Conway Twitty 430x pt1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Again.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hello everybody. This is Ralph Emery and we're talking to
you from Nashville, the home of the stars of country music,
and with me is one of America's best loved country
music stars, Conway Twitty Conway, Welcome to the show. You're
nice to have you with us, Nice to be with you.
How is everything out at Twitty City? Everything is beautiful

(00:27):
out at Twity City. We're getting ready for for Christmas
and everything's looking good. Well, we're going to talk about
that and the Twitty Bird and later on your Christmas album.
But I thought for a little while we would just
play some old country records that people might enjoy, and
then later on we're going to let them share a
little bit of your Christmas sounds good to me. One

(00:47):
of my favorite records by you and the band is
still the Boogiey Grass Band. This is where Charlie Archer
gets to really cut this. Yeah, that's right, So it's on.
Why don't we open the show with this show.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Of music going around.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's known as the Boogie Crass SI, So.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Grab your partner and swing her around and dance to
the Boogie Crass. I loved her well sing about Kentucky
and the all the brothers rowmbling Man.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
We put the music all together.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
So dance to the Boogie Grass Band.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Will my daddy plays a man joke and saw the
middle of two taught me.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
How to sing and plavy years.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I got the rest in my soul and rhythm in
my feet.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
So dance to the Boogie Crass be.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
I love you head.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
They'll saying about Kentucky and the Almond Brothers Realm and
we flood.

Speaker 7 (02:15):
The musical hold together.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
So dance to the Boogie Crash band.

Speaker 8 (02:44):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Here they're saying about Kentucky and the Alman Brothers Roalm and.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
We flood years ago, hold together. So dance to the Boogie.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Gras Opening our show, Conway Twitty and the Boogie Grass Band.
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Speaker 1 (04:11):
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Speaker 2 (04:12):
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new record time for you. As we near the end
of nineteen eighty three, you're launching another record.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yes, sure, I am Ralph. You know you know me
well know that I go through about two thousand songs
before I finally record the ten that I record, and
I put a lot of thought into it. And first
of all, I try to find songs that I think
women are gonna like because they're a little more sensitive
than those guys, and they get to the heart of

(05:17):
the matter a little bit quicker. We eventually get there,
but they get there a little quicker. And second, and
very close to that, I try to find something that
a man wants to say to a woman, but most
men just don't know how. And if I can say
it for him, all he's got to do is drop
a cord in the juke box and at the appropriate
time squeeze her. Just a little bit, and she gets
the message, and Conway twoot has got another hit. This

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particular song gets the message. Conway gets the money. I
get a lot of satisfaction out of it too. You
deal with things in a country song that are very
close to people, you know, problems and things that they
don't talk to many people about. And once a country
music fan has reached the point to where they trust
you to deal with those things. Uh, as long as

(06:01):
you don't violate certain rules. Uh, they'll hang around in
there with you.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
What you're telling me is that most of the male
population of this country is a little bashful.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well, I just you know, men are are are when
they're boys, they're they're taught that someday they've got to
get up and support grow up and support a family
and do other things. They're off into other things. But uh,
they eventually get the point, you know, and there some
of them are. It's hard for a man to say
I love you sometime and uh and I'm sorry or

(06:31):
just not. They're meant, they're grown, they grew up to
be macho and all that. You know, it's hard for
them to say it. But a woman is very sensitive
to things like that. And uh like my next record here. Uh,
I think it's right in the groove. It's Uh. It's
about a couple of people that things have gone wrong
for but all the years they put into it mean something.

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And that's what he's got to say about it.

Speaker 9 (07:00):
For the time.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
That you've given me.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
The memories are here in myment.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
And now that we've come.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
To the end of our reign, ball there's something numbers
say out.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
You want why.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Three times late?

Speaker 7 (07:49):
And I love you Want Why.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Three times A Lady?

Speaker 7 (08:08):
And I love.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
You, Share.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
My dream, my choice, my pain.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
You made my life worth liveing for.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
And if I had my life to live over again,
I'd spend to chill every moment with.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
One Why.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Three timems the lead.

