Gold [Original recording remastered]

Conway Twitty | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Mca Nashville
• ASIN: B000E97HC6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,668 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The King Of Country Soul ", March 19, 2006

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T. Crownover "The Crownman" (Belleville, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

Many statements have been made about the legendary Conway Twitty.
Enough cannot be said or overstated. He remains the King of Country Soul. His versatility, his quality style, his emotions that sweeps the heart in song, his honesty with simplicity, and
his unique way of being mystic with words paralyzes the listener
to long for more! Move over, listen to pure sounds of depth that no singer of our time has matched. He is and remains a master of
American music. Here is a good sampling of the CONWAY TWITTY sounds that has touched millions to this day. Buy this CD and relive the music that helped place country and pop on the charts for decades. Relive the classic days of true quality music that will never die. Get the best! Get Conway's music. You will not
be disappointed. Here is a lifetime and beyond of great stuff
for now and for the future. Thanks Conway. We miss you! I love
George Jones, Jim Reeves, Charlie Pride, and all the greats. But Conway is in a field of highest quality......all alone. Reach the peek........buy Conway.....be a first-class listener. Enjoy!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice overview, but get the box set if you can, May 31, 2006

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James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

Stretching from 1968's "Next In Line" to 1986's tame "Desperado Love," Conway Twitty's string of #1 country hits is indeed impressive. Yet his amply annotated and illustrated Gold forgoes 10 (including "Somebody's Needin' Somebody," "The Games That Daddies Play" and a few duets with Loretta Lynn) that spent a single week at the top in order to expand the chronological set's reach, hold it to 40 songs and provide four 1958-60 MGM charters predating his country career.

A set titled Gold inevitably skips his long-unissued Sun sessions recorded under his original name, Harold Jenkins, and obscure Mercury sides done after he became Conway Twitty, somewhat based on Bye Bye Birdie's character Conrad Birdie. The emphasis is hits: partly narrated "Happy Birthday Darlin'," nostalgic "Play, Guitar, Play," a not-too-disco "Slow Hand," three duets with Lynn. So personal is his tone that any woman could imagine he's singing "I Would Love To Lay You Down" just to her in her home. His voice holds its own against "I May Never Get To Heaven"'s grandiose backup. An abdominal aneurysm felled Twitty in 1993, at a young 59, just two years after his final top-10 country hit, the package's finale "I Couldn't See You Leavin'."

Get the four-disc The Conway Twitty Collection (1994) for the most complete picture of his career if you can afford it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty, December 30, 2009

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J. A. Routhier-James (Albany, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

If you are looking for a Greatest Hits album for Conway Twitty, this is it. Mr. Twitty has never sounded better than in this fantastic collection of highlights of his decades-long career. He graced us with a number of memorable hits in his time, and this collection assembles the best of them, in my opinion. Songs of lust, love, infidelity, and heartbreak abound. Of course the standards are included, like "Hello Darlin," "Slow Hand," and "The Rose," but we also get treated to gems like "I'd Just Love to Lay You Down" and my personal favorite "I See The Want To In Your Eyes." In the hands of any other artist, these songs would represent tired country cliches. In Mr. Twitty's hands, they are indeed Gold.