Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, The Strongest Duet Team In Country Music!


The strongest duet in Country Music had its roots, deeply imbedded in Oklahoma - try Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City. For years, Conway Twitty, whose name came from Conway, Arkansas and Twitty, Texas, was a successful musician, tied to Nashville. It took Nashville a lot of convincing before Twitty was to uproot himself and move to Nashville, where he was nick-named, "The High Priest Of Country Music." Twitty had the uncanny ability to spot a hit and be able to tell the right time to release it. It is in this same context that Twitty realized how important Loretta's duets were. They were so strong that once he described them as being so strong that they overshadowed both he and Loretta's single releases. Unlike Dolly and Porter, Conway and Loretta did a lot of "gadget songs," which worked for them. Thus, ... the harmonies are not that well define, and some of their biggest hits were songs without harmony.

So what is my favorite Conway and Loretta duet? The "Telephone Song," and, ... "Louisiana Man (Or Woman), ... Spiders And Snakes!"