Speaker 9 (09:11):
And I Love.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
You one Why three times? Amsolyad? And I Love Be

(09:41):
one Why three times Amslyd and I Love.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Be You've heard Conway twenty with three times a Lady.

(10:33):
I want to go back to what we were talking about.
Comedian you know, comedian Bob Murphy. No, he's a nice
old man from Texas. He said the other day, he
said women's spend eighty percent of the money in this country,
eighty the other twenty percent they put on credit. You know,

(10:57):
I'll ask you something. We were talking. We were talking
about emotion, an emotion that people derived from country songs.
When I was a kid, I remember my first dates.
I was fourteen. Women scared me to death. I was
very shy and just to say hello and have one

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of them say hello back. Just wait, did they bother you?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah? I was that way. I was really that way.
I remember the first girl I ever went with. I
went with her like six months before I even held
her hand. And I went with her for five years
and maybe kissed her twice, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
But yeah, I was stand on the front porch, see
and you take her home and you're hoping she'll bring
it up kissing and finally if she sticks that paw
out and says, well good night, uh huh.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
You know there ain't gonna be any kissing. Yes, it's
it's tough sometime for some guys. Other guys, you know,
find it easy. That was one of those guys. Can
you can you remember the name of the girl you
went out with? Yeah, I can't.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Very first name, Elizabeth Well. I went out with a
Betty and uh, I remember I didn't go out again
with a girl for a year. That's scared scared.

Speaker 7 (12:16):
You that bad.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Who's going to sing next? On Godway? It's like one
of my neighbors out there close to Twity City. Louise
Mandrel got a song called Runaway Hard.

Speaker 10 (12:32):
I've seen love is not time by.

Speaker 11 (12:36):
They were nothing but here saying baby yell, I want
to love it with go the distance.

Speaker 10 (12:46):
He loved it with make goddamnferen chair, And that's.

Speaker 7 (12:54):
Where you came in.

Speaker 10 (12:56):
Started on my heart and be loved again. My heart's
around away. It's coment.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
You know. You can't stop go away hard. It's way
too late.

Speaker 8 (13:15):
Food on spreads, stone fence.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
Gone too far.

Speaker 9 (13:20):
You can't stop my ron away heart. Yeah, gone away hard,
it's way too late.

Speaker 10 (13:29):
Food on breaks, stone to.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
Face, stalk too far.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
You can't stop.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
My roll away, har that won't quit.

Speaker 10 (13:41):
Watch you get it rolling. It's not a chance of
an even slow down.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
It's made. It's mind up, it's gone, it gets shut.

Speaker 11 (13:55):
Might as well just let it hit you now. And
that's where happened. I'm the one halla.

Speaker 7 (14:06):
Love you befalling me. My heart's around.

Speaker 10 (14:11):
Away and it's coming and you can't stop n away home.
Its way too late foot on breaks, it's gone too best.

Speaker 7 (14:26):
It's not too far.

Speaker 9 (14:28):
You can't stop my Ron away hard. Yeah, gone away
on its way too late.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
Food on the breaks, it's gone too fast. It's not
too far.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
You can't stop my Ron away hard. Yeah, run away
on its way too late.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
Food on a break.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
That is missus Louis Mandrell. And the song is called
Runaway Hard. Conway, I know that later on in this
series of shows, we're going to meet the twitty Bird
on this show, right, But I'm kind of curious about something.
How long has the Twitty Bird been a part of
your life?

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Twootybird has been a part of my life as long
as I've been around. He's just been there forever. Mister
Twitteam will be like a lawyer. I've got you on
the stand here, going to your some of your your PR.
You know what the PR people write about you? No,
not really.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I think they indicated that, says Conway. Twitty and his
little buddy, the twitty Bird have been together since nineteen
sixty six.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's that's the reason. Ill, that's when the twitty Bird
got into show business. Oh I see, yeah, but you've
had the twitty Bird around longer than that. Oh, yeah,
twitty bird has been around a long time, but he
got into show business in nineteen sixty five, sixty six, somewhere.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Longer then, I suppose. On the Mississippi river Boat Special
last year was the first time we had ever seen
the twitty.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Bird on TV. Yeah, that was his first television appearance. No,
he's been he'd been arounding pictures and stuff like that
for a long time. And uh, later on he will
be on this program. The twitty bird is what kind
of a bird? Well, twenty birds A twenty birds? There
are different kinds of birds. Canaries are bluebirds and red birds,

