Conway Twitty 430x pt2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This week, the Ralph Emery Show is playing host to
Conway Twitter. Conway, it's time for you to set up
another song that you're going to sing called Heartache Tonight,
tell me about it. I recorded the song Ralph and
my latest album. I know it's a song that country
music fans like because I heard it in truck stops
for a long time when it was out by a

(00:27):
by another by group in the rock field. Every once
in a while there's a rock and roll song that
comes along that country fans like. It's just a good song,
and of course Slohan was one of those. You know,
it was a pop hit, and I thought it was
a great country record. And I never really meant for
the song to come out as a single, Heartache Tonight,
but by by popular request and after working on this

(00:52):
Christmas album for about nine months, uh, we decided to
release it as a single.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Song.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Is gonna hurt someone before the night is through, somebody's
gonna come undone.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
There's nothing we can do. Everybody wants to touch somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
If it takes all night, everybody wants.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
To take a little chance they can come out right.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's gonna get me out tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's gonna be a hard tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
Tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I know some people like to stee out late. Some
folks can't hold out that now. Nobody wants to go
on home. There's too much going on.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
This night is gonna last whatever in my last off
sum alone. Sometime before the sun comes, the readon you
is gonna beg that song.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
It's all of me A wight tonight tonight.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
They're going to met tonight and hide tonight.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
I know, yes, I know, I wanna be goe tonight.
The moon shine of light so du to night and
we're looking it right.

Speaker 7 (02:54):
There's gonna be a hard tonight, a hot tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I know.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Somebody's going to hurt someone before the night is through.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Somebody's gonna come undum. There's nothing we can do. Everybody
wants to touch somebody. If it takes all night, everybody.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Wants to take a little chancething can.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Come out right.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's going.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
To night body tonight. You wanna be a hoarding tonight,
be hiding tonight.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I know. So let's go and we complete around the bus.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
We can get that to the bone and complete it in.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
The bucking lot.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Please a way.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
It's gonna be hard.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
That a hard tonight. I know, I know.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
Behind tonight, behind Tony.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Know you've heard Conway Twitter here on the rope Emery
Show a heartache tonight. We're sitting here talking with Conway

(05:03):
Twitty and I know that Conway, you're gearing up for
big things at Twitty City for people that will come
in for the Christmas season. Tell me about what's gonna
happen out there. Christmas at Twitty City. We did last
year for the first time, the first year of Twitty
City was open. This year, we've had the time to

(05:26):
just the proper amount of time to spend on it,
and it's just gonna be one gigantic fantasy land of
Christmas things. There will be over one hundred thousand lights
out there. We have a lot of animated displays that
we've had especially built of our own snow machines. We've
got talent from all over this part of the country,

(05:48):
not just the Nashville area, but people from other states
have been calling us that you know that work up
Christmas programs and all kinds of entertainment out there. And
it starts the day after Thanksgiving and it runs through
New Year's Eve. So's there's a solid month, a little
over a month of Christmas at Twity City, and we
of course invite everybody to come and experience Christmas at

(06:11):
Twitty City. All right now, this is definitely not the
christ the tourist season. So my question is do a
lot of people show up from out of state? For
this last year we had a lot of people show
up from out of state? Uh, basically it's it's it's
a community thing and Towity City is part of the
of the of the Nashville community, and every once in

(06:32):
a while we do something for the community and basically
it's for them, but we certainly encourage people to come
from anywhere. And this year I think we'll we'll find
if you if you give country music fans a good
reason to come to Nashville, Tennessee, something to do with
country music and a country music entertainer or entertainers, uh,

(06:53):
and kind of make an event out of it, they'll come.
Was Twitty City, not Twitty City itself. But what's Christmas
at twenty City? A success? Last year a tremendous success,
and this year we're up this year at Twitter City
over one hundred percent over last year. See, I think people.
I know, if you know anything about Nashville, there used

(07:13):
to be a wonderful Christmas display in the Centennial Park
depicting the Nativity, and it's no longer there. And I
think people look, I know, well, you know what we do.
We get in the car sometimes and go look at
people's Christmas trees, you know, just yards and yeah, and
I think people look forward to seeing things that remind

(07:34):
them of Christmas and have a festive atmosphere. But that's
going away. Seems like it's going away. And I did
that too, all down through the years, not just when
I was a kid, but righting up to when it
started disappearing. And that's part of the reason for Christmas
at Twitty City. We don't want to lose that. And
at twenty City you can see it is there. Well,

(07:57):
it certainly lends itself to a festive atmosphere, and I
hope that you folks will take advantage of seeing it
during the Christmas season. We're gonna go to a record
here with Joe Stapley called Double Shot of My Baby's
Love this.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Morning, and my head was so fad the worst hang over.

