUTANS In the renowned French spectacular, replete with dazzling stage effects. a huge , color1ully costumed cast and above all. the original famous Blue Bell Dancers . Now In Its 27th year, this Is a show unexcelled In both national and lnternat ion al acclaim , a supe r -specia l extravaganza . Shows at 7 p.m. & 11 p.m. both cockta il . Maitre d': John Rubin. TROPICANA Res . 739-2411 TIFFANY THEATRE: T he famous "FOLIES BERGERE," starring leading ventrlloqulst Ronn Lucas and world-renowned magician Lance Burton. This Is the world renowned French Spectacular patterned after the famous Parisian revue, replete with lavtsh production numoors, dazzling sets, and ab ove au, lines and lines of the "most beautiful girls in the world ," 8 P.M . DINNER SHOW & 11:30 P.M. COCKTAIL SHOW. Dark Thursda y, Maltre d' : Teddy Tadlch. UNION PLAZA Res. 386-2444 MAIN SHOW ROOM : 'THE MINO WITH THE DIRTY MAN," starrin g PHIL FORD and MIMI HINES, snowtlmes 8 p.m. and 11:45 p,m. Dark Mon. VEQAS WORLD Res. 382-2000 GALAXY THEATRE: Comed ian ROBERT ALLEN, Showt ,mes 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Dark Tuesday . Twitty was given another name during his career - this one by the Choctow Nation, of which he is an honorary chief. It's not as catchy , but Twitty is very proud of it. It's Hatako--Cbtokcbito-AYaJmi- Tonloa, which translates into "Great Man of Country l\lusic." CONWAY TWITTY - The former rock 'n' roll star walked out on his career and went back to his first love, country music. BAL DU MOULINR OUGE- Las Vegas Hilton AN EVENINGA T LA CAGE - Riviera Hotel Baseball players become arm wrestlers at IP LAS VEGAS - Strength, timing and a will to win art the three essential ingredients in any athletic contest, but rarely does one see them so clearly as in the sport of arm wrestling. men of arm wrestling, the heavyweights (295p ounds and under) will compete for the Professional Men's World Championship, and professional women arm wrestlers will face each other in a special "Tournamento f Champions." men and eight others are sending a single representative. Twelve women will compete for berths in the world championship tournament to be held at the Imperial Palace in June. Several of the competitors faced each other in the hotly contested tournament held last June. At 1:30 p.m., Saturday , the pro baseball players will be available to meet their fans for pictures and autographs in the Dynasty room on the fourth floor of the Imperial Palace . Doors open to the showroom for the tournaments at 11:30 a.m . on Sunday. Admission is free. Coming up Sunday, will be a tripple bill of arm wrestling at the Jm·perial Palace. Pro baseball players will battle for personal glory and prize money as well as tile honor of their teams. The big Sixteen pro baseball teams will .------------ - ---- --- ----- t .. be represented in the event. Eight teams are sending teams of two Rocky Sennes' N(i ;:2o'8RtvUt Just $6 95 Perperson • Plus tax INCLUDING TWO DRINKS 9 PM & 11 :30 PM Monday through Friday• 3 Shows Saturday: 8 PM, 10 PM and 12 :30 AM• Closed Sunday In The Holiday Theatre Showroom Call 369-5222fo r reservations HOLIDCAAYS INO ______~i\o_M_a_9_~~ ____.._._.. ____.._ _ __ 'I J JV DIRECT FROML .A. ~m, , . - . ,--; THE WORLDF AMOUS \ . . ' " 11Americo'AS lnniestY oungto medlon5" Ronny Kenney • Tamayo Otsuki Licassi & Siege l • Rex Meredith • Angel Salazar · • In The casino Theatre Tues.-sun 9 & 11:30p .m. Dark Monday ,•to.GO PER PERSON plus tax Includes 2 Drinks FORR ESERVATIONS 737-4741 Take me along . . . and I'll go all the way with you ... between Nevada and California along 1-15 and 1-40, The Route of the Entertainers - FM 98 & 99 KRXV. * BARBRA STREISAND* and thes e stars too * George Benson * Crystal Gayl e * Al Jarreau * Kenny Rogers * Lionel Richie * Billy Joel If you'd like to give your comm ercial message to this aud ience of 500 ,000 affluent travellers who weekly cross the Mojave Desert on 1-15 and 1-40 , call us: (213) 820-4628 Howard Ander son President KRXY FM (702 ) 876-98 99 Jack GIida y, VP. Nevada Sales P ull out your boots, brush off your ten gallon hat. bring your~lf a supply of tissues, and get ready for a little foot-stomping and honkytonkin'. The Nashville sound has returned to Las Vegas. It started out as an experiment, but now it's a way of life. From late November to mid December country music acts virtu.ally take over Las Vegas showrooms. A couple of years ago, when Willie Nelson was a hot number, and-as incongruous as it may seem-he made his debut at Caesars Palace, the hotel actually ran out of beer. That hasn't It may be beer instead of champagne, and foot·stompin' instead of pop music hand-clapping, but the enthusiasm runs high. I'm not sure who started the trend of bringing the country stars to town during this period, but credit the Frontier Hotel with being the major force for the past few years. When Siegfried and Roy go on vacation, the Frontier turns its showroom into a saloon for the country folk. happened since. SisterA ct/Desert Inn Conway Twitty and Dottie West are headlining through Nov. 27, then Roy Clark and little Brenda Lee will step in for a week, followed by siullng Lee Greenwood and Sylvia. The > , I THE~GICOF DAVID COPPERFIELD SpeciaGl uestS tar JIM STAFFORD-~.,, Novembe2r 6-Decembe8r MERLHEA GGARD WithS pecialG uestS tars THEJUDDS Decembe1r0 -15 FrankJ r./FourQ ueens Righteous Bros. complete the package with a late December engagement. But the Frontier isn't the only place to hear those tear-jerker music stories. Larry Gatlin and his brothers, along with T.G. Sheppard will headline the Desert Inn Nov 28 through Dec. 15, and the Mighty Oakridge Boys will do their thing at the MGtA Grand Nov. 28 through Dec. 4. Wait. There's more. Merle Hag• gard will drop by CaesarsP alace Dec. 10-15, and downtown the Four Queens spotlights Shelly West, then Doug Kershaw. The LV Hilton will also get into the act, bringing in Tammy Wynette to headline its Moulin Rouge show Dec. 4 through 17. And before the last teardrop falls, let's mention Freddie Fender who'll be at the HaciendaD ec. 6 through 15. So bring the bronco instead of the Caddy. Wear a bandana instead of a tie, and have yourself a good ol' time. Some of the good old boys and girls will be partying on the Strip, and it promises to be a hoedown month to remember.. . FLAMINGO NIL TON 2DAYSII NT s34so PIP OEC. 11 & 26 08l. OCC INCL SHOW, CASH, FOOO FRONTIER HOTEL 30AYS 2NTS s4g·so pp DEC 16, 17, 18 OBl. occ LAUGHLINO NLY OEC 2,J,4 s5400 08L DEC 7 "TA LAUGHLIN s1500 LAUGHL:N WEEKEND OEC 13 14 15 $4950 P P DBl OCC NEW YEARS EVE oec :io31 s5575 PP JAN I OBl OCC IDLE CHATTER - Joan Rivers says she isn't offended that impersonator Frank Marino uses much of her material during his xerox act in Riv's ''An Evening at La Cage." "In fact, I'm flattered," said Joan ...T om Dreesen will donate time during appearance at LA Ad Club's annual Toys For Tots luncheon set for Dec. 11 at Bev. Hilton ...A nd how many of you knew that Bruce Springsteen wrote "Fire" for the Pointer Sisters? Incidentally, Sisters are pointed to Caesars Tahoe this weekend ... Mayoe they II serve • soft pretzels and mustard" as a New Year's Eve snack at the Golden Nugget now that they've announced David Brenner w1l1 headline (Dec. 27 through Jan. 1) For those of you slow on the draw, that was the title of Brenner's top-sellign book. ..S ands buffet must be a pretty good meal. having just served its milllionth customer. ..F YI Dep't: The Boyd Group, which owns Sam's Town, Galif. Oub, Fremont, Stardust and SUndance is largest single, privately held hotel/casiro corp. whose sole biz is gamng ... POWER PLAY- If you've ever wondered just how many light bulbs are in some of those fabulous Vegas marquees, this might give you a clue. Vegas World ho· tel, casino is currently erecting what according to owner Bob Stupak will be the world's tallest sign. It'll be in the form of a sixstory high, silver rocket. But this is the good stuff. 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In addition to the money to be won. there will also be a 26' Chris Craft Scorpion Ltd. day cruiser - complete with Mercury engines, a swim plalform. custom Golden Nugget Grand P-ix of Poker paint treatment and a Myco boot troller - awarded to the player who accumulates the most points by playing in eight designated events. "We're looking for the 1985 Grand Prix of Poker to be not only the richest tour• nament. but lhe most glamorot.l~ and most exciting Las Vegas has ever seen," said Steve Wynn, chairman and chief executive The best just got better! j Cindy Dyer, '1i the original "Miss City Lites" is back! So come celebrate her return with us and enjoy an evening of unparalleled excitement. For reservations please call 733-3333. 7:45 p.m. dinner show from $15.95; 11:00 p.m. cocktail show Sl0.95, including two drinks. The Flamingo Hilton On The Famous Four Comers 3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South 2 Las Vegas Today November 19-26, 1985 officer of the Golden Nugget The glamour side of the Grand Pri~ takes place Saturday. Dec. 14, when neatly two dozen entertainment industry celebmtes and spons personalities will par with a like amount of professionals in the pro-celebrity charity tournament. The Muscular Dystrophy Association Willb e the beneficiary of the tournament with $10,000 being donated In the names of the top three celebrity and professional Winners to the charity. Last year. the team of Michael Warren. who co-stats in "Hill Street Blues," and Jack Keller, the 1984 World Serles of Poker champion, took first place S..cond went to the team of Dick Van Patten and "Amarillo Slim" Preston Third place was won by songstress Dionne Warwick and teammate Gene Fisher. Part of the excitement during the two weeks of the Grand Prix will include the playing of the 1985 Irish Eccentric In• temational Hold-Em Championship at the Golden Nugget. This marks the firSt time that the tournament, to be played Dec 13 and 14. will be held in the United States. The Grand Prix tournament schedule, designed to appeal to virtually every poker-playing preference, Includes the following games: Dec. 2. Texas Hold-Em (Limit), $500 Buy-In; Dec 3. High Low SpOt 8 Or Better (Llmit}, $1.000 Buy-In; Dec. 4, Seven Card Razz (Limit), $1,000 Buy-In, D.,c. 5, Seven Card High (Limit), $1,000 Buy,ln: Dc>c 6. Omaha Hold-Em (Llm1t), Sl.000 Buy-In: Dec. 7, Ace-To- Flve Draw With Joker (Limit). $1,000 Buy-In, Dec. 8, Omaha Hold-Em (Pot Limit) With Re Buys, $1,500 Buy In; Dec. 9 Women's Seven Om-I High !Limit). $500Buy-ln: Dec. 9, Deuce-to-Seven 1No Umit) With Re-Buys, $5,000 Buy-In; Dec. 10-11. Texas Hold-Em (Llmll/, $1,000 Buy-In; Dec 11. Seven Card High (Limit), $2,500 Buy-In. 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Westmoreland EDITOR Norma Staley OFFICE Mo\NAGEJI Bobbie Bingham PRODUCTION Robert Diaz Brenda Cherry ACCOUNTING Marion Stratman CIRCULATION MANAGER James. K Westmoreland For )ubscnplJQn ,nqu121ews rl1el o LM Vegas To clay, 2022 South w....,m Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 Please include ~our name. addre$S and phone number A 1 year !.ub-r.crtpnon (52 t~~ues} of Las Vegas Today oso va,i<lblea 1 a <osi of SSO0 0 USA. S,70 00 Canada ~nd Mo'ltkO. St05.00-Sl30 00 a-II 01her co,mtne$ Pnces vary due to differen1 postage rbtu Fit.st ~Ds., pustoge ts included 1ft the cos1 For al othennqu1nes call (702) 382 2050 La, Vegas Today iS pubhshed weekly by L,s Vegas Today In< 5005 3rd St. LM Vegas. NV89101 On The Cover Country music stars Conway Twitty and Dottle WHt ore appearing through NotJ. 27 In the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. Twitty, who has had more No. 1 records than any other performer In music history, recently had his 50th with "Don't Call Him A Cowboy. M lt was her duo uork with Kenny Rogers that flnaPly brought Dottle West to the attention of the general public and their .smash hit, "£very TI me Two Fools Coll/de," led ta a serf es of hit singles, albums and a highly suc• ccssful notlonwldc t<.ur tosether. ror more on this talented duo, see story on page 12. Today Inside Inside Out ....•....... 4 Maggie Minton ..•.•.••• 5 Sean Grady, Frontier's SuperMaitre ct·. . 14 a 15 Football Line .......•. 17 Curtain Call .•.••.••.. 18 Showtime ........... 19 Buffet Guide .•.•...•. 21 Bingo Guide ......... 26 Golf Guide ••......... 23 Desert Dining ......... 25 Race & Sports ......•. 22 LV Map ............ . 27 Starring At Frontier l/·2.Z~t/ "? COUNTRYM USIC SUPERSTARSC onway Twitty and Dottie West are now appearing in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. The engagement starts a month-longc ountry musicc avalcadea t the Frontier.R oy Clark and Brenda Lee open November2 8. Lee Greenwood and Sylviaf ollowo n December 5. OPENIN G AT FRONTIER - Conway Twitty and D ottl e West, two o f country mu 1l c's bigge s t selling , cc ordlng ortlet s, open a ten day enga gemen t Monday In the ma in sh o wroom of tb e Front ier H otel . Siegfried & Roy In ~Beyond Beli ef ,• th e Fronti er 's regular showr o om attra ct/on , will appear through Sun - day, th e11 tal,,e th eir annual winter bl atus . Frontier's Country Stars Six of the most c;uccessful pe r formers in coun try music will appear at the Frontier Hotel du ring the annual winter vacation of the resort's year 'ro und showroom stars, Siegfried & Roy The famed "Superstars of Magic" and the cast and company of their award winning show "Beyond B1>lief,'' will perform at the Frontier through Sunday then take a six week hiatus. They will return to the Frontier December 27 for another extended engagement. In the intenm, the 1:-rontier will feature the following lineup of showroom entertainment: Conway Twitty and Dottie West, November 18-27; Roy Clark and Brenda Lee, November 28 -December 4; Lee Greenwood and Sylvia, December 5-18. 