{"id":102980,"date":"2025-03-05T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=102980"},"modified":"2025-03-05T05:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:27:05","slug":"how-conway-twitty-got-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/how-conway-twitty-got-his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How Conway Twitty Got His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever wonder how Conway Twitty got his name?<\/p>\n<p>His real name is Harold Jenkins, but\u00a0an old video is making the rounds again where Conway is talking with David Letterman and explaining the origin of his very original name.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I thought Disc Jockeys back in the &#8217;50s got so many records, every week they&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he still couldn&#8217;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&#8217;s from. The first town that jumped out at him was Conway, Arkansas. And the next town he saw was Twitty, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>And the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DGJEzm_x41E\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you ever wonder how Conway Twitty got his name?\u00a0","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":102981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[9624,10683,4364],"class_list":["post-102980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-conway-twitty","tag-david-letterman","tag-name"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 11:05:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/how-conway-twitty-got-his-name\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102982,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102980\/revisions\/102982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}