Born on this date in 1933 was Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins), country singer. 10 facts about him:
His breakthrough hit was It's Only Make Believe in 1958.
Conway Twitty wasn’t his real name. His real name was Harold Lloyd Jenkins, named by his great uncle after his favourite silent movie actor Harold Lloyd. The stage name came from two towns on a map: Conway, Arkansas, and Twitty, Texas.
He was performing on Radio at the age of 10, and formed his first band, the Phillips County Ramblers when he was 12. They had their own show on the local radio station KFFA every Saturday morning.
As a teenager, he preached at church revivals, a foreshadowing, perhaps, of his following being compared to a religious revival, and comedian Jerry Clower dubbing him "The High Priest of Country Music". This was also the title of his 33rd studio album.
He almost became a Baseball player. He was all set to sign for a Philadelphia Phillies farm team when he was drafted into the army.
At the beginning of his career, some believed Conway was Elvis Presley recording under a different name.
He built an entertainment complex in Hendersonville, Tennessee at a cost of over $3.5 million and named it Twitty City. It was a popular tourist destination known for its Christmas light displays. Twitty City closed in 1994.
Besides his music career, Twitty dabbled in acting and appeared in several films, including A Christmas Dream.
His fans were known as “Twitty Birds,” and the record label he founded was called Twitty Bird Records.
Twitty topped Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart 40 times in his career, a record which stood for 20 years until it was surpassed by George Strait.
The first in a new series! It has invading aliens, gladiator-style contests, rivalry and romance.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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