For an artist who scored a whopping 52 number one singles (more than any other artist in country music history), narrowing a budget-priced introductory collection to just 12 would be, to say the least, a daunting task. Real
Conway Twitty
fans will have all kinds of issues as to what got left off, but it is far more important to concentrate on what is here, and what's in the grooves is plenty. This
Varese Sarabande
set goes back to the first one, when
Twitty
was still a rocker, with
"It's Only Make Believe"
still one of the most astonishing early rock & roll performances, and one that blows
Elvis Presley
's reading of the same song out of the water. From the country years come such classics as
"Hello Darlin',"
"I Can't Believe She Gives It All to Me,"
the bluesy
"After All the Good Is Gone,"
and
"To See My Angel Cry."
What's more is that
wrote or co-wrote ten of these dozen cuts. This one is a winner. ~ Thom Jurek