This week in 1981: Interior Secretary James Watt announced major cutbacks in EPA resources; a 1971 tape recording linked President Richard Nixon to a plan to use Teamster "thugs" against war protesters; Sandra Day O'Conner was sworn in as the Supreme Court's first female justice and a singer from Friars Point, Mississippi, had his 62nd hit record.
Conway Twitty never tried to hide the fact that he was not impressed with himself.
He said, "The only thing that really matters is the next record. Whatever I've done up to this point is done. That next record is all that matters."
A big part of Conway's long list of hit records could have been his preparation for each recording.
According to Conway, "I usually go through about 3,000 songs to pick ten of them for an album. Then I cut that 3,000 down to 100. And then cut that down to 50 and so forth until I get the 10 songs I'm satisfied with. It all takes a lot of time and a lot of patience."
The selection of his 1981 No. 1, "Tight Fittin' Jeans" came from that same song selection process.
The song was written by Mike Huffman and the single entered the country music charts July 11, 1981 and was in the top slot on September 26th. The single was produced by Conway Twitty and Ron Chancy.
It was Conway's 62nd charted song and his 31st No. 1.
Conway placed 98 songs on the country music charts between 1066 and 2004, including 40 No. 1s.
Conway Twitty was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins in 1933.
He began his musical career in rock and roll and scored a No. 1 in 1958 with "It's Only Make Believe."
He first made the country charts in 1966 with a Liz Anderson song titled "Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart."
Conway was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1999.
He and Loretta Lynn were named the CMA Vocal Duo Of The Year in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975 and the AMC Vocal Duo in 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1976. He was also ACM's Male Vocalist Of The Year in 1975.
Conway Twitty died in 1993 at age 59 of an abdominal aneurysm.
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