Conway Twitty’s song was banned from broadcast by his own family for years because it evoked a painful and unfulfilled love affair with Loretta Lynn — but fate chose a different path, as the song was quietly played at his funeral, as a final farewell, a belated acceptance of a lifelong love that could never be expressed
Introduction: To the public, the musical partnership between Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn came to define an entire era of classic country…