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COMMEMORATING THE ANNIVERSARY OF CONWAY TWITTY’S PASSING — NO ONE EXPECTED THAT TONIGHT’S MEMORIAL STAGE LIGHTS WOULD BECOME A MOMENT THAT WOULD SILENCE THOUSANDS OF HEARTS, AS TRE TWITTY’S VOICE SOUNDED LIKE A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST… AND THEN, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG, TALA LYNN STEPPED OUT — A SURPRISE NOT IN THE SCRIPT, AS IF MR. AND MRS. CONWAY TWITTY HAD ORGANIZED IT ALL FROM FAR AWAY, FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. STANDING SIDE BY SIDE TONIGHT, SINGING NOT ONLY FOR THE AUDIENCE, BUT FOR OUR OWN MEMORIES, OUR BLOODLINE, AND A LEGACY THAT NEVER ENDS…

Introduction The stage was prepared for remembrance, not revelation. Soft lights. Measured steps. A crowd...

“THE NIGHT A NEWSPAPER STORY CHANGED THE WAY CONWAY TWITTY SANG ‘GOODBYE TIME.’” Hours before Conway Twitty stepped onto the TNN stage in 1988, someone slid a folded newspaper across his dressing room table. On the front page of the “Music City Features” section was a small human-interest story titled: “Goodbye Time Saved Our Marriage.” A young woman had written to the paper, explaining how she and her husband were on the verge of separating—until one night, they sat in silence and listened to Conway’s voice cut through the noise they’d created. She wrote, “We finally understood what we were losing.” Conway read the letter twice. Then he closed his eyes for a long moment. A stagehand overheard him whisper: “If a song can keep two people together… I better sing it like someone’s counting on me.” That night, when he reached the line “You’ll be better off with someone new,” his voice carried a weight no microphone could hide.

Introduction “THE NIGHT A NEWSPAPER STORY CHANGED THE WAY CONWAY TWITTY SANG ‘GOODBYE TIME.’” Hours...