1:-ollowing the latter engage - ment, the Frontier will move from country to pop to present the Righteous Brothe rs December 19 25 This show will m,nk the reunion of the original duo, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield . Comedian Jackie Gayle will co - star. Twitty and West, who open a ten day engagement on Monday, are two of country music's mos1 consistent record sellers. Twitty is ,he or ly singer m the history of country music to record fifty Number 1 h,t records. The first came in 1958 with his original composition '·It's Only Make Believe." He hit the fifty mark last June with "Don't Call Him A Cowboy." He also recorded a series of hit reco rds with Loretta Lynn. They were na med the Country Music Association's Duet of the Year four years in a row and won a Gra mmy in 1971. In West, Twitty has a co-sta r with cred entials as glittering as his own. Perha p s best known for her five hit singles with Kenny Rogers, she has long been respec ted in country music circles as an Innovative songw riter and allaround performer . The composer of more than 400 published songs, she became the first female country artist ever to win a Grammy when her song "Here Comes My Baby" won the award In 1964. West is abo credited with leading female country singers out of the "gingham dress" era by in· troducing a spectacular wardrobe that enhanced her natural beauty and sex appeal. Conway And Dottie Light ~p Frontier Stage Country music stars Conway Twitty and Dottie West. are appearing through Nov. 27 in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. But within five years, Twitty was a ma)Or country star with such hits as "Hello Darlin'," "Llnda On My Mlnd," "I've Nready Loved You In My Mind," "You've Never Been This Far Before," and "I'd Love To lay You Down." Twitty, who has had more No. 1 records than any other perfonner in music histotY, recently had his 50th with "Don't Call Him a Cowboy." His first hit, "It's Only Make Believe," came 27 years ago when Twitty was a teenage rock 'n roll idol. (Conrad Birdie, the rock 'n roll character character in "Bye Bye Birdie"w as modeled after Twttty. ) But Twitty was raised In MINlsslppl and Arbc_au, where he learned the blues from a black neighbor and country 111111fr1okm the Grand Old Opry. EW!lltllaUy, he began to reach back toward ht. country roots. As early as 1960 he began writing purely country songs, but his management refused to let him perform them. So in an emotional dee!Slon,T witty walked out of a successfulr ock 'n roll tour in 1965. "Everybody thought I was crazy,• Twitty said. Besides having great success as a solo artist, Twitty and the Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn are considered the most popular country duo o! all time Four years in a row they won the prestigious Country Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year Award. It wu bu duo wod< with Kenny Rogers that Anally brought Dottie West to the attention of the general •.• AN IIQ.IJIICIIDE OF MUSIC& DIINCB FEATURING JOEY VILLA ROBYG ASSER MURILLO THE MAC-VALLEY & HIS SEAL IONS & ULISES GWBE OF DEATH You'll enter a world of water with Million Dollar Mermaids, Aqua-Raiders, Sea Lions and Synchronized Swimmers. But "Splash" is more! It's Motorcycle Daredevils, salutes to the Music Video Revolution and Superstars of Dance, plus the gorgeous girls you expect. IN THEV ERSAILLTEHSE ATRE• SHOWflMES8: PM & 11 PM $}950 EARLYS HOW SJ650 LATES HOW (Gourmet Buffet Optional fo, $2.50 with Show.) RESERVATIONS7:3 4-5301 I(,* IH:Y:,!. -~-~ 12 Las Vegas Today November 19-26, 1985 public, after 15 !/eaI'$ as a country star. Born on a poor farm south of Nashville West was the oldest of 10 children. After working her way through college, she married steel guitar player Bill West. While raising a family, West started to write songs around the house. Many of NashvUle's new songwriters started to hang around the West house - Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Millera nd Hank Cochran "Little did they know that I was picking their brains and !eaming how to write songs." West said The late country great Jlm Reeves had a hit with West's ftrst songwrltlng effort In 1963. The following year, she had one benelf, "HeYe Comes My Baby." It earned her the first Grammy ever awarded to a female country artist. * Show Tickets * $25 DISCOUNT ON MOST ANY SHOW IN TOWN! DINNER OR COCKTAIL OR 2-DAY CAR RENTAL s10~:~! • New models • Fully equipped • Unlimited free mileage (within NV) • Free pick-up and delivery at Airpon or home ---------- FORI NFORMAT tON AND QUAUFICAT ION CALL THE NEVADA DISCOUNTT0URISTCENTER 737-0244 3713 Las Vegas Blvd. South (next to the Aladdin Hotel) 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. LVf Now Through November 27th Twitty-West At Frontier C ountry music stars Conway Twitty and Dottie West are appearing through November 27 tn the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. Twitty. who has had more number one records than any other performer in music history. recently had his 50th with "Don't Call Him A Cowboy." His first hit, "It's Only Make Believe,.. came 27 yec1rs ago when Twitty was a teenage rock 'n roll idol (Conrad Birdi<'?.t h<'?r ock ·n roll character in "Bye, Bye Bir die'' was modeled after Twitty). But Twitty was raised in Mississippi and Arkansas, where he learned the blues from a Black neighbor and country music from the Grcmd Ole Opry Eventually, he began to reach back toward his country roots As early as 1960 he began writing purely country songs. but his management refused to let him perform them. So, in an emotional decision, Twitty walked out of a succe:.sful rock 'n roll lout in 1965. "Everybody thought was crazy." Twitty said. But within five years, Twitty was a maior country star with such hits as "Hello Darlin .'' "Linda On M1,. Mind.·· "I've Already Loved You In My Mind," "You've Never Been This Far Before." and "I'd Love to Lay You Down." Besides having great success as a solo artist Twitty and the Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn, are considered the most popular country duo of all time. Four >ears in a row they won the prestigious Country Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year dward . It was her duo work with Kenny Rogers that finally brought Dottie West to the attention of the general public, after 15 years as a country star. Born on a poor farm in Nashville, West was the o,dest of 10 children. After working her way th1ough college, :she married steel guitar player Btll West. While raic;ing a family . West started to write songs around the house. Many of Nashville's new songwriters started to hang around the West house - Willie Nelson. Kns Kristofferson, Roger Miller, Hank Cochrdn. "Litt le did they know that I was picking their brains and learning how to write songs." West said. The late country great Jim Reeves had a hit with West's first songwriting effort in 1963. The following year, she had one herself, ·'Here Comes My Baby." It earned her the first Grammy ever awarded to a female country star West's collaboration with Kenny Rogers came about by accident. 'Tve known Kenny ever since 1966, ;' she said. "He's eaten a lot of my turnip greens and l.Jldckeyed peas. But when I 5aw him in the studio I just blurted out , 'I'd sure like to s·ng with you ' He came over to the microphone and we did the first song in three takes" rhe song was "Every Time Two STARRING A£ FRONTIER - Country music superstars Conway Ttdlty itnd Dottie W<'st, are now appear in g in the main ,;howroom of the Frontier HotPI. The engagement starls a month long country music cavalcade at the Frontier. Roy Clark and Brenda Lee open November 28, Lee Greenwood and Sylvia follow on December 5. WELCOME PACKAGE $100 Value Fools Collide ... It became a smash hit and led to a series of hit singles, albums and a highly successful na - tionwide tour together. "I just love Kenny Rogers." West said. "He 's such a pleasure to work with ... After starring in the national touring company of "The Best Lit tie Whorehouse in Texas, .. West is looking forward this year to her first starring role on B1oadway. She is olso starring in .i movie. ··Aurora," about extra-terre~trials in Texas. What else does the future hold for the ·•country Sunshine" girl? "I want to be a strong headliner." she said. "I still haven·t wntten the best song 1 think I can write . I want to be an actress. And why not wish for an Oscar? Anything I do. being a mother or in my career, I want to be number one in it." BRECK WALL'S ZANY - neu· all-male revue. "F!dmBOYan t Follies" combines fabulous fem.,le impersooaUons with hilarious come dy routines for a truly enjoyable show thJt can be seen nightly in the MerriMINT Theatre of Del Webb's Mint Casino Hotel. Don't miss the crazy antics of the "Fla mBOYant Follies " cast. Including Lance Brooki, (left). Joe Danova (cen ter) and Chris Roberts (right). Showtimes are Monday through Friday, 8 and 11 p.m.; 6:30. 8 and 11 p.m . each Saturday evening. See "FlamBOYa1)t Fol/le,,• for Ju,,, $4.95. In· eluding two cocktails. 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I •• ffee Drink coupon • FourS lot coupons FreeG 11Ct oupon • Keno and PokerC oupon IN THE VERSAILLETSH EATRE• SHOWflMES: 8 PM & 11 PM I • FreeD rawingC oupon • Two Food DiscountC oupons $ }95 0 $ }65 0 Trip to Hawaii • FourM erchandiseD iscounCt oupons EARLYS HOW LATES HOW I (Gourmet Buff~t Optional for $2.50 with Show.) I onec:ouponperCUSlom« M11stce21 Ofowr. MOtetkeyandOU1-o~st01e1.o. requlled. Subjec11otheN"'5 RESERVATION7S3•4. -530} posted io Welcome8 oolh. Moyl )e conceitedW ilho1nJt( lllce.W elcomeB oothq ,en 8 om to 12 Mklnlgl'II SUndalyh roughT hursday2. 4 hourl ffidGy and Saturd<f1. I 'O ,:.I -~V ...I. :~B * R ·ti lI_ - - - - - H-OnL-AN-oco-u!:!--c~ - - - - I I,\, HOTEL& CASINO fAS ~GAS' ET _J.._ _________________________ _. A ~6D_~_~~_su_N_Mo-May,-Nove_m~r_l8,l-~--~@~~&W:-------- Conway Twitty and Dottie West open at Frontier LAS VEGAS - Conway Twitty and Dottie West open a 10-day engagement Monday in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. The country superstars will be standing in for popular magicians Siegfried and Roy while they take their annual vacation. Twitty and West have both had success with pop audiences - but at opposite times in their careers. Twitty, one of America's first rock 'n roll idols, switched to country music during the mid-1960s and insists he'll never try to "cross over" to pop again . West, on the other band, was strictly a country artist until her sometimes singing partner Kenny Rogers introduced her to apprec1at1ve pop audiences during the late 1970s. Twitty recently made music history with his 50th number one record, "Don't Call Him a Cowboy." No other artist in any field of music has come even close to that achievement. But in 1958, Twitty's first number one record, "It's Only Make Believe," was a rock 'n roll ballad. It was a hit record in 22 countries and established Twitty as one of the hottest teen idols around. He had a steady string of hit records and appeared in teen-angled movies like "Six Kittens Go to College'' and "Platinum High School." Conrad Birdie, the rock idol in Broadway's "Bye Bye Birdie" was actually molded after Twitty, as well as Elvis . But Twitty, who was raised in Mississippi loving country music and blues, grew disenchanted with rock 'n roll. When his agents refused to let him try singing country, he walked out of a rock 'n roll show in 1965. J'l laid my guitar down and I walked out the door," he said. "I got in my car and headed south. I never went back.'' CONWAY TWITTY - 1960's rock 'n' roll Idol turned country superstar appears at Frontier Hotel while Siegfried and Roy take a break. One of the most popular country singers of all time, Twitty and his frequent singing partner Loretta Lynn are considered "country purists." "The difference is the fans,'' said Twitty. "Kids are fickle. They're growing up and their tastes are changing - that's the way it should be too. "But country music fans are mostly adults, though we're getting more young people in our shows all the time. Country music fans are loyal. It's like I have a million real friends." Like Twitty, Dottie West has been a star for more than 20 years. But for the first 15, or so, of those years she was strictly a country artist. When she teamed up with country-pop superstar Kenny Rogers during the late 1970s, she suddenly found herself with a whole new audience. "I would like to be a pop-country entertainer," West said, "but I never want to forget I am a country artist.'' West got her start in Nashville back in 1963 when country great Jim Reeves recorded one of the songs she'd writ- • ten. Friends with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Hank Cochran and Roger Miller, West says she learned to write from watching her friends at work at their music in her house. In 1964, she recorded one of her own songs, "Here Comes My Baby." It became a big hit and won West the first Grammy ever given to a female country artist. A steady country hit-maker, West then began writing jingles for Coca- Cola. One of those jingles, "I was raised on country sunshine," became so popular with the public that West was urged to write and record a whole song. "CountryS unshine"w as a giant hit. That was the first exposure West had to non-country audiences. Her famous duets with Kenny Rogers made her well-known across the counl try. DOTTIE WEST - After 15 years as a country singer, she herself found a .....w_ hole new audience with pop music. West is appearing at the Hacienda . _____________________________..._._.. ____.._,_...._.. ... ..,.........,....._........ ,._.....,._. _______ _ ___ _} Entertainment Conway has J,is own Tennessee city You've all heard of Dollywood, but how about Twitty City'? Dolly Parton attracted a lot of attention with the opening of her amusement center near Nashville, but she'll have to go some to equal Conway Twitty's nine acre tourist complex in Henderson, Tenn. Twitty, who opens a tennight stand at the Frontier Hotel tomorrow, is the squire of this sprawling colonial-style spread that has become one of the hottest v.isitor attractions in the Music City area. Conway built Twitty City with bucks made by selling untold ,millions of records, including 50 No. 1 country hits. He lives on the grounds in a mansion that Scarlett O'Hara would have been proud of. During the holiday season he converts the entire layout into a Christmas fantasyland, with 250,000 twinkling lights and 40 special exhibits. When it gets cold enough, he turns on his snow Forrest Duke Duke of Los Vegas guns and fills up Twitty City with the fluffy stuff. Top that, Dolly. Luscious Dottie West coheadlines with Twitty for this Vegasdate. Vacationing Frontier superstars Siegfried & Roy, who close tonight, will be back for more ''Beyond Belier' wizardry Dec. 27. DOLLY PARTON would eventually like to build a "Teen Town" in Dollywood. "I want to have a place for the young people, so they don't have to stay stuck up in the hills or just drive around the Tastee-Freeze or park on the back roads and do drugs." Where did Dolly spend her free time es a teenager'? "Of course, when I was that age," says Dolly, "I went to the drive-in and necked - but that's beside the point!'' ... THE McGUIRE SISTERS, who recently returned to performing after a 17-year "vacation," got their start "back then" as members of the Arthur Godfrey radio/fV show "family," which included Marion Marlowe, Julius LaRosa, Carmel Quinn, et al. People magazine, covering the sisters' triumphant return to show biz, assigned a photographer to the story, Mike Fuller. Coincidentally and unknown to People. the young photog revealed. to Chris, Dorothy, and Phyllis that he had a special interest in this assignment - his mother is Carmel Quinn!... THE McGUIRES, looking better and singing better'n ever, are co-headlining with Bobby Vinton at the Desert Inn - one of the strongest musical double features ever to hit The Best City Of Them All. The dolls will be featured on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," Nov. 24, TV-5, at 5 p.m. Phyllis' mansion here in TBCOT A and her townhouse in NYC get the spotlight ... DICK WRIGHT, the talented Hilton entertainment exec, knows good talent when he sees it, and knows good puns when he 'ears them. He relays this from Herb Caen: MICHELANGELOw as running out of paint while doing the Sistine Chapel and thinning it out until only a few drops remained. Came a clap of thunder, a lightning bolt and voice booming: "Repaint, and thin no more!" ... Sunday,N ovembe1r 7, 1985/LasV egas Revlew-Journal/19£ Twitty, that is VINCE MANFREDI has been named director of advertising and promotion at The Paddlewheel. Vince, who has previously held similar positions with the Hotel Continental, Marina, and Herb Pastor Casino Enterprises, is also a deejay for KNPR Radio. Rumor has it that The Paddlewheel exex may have multi-talented Manfredi take over the Daniel T. Bones band in the Down By The Levee Playhouse wheti Daniel goes on vacation ... CHARLIE GARNER, one time show biz attorney for Wayne Newton and other Strip stars, appears to be winning the biggest case of his life. Doctors recently proclaimed the former member of the Clark County D.A.'s office "free of cancer." His many entertainment world friends will be happy to know that Charlie is back in action and' handling the work of famed psychic to the stars David Guardino and a few other select clients. Charlie's famous for letting his legal opposition do tbe strutting and make all the noise before he quietly lowers the boom with a superbly researched case. "He knows his lawbooh," said sometime boy barrister Joe Delaney, "like a legal hit man!" ... "FRIDAY with Frank Sinatra," hosted by Sid Mark, the syndicated radio show, is the longest running continuous program of any kind in the history of broadcasting. Show, which originates from WWDB, Philadelphia, first aired on Nov. 11, 1955, reports FRANK SINATRA JR., who returns to the Four Queens Tuesday. ENGELBERT,M GM Grand pactee, had a performance at Resorts in Atlantic City washed out by Hurricane Gloria. When someone said: "What can you do? It was an act of God" Humperdinck growled: "I always knew God had a terrific act but I never figured He'd upstage mine!" SantaB arbaraV,e nturCa ountieNse ws: LicenseeAsn ticipatBeu stlinCg hristmaSsa les SeasoDn espitAe TrendA wayF romH ardL iquor By Joan Melcher Santa Barbara, Ventura Counties Staff Writer Retailers and restaurateurs in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, looking forward to a bustling Christmas season, are expecting to see a continuation of a longrwming trend away from distilled spirits to wines and beers, as well as "light" and non-alcoholic drinks. Many of them are riding the Thousand Oaks and Simi crt:st of the wave. T~y Of- Valley. tah, cCK>wneio: fM cLintock s ABC District Administrator F Sa~oon & ~mmi House, 750 Stanley Griffeth reports the Mattie Road m P1smo_Beach, police in those areas have reports he and hi~, ~ar been using Explorer Scouts as manager ha~e been golf!g decoys in an Alcohol Prevento". Var~t, he lighte~ alcoholic tion Enforcement (APE) prodnnks for some t~e. gram. The scouts attempt to " Popul~r ,~oncoctions on the purchase alcohol at various downside ~f al~oh~l con- outlets. The result has been tent at McLmtock s mclude disciplinary action taken lemon coolers ( seven percent against several licensees who ~lcoho,l,> an~ ~ootbeer have been found to be lax in fl(?ats, a bewitching blend enforcing the law. of ice cream and creme de A letter explaining the prococoa. gram was sent out before Ortali and his partner, APE was initiated. Griffeth Bruce Beault, also plan to of- credit.5 the •letter with the fer a new, colorful line of generally positive response it Christmas drinks - a has received from licensees. cocktail that faintly Meanwhile, many licensees resembles a Christmas tree, are successfully taking the for example. high road. Purl is a fine ex- "People are not drinking ample. He sells five different the way they used to," Ortali non-alcohol beers and the noted. "I think that's fine - non-alcohol St. Regis wine, that's the trend. You don't get the heavy drinkers anymore, and that's probably good for an of us." But how is it affecting business? "I don't see any negative effects " Ortail said. "They're (the light-alcohol drinks) selling very well. We don't get comments, but we don't need them," he said. "We see how the drinks are selling, and that's enough." PLAYING ON STRENGTHS Bakersfield/KernC o. Tri-Countie&s RiversideB ranches CUSTOMEOR RDER (ALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-437-4899 and sees non-alcohol beverage sales as "a growing segment of the industry," one that has much to offer the retailer. He gives as an example a customer he's had for years who had been a regular buyer of Budweiser beer. The customer's doctor told him he should quit drinking beer. Now he drinks a near-beer and still does his business with Purl. "He still comes in and spends about the same amount of money," Purl said. Providing an alternative helps Purl "make new friends, but keep the old." WW-PROOF LINE Wholesalers in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have been aware of the trend for at least a year. Brent Morton, Southern Wine & Spirits sales manager for the Tri- Counties, reports his company has been selling Free Spirit - a 60-proof line of vodka, gin, bourbon, Scotch, tequila and rwn - for about a year. (Please Turn To Page 25) i- LOCAL FAVORITE - There's a loyal following for;= BRIDGFORD DELI FOODS amonr, the beachfront community In Balboa. Over at BAL-HARBOR LIQUOR, 510 E. Balboa Blvd. in Balboa, there's such a consistent demand for Brlcfgford Dell Foods that the salesman comes In once a week to the store. "Bridgford does very well for us here," says Jack Kofdarall, manager of Bal-Harbor, shown In the above photo In front of the store's refrigerated dlsplay case. "Being a town of mostly slngle people, nol,ody likes to prepare foocl," he exp la Ins. "So they go for the pre-cooked dell meats. I'd say the ham and bologna are the most popular." The fact that the prices are pre-marked helps, says Kofdarall, pointing out that "It's a timesaver ••• and people know the price is fair," All in all, he says, "we're happy with Bridgford," and so are the customers at Bal-Harbor. (Exclusive 8111/etln Photo/ MAIN OFFICEA ND HEADQUARTERS San Diego 1701 Valley View Avenue P.O. Box 6450 Cerritos, Callfornia 90701 (213) 926-2000 ORDER DESK - TOLL F 1-800-437-4899 GENERAL BllSINESS 1-800-521- l 348 Delevan Drive CUSTOMEORR DER CALL TOLL-FREE "People are not buying with the reckless abandon they once did," noted Poi Purl, owner of Poi Boy's Valley Liquor, 11558 North Ventura Ave. in Ojai - especially when it comes to distilled spirits. Purl has responded by playing on his strengths - unported beers, wine coolers and bulk beer sales. SOUTHERN WINE & SPIRITS IS PROUD TO REPRESEN He has established a display area for wine coolers, featuring 10 different brands. He originally planned to eliminate the brands that didn't sell well, but to date, he has kept the 10 - all are good sellers. Purl also carries 50 different imported beers, but has seen a decline in sales there. The intrepid wine coolers seem to be making inroads into that market, also, he said. "Liquor is going to suffer for a while," said Purl, voicing a consensus view of Santa Barbara and Ventura county retailers. "Liquor will have to go into smaller sizes," he noted. He sees a trend toward sales of more fifths and liters for Christmas. Purl also expressed concern about alcohol consumJ>- tion and driving. "The drWlk-driving message has hit home with people over 21," he said. "There is an awareness within the industry. Now we should light a fire under thefroblem of consumption o alcohol by minors. They still haven't caught on." 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I United States : Bartenders' ..8 Association Employer-Employee Lunch Is Smash Hit c:: By Charles J. Chop -C::: ''Once ogoin o roost as WP = hosted our peors, = With neortfelt thanks and wps of ;:0 cheers c... To them - their dedicated loyal C1l support in rhe post, r:! To them . moy this grateful roost never be the lost " c... The California Chapter := hosted its annual Employer- Employee luncheon on Nov. 18th at the beautiful Airporter Inn Hotel in Orange County as < homage was paid to our esteemed employers. California Chapter President Jose Ancona welcomed a large contingent of members and their guests, along with many of our dedicated associates who were on hand for a most delightful afternoon. In an opening speech, Jose Ancona paid tribute to the organization's past presidents and a fond remembrance of members who have departed. A gourmet luncheon was enjoyed by all, after which the personnel of the Airporter Inn were introduced to receive well-deserved applause for the accommodations and a delicious repast. Manager John Moffa, Banquet Manager Karin Gardos and Chef Hank Kawakami acknowledged the warm and meaningful app_lause for a job more than well done. And a special tribute was accorded bartender Bob Martinez and his crew, along witli tht! deft service of the personable waitresses. We were honored to have two guest speakers: John Faber, vice president of an exclusive cham of restaurants in Orange County and past president and founder of the Orange County Restaurant Association, discussed the ways and means of improving sales in the restaurant business, a talk which was not only enjoyable but most informative. He was followed by Stan Ferer, Regional Sales manager with Hiram Walker, who expounded on the present-day problem of "Driving While Under the Influence." Being a volunteer Reserve member of the Sheriff's Dept., Ferer is most familiar witb this subject, and passed on some helpful hints in deterring this problem in local establishments. A standing ovation was accorded to both speakers, who rounded-out a most delightful and enjoyable afternoon . RANDOM SHOTS The camaraderie that prevailed over the tasty hors d'oeuvres and refreshments as everyone proudly introduced their employers to each other ... Council members and officers busily running around to make certain all was in preparation ... Olive Griffin and Mrs. Sinclair Jardine of Tip's, as gracious as always in making certain everyone got a ·'hello" ... Max Kerstein, Richard Howard and Michael Lynn of the "Beverage Bulletin" interviewing and snappin~ photos of guests ... Bill Brown s added discourse on business improvement in restaurants, which was well-received ... Jose Ruiseco busily involved with relating the promismg future of the organization ... Pasquale Lombardo, co-owner of the Marquis West Restaurant in his initial attendance at a guild affair, thanking everyone within earshot for being invited ... Norm Toon and Carl Wicks snapping their cameras at the happy revelers ... Bill Bradford, who recently lost both his parents, though heavy in heart, had his usual perennial smile ... and the overall closeness of the brotherhood of members constituted not only their dedication to the organization, but to our profession, as well. In closing, may we off er you our favorite recipe for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Y ar: A heaping cup of CHR TMAS JOY, a generous easure of GOOD CHEER, equal parts of LOVE, ACE and HAPPINESS f r the coming year. Place ing ediento; in WARM SURROUNDINGS, combine with lots of MERRY LAUGHTER. .. garnish each portion with GOOD FORTUNE, serve with SMILES forever after! For Latest Wine News Read "Wine News" WORKING TOGETHER - In a tribute to Southern Collfornla restaurateur• and bar owneA, the California Chapter of the UNITED ST ATES BARTENDERS' GUILD (USBG) recently hosted Its annual Employer-Employee Luncheon at the AIRPORTER INN hotel, 18700 MacArthur Blvcl. In Irvine. The bartenders and their guests were treated to Informative presentations by Stan Ferer, Western Regional Sales manager for Hiram Walker, and by John Faber, co-founder and past president of the Orange County Restaurant Association, and also vice president of Flddler's Three Corp, Both Faber and Parer dlscuued many areas of concern among local on-sale operators, Drinking Trends Study: Distilled Spirits Continue To Be Dinner Favorites Special To The Bulletin When Americans enjoy beverage alcohol with their dinner, they are more likely to have a drink made with di~ tilled spirits than beer or wine, according to several recent studies, "Restaurants and Institutions Magazine" recently conducted a nationwide survey of 1,381 people and found that 36.9 percent had ordered a cocktail or mixed drink at least once with dinner outside the home durin~ the preceding month. This compares with 33.6 percent who ordered wine and 26.4 percent who ordered beer. A study by National Family Opinion, Inc. based on conswnption diaries maintained by 12,000 people showed the percentage of total consumption for various beverages m various locations. