every Saturday morning. He preached at church revivals when he was a teenager. Conway Twitty, born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, attended high school and spent formative years in Tallulah, Louisiana, graduating from Tallulah High School

Jenkins was a baseball player with a batting average of .450 when he graduated from high school, and he was offered a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies in the mid-1950s. He worked for a few months for International Harvester