Gold

Gold	The Definitive Collection	40 #1 Hits Merle Haggard Photos More from Merle Haggard Cheatin' The Best of The Best of Merle Haggard Chicago Wind	Ultimate Waylon Jennings	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard The first-ever career spanning, cross-label (Capitol, MCA, Epic, Anti, Compendia), single disc, "Best of" compilation. 26 classic songs all remastered from the original studio tapes. Features duets with Johnny Cash, Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. This collection focuses on Haggard...
The Definitive Collection	Elv1s 30 #1 Hits N	16 Biggest Hits George Jones and Tammy Wynette had already been married three years when they began cutting duets together, and this album's opening pledge of eternal love, 1971's "Take Me," followed by their recitation of wedding vows in "The Ceremony," sets the tone early on. Somewhere soon th...	The Essential George Jones	The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam Moving to Los Angeles after an unproductive stint in Nashville, Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam made a name for himself by reviving the more robust honky-tonk traditions of the Bakersfield Sound--a bold contrast with Music City's assembly-line approach. In 1984, his independently rel...

impressive
This was one of my favorite collections, not just by Conway Twitty but by anyone. "15 Years Ago," "Hello Darlin," "Julia," "Desperado Love," and many others of his greatest hits are on this 2-disc collection. Any fan of Conway will love this, and it will make a fan of non-fans. It met and exceeded my expectations.

Great Collection!
Im not a huge country fan, but I just fell in love with the song Hello Darlin which I heard from a clip that The Family Guy TV show used in a HEE HAW mocking. This CD had alot of Conway Twitty hits and his early Rock and Roll stuff. Plus the songs sounded of great quality (Remastered). Huge fan now...... thanks Family Guy!

Conway Twitty At His Best
I love this CD. It has all his great songs, from the very beginning, to his last ones, and all the great hits in between. The two songs that made me decide to buy this CD are "Loney Blue Boy" (which was very hard to find) and "That's My Job". Any true Conway fan will literally fall in love with this CD.

Nice overview, but get the box set if you can
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.

A worthy collection
This Conway Collection is one of the few out there with all original recordings. For some reason Conway (and others) had a habit of re-recording songs 3 or 4 times a decade only to be released on compilation albums. This one, however, contains 40 original recordings, with great sound. While I'm not a fan of his later stuff (the late-'70's onward), the first Cd of this 2-CD collection contains some of the finest country gold ever to hit the air. Such hits as "Linda On My MInd", "15 Years Ago", and "Next in Line" make this first Cd a favorite in my CD rotation. The 2d CD however, contains a lot of his later stuff that lacks the soul and sincerity that made Conway a Country legend. However, if you're a fan of the Pop Country sound, you'll enjoy this 2d CD as well. For the true Conway Twitty fan, this Cd should be on the top of your list.