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Inc. (DISCUS) has converted those percentage of volume figures into standard servings for beer, wine and liquor. This analysis shows that drinks made with liquor are indeed the favorite of Americans when they are at restaurants. DISCUS calculations based on the National Family Opinion research show that Americans ordered 6.2 billion servings of liquor in restaurants, compared with 1. 7 billion servings of wine and 2.8 billion servings of beer. TOTAL CONSUMPTION Combined, these figures represent the equivalent of America's 100 million adult drinkers eating out once per week and consuming two drinks per occasion. Other studies, including the latest Gallup Poll, suggest that these are reasonable as~wnptions . The analysis also showed that the greatest volume of spirits conswnption by individuals is at their own home, with restaurants being the second most important location. For both beer and wine, the two most popular drinking locations are one's own home and the homes of other people. Survey participants in the National Family 01,>inion study also indicated their beverage choice for certain occasions. Asswning standard servmg sizes of f 1ve ounces for wine, 12 -Ounces for beer and 1 V4 ounces for liquor, the data suggest that Americans are most likely to order spirits with dinner (whether at or away from home). Their second choice is beer and wine, the least frequently chosen fonn of beverage alcohol at dinner. In a third study conducted for DISCUS by the Gallup Organization, a representa• tive national sample of 1,202 adults were asked, among other things, what their beverage preferences were and how many drink.s they conswned on the last drinking occasion. According to this study, the average number of drinks per occasion for Americans is 2.2. Only six percent of the drinkers claim to have consumed six or more drinks on the last occasion. For those who prefer liquor, the average nwnber of drinks on their last drinking occasion was 2.0. Those who preferred wine conswned 1.6 dri'lks and those who consumed beer, 2.7 drinks. Eleven percent of beer drinkers claim to have consumed six or more drinks on the last drinking occasion, cornpru-P1 to one I)f'.rceIJt of wine dnnkers and three percent of liquor drinkers. F. A. Meister, president of DISCUS, said that "the data in these studies confirm that most Americans drink 'Old Coke' Showing New Life Official reports out of Coca-Cola'sicorpora~ headquarters in Atlanta have finally confirmed what dedicated soda pop drinkers have known for some time - "Old Coke" is outselling ":'-Jew (',0ke" in the United States. And, while Coca•C?~ spokesman Carlton Curtis says ·'We don't have spec1f1c numbers," he repeated the company's pr~diction ~~at ''we f~el it (New Coke) will eventually outsell Classic Coke. Meanwhile, Canadians seem to prefer the New Coke over the Old Coke by a more than two-to-one margin. And perhaps because _of the uncertain climate in the marketplace, Coca-Cola has decided to delay the official international mtroduction <_>f New Coke_ from this fall to next spring. What's the bottom lme? According_to Coca-Cola's third-quarter earnings statement for 1985, net mcome was up 11.6 percent over the same period in 1984. Sources report, however, that most of that increase was. ~ue to "no noperating income" and a tax rate reduction benefiting the company. L particularly those relating to the sale and service of beverage alcohol. In the above photo at far left, Introducing the numerous guests In the audience, was USBG President Jose Ancona, who thanked all In attendance for their continued support of the guild. Ancona also thanked the staff of the Alrporter Inn, as well as the chef ancl kitchen staff who prepared an outstanding meal enloyacl by guild maml,ars and their guests. Everyone on hand for the event seemed to agree that It was Indeed a memorable afternoon. (Exclusive Bulletin Photos} moderately and responsibly and that liquor is far mor~ popular as an accomparument to meals than is commonly believed. We have long-recommended that the safest policy is to conswne food with or prior to drinking since this slows the absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream. It is clear from this data that many Americans are following this advice. It is also clear that, despite the myth that beer and wine are the most popular mealtime choices of America's drinkers, spirits are indeed well-established as the most frequently ordered form of alcohol with dinner." DISCUS is the national association representing producers and marketers of liquor. Delightful December: Frontier Offers Great Line-Up Of Superstars Bulletin Staff Writer With the Christmas holiday fast approaching, what could be a more _exciti!}g way to ~et in the festive spmt than with a quick trip to Las Vegas? It could be just the thing to put you in the proper mood for this joyous tune of year. Travelers who visit Las Vegas on a regular basis report that one of the true "in spots" on The Strip is the fabulous Frontier hotel. The Frontier offers all of the intilnacy of a smaller hotel combined with the excitement and dynamic impact of the giants on The Strip. The J?rontier recenU.,r announced its schedule ot holiday entertainment, and it promises to be one of the most star-studded, scintillating lineups in history. Opening up the month of December are Roy Clark and Brenda Lee, world-famous singers who have given country music some of its classic hits. Their performances wiH run through December 4. From Dec. 5-18, the Frontier welcomes two other great country-western singers, Lee Greenwood and Sylvia. And from Dec. 19-25, the legendary Righteous Brothersz. Bill Medley and Bobby Hatueld, will {)erf orm in concert, with opening act comedian Jackie Gayle. All of these performances will be presented twice nightly, at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m., with the $19.50 ticket price including two dnnks. And, on Dec. 27, the Frontier's amazing superstar duo of Siegfried & Roy return for yet another engagement of their "Beyond Belief' magic show. OUTSTANDING FACILITIES In addition to this big-name entertainment, the Frontier offers convement and excellent shopping facilities, luxurious rooms, a lavish, 24-hour casino. fine lounge shows, tennis, golf, sw~- ing and just about anything anyone could want or need during their Las Vegas vacation. And when you stay at the Frontier, you're guaranteed to be served by a staff which includes some of the friendliest people in the world. So why not make Las Vegas and the 1''rontier your destination for some we-holiday excitement? ' Lady Luck" awaits you! FRUITIER HOTEL ANO CASINO "'fl" ' LAS VEGAS NO~ 1ll WEEKLY MAGAZINE ]1{39I[ff ~AR nsatthe TWITTY and DOlTIEWEST Now appearing at the HO T E L A D C ASI r .. _.._.-... 'T~ · CONWAY • TWI 11 Y and DOTTIE .. WEST .. Q) g> OPENING NOV. 28 • ROY CLARK AND BRENDA LEE 0..------------------------------------- Come to Conway's Holiday World! Every Christmas season, Conway creates a Sugar Plum Dream World and invites all of h is fans to enjoy the holidays at Twitty City. It's Christmas at Twitty City ... a magical month-long event filled with fabulous famasy and glorious music! You'll see 250,000 twinkling lights ... bigger-than-life toy dolls and crains ... th e sparkling 26-foot C hristmas Tree ... and tiny elves building a scrumptious gingerbread house. It's a glorious holiday treat for kids of all ages ... bring your whole family co Conway's for Christmas at Twitty Cicy. .., •..~ M:•1l.et,P}.i.k~e ~ '-- - ·'~1'~•-••'~ __T_W ITTY CITY #'flli'I ._ ~---- . JaiNNY CASH .... • • ..,..... . t.lJSElM •• •• •. , •: .. f:?s -....,. ONV tt t Music e Village U.S.A. • Fu ll stage Chri stm as ch or ale • Sch ool band s a nd ch oirs • Anim at ed Dick en s C ar olers • Pavilion Are a with festive shop s • Lollipop Lane • G u md rop Mount ain • Can d y Ca n e Fores t • Wond erlan d Waterfall • T h e N at ivity D rama p er form ed a nd n ar rate d Christmas at'lwittyCity Open nightly 6-9, November 23 through December 31 Tw itty Cit y op en d aily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Merry Twisma s! TwittyCity # l Music Village Boulevard, HendersOn\'ille, TN 37075 (615) 822-6650 Admission cha rged . Procee ds be nefit He nd erson\'ill e 100 C lub Internal Communication Date. ff\ o",' vJ"' 1;\A y ;1)oV-IY/ 1 00 s To VICE PRESIDENT , FOOD & BEVERAGE From MAITRE D' HOTEL Subject. SHOW COUNTS STARTING COUNTS HOUSE GUESTS FRONTIER 1ST SHOW 2ND SHOW ~39 272 _6_ 471 3RD SHOW F00-52 sumrna DESERT~ £= SANDS V Internal Communication Date /l)vf-S)>Jlf/ Nov• ,,/ij- To: VICE PRESIDENT. FOOD & BEVERAGE • From : MAITRE o· HOTEL Subject: SHOW COUNTS STARTING HOUSE COUNTS GU ESTS FRONTIER 1ST SHOW st.a- ' 2ND SHOW ~3{, dJ.- 171 3RD SHOW F00-52 . surrvna DESpRT ININ SAN DS ~S'o ,~s' .I. Internal Communication To: VICE PRESIDENT, FOOD & B EVERAGE • From: MAITRE D' HOTEL Sub1ect: SHOW COUNTS STARTING COUNTS 1ST SHOW vr 2NDSHOW a,e,) 3RD SHOW F00·52 HOUSE GUqTS d-: FRONTIER (17•9 191 surnrna DESERT INN In t ernal Communication Date: To: VICE PRESIDENT , FOOD & BEVERAGE From : MAITRE D' HOTEL Subject: SHOW COUNTS 1ST SHOW 2ND SHOW 3RD SHOW F00·52 STARTING COUNTS 316 HOUSE GUESTS ') - c- FRONTIER 2ct3 summa DESERT INN SANDS Internal Communication To: VICE PRESIDENT, FOOD & BEVERAGE f-rom MAITRE D' HOTEL SubJect SHOW COUNTS 1ST SHOW 2ND SHOW 3RD SHOW STARTING COUNTS 4$t tl-:Zf HOUSE GUESTS 'g° FRONTIER 372 PUBLICIT'7 NOV t. 5 1985 DESERT INN 6~ summa SANDS l'UBCICIT'? Internal Communication NOV2 5 1985 To VICE PRESIDENT , FOOD & BEVERAGE From MAITRE o· HOTEL Sub1ect SHOW COUNTS 1ST SHOW 2ND SHOW 3RD SHOW F00 ·52 STARTING COUNTS 7(,/. SIO HOUSE GUESTS FRONTIER ~79 DESERT INN 594 590 summa SANDS Internal Communication Date: To: VICE PRESIDENT , FOOD & BEVERAGE From: MAITRE D' HOTEL Subject: SHOW COUNTS 1ST SHOW 2ND SHOW 3RD SHOW F00- 52 STARTING COUNTS HOUSE GUESTS 3 FRONTIER t,,;2/ F>UBOCITY NOV 2 5 1985 DESERT INN 5da /So su,yna SANDS Internal Communication Date : To· VICE PRESIDENT , FOOD & BEVERAGE Fron : MAITRE D' HOTEL Subiect. SHOW COUNTS 1ST SHOW 2ND SHOW 3RD SHOW F00-52 STARTING COUNTS SI(:; Pt/~ HOUSE GUE STS FRONTIER Lf-8'( PUBLICITY NOV 2 6 1985 DESERT I~ t<QY SUTYna SANDS Internal Communication Date. To V ICE PRESIDENT , FOOD a BEVERAGE MAITRE o· HOTEL SubJeCt. SHOW COUNTS 1ST SHOW 2ND SHOW 3RD SHOW F00·52 STARTING COUNTS HOUSE GUESTS IO _jL_ FRONTIER surnrna DESERT INN SANDS Internal Communication SlM'lYn8 Date: w€ )>S . To VICE PRESIDENT , FOOD & BEVERAGE From MAITRE D ' HOTEL Sub 1ect : SHOW COUNTS START ING HOUSE COUNTS GUESTS FRONTIER DESERT•INN SANOS 1ST SHOW 37t/ It 3t::.L Sr& 3o~ A cf! 6~ 2ND SHOW 3RD SHOW /s, s~oc.d $€> Em(.lt-Q"le!T' FOC>e2 2Al!) ~l../6-~ ,;i_ E~f LovCe LAS VEGAS, NEVA D A 89 1 14 • TE L E PH O N E : (702)7 3 4-0 1 10 NOVEMBER 11, 1985 YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE OF CONWAY TWITTY AND DOTTIE WEST ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, AT 7 P.M. IN THE "BEYOND BELIEF" SHOWROOMO F THE FRONTIER HOTEL. PLEASE R.S . V.P. THE FRONTIER PUBLICITY OFF ICE (734 - 0385). THAN:.&.d.-...c='i--72,.-.,.-_,.._~ M SEAGRAVE DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS FRDITIER HOTEL AND CAS I NO LAS VFGA.'-. NFVADA 8911 4 • TELEPHONE · (702)734·0l10 November 5, 1985 Don Marcell KFM Radio 1555 E. Flamingo Las Vegas, NV 89109 Dear Don: Thank you for inviting the Frontier to participate with KFM in a Weekend Get-A-Way With Conway Twitty and Dottie West promotion. We will be pleased to work with you on this promotion. It is my understanding that in exchange for 130 on-air promotions from November 11 to November 22 the Frontier will provide the following: 1. Twelve pair of complimentary show reservations. 2. One complimentary room at the Frontier for two nights (Nov. 23 - 24). 3. One complimentary dinner for two in the Frontier Comstock restaurant. 4. One complimentary breakfast for two in the Comstock. 5. Limousine service to and from the Frontier for the grand prize winners. 