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[email protected] ARTIST Conway Twitty TITLE Rocks At The Castaway Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio 3rd - 9th August 1964 LABEL Bear Family Productions CATALOG # BCD 17413 PRICE-CODE BS EAN-CODE ÇxDTRBAMy174131z FORMAT 2 CD digipac with 24-page booklet GENRE Rock’n’Roll TRACKS 29 PLAYING TIME 101:54 G High-quality live recordings, made in 1964. G Rock 'n' Roll artist Conway Twitty at the turning point. G Carefully restored and re-mastered for CD release. G Best sound quality ever presented of this material. G Contains songs Conway never recorded either before or after these shows. INFORMATION It's August 1964 and Conway Twitty and his band, the Lonely Blue Boys, are playing a gig at the Castaway, a club/bar at Geneva- on-the-Lake, Ohio, the lake being Lake Erie. During the preceding seven years, Conway had been a rock 'n' roll star, placing 14 songs on the Top 100 charts, with It's Only Make Believe making #1 in late 1958. By 1964 he was already looking to a career in country music either as a writer or performer. He had been recording country demos for several years and within a year of this Ohio engagement, he would record with Owen Bradley at DECCA RECORDS and set up a winning streak of chart entries that lasted for the next quarter of a century, right up until his early death at the age of 59 in 1993.