(16:22):
and twitty birds a special breed, right, I see? Is
there more than one? Yeah, those the twitentty birdies. There's
three little bitty twitty birds that look just like the
twitty bird. I see. This bird obviously had a family. Yeah,
and he's also got his what he calls his favorite
bird watcher with him all the time. Who is and
her name is Tina Klower. I see she's with the

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twitty bird all the time. I see. Who.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Uh when the twenty bird first came along had to
be in your mind. When did America first see the
twitty bird? America first saw they bird. What was the occasion?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
That was the TV special last year on TV? But no, no,
back nineteen sixty and pictures I made nineteen sixty. I
mean the twitty Birds obviously had to be put on
paper as a cartoon. Yeah, nineteen sixty what record would
what record did you have about? Uh, Danny boy? I
think that was it did in the rock day? Did

(17:23):
the Twitty Bird get in the show businesses to promote
the career of Conway Twittery? No? No, it just kind
of naturally, naturally evolved. Rock disc jockeys back in fifty
nine and sixty started started referring to me as the
twitty Bird. It says, here's the toty bird and the
play a record, and I like that and it seemed natural.
And I know why remember the story you told me

(17:48):
about the character on Broadway Conrad Birdie on Red Birdie. Yeah,
that's where they got that. That's where the disc jockeys
got the twenty bird thing. So oh, I never thought
about that. Who who was Conrad Birdie? That was? That
was a Broadway play called Bye Bye Birdie, and it
was written about me and Elvis Presley, and they went

(18:12):
on to become a movie.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Naturally had to fallen. You became Conway Birdie. Yeah, okay, hey,
here's a here's a young man. I know he's on
CBS records. He has not had a hit. Nice kid
works in a boot store out near where I live.
I'm gonna play his record. His name is Mike Campbell.
Take away, Mike.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, it's so sweet and easy to love you. I
got the Yes, it's true. I love you, and it's
so sweet and easy.

Speaker 7 (18:46):
To want you.

Speaker 12 (18:48):
On my mind all the time. Say you mine.

Speaker 7 (18:54):
Well.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
I want you to say you losday be loves true
because I know I you ever boy.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
I won't get over you.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Because it's so sweet and easy to love you, my
god do yes, it's true.

Speaker 12 (19:14):
I love you.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
Well, it's all sweet and easy to love you, my
god do yes, it's true.

Speaker 12 (19:47):
I love you, and it's so sweet and easy to.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
Hold you close to me lovingly, tenderly. B never know
this un nostrum, and I loved say everywhere.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
That you my dream come true on the soul.

Speaker 12 (20:13):
Sweet and easy to love you.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
I got do Yes, it's true.

Speaker 12 (20:21):
I love you. I got do Yes, it's true.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
I love you.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's Mike Campbell with sweet and easy to love. Just
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O two. Miss Twittery, who is next?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
This is a young lady that recorded one of my
songs Buck a few months ago and had a number
one record with it, and I appreciate that. Amilu Harris
got a new record called drive and who you.

Speaker 7 (21:57):
Yes, that's.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
Ain't it so came in Bob, Yeah, Lord, don't trouba
it's something.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
It's a not helouse that's real. Don can prop not
can steal and then pool like.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
A drown in peas.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Were all won't it's still and will all won't. It's
salving you all round up now you that bride, hold

(23:06):
on to am on b he upon it and this
time well miss Rob and we.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh it's a common you.

Speaker 7 (23:27):
Eround loop b Yeah.

Speaker 8 (23:32):
Yeah, it's driving wheel.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
All you's goning wheel.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Love, It's driving Wheel, It's driving detail

Speaker 2 (24:37):
The Miss Emmy Lou Harris her newest record called Driving
Wheel