How Conway Twitty Got His Name

March 5, 2025 8:30 am Published by

Did you ever wonder how Conway Twitty got his name?

His real name is Harold Jenkins, but an old video is making the rounds again where Conway is talking with David Letterman and explaining the origin of his very original name.

“I thought Disc Jockeys back in the ’50s got so many records, every week they’d get 50, 60 new records. And they had to decide what they were going to play, and I thought well maybe with an interesting name like Elvis Presley, they might play it.”

But he still couldn’t come up with a name, so out of desperation he opened a MAP back in 1957 and started looking around the Memphis area, where he’s from. The first town that jumped out at him was Conway, Arkansas. And the next town he saw was Twitty, Texas.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

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This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone