Songs Written by Conway Twitty - Touch the Hand, Hello Darlin', Goodbye Time, It's Only Make Believe (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Touch the Hand, Hello Darlin', Goodbye Time, It's Only Make Believe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Touch the Hand" is a song made famous by country music singer Conway Twitty. A ballad that became one of his 41 Billboard magazine No. 1 songs (all but one of them on the Hot Country Singles charts), the song represented one half of a double-sided hit for Twitty in 1975. The other side was "Don't Cry Joni." "Don't Cry Joni" is Twitty's duet with his then 16-year-old daughter, Joni Lee Jenkins. According to country music writer Tom Roland, Joni Lee had wanted after years of resistance to become an entertainer, and her father decided that allowing her to duet with him on the song (which he had written years earlier) might provide some encouragement. "Don't Cry Joni" represented the only major hit by any of Twitty's children; two other children Kathy (aka "Jessica James") and Mike (aka "Charlie Tango") failed to achieve notable success. In addition, the song was one of just two non-Loretta Lynn duets in which Twitty had major success (the other being a guest shot on Ronnie McDowell's 1988 cover of "It's Only Make Believe.") This "B-side" single began achieving its popularity at the end of the summer of 1975, and eventually peaked at No. 4 that October. Its peak in popularity was unusual; Roland noted that the popularity of most other two-sided hits usually happened concurrently. The song's plot is about a 15-year-old girl (Joni, sung by Joni Lee) who develops a crush on a 22-year-old neighbor of her family (Jimmy, of which part was sung by the elder Twitty). Despite Joni begging in a love letter to Jimmy to "please say you'll wait for me" so that they may someday get married, and pleading fidelity ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=12087428