6. One bottle of champagne in grand prize winner's room. At this time I cannot guarantee that the winners will be able to go backstage and meet Conway Twitty and Dottie West. I will need their cooperation for this. We will, however, make every effort to arrange this meeting. Please keep me posted as this promotion progresses. CfJa' Seagrave Director of Advertising and Public Relations JS:bb FRONTIER HOTEL AND CASINO r MEMO: TO: FROM: RE: 10/23/85 DON MARCELL DOUG SHANE CONWAY TWITTY & DOTTI E WEST CONWAYTW ITTY & DOTTIE WEST WILL BE AT THE FRONTIER NOV. 18-27 BELOW PLEASE FIND A SUGGESTIONF OR A CONTEST THAT WE COULofro ON KFM. • • TITLE: KFM/FRONTIERW EEKENDG ET-A-WAYW ITH CONWAYT WITTY & DOTTIE WEST PRE LINERS RUN: 11/11-11/17 TOTAL=lO DAILY TOTAL=lO DAILY TOTAL=lO SATURDAY GIVE A WAYS: GRANDD RAWING: 11/18-11/22 (TWO PER DAY) 11/22@ 5pm (ONE WINNER) GRAND TOTAL = 130 CONTEST: DAILY FROM 11/18-11/22 WE GIVE AWAY TOO PAIRS OF TICKETS TO SEE CONWAYA ND DOTTIE AT THE FRONTIER HOTEL FOR SATURDAYN ITE 11/23 •••• WE ALSO INCLUDE AN ALBUMP ACKAGEO F AN ALBUMF ROM EACH ARTIST •••• WE WILL GIVE THEM AWAYB Y TAKING THE "XX" CALLER TO WIN• •••• (TOTAL OF 10 WINNERSF OR TWO) ON FRIDAY 11/22 WE WILL HAVE THE GRANDP RIZE DRAWINGF OR ONE OF THE WINNERS TO GET THE GRANDP RIZE WHICH WOULDB E A NITE STAY AT THE FRONTIER HOTEL• • • WITH ROOM/DINNER/BREAKFASLTI/MO AND CASH FROM STATION (IF APPROVED) ' ON SATURDAYN ITE WHENA LL THESE WINNERS GO TO THE SHOWW E SHOULDS END A JOCK TO HOST ALL OF THEMA ND THEN WHENT HE SHOW IS OVER OUR JOCK WILL TAKE ALL 20 OF THEM BACK STAGE TO MEET EITHER CONWAYO R DOTTIE OR BOTH• • •• ITEMS NEEDED TO PULL THIS CONTEST OFF ••••• 12 PAIR OFSHOWR ESERVATIONSF OR SATURDAYN ITE 11/23 (THIS INCLUDES JOCK) ~- 1-ROOM AT THE FRONTIER FOR SATURDAY/SUNDAY J~- 1-DINNER/BREAKFASTA T HOTEL ( a·~( 1-LIMO RIDE TO AND FROM HOTEL FOR GRAND PRIZE WINNER v~s · 1-CASH SUPPLIMENT (IF APPROVED) V 10-ALBUMSO F CONWAY& DOTTIE (FROMA NDYC ARR) 1- BOTTLE OF CHAMPAIGNEIN ROOMF OR GRANDP RIZE WINNERU PON ARRIVAL THESE ITEMS SHOULDB E ARRANGEDA ND CONFIRMEDN O LATER THAN 11/4 IN ORDER TO GET THE CONTEST PUT TOGETHERA ND ON THE AIR BY 11/11. THANKSM UCH • LA S V E GA S, N E VADA 89114 • T E L E PHO NE Conway Twitty/Dottie West November 18, 1985 CONWAY TWITTY "Rocky Top" (instrumental) "Hello Darlin'" "Boogie Grass Band" "Don't Call Hirn A Cowboy" "Lost In The Feeling" "Slow Hand" "Blue Eyes And Jeans" "Tight Fitten' Jeans" "Fifteen Years Ago" I'd Love To Lay You Down" Joanie" I Don't Know A Thing About Love" (The Moon Song) The Rose" You've Never Been This Far Before" Don't Take It A Way" Why Me, Lord?" "It's Only Make Believe" The Twitty Birds Pork Chop Markham (drums) Mike Schrimpf (keyboards and background vocals) Charlie Archer (lead guitar) John Hughey (steel guitar) Gene Hughey (bass and background vocals) FH,,,O.. T ERL ANDU C A SIINTO IER ( 7 0 2 )7 34- 0 11 0 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89114 • TELEPHONE · (702)73 4 -0 ll0 "Nothin' Like A Woman" " Lesson In Leaving " "Country Sunshine" "We ' ve Got Tonight " "High Times " "Your Cheatin ' Heart" Pat s y Cline t r ibute " Orange Blossom Special" American Trilogy Tom Britt (gu i tar) Barry Walsh (piano) Steve Marshall (bass) Mark Edwards (drums) Ron Lavine (fiddle) Nanette Britt (vocalist) Steve Croson (vocalist) DOTTIE WEST FRDITIBR HOTEL AND CAS INO THER4D10 SYl'OIC~TION COMPANY December 17, 1985 Jim Seagraves FRONTIER HOTEL PUBLICITY OEC2 3 l9S5 3120 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 Dear Jim: I am writing this letter to acquaint you with THE RADIO SYNDICATION COMPANYan d our Las Vegas entertainment correspondent, Steve Miller. The Radio Syndication Company currently is producing "The Rock Files", a 52-hour radio special slated for national syndicated release on over 150 stations May 31, 1986. During the course of our production, we would like to call on you to set-up interviews with headline entertainers appearing at THE FRONTIER HOTEL that fit with our format of chronicling The History of Rock & Roll in the 1960 1 s. Many Las Vegas entertainers like Tom Jones, Diana Ross, Conway Twitty, Fats Domino, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Revere, and Bobby Vinton, just to name a few, have played a pivotal role in The History of Rock and Roll. We would appreciate your cooperation in producing this historical radio show by helping Steve set up the interviews when he calls you. Since these interviews are for national radio, we can do them almost anywhere, at almost anytime, with a small audio tape recorder and just one person present from our Company. Enclosed are our business cards. Please call if you have any questions. By the way. Steve 1 s Las Vegas numbers are: 702/362-0334 or 702/734-8236. !CATION COMPANY KA/bn cc: Lee Han sen Steve Miller FRONTHIOERT EL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702-734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR LAS VEGAS SUN ENTERTAINMENTS ECTION FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER2 2, OR SATURDAY,N OVEMBER2 3 At first Conway Twitty thought the new name they gave him was for the birds. But it was the first step in a career that's been anyth i ng but fly-by-night. Twitty, now appearing at the Frontier Hote l with Dottie West, became one of the country's f i rst rock 'n' rol l idols back in 1958 when ordinary names weren't good enough. Born Harold Lloyd Jenkins (named after the great silent star Harold Lloyd), Twitty grew up in Mississippi and Arkansas, loving country music and blues. But it was the exciting new sound of Elvis Presley that convinced him to pass up a career as a professional baseball player to pursue another kind of hit. A New York agent got his new name from a map -- Conway, Ark. and Twitty, Tex. It's a good bet that Twitty would have been a sensation no matter what they'd named him. "It's Only Make Believe," a song he wrote in one night, sold millions of records worldwide, becoming a No. 1 song in 22 countries and launching Twitty as a teen idol. There were surely pin-up posters, bad teen movies like "Sex Kittens Go to College" and "Platinum High School" and a string of hit records. Conrad Birdie, the teen idol in Broadway's "Bye Bye Birdie" was actually 1 2. based on Twitty. But soon he found himself longing for his country music roots. In 1960, at the height of his rock 'n' roll career, Twitty began writing country songs -- "Hello Darlin'" was one of them. But his management refused to let him record or perform them. Finally, in frustration, Twitty literally walked out on his career, right in the middle of a performance. "I got in my car and headed south," he recalled. "They all thought I was crazy." Crazy like a fox. By 1970 he had no trouble convincing anyone to let him record "Hello Darlin'." By then he was a major country star and "Hello Darlin'" became one of his biggest hits -- one of 50 No. 1 records he's had to date, more than any other singer in music history. "Hello Darlin'" recently became a part of world history. General Torn Stafford, an astronaut on the Apollo-Soyuz mission, requested "Hello Darlin'" be part of the cultural exchange between Russia and America when the two capsules joined in space. Twitty, thrilled and honored, hired a Russian professor to coach him and he recorded "Hello Darlin'" in Russian. As the world watched the lin~-up, "Hello Darlin'" was playing in the background. Country fans have long considered Twitty's duets with the Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn out of this world. Besides having several hits together, they have four times been named the Country Music Association's Vocal Duo of the Year. 3. Twitty has come to like his adopted name well enough to name his nine-acre tourist complex outside Hendersonville, Tennessee "Twitty City." It is the site of Twitty's baronial estate, restaurants, gift shops and an entertainment center telling Twitty's life story with music and visual displays. He often mingles with his fans, who he says "have made all this possible for me ." Twitty was given another name during his career -- this one by the Choctow nation, of which he is an honorary chief. It's not as catchy, but Twitty ' s very proud of it. It's Hatako-Chtokchito-A - Yakni-Toloa , which translates into "Great Man of Country Music." # # # # # At first Conway Twitty thou[h"t the new name they ga me him was for the birds . But it ~ was the first s1;ep in a career that ' s been anything but fly - by - night. ~witty , no~ appearing at the }rontier Hotel with Dottie ~est , oecame one of the country ' s first rock 'n ' roll idols back in 1958 -- when ordinary names weren't ~ood enough . Born Harold Lloyd JenKins (named after the great silent star Harold Lloyd) , '!'witty 6rew up in hiSS issippi and Arkansas, loving country music ano blues . But i"t was the exciting new sound of rlvis Presley that convinced him to pass up a career as a professional baseball player to pursue another kind of hit . A New York agent tot his new name from a map -- Conway , Ark . and Twitty , '.l'ex. It ' s a good bet that Twitty would have been a sensation no matter what they ' d named him . "It's Only .-1:ake .Believe," a song he wrote in one night , sold millions of records world~ide, oecoming a (o. 1 so.n.g . in 22 countries ana launching Twitty • ~ · as / teen idol . There were ~ pin - up posters , bad "teen movi es liKe "Sex Kittens Go to College 11 and 11Platinum •-Iigh School '1 and a string of hit records. Conrad ~irdie , the teen idol in "9roadway ' s "Bye Bye .tirdie" was actually based on Twitty. 2 3ut soon he found himself longing for his country music roots . In 1960 , at the height of his rock ' n' roll career , Twitty began writing country songs -- 11Hello Darlin 111 was one of them . But his management refusea to let ~ im record or perform them . rinally , in ~ frustration , Twitty literally walked out on his career , right in the middle of a performance . 11! got in my car and headed south , 11 he recallea . 11They all thought I was crazy . ' Crazy like a fox . By 1970 he had no trouble convin Ci.ng anyone to let him record 11nello Darlin 1 • 11 y then he was a major country star and "Hello Darlin'" became one of his biggest hits ;:__:o_n e _of 50 ;~o. 1 rE:cords he's had to date _, -1-han •"'f •-lraeY S, "1•r 11'\ W'-.-.sc, . h; s-tor~ • • 11He'1.lo Darlin 1 1Jrecently became a part of worla history . General "'om Stafford, an astronaut the Apollo - ::ioyuz mission , re\J.uested "Hello .1.arlin 1 11 be part of the cultural exchanfe bet ween Pussia an f merica when the two capsules joined in space. 'i.wi tty , thrilled and honored , hired a 1,ussian profest>or h,e_ to coach him a,1dA rec orded 11Hello Darlin ' 11 in Pussian . As the world watched the link - up , "Hello Darlin' 11 was playing in • the background . Country fans have lont considered ~witty's duets with the noal Miner ' s Daughter Loretta Lynn out of this world . ?esides having several hits tot,ether , they have four times been named the Jountry Music ~ssociation's Vocal Luo of the tear . 3 Twitty has come to like his adopted name well enoueh to name his nine - acre tourist complex outside Iendersonville , fTlenn. ""witty 'ity . 11 It is the site of Twitty ' s baronial ~state ,._ restaurants , 6 ift shops and an entertainment center telling fwitty ' s life story witn music and visual displays . He often mi ngles with nis fans , .tho ne says "have made all "this possible for me . 1 'T'wi tty was given another name d..lring nis career -- thi.:, one by tn , Jhoctow nation 1 of which ne is an nonorary chief . It ' s not as catchy , but 1witty's very proud of it. It ' s Hatako - Chtokchito - A- Yakni - loloa , which translhte~ into "Great , an of Oountry 1•.usic . ' - 39- ay morning to Dick Maurice FOR LAS VEGAS SUN X ENTERTAINMENT SECTION FG~ RELEASE FRIDAY, NOV. 22 , OR SATURDAY, NOV. 23 FRONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA • 702-734-0385 A dver ti sing and Public Relations FOR LAS VEGAS SUN SHOWBIZ - FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, NOV. 10 Six of the most successful performers in country music will appear at the Frontier Hotel during the annual winter vacation of the resort ' s year ' round shoroom stars , Siegfried & Roy . The famed "S uperstars of Magic" and the cast and company of their award - winning show "Beyond Belief" will take a six - week hiatus starting November 18. They will return to the Frontier December 27 for another extended engagement . In the interim, the Frontier will feature the following lineup of showroom entertainment : Conway Twitty and Dottie West, November 18 - 27; Roy Clark and Brenda Lee, November 28 - December 4; Lee Greenwood and Sylv i a, December 5- 18 . Following the latter engagement, the Frontier will move from country to pop to present the Righteous Brothers December 19-25. This show will mark the reunion of the original duo , Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield . Comedian Jackie Gayle will co - star. Showcasing the leading lights of country music is nothing new to the Frontier. Prior to signing Siegfried & Roy in "Beyond Belief " as a long - running attraction four years ago, the hotel was known as the "home " of country music on the Las Vegas Strip. Throughout the 1970s and into the early ' 80s the Frontier presented a "Who ' s Who" in country entertainment that included headliners like 2. Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Minnie Pearl, Ray Stevens, Glen Campbell, Donna Fargo, Mel Tillis and Tammy Wynette. During Siegfried & Roy's semi-annual vacations over the past four years the hotel has filled in with stellar country singers like Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Roger Miller, the Oak Ridge Boys, Kris Kristofferson, Lynn Anderson, George Strait, Moe Bandy, Freddie Fender, Johnnie Lee, Tanya Tucker and Shelly West. Twitty will be making his first appearance at the Frontier. A prolific recording artist in the pop and country fields since 1958, he holds the distinction of being the only American singer with fifty No. 1 hit records. No. SO, "Don't Call Him A Cowboy," reached the top of the charts last June, 27 years after his first hit, "It's Only Make Believe." He also recorded a series of hit records with Loretta Lynn. They were named the Country Music Association's Duet of the Year four years in a row and won a Grammy in 1971. In West, Twitty has a co - star with credentials as glittering as his own. Perhaps best known for her five hit singles with Kenny Rogers, she has long been respected in country music circles as an innovative songwriter and all-around performer. The composer of more than 400 published songs, she became the first female country artist ever to win a Grammy when her song "Here Comes My Baby" won the award in 1964. West is also credited with leading female country singers out of the "gingham dress" era by introducing a spectacular wardrobe that enhanced her natural beauty and sex appeal. 