''Southern Comfort'' is the forty-fourth studio album by American

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singer Conway Twitty. The album was released in February 1982, by Elektra Records. Twitty had signed with the label after a long tenure with

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and one of its predecessors, Decca Records; the change in allegiance was owed to a change in management in MCA which also shifted its focus to marketing and promoting newer artists. This album spawned two #1 country hits. One was in an original song called " The Clown" and the other was in a rendition of the Pointer Sisters' 1981 hit "

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", which he reworked to suit his personality. The latter single, his 29th #1 country hit, was his final multi-week #1 hit on ''Billboard'''s country single charts.

Track listing

Personnel

* Acoustic Guitar – Kenny Bell * Acoustic Guitar, Lead Guitar – Brent Rowan * Arranged By (strings) – Bergen White * Art Direction – Norm Ung * Backing Vocals – Wennis W. Wilson, Don Gant, Doug Clements, Duane West, James E. "Buzz" Cason, Lea Jane Berinati, Vicki Hampton, Yvonne Hodges * Banjo – Jack Hicks * Bass – Bob Wray * Design – Kosh * Drums, Percussion – James Stroud, Jerry Carrigan * Engineer – Ron Treat * Keyboards – Randy McCormick * Lead Guitar – Reggie Young * Lead Vocals - Conway Twitty * Mastered By – Glenn Meadows * Photography By – Jim Shea * Producer – Conway Twitty * Producer, Recorded By – Jimmy Bowen * Steel Guitar, Dobro – John Hughey * Strings – Sheldon Kurland Strings

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1982 albums Conway Twitty albums Elektra Records albums Albums produced by Jimmy Bowen