Conway Twitty was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins on September 1, 1933 in Friar's Point, Mississippi, and raised mostly in Helena, where he attended high school. His grandfather taught him guitar, and he was performing on KFFA by the time he was twelve. Soon enough he was a regular, appearing on Sunday mornings with two high school pals as the Phillips County Ramblers. Jenkins ... played baseball well enough to be scouted by the Philadelphia Phillies. He was drafted into the Army during the Korean War, and when he got out in 1956, he recorded eight unreleased songs for Sun before signing with Mercury as a rockabilly act.