3. Clark was a Frontier mainstay for more than a decade and has continued to star at the hotel during the "Beyond Belief" vacation periods . An exceptionally versatile performer, he stands as one of the most honored country stars of all time. He has been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. An accomplished guitar, bass , banjo and fiddle player, he has been honored for his musicianship by the CMA, ACM, Guitar Player Magazine and Playboy . The ACM also voted him Comedy Act of the Year. Brenda Lee's career parallels Twitty's in that they were both raised on country music, but gained initial fame on the pop charts. Since her first hit at the age of ten, her world - wide record sales have exceeded the 100 million mark. Last year she was honored in Nashville with the coveted National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences' Governor's Award. Greenwood and Sylvia were signed by the Frontier to lure the large crowds expected for National Finals Rodeo, which take place in Las Vegas December 7-15 . "There will be thousands of country music fans in town at that time," said Frontier Entertainment Director Curt Thompson , "and we want to offer them the best . Lee was named Male Vocalist of the Year on the Music City News Awards and Sylvia is one of the hottest recording stars around. " Thompson added that the Frontier will present Ricky & The Redstreaks in the lounge during NFR, describing the group as the " the No. 1 act on the rodeo circuit." # # # # # FRONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702-734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR LAS VEGAS SUN ENTERTAINMENT SECTION FOR RELEASE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Conway Twitty and Dottie West open a 10-day engagement tonight in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. Country superstars, Twitty and West have both had success with pop audiences -- but at opposite times in their careers. Twitty, one of America's first rock 'n roll idols, switched to country music during the mid-1960s and insists he'll never try to "cross over" to pop again. west, on the other hand, was strictly a country artist until her sometimes singing partner Kenny Rogers intorduced her to appreciative pop audiences during the late 197Os. Twitty recently made music history with his 50th #1 record, "Don't Call Hirn a Cowboy." No other artist in any field of music has come even close to that achievement. But in 1958 Twitty's first #1 record, "It's Only Make Believe," was a rock 'n roll ballad. It was a #1 record in 22 countries and established Twitty as one of the hottest teen idols around. He had a steady string of hit records and appeared in teen-angled movies like "Six Kittens Go to College" and "Platinum High School." Conrad Birdie, the rock idol in Broadway's "Bye Bye Birdie" was actually molded after Twitty, as well as Elvis. 2. But Twitty, · who was raised in Mississippi loving country music and blues, grew disenchanted with rock 'n roll. When his agents refused to let him try singing country, he walked out of a rock 'n roll show in 1965. r laid my guitar down and I walked out the door," he said. "I got in my car and headed south. I never went back." One of the most popular country singers of all time, Twitty and his frequent singing partner Loretta Lynn are considerd "country purists." "Th e difference is the fans," said Twitty. "Kids are fickle. They're growing up and thier tastes are changing -- that's the way it should be too. "But country music fans are mostly adults, though we're getting more young people in our shows ·all the time. Country music fans are loyal. It's like I have a million real friends." Like Twitty, Dottie West has been a star for more than 20 years. But for the first 15 or so of those years she was strictly a country artist. When she teamed up with country-pop superstar Kenny Rogers during the late 1970s, she suddenly found herself with a whole new audience. "I would like to be a pop-country entertainer," West admitted, "but r never want to forget I am a country artist." 3. West got her start in Nashville back in 1963 when country great Jim Reeves recorded one of the songs she'd written. Friends with Wil~ie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Hank Cochran and Roger Miller, West says she learned to write from watching her friends at work at their music in her house. In 1964, she recorded one of her own songs, "Here Comes My Baby." It became a big hit and won West the first Grammy ever given to a female country artist. A steady country hit-maker, West then began writing jingles for Coca-Cola. One of those jingles, "I was raised on country sunshine," became so popular with the public that West was urged to write and record a whole song. "Country Sunshine" was a giant hit. That was the first exposure West had to non-country audiences. Her famous duets with Kenny Rogers made her well known across the country. "I feel like I'm just beginning," West said, adding she thinks it's as much a case of pop fans "crossing over" to country as it is country artists "crossing over" to pop. "I think they were looking for something else and I'm so happy they like country." # # # # # FRONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702 -734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR RELEASE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 FRONTIER STARS -- Country music stars Conway Twitty and Dottie West tonight open a ten-day engagement at the Frontier Hotel. Siegfried & Roy in "Beyond Belief," _the Frontier's regular showroom attraction, is taking its annual winter hiatus and will return December 27. ~S VBG.\3~u'~ "9pening Day Conway Twitty and Dottie lest openRg a± 10 - day engagement tonight in the/main showroom of the .E'rontier Hotel. Country superstars ~ lwitty and ~ test~ ) have both had success fMttMw{ ith pop audiences but at opposite times in tneir careers . Twitty , one of America's first rock 'n ' roll idols, switched to coun~ry music d~ring the mi d- 1960s and insists he ' ll never try to "cross over" to pop again . lest , on the other hand, was strictly a country artist until her sometimes singing partner Kenny Rogers introduced her to appreciative pop audiences during tne late 1970s . Twitty recently made music history dith his 50th #1 record , "Don ' t CallM tlim a Cowboy. " No other artist in any ~ field of music has come even close to that achievement. \M, 1158' But Twitty' s first #1 record, "It's Only ake Believe , 11 was a roe~ ' n ' roll ballad . It was a #1 record in 22 countries and established 1witty as one of the hottest teen idols around . l{e had a steady string, of hit records a rid appeared in teen - angled movies like • "Sex Kittens uo to College" and "Platinum High School . " Conrad ..:3irdie , the rock idol in .rlroadway ' s "bye r3ye 1irdie" ._ was actually moldec after Twitty , as well as lvis . But Twitty , who was raised in fvi1ssissippi loving country music and blues , grew disenchanted with rock ' n ' roll . dhen his agents refused to let him try s i nging country , he walked out of a :& rock ' n ' roll show in 1965 . 2 "I laid my gu i tar aown and I walked out the door , " he said . "I got in my car ana neaded south . I never went back . 11 One of the most • popular country sin 0 ers of all time , Twitty anctfis freQuent sineing partner Loretta Djtth are considered "country pur i sts . 11 "The di ff erence is the fans , " said 1L'wit ty. ''Kids are f i ckle . They ' re growin~ up and their tastes are changing -- that ' s the way it should be too . "J.,lt country music fans are mostly adults , though we' re getting more young people in our shows all the time . Country music fans are loyal . It ' s like ,aiKI have a million real friends . " Like rwitty , Dottie rest has been a star for ~ore than 20 years . But for the first 15 or so of those years she was strictly a country artist . ~hen she teamed up with country - pop superstar Kenny \oeers durint the late 1970s , she sudde ~ y found herself with a whole new audience . "I would like to be a pop - country entertainer , " vlest admi tted , 11bu -r; I never want to forget I am a country artist." vest got her start in Nashville back in 1963 when country great Jim Reeves recorded one of the songs she ' d written . W riends with /illie ~e l son, Kris Kristofferson , Hank Cochran andj Roger I-filler , .lest says she learned to write from watching her friends at work at their music in her house . In 1964 , she recorded one of her own songs , "Here Comes J'•Y Baby." It became a big hit and won 1!est the first Grammy ever given to a female country artist . 3 A steady ~ country hit - man:er , /est th ttn began writing jingles for Coca - Cola . One of those jingles , 11 I was raised on country sunshin:, 1 ' became so popular with the public that ,rest was urged to write and record a whole song. "Country Sunshine" was a giant hit . That was the first exposure ~est had to non-country aus ie nces. rler famous duets with Kenny Fo[ers made her well known r * across the country . 1·1 feel like I'm just betinnin 6 , 11 ~est said , a6ding she thinks i t ' s as much a case of pop fans trcrossing over" to country • as it is country artists "crossing overl! to pop . 111 think they were loorl:ing for something else and I'm so happy they like country . " eliver to dick Maurice today FOR RELEASE MONDAY, NOV. 18 FRONTIER STARS - - Country music stars Conway Twitty and Dottie West tonight open a ten-day engagement -4al J the Frontier Hotel . Siegfried & Roy in " Beyond Belief, " the Frontier ' s regular showroom attraction, I is takinfits annual winter hiatus and will return Dec. 27. FitONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702-734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STARRING AT FRONTIER -- Country music superstars Conway Twitty and Dottie West are now appearing in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. The engagement starts a month-long country music cavalcade at the Frontier. Roy Clark and Brenda Lee open Nov. 28 Lee Greenwood and Sylvia follow on Dec . 5 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STARRING AT FRONTIER -- Country music superstars Conway Twitty and Dottie West are now appearing in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. The engagement starts a month-long country music cavalcade at the Frontier. Roy Clark and Brenda Lee open Nov. 28 Lee Greenwood and Sylvia follow on Dec . 5 FRONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702 -734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Country music stars Conway Twitty and Dottie West ar e appearing through November 27 in the main shoroom of the Frontier Hotel. Twitty, who has had more No. 1 records than any other performer in music history, recently had his 50th with "Don't Call Him a Cowboy." His first hit, "It's Only Make Believe," came 27 years ago when Twitty was a teenage rock 'n roll idol. (Conrad Birdie, the rock 'n roll character in "Bye Bye Birdie" was model e d after Twitty.) But Twitty was raised in Mississippi and Arkansas, where he learned the blues from a black neighbor and country music from the Grand Old Opry. Eventually, he began to reach back toward his country roots. As early as 1960 he b e gan writing pur e ly country songs, but his management refused to let him perform them. So in 1.an emotional d e cision, Twitty walked out of a succ e ssful rock 'n roll tour in 1965. "Everybody thought I was crazy," Twitty said. Bue wi thin five years, Twitty was a major country star with s u ch hits as "Hello Darlin'," "Linda On My Mind," "I've Alr e ady Lov e d You In My Mind," "You've Never Been This Far Before," and "I'de Love to Lay You Down." 2 . Besides having great success as a solo artist, Twitty and the Coal Miner ' s Daughter Loretta Lynn are considered the most popular country duo of all time. Four years in a row they won the prestigious Country Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year award. It was her duo work with Kenny Rogers that finally brought Dottie West to the attention of the general public , after 15 years as a country star . Born on a poor farm south of Nashville, West was the oldest of 10 children . After working her way through college , she married steel guitar player Bill West. While raising a family, West started to write songs around the house . Many of Nashville's new songwriters started to hang around the West house - - Willie Nelson , Kris Kristofferson , Roger Miller, Hank Cochran. " Little did they know that I was picking their brains and learning how to write songs," West said. The late country great Jim Reeves had a hit with West ' s first songwriting effort in 1963. The following year, she had one herself, " Here Comes My Baby." It earned her the first Grammy ever awarded to a female country artist . West's collaboration with Kenny Rogers came about by accident . " I've known Kenny ever since 1966," she said . "He's eaten a lot of my turnip greens and black - eyed peas. But when I saw him in the studio I just blurted out, ' I'd sure like to sing with you. ' He came over to the microphone and we did the first song in three takes." 3. The song was "Every Time Two Fools Collide." It became a smash hit and led to a series of hit singles, albums and a highly successful nationwide tour together. "I just love Kenny Roger," West said. work with." "He's such a pleasure to After starring in the national touring company of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," West is looking forward this year to her first starring role on Broadway. She is also starring in a movie, "Aurora," about extra-terrestrials in Texas. What else does the future hold for the "Country Sunshine" girl? "I want to be a strong headliner," she said. "I still haven't written the best song I think I can write. I want to be an actress. And why not wish for an Oscar? Anything I do, being a mother or in my career, I want to be number one in it." # # # # # FRONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702-734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR LAS VEGAS SUN SHOWBIZ - FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Conway Twitty and Dottie West, currently co-starring at the Frontier Hotel, have been part of two of the most successful duos in country music history -- Twitty with Loretta Lynn and West with Kenny Rogers. Both stars know all too well the kind of conclusions people can jump to about singing partners. For years there's been a persistant rumor that Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty are in love with each other, in spite of their long marriages to other people. When Twitty's 17-year marriage broke up in 1973 (they remarried a year later) an irate fan blamed Lynn and threatened to set off a bomb at one of her concerts. "They cleared out the place and didn't find the bomb so they let the show go on," Lynn recalled. know." "How I got through that show I'll never Lynn and -Twitty first sang together for fun in 1969 when they were both part of a country music package touring Europe. "I learned she had been a Conway Twitty fan since 1958 and I let her know I was a big Loretta Lynn fan," said Twitty. 