Speaker 6 (08:17):
That I ever had.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
What happened to me last night the drool of mine.
She loved me so right, she loved me so long,
and she loved me so hard.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I file it passed out in the up front yard.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
It wasn't flyine that I had too much joke. It
wasn't a dover shot of my pave this stuff never
shot of my face, A double shot of my fad,
a function that I had too much love. It wasn't
dover shot of my fado.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
And it was such a thrill.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
It was culling me.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
I was suffering in the extra A seed ship had
me turning clip Stanning shouting now live when I sit
for her love and I was walking on a cloud
one night a week.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
There's a plenty enough.

Speaker 8 (09:40):
It's a good thing for me that don't bottle let stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
My heart begins to like like a stove. When I
take a double shot of my fade and stuff. Another
shot of my fade.

Speaker 9 (09:54):
Slenother shot of my fade and stuff, du shot that

(10:17):
I had to.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Joe, I thank you very much, Joe Stampley with double
shot of my baby's love. And now, friends will want
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(10:48):
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on the Ralph Emory Show. Well, this is one of

(12:37):
the brittish girls in country music. I'll gave to tell
you that I like our record. She's on the same
label on my own. Her name is Shelly West and
another motil memory.

Speaker 10 (12:45):
I can see reach it out from your.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Eyes to ma.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
I can seeota go to markets, warm.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Red wine and there's nothing I had had a DoD
stand the whole night with you. I don't want think.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
Nother mo chair mamal be. I don't know me a
mo Chell Cashio chees.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
You won't last love last, not you me. But I
don't want to think just another mo chall mamoy. We
be gave befolks last no dance and it's time to.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
If you can be e as the best p why
not let me know.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Of this other iddu spend the whole night with you.
I don't want bea.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
Bojall Man movie.

Speaker 7 (14:26):
I don't want to be and the cochaill casual.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
You want lasting love.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I'm the last of you will ever em.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I don't want me.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
Just to know bjell Man movie. I don't want the
mochall Man movie.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
That is Miss Shelley West. With another motel memory. I
want to ask you another question. Let's talk about Twitty City.
How I've known you a long time, Conway, and I

(15:25):
know that I know sometimes you get something in your
mind and it does not manifest itself or surface for years.
How long did you have Twitty City in mind before
you ever built it. I'd say twelve years, about twelve
years I thought about it. It was a dream. It
was a dream to someday build this complex where it

(15:49):
would we would solve a lot of a lot of
my I don't want to call them problems, but things
that my family and I had discussed for a long time.
Always wanted to live close together and all that kind
of stuff. And they do you know. I have four children,
each one of their homes or right there at Twity City.
My mother home is right there, our home is there.

(16:12):
But mainly Twitty City is a part of an image
that Nashville, Tennessee has. People come here from all over
the world. The expect to see certain things. They expect
a gigantic smrgas board of country music and country music entertainers,
and like you told me earlier, sometimes the image don't
quite match up with the reality. Well, I've always said,

(16:35):
I think they expect to see gold guitires hanging from
all the lampposts here. Well, they do, and of course
some of them live. You're disappointed because of that. They
always enjoy it. Twitty City is sort of a fantasy land,
isn't it It is. Twitty City is exactly what country
music fans want to see when they come here. It's
they get to see a lot of you know, that's
where I live, My office is there, everything's right there.

