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Conway Twitty: Jimmy Jenkins
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Conway Twitty was born Harold Jenkins on Sept. 1, 1933, in the small town of Friars Point, Miss. His father, a riverboat pilot, taught him his first guitar chords when Conway was just 4 years old. From a black church in the town, he heard the
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Conway Twitty began playing the guitar at the age of five. After his family moved to Helena, Arkansas, when he was a teenager, he formed his first band, a country-blues group called The Phillips County Ramblers. In between playing a weekly radio show on station KFFA, Jenkins contemplated a career in pro baseball, nearly signing with the Philadelphia Phillies before being drafted to serve in the Korean War during the early 1950s.
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Conway Twitty married three times. And after his death the widow, Dee Henry Jenkins, and his four grown children from the previous wives, Michael, Joni, Kathy and Jimmy Jenkins, fell into a very public dispute over the estate. His will had not been updated to account for the third marriage, but Tennessee law reserves one third of any estate to the widow. A public auction of much property and memorabilia had to be held due to the inability of the heirs to agree on a division of the assets.
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Harold Jenkins aka Conway Twitty was instrumental in bringing Ronnie Hawkins to Canada, thereby making The Band possible. The members of Twitty's group the Rock Housers, later known as the "Twitty Birds," (see ... the photo in Levon's book after p.96) were the late Joe E. Lewis, guitar, drummer Jack Nance who taught Levon how to twirl sticks (see Levon's book p.78 and 79 ) and Blackie Preston, bass.
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Twitty married three times. After his death, his widow, Dee Henry Jenkins, and his four grown children from the previous marriages, Michael, Joni, Kathy and Jimmy Jenkins engaged in a public dispute over the estate. His will had not been updated to account for the third marriage, but Tennessee law reserves one third of any estate to the widow. A public auction of much property and memorabilia (including his wristwatch collection) was held due to the fact that the widow refused to accept the appraised value so therefore she demanded that everything be sold so she could get a higher amount.
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In the case Harold L. Jenkins (a/k/a Howard Twitty) v. Commissioner, 47 T.C.M. (CCH) 238 n.14, Twitty sued to allow his repayment of investors in his bankrupted Twitty Burger fast food chain to be deductible as a business expense. The opinion closed with the following poem:
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