2. They decided to record only one album a year so their solo careers wouldn't be hurt. Even with such limited recording together, they had an incredible series of hits and won the Country Music Association's Duo of the Year award four times in a row. "Loretta and I are just super-good friends," Twitty said. "She's one of the best friends I've got in this business. But there's nothing like that ever gone on between us." Of course Twitty's songs have sometimes fueled the rumors. For instance, there's "You've Never Been This Far Before," a giant hit that was considered quite scandalous in 1973. "The song is about a married woman," he explained. "You've admired her for years, but she's married to someone else. All of a sudden, the deal's over between them and you can be together. You know how she feels; she's nervous. She's never been outside the boundaries of her marriage before. The line about 'forbidden places' is the tenderest line of all, because just holding her hand is a forbidden thing." Twitty refuses to say whether he's lived all his songs or if, in the words of his first and biggest hit, "It's Only Make Believe." Dottie West had to deal with rumors that Kenny Rogers' wife Marianne was jealous of her. The rumors started when Mrs. Rogers pushed West's face into her own birthday cake. "When they brought out the cake, Marianne came over to me and said, 'That cake looks a little funny to me. Maybe you should smell it.' Well she's so sweet and innocent, I naturally believed her. But when I leaned over to smell the cake, she pushed my face into it. 3. "I loved it -- it was all in fun, just grown-up kids having a ball. A lot of fools, however, thought Marianne and me really had a brawl going." West and Rogers had been friends for more than 10 years when a quirk of fate led to their famous partnership. When Rogers showed up early for a recording session to hear West work on her new album, she asked him to join her on "Every Time Two Fools Collide." It had already been recorded in West's key and way way too high for Rogers, but he pulled it off. The single was a giant hit and led to an impressive series of hit albums, hit singles and a highly successful national tour together. "I love Kenny Rogers," West said, crediting him with boosting her career. Until they teamed up, the only pop music she'd ever sung was soda pop music -- her famous "I was raised on country sunshine" Coca-Cola jingle. # # # # # FRONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702 -734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR LAS VEGAS SUN SHOWBIZ - FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Conway Twitty and Dottie West, currently co-starring at the Frontier Hotel, have been part of two of the most successful duos in country music history -- Twitty with Loretta Lynn and West with Kenny Rogers. Both stars know all too well the kind of conclusions people can jump to about singing partners. For years there's been a persistant rumor that Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty are in love with each other, in spite of their long -- -- ~arr±ages-to-other-peopi~. --------- ------- - -- - ------ When Twitty's 17-year marriage broke up in 1973 (they remarried a year later) an irate fan blamed Lynn and threatened to set off a bomb at one of her concerts. "They cleared out the place and didn't find the bomb so they let the show go on," Lynn recalled. "How I got through that show I'll never know." Lynn and Twitty first sang together for fun in 1969 when they were both part of a country music package touring Europe. "I learned she had been a Conway Twitty fan since 1958 and I let her know I was a big Loretta Lynn fan," said Twitty. 2. They decided to record only one album a year so their solo careers wouldn ' t be hurt . Even with such limited recording together , they had an incredible series of hits and won the Country Music Association ' s Duo of the Year award four times in a row. " Loretta and I are just super-good friends ," Twitty said. "She's one of the best friends I've got in this business. But there's nothing like that ever gone on between us." Of course Twitty ' s songs have sometimes fueled the rumors . For instance, there ' s " You ' ve Never Been This Far Before ," a giant hit that was considered quite scandalous in 1973. " The song is about a married woman ," he explained. "You've admired her for years , but she's married to someone else. All of a sudden, the deal's over between them and you can be together. You know how she feels; she ' s nervous . She's never been outside the boundaries of her marriage before . The line about 'forbidden places ' is the tenderest line of all, because just holding her hand is a forbidden thing." Twitty refuses to say whether he's lived all his songs or if, in the words of his first and biggest hit, "It's Only Make Believe ." Dottie West had to deal with rumors that Kenny Rogers' wife Marianne was jealous of her. The rumors started when Mrs. Rogers pushed West ' s face into her own birthday cake. "When they brought out the cake, Marianne came over to me and said , 'That cake looks a little funny to me. Maybe you should smell it. ' Well she's so sweet and innocent, I naturally believed her. But when I leaned over to smell the cake, she pushed my face into it. 3. "I loved it -- it was all in fun, just grown-up kids having a ball. A lot of fools, however, thought Marianne and me really had a brawl going." West and Rogers had been friends for more than 10 years when a quirk of fate led to their famous partnership. When Rogers showed up early for a recording session to hear West work on her new album, she asked him to join her on "Every Time Two Fools Collide." It had already been recorded in West's key and way way too high for Rogers, but he pulled it off. The single was a giant hit and led to an impressive series of hit albums, hit singles and a highly successful national tour together. "I love Kenny Rogers," West said, crediting him with boosting her career. Until they teamed up, the only pop music she'd ever sung was soda pop music -- her famous "I was raised on country sunshine" Coca-Cola jingle. # # # # # please retype and deliver to Gary Greco Wednesday morning FOR LAS VEGAS SUN SHOWBIZ - FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, NOV. 24 FRONTHIEORT EL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702 -734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Six of the most successful performers in country music will appear at t he Frontier Hotel during the annual winter vacation of the resor t 's year 'round showroom stars, Siegfried & Roy. The famed "Superstars of Magic" and the cast and company of their award-winning show " Beyond Belief" will perform at the Fronti e r through Sunday, then take a six - week hiatus. They will return to the Frontier December 27 for another extended engagement. In the interim, the Fr ontier will feature the following lin e up of showroom entertainment: Conway Twitty and Dotti e West, Nov. 18-27; Roy Clark and Brenda Lee, Nov. 28-Dec. 4; Lee Gre e nwood and Sylvia, Dec. 5 - 18. Fo l lowing the latter engagement, the Frontier will move from country to pop to present t he Ri ghteous Brothers Dec. 19-25. This show will mark the reunion of the original duo, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. Comedian Jackie Gayle will co - star. Twitty and West, who open a ten-day engagement on Monday, are two of country music's most consistent record sellers. Twitty is the only singer in the history of country music to record fifty No. 1 hit records. The first came in 1958 with his original composition "It's Only Make Believe." He hit th e fifty mark last June with "Don't Call Him A Cowboy." 2. He also recorded a series of hit records with Loretta Lynn . They were named the Country Music Association's Duet of the Year four years in a row and won a Granuny in 1971 . In West, TWitty has a co-star with credentials as glittering as his own . Perhaps best known for her five hit singles with Kenny Rogers, she has long been respected in country music circles as an innovative song - writer and all-around performer. The composer of more than 400 published songs , she became the first female country artist ever to win a Granuny when her song "Here Comes My Baby" won the award in 1964 . West is also credited with leading female country singers out of the 'gingham dress' era by introducing a spectacular wardrobe that enhanced her natural beauty and sex appeal . # # # # # FltONTIER HOTEL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702-734-0385 A dvertising and Public Relations FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 OPENING AT FRONTIER -- Conway Twitty and Dottie West, two of country music's biggest selling recording artists, Monday op e n a ten-day engagement in the main showroom of the Frontier Hotel. Siegfried & Roy in "Beyond Belief," the Frontier's regular showroom attraction, will appear through Sunday, then will take their annual winter hiatus. I II~ I ....______. FRONTHIOERT EL LAS VEGAS, NEVADA•702-734-0385 Advertising and Public Relations FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 You've all heard of Dollywood, but how about Twitty City? Dolly Parton attracted a lot of attention with the opening of her amusement center near Nashville, but she'll have to go some to equal Conway Twity's nine acre tourist complex in Henderson, Tennessee. Twitty, who opens a ten - day stand at the Frontier Hotel on Monday, is the squire of this sprawling colonial - style spread that has become one of the hottest visitor attractions in the Music City area. Conway built Twitty City with bucks made by selling untold millions of records, including fifty No. 1 country hits. He lives on the grounds in a mansion that Scarlett O ' Hara would have been proud of. During the holiday season he converts the entire layout into a Christmas fantasyland, with 250,000 twinkling lights and 40 special exhibits. When it gets cold enough, he turns on his snow guns and fills up Twitty City with the fluffy stuff . Top that, Dolly. Luscious Dottie West co-headlines with Twitty for this Vegasdate. Vacationing Frontier superstars Siegfried & Roy , who close tonight, will be back for more " Beyond Belief" wizardry on December 27. # # # # # deliver Wednesday to Forrest Duke FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, NOV. 17 You've all heard of Dollywood, but how about Twitty City? Dolly Parton attracted a lot of attention with the opening of her amusement center near Nashville, but she'll have to go some to equal Conway Twitty's nine acre tourist complex in Henderson, Tennessee. Twitty, who opens a ten-day stand at the Frontier Hotel on Monday, is the squire of this sprawling colonial-style spread that has become one of the hottest visitor attractions in the Music City area. Conway built Twitty City with bucks made by selling untold millions of records, including fifty No . 1 country hits. He lives on the grounds in a mansion that Scarlett O'Hara would have been proud of. During the holiday season he converts the entire layout into a Christmas fantasyland, with 250,000 twinkling lights and 40 special exhibits. When it gets cold he turns on his snow guns and fills up Twitty City Top that, Dolly . enough, ~"'-(., r n with1'_ +1\.\ T't-/ Luscious Dottie West co-headlines with Twitty for this Vegasdate . Vacationing •-:i'8'"-~ Frontier superstars Siegfried & Roy, who close tonight, will be back for more "Beyond Belief" wizardry on Dec. 2 7. OPENING NOV. 28 • ROY CLARK AND BRENDA LEE ~-- ---- WATCH MONDNAIYG HFTO OJBALL On Giant-Screen TV in the Wild Horse Lounge r------------... ! FREE ! 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TV TRIVIA O 93 D A brand new celebrity• packed edition of TV lnvia. COMING ATTRACTIONS D 91 C What's hot on cable television . CREDITS: Publlaher: Brian Greenspun, Editor and CreatJve Director: Dick Maurice, Managing Editor: Gary Greco, General Manager: Larry Hall . Bualn- Manager: Sylvia Fie 'd , Advertising Director: Fred Brooks. Production: Ampress Printing Staff. T 1985 Dick Maurice Enterprises, Inc. c 1985, Las Vegas Sun, Inc. 1985 c. Ad'lertlsinglnquiries (702) 383-7252, NOVEMBER 17-NOVEMBER 23, 1985/SHOWBIZ 5 - OPENING NOV. 28 • ,--------------, I I I WITH I : 5495PRIMER IB : : DINNER: II · Presenl this coupon when ordering YQUrp rime rib din- I I nor in the Comstock Restaurant for a complimel\tary I slice of homemade strawberry cheesecake. 1 . fKONTlffl'fML1: '1T L----------------' I ] I HAVYEO UPRH OTTOA KEN I I • I I : 10AM-6PM I ' OVERNIGCHOTL OPRR INSTE RVIC: E 'I One per customer. Present this couoon at the photo I booth in the Frontier casino. 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"GENERIC/w/Greenwood & Sylvia.Dec. 5 thru Dec. 18 Instructions: If "Generic" ad material is ordered for on-air please select "Generic" ad material cut# coinciding with date on right to match date on-air. Cut # 4 ........ "$20 RmRt w /Twitty /West. ...... Nov. 18 thru Nov. 27 Cut# 5 ........ "$20 RmRt w/Clark/Lee ..... .... Nov. 28 thru Dec. 4 Cut# 6 ........ "$20 RmRt w/Greenwood/Sylvia .. Dec. 5 thru Dec. 18 Instructions: If "$20 RmRt" ad material is ordered for on-air, please select "$20 RmRt" ad material cut number coinciding with date on right to match date on-air. Cut# 7 ........ "$30.00 Room Rate" w/Roy Clark/Brenda Lee ....... Nov. 28 thru Dec 4 Cut # 8 ........ "$30. 00 Room Rate" w/Greenwood/Sylvia ........... Dec. 5 thru Dec. 18 Instructions: This $30.00 material may not be used at all, but has been prepared for use if necessary. Please select correct cut to match dates on right with on-air, if $30.00 Room Rate is ordered. Fr-01-F(i€r__ Hv+ I I 1-t~-~_s__,, S7ot.S -,I/ ,,e/ JS, r.s '/II /j._.5 Ct.4T 'II I - Gt'J'l('l'i~ - T~;tfy /west - AJov. 1 g-_ z 7 CCA.T:11 1- G~n~ic- cla.yu/l~~ - A,hu. ?.f-('}«:.'f CI.A,f-#-3 - Gene~ic... - Gt'etrt~!',lv,o. - Dec. ~-18 C(A..r # '-/- J zc /?