Once Twitty and Lynn were regularly recording and performing together after their Number One “After the Fire Is Gone,” Twitty would sing (well, speak) the opening line and title of “Hello Darlin'” directly to Lynn as she watched him from the stage. The tune has turned millions of female hearts to quivering jelly in the 46 years since its release. In addition to the use of an electric piano on the track - a rarity at that time - Twitty’s smoke-and-sex-filled vocal made “Hello Darlin'” a natural to open his shows, where the audiences were predominately female. Twitty’s first country-chart-topping hit of the Seventies (his fourth overall for the genre) was “Hello Darlin’,” a seductively crooned number about a chance encounter with an old flame. But in 1968, he had scored the first of his 50 country Number Ones, a record that thus far only George Strait has been able to eclipse. Twitty (born Harold Lloyd Jenkins) was already well-known for his 1958 pop smash “It’s Only Make Believe” and initially had a rough time convincing radio programmers that he could sing country tunes. In the early Seventies, as Loretta Lynn was tapping into the female psyche with controversial tunes such as “The Pill,” her future duet partner Conway Twitty was transitioning to country music by reaching women on a whole different level.
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