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Before he was a country legend, Harold Jenkins (aka Conway Twitty) cut this song that was a sort of fifties doo-wop. It's a good song, and he really belts it out. I first heard this song when I convinced my mother to order the 1950's collection from LifeTime off TV. Dick Clark talked me right into it, and I did the same with her. I was a big fan of older music even at a very young age. This quickly became one of my favorites from that collection and the fifties in general.
Twitty supposedly wrote his part of the song in Ontario, Canada. He had been advised to visit the area by Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, another American singer, who told him that Canada was the promised land for music. People really did do a lot of drugs in fifties and sixites, I guess. Something good came of the trip, though, because, this was Twitty's only #1 hit on the pop charts, and he turned to country music shortly after. He recorded several other versions of the song, as did several other artists.
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