(16:57):
You know, what I think is very ironic. Conway Twitty
is a talker. Conway Twitty can talk to you todath.
I know because I've interviewed him for years, and yet
in the early part of his career he did not
say a word on the stage that was right designed
no way everybody else did. And I would, back in

(17:18):
the rock days, when I'd get a few days off,
I'd go to a country show somewhere, and I mean
you could. You could did stand there and they'd tell jokes,
and they'd tell things that happened to him on the
way to the show, and they'd talk for fifteen minutes
and sing one song. I thought, man, they got the
opportunity to stand up there and sing country songs. That's
what I want to hear, and they won't tell jokes.
And if I ever, if I'm ever fortunate enough to

(17:40):
get into country music, I ain't gonna do that. I'm
gonna sing country songs. And you know, for seven or
eight years, that's what I exactly what I did. Never
see the word. You don't talk much nowadays, No, mostly
mostly singing. I say thank you at the end of
a song, and that's about it. You and Roy Orbison,
You ever, writes Roy Orbison work. Oh yeah, he just

(18:00):
says thank you very much, goes right in the next tilling.
That's right. Well, I think that's what people want to hear.
Here's a good friend of mine, Tom Teahawk. It was
Memorial Day.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
In eighty one.

Speaker 11 (18:13):
I left the city and I drove back home. I
stopped by the grave of a childhood friend, and as
I stood there, I talked to him and I said,
how'd you get home? As soon as I knew you,
wee back then.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
We were pals.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
Back in those days, much too young to have friends.
I left town about win you there. I've been making
up too, Ain't it strange? Shall they play this game.

(18:56):
How'd you get home so soon? How'd you get home
as soon? Bill? I knew you had to act. She
married some guy from Daton, left and she never came

(19:17):
back to tell you the truth. I like it before.
That's been many of your movement. I'm still playing games
on the same old ring. How'd you get home so soon?

Speaker 5 (19:45):
I did some time in.

Speaker 11 (19:47):
The army here, but you don't want to hear about that.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Fade.

Speaker 11 (19:54):
Easy money the hard way. It all goes for to boys,
for tennis, whiskey taste fetters.

Speaker 10 (20:04):
Than ever the ladies' name.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Letter to.

Speaker 11 (20:11):
Bill, I'm down, I'll see you. How'd you get home
soon soon? Tom T Hall?

Speaker 1 (20:25):
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(20:47):
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thirty seven two o two. Conway, we are about out
of time and this show, but I would like to
play Hello Darland. I mean, we can't have Conway Twitty
on the show without this. And that's right? Is this
is this? I know how you come on. You come

(21:10):
on with it's only make believe. That's from offstage, off stage.
We need to singing Hello elf mobstage. I do the
first two or three lines if it's only make me laeve,
and then it goes into a big drum roll and
the band builds up, and this big CT flashes up
on the scene, and the mirror balls are going, and
the lights are out, you know, except on the mirror balls,
and pork Chop says, ladies and gentlemen, one of the

(21:32):
best friends a country song ever had, Conway twooted. And
the lights are still off. And I walk out there
and is that when you say it? That's when I say,
That's when he says this, Hello, darn.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
Nice to see.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's been a long time.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
Tast as lovely as you.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
Used to be, you know, or you.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Hope you're dude and fine to know it means so
much to me.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
What's that, darling?

Speaker 5 (22:19):
All my doing?

Speaker 10 (22:22):
I'm doing all right, it's I can't sleep.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
I cried not till dark.

Speaker 10 (22:35):
While I'm trying and say it is.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
I love you and I.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Miss you, and I'm so sorry that I did you.

Speaker 11 (22:53):
Look up darning.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Let me kish you just.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
For time, say, let me hold you in my homms
one more time.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Thank you, darling.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
May God bless you, indeed step.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Brand you closer to the name you seek to find.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Goodbye.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I gotta good.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Man, gotta try to find a way.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
These memories love a love so warm entry and you
have a fine in your heart.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
The ball give me come back, Darling Wade.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
All right.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
One of the best records of Conway ever made one
of the most effective. More people who love that song
you've heard Conway Twitty with Hello Dyland, Well Conway. Tomorrow,

(24:37):
it's going to be time to wish people to marry Twistmas.
I say it that way because well it will become apparent.
Conway Twitty, I thank you for being our guest.

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Thank you guy.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
And tomorrow we're going to preview Conway's Christmas album and
I hope you'll be listening.

Speaker 11 (24:52):
We'll see you tomorrow

Speaker 10 (25:04):
And