~ft! - Twirl; /we.sf - Nov-1K-2 7 (p_vlJT7€tZ jU-J < Cur #5- c~r 146- (c.<T :tf-1 - CL,(, # Ys.;: poTS it/-~-? 1/-1~-rss ./<lO ,_-f. - cla. ,k/1..t-c - N,, .... ~!-z.1 .tz.o o:,f~-G,~c"~1/ryfv~ - 1/J; )-/g { 3or .. fc. - cJ.o..,.k/lr• - IJ,.,_a.,--~ .t la ""' 'h- c,,.~"i.M•'/s.,tt,ft, - 0r~. s-,~ Artwork for Las Vegas Today cover CONWAY TWITTY DOTTIE WEST Both artists are 100 % Conway Twitty must be to the left if artists are placed side by side Conway Twitty must be on top if names are stacked For this ad, first and last names do NOT have to be on the same line Need material by Wednesday, Nov. 13 Las Vegas Today wmll separate LEONARD MENDELSON, ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER PUBLICITY DEC 16 1985 December 11, 1985 Dear Billie : Thank you for the hospitality during the time I visited The Frontier for the Lee Greenwood Show. Your people in the hotel were great and I think that I will be coming back soon. Enclosed are several issues of COUNTRY MUSIC and also, our Country Music Fact Book that may be helpful to you in your contacts with the artists and managers. Over the years, I have met a lot of the stars and they are really nice to work with and they do love our magazine. Circulation is now well over 400,000 subscribers , and our readership, with passalong, is over 1,200,000. Only 3.9% of our readers tell us that they "discard the magazine~ when through with it and the rest "either keep it forever or give it to a friend or relative." In March, I have an 8-page truck insert, plus we have carried Wrangler, Nissan, Jim Beam, Seagrams and a host of other top advertisers. One reason our ads are down now, is the fact that late in 1981, we were acquired by another publisher, circulation then was over 525,000 paid subscriptions, and in early 1982, due to "contractual matters," the publication stopped printing. Russ Barnard, one of the original founders, regained control in May of 1983, I also was one of the original people on the magazine, we started in 1972, and within a year, Russ had the circulation up over the 350,000 mark. Merle Haggard is advertising his Silverthorn Resort with us and tells me that they are pulling lots of calls, and bookings . I will be with Merle at his Bass Fishing Tournament in a month or so. wishes , Leonard L/m enc, COUNTRY MUSIC MAGAZINE 12077 WILSHIRE BLVD., SUITE 762 WEST LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90025 TELEPHONE (213) 207-4948 Published bi-monthly. On Sale third week of the month preceding cover date. Closing: last Friday of thi~d month before cover date. No cancellation after closing date. If color separations are not provided, add four weeks to closing schedule. Separations billed at cost plus 15%. Layout, typesetting, design and all artwork are billed at cost plus 15%. Negatives (right reading, emulsion side down) Scotchprints, Aepro Proofs, Mechanicals • I fl Printing: Binding: Web offset Saddle wire If submitted material is not correctly sized, it will be altered to fit at the discretion of the publisher, and billed to the advertiser. Any advertisement which simulates the editoria\ appearance of the magazine may be rejected by the publisher. The publisher is not responsible for errors in key numbers. Liability for contents of advertisements printed {text and visuals), as well as liability for any claims arising therefrom made against Country Music Magazine, is assumed entirely by advertisers and advertising agencies. It is presumed that advertisers have read this rate card and agree to its condition.s without any further notice. Cover Space Advertising On Sale Date Closing Material Jan./Feb. '85 11/12 11/26 Mar.I April May/June July/Aug. Sept./Oct. Nov./Dec. 1/10 1/24 3/13 3/27 5/ 16 5/30 7/16 7/30 9/13 9/27 @JNL~ MAGAZINE 450 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10016 (212) 889-4600 Publisher Russell 0. Barnard Vice President,M arketing Leonard Mendelson Classified Advertising Annemarie Colbert AdvertisingO ffices West Coast Leonard Mendelson 12077 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 762 West Los Angeles, California 90025 (213) 207-4948 Ohio/Michigan Pete Kelly Peter Kelly Associates 725 S. Adams Road Birmingham, Michigan 48011 (313) 642-1228 Date 12/26 2/26 4/30 6/25 8/27 10/29 TRYftlUS . Rate Card # 13 Effective Jan./Feb. '85 Issue Rate Base: 350,000 Published ty Silver Eagle Publishers 450 Park Avenue South New York, N.Y. 10016 (212) 889-4600 GENERAL ADVERTISING . ·, -.~( ;,;·.·:' - .• . j . -~ • • ; : •.·:' ·f .'\-- •• •, . .. . ~- '. j_ .• - •, · ,,. Size 1 time 3 times 6times 12times Size 1 time 3 times 6times 12 times Size 1 time 3 times 6 times 12 times Full 5920 5499 5325 5033 Full 6755 6281 6080 5739 Full 7702 7165 6932 6548 Page Page . Page 2/3 4245 3948 3695 3608 2/3 5020 4667 4516 4266 2/3 5730 5330 5158 4869 Page Page Page 1/2 3551 3302 3195 3017 1/2 Page Page 4254 3956 3827 3612 P1/a2g e 4848 4507 4366 4120 1/3 2790 2595 2510 2372 1/3 3422 3181 3083 2910 1/3 3896 3625 3508 3315 Page Page Page 1/6 1438 1338 1291 1222 Inside Page Open Rate $.210 per column inch. Front 8293 7711 7466 7048 Cover Bleed Ch 5% nlsslons and Disco f Inside 15% commission to accredited advertising Back 8293 7711 7466 7048 l COUNTRY MUSIC Magazine is edited for agencies Cover 2% cash discount if paid within 10 days of ., enthusiasts who have a wide, general interest in the field of country music, especially as it invoice date. Back 8887 8262 7995 7552 Cover relates to the professional and personal lives of Tc t 30 days. the performers. Me lequirements: Each issue of COUNTRY MUSIC Magazine Full Page 7" wide x 97/4"h igh carries interviews with major recording artists, 2/3 Page 4% wide x 97,-ii" high 1/2 Page 7" wide x 415/16'' high features stories relevant to the life-styles of both 1/3 Page 2¼" wide x 9W' high the performers and the magazine's re!3ders. 1/3 Page (square) 4%" wide x 415/,5" high News about the music business, record 1/6 Page 2¼" wide X 415M' high Rate Base: 350,000 reviews, movie reviews, features on audio and Trim Size: 8%'' wide x 10W' high Cover Price: $2.25 other home-entertainment equipment and on Bleed Size: 8¼" wide x 11 w· high Subscription Price: $11.97 Per Year musical instruments are all presented regularly. Screens: Covers-150 Line lnside-133 Line I• . j tf'i: . ::i ' . ; ;_. ., , . J l ,. . It:. __ -. . ·-- MAGAZINE PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT COUR!BYM USIC NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016 AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION For Six Months Ended June 30, 1985 348,146 Publisher'sC ompilation- Subject to Audit Audit Bureauo f Circulations 900 North MeachamR oad, Schaumburg,I llinois6 0195 en .,, -c-» eC-r CD -• 3 CD CD ::::, - en c"-:T:,l c:,, :s: c::, :-:::, :u:,S - m ::::s CL CD CL c.. C ::::s CD w c::::) ...... CD 0c0.n COUNTRY MUSIC CLASS, INDUSTRY OR FIELD SERVED: COUNTRY MUSIC provides in-depth coverage of the country music scene, from performer profiles to news and events. II] AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION FOR 6 MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 1985 Subscriptions: Individual Association, See Par. 11 (a) AVERAGE TOTAL PAID CIRCULATION Advertising Rate Base Average Total Non-Paid Distribution 17,077 lfil AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION of Regional, Metro and Demographic Editions None [] PAID CIRCULATION by Issues [] Issue Jan./Feb. Mar. Apr May1June 336,833 342.679 364,927 ANALYSIS OF TOTAL NEW AND RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS Sold during 6 Month Period Ended June 30. 1985 AUrHORIZED PRICES: (a) Basic Prices: Single Copy· S2 25. Subscriptions: US., 1 yr. $11.98; Canada, 1 yr. $13.98: Foreign, 1 yr. $15.99.... . . . . ..... ... .. (b) Higher than basic prices: None . . . . . . . • . . (c) Lower than basic pnces: 1 yr. SS.99. $7.95, $9.95, $9.97, S10.00... . ... .. .. . (d) Association subscription prices: 1 yr $6.00, See Par. 11 (a) ..... .. ...... . ....... , .... •• . .. ..... Total Subscriptions Sold in Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •... ... . [) DURATION OF SUBSCRIPTIONS SOLO: _ (a) 60 months or more . ... (bl 36 to 59 months . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .... . (c) 12 to 35 months .. . . . . . . . . .. • ... . ... .. . . (d) 1 to 11 months .............. . . . ...... .. Total Subscriptions Sold m Period .... ... .. . [D CHANNELS OF SUBSCRIPTION SALES· (a) Ordered by ma,I and or direct request (b) Ordered through salespeople. 1. Catalog agencies and individual agents . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... .. .. .. . 2 Publisher's own and other publishers' salespeople • . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . • .. 3. Independent agencies· salespeople . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............... . 4. Newspaper agencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . ... .. .... • 5. Members of schools, churches, fraternal and similar organizations . . . . • ... . . .. . . .. . ... ..... . . .... .. ....• . . (c) Association memberships . . . . . . . • • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ . .. • .. . ....... .. ...... . ... (d) All other channels . . . . . . ................................ . ....... . ....... . ......... . ............ . Total Subscriptions Sold in Period . . .. . . . . .. . • • .. . . . .. .. .. .. .. . . . . ...... . .... .. ...... . . . ..... . ... . 233,864 114,282 348,146 350,000 41,826 210,282 40,472 292,580 6 34 287,255 292,580 250,026 39 13 None None 2,030 40,472 None 292.580 [J USE OF PREMIUMS (a) Ordered without premium (b) Ordered with material reprinted from this publication (c) Ordered with other premiums. See Par 11 (b) Total Subscriptions Sold ,., Period ADDITIONAL CIRCULATION INFORMATION POST EXPIRATION COPIES INCLUDED IN PAID CIRCULATION (PAR. 1)· (a) Average number of copies served on subscriptions not more than three months after expiration . ... . COLLECTION STIMULANTS: BASIS ON WHICH COPIES WERE SOLO TO RETAIL OUTLETS. No Single Copy Distribution @J U.S. PAID CIRCULATION BY ABCD COUNTY SIZE Magazines of less than 500,000 average paid circulation not required to answer this paragraph. @J EXPLANATORY: Latest Released Audit Report Issued for 6 months ended December 31, 1983. VanatIon from Publisher's Statements Audit Period Rate Ended Base 12-31-83 None Audit Report 163,043 Publishers Statements Difference Percentage of Difference *Initial Audit for 6 months ended December 31, 1983 - Publisher's Statement not required for this period. 270.811 None 21.769 292.580 None None (a) Pars. 1, 3(d) & 5(c): This publication is the official 1oumal of the Country Music Society of America The year1y subscnpt1on pnce of $6.00 or 60% of dues, whichever Is greater, Is allocated to membership dues and Is not deductible therefrom (b) Par. 6(c): Various Items with no advertised or stated values were offered with one year subscriptions at $9.97, $10.00, $12.00. 106 GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSOISFT OTAPLA IDC IRCULATtIoOr thNe M aytJune1,9 85I ssue Totapl aidc irculatioonf t hisi ssuew as4 .82%g reatetrh ana veragteo talp aidc irculatiofno r period. SingleC opy %of %of SingleC opy STATE Subs. Sales TOTAL Clrc. Pop. STATE Subs. Sales Maine.. ........... 2,257 2,257 Kentucky.. .... .... 10,605 NewH ampshir.e.. .. 1,295 1,295 Tennesse.e.. ...... 11,553 · Vermon.t. ......... 1,216 1,216 Alabam.a.. ....... 9,805 Massachuse.t.t.s.. . 3,166 3,166 Mississ1p..p1.. ..•.. 5,645 RhodeIs land. ... 559 559 EASTSC. ENTRAL 37,608 Connecticu..t. ... : : 2,536 2,536 Arkansa.s. ........ 6,440 NEWE NGLAND 11,029 11,D29 3.02 5.45 Louisian.a.. ...... 7,691 NewY ork. ......... 11,437 11,437 Oklahom..a.. .... . 8,794 NewJ ersey.. .... •.. 4,128 4,128 Texas.. ...... ... 27,682 Pennsylvan.i.a.. ... 14.446 14,446 WESTSC. ENTRAL 50,607 MIDDLEA TLANTIC 30,011 3D,011 8.22 16.24 Montan.a.. ..... 1,750 Ohio. ............. 18,386 18,386 Idaho. ........... 1,704 Indiana.. .......... 12,543 12,543 Wyoming.. ........ 1,134 Illinois. ........... 13,759 13,759 Colorado.. •..... 3,987 Michigan. ........ . 11,338 11,338 NewM exico.. ...... 2,529 Wisconsin.. ...... . 9,151 9,151 Arizon.a.. ......... 4.183 EASTNC. ENTRAL 65,177 65,177 17.86 18.40 Utah. .. ..... ..... 1,712 Minnesota.. ....... 7,463 7,463 Nevad.a.. .. . ..... 1,274 Iowa. ............ 7,304 7,304 MOUNTAIN 18,273 Missour.i. ........• 11,658 11,658 Alaska. ........... 1,119 NorthD akota.. 1.716 1,716 Washingto.n.. ..... 5,439 SouthD akota.. ..... 1,867 1,867 Oreion. . .......... 4,123 Nebrask.a.. ....•.. 3,200 3,200 Calio rnia. ........ 24,582 Kansa.s.. ......... 6,325 6,325 Hawai.i. .......... 578 WESTN . CENTRAL 39,533 39,533 1D.83 7.59 PACIFIC 35,841 Delaware.. 977 977 Miscellaneous.. ... Maryland. .. : : : : : : : 5,792 5,792 Unclassifie. d ..... . Districot fC olumbia.. 162 162 UNITEDST ATES 364,383 Virginia.. .......... 13,109 13,109 Poss&. OtheAr reas 16 WesVt irginia. ...... 5,969 5,969 NorthC arolina.. .... 16,027 16,027 U.S.& POSS.e, tc. 364,399 SouthC arolina.. .... 6,689 6,689 Canad.a.. ......... 408 Geor3.i.a.. ........ 12,265 12,265 Foreig.n.. ......... 18 Flori a ............ 15,314 15,314 Unclassifie..d.. .... SOUTHA TLANTIC 76,304 76,304 20.91 16.31 Militaryo rC ivilian PersonnOelv ersea.s 102 GRANTDO TAL 364,927 Weh erebyc ertifyt hata lls tatementsse tf orthi nt hiss tatemenatr et rue. COUNTRMYU SICp, ublishedb yS ilverE agleP ublishersIn, c.,4 50P arkA venueS, outh,N ewY ork,N ewY ork1 0016. DateS ignedJ, uly1 5,1 985. RUSSELLO.BARNARD Publisher "Copyright©1, 985A uditB ureauo f CirculationAs.l lr ightsr eserved." %of %of TOTAL Circ. Pop. 10,605 11,553 9,805 5,645 37,608 10.31 6.47 6,440 7,691 8,794 27,682 50,607 1,750 13.87 10.48 1,704 1,134 3,987 2,529 4,183 1,712 1,274 18,273 5.01 5.02 1,119 5,439 4,123 24,582 578 35,841 9.82 14.04 364,383 99.85 100.00 16 0.01 364,399 99.86 408 0.11 18 0.01 102 0.02 364,927 100.00 04-0225-1 OPENING NOV. 28 • ROY CLARK AND BRENDA LEE