Cross Winds

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Cross Winds
Conway Twitty Cross Winds.jpg
Studio album by
Conway Twitty
Released1979
Recorded1979
Genre Country
Label MCA Records
Producer Conway Twitty, David Barnes
Conway Twitty chronology
Conway
(1978)		Cross Winds
(1979)		 Heart & Soul
(1980)
Singles from Cross Winds
  1. "Don't Take It Away"
    Released: March 1979
  2. "I May Never Get to Heaven"
    Released: July 1979
  3. "Happy Birthday Darlin'"
    Released: October 3, 1979

Cross Winds is the 40th studio album by American country music singer Conway Twitty. The album was released in 1979, by MCA Records. [1]

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music and blues.

Conway Twitty American country music singer

Harold Lloyd Jenkins, better known by his stage name Conway Twitty, was an American country music singer. He also had success in the rock and roll, R&B, and pop genres. From 1971 to 1976, Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

MCA Records US record label, imprint of MCA Records, Inc.

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group, which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003. The label's country division MCA Nashville is a still active imprint of Universal Music Group Nashville.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Don't Take It Away"3:40
2."Heavy Tears"2:31
3."Love Comin' Down"3:17
4."I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head"3:55
5."Happy Birthday Darlin'"2:50
6."I May Never Get to Heaven"2:47
7."Grand Ole Blues"4:10
8."Draggin' Chains"2:43
9."If You Can't Write the Music"2:44
10."Did We Have to Come This Far (To Say Goodbye)"2:43

Charts

Chart (1979)Peak
position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [2] 11

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References

  1. ↑ Jim Worbois. "Cross Winds - Conway Twitty". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  2. ↑ "Conway Twitty Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
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