American Masters

TWITTY

Hey, Louisiana woman

LYNN

Mississippi man

TOGETHER

We get together every time we can The Mississippi River can't keep us apart

TWITTY

There's too much love in this Mississippi heart

LYNN

Too much love in this Louisiana heart Doolittle found our first song that we recorded together, "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man." Doolittle found that while we were on tour, yeah. We come in, and he had that going. He said, "I found you-uns a hit song." And Conway said, "I believe you have." He looked at me, and I said, "I think it is a hit." We cut it, and it was a hit.

TWITTY

Hey, Louisiana woman

LYNN

Mississippi man

TOGETHER

We get together every time we can The Mississippi River can't keep us apart

TWITTY

There's too much love in this Mississippi heart

LYNN

Too much love in this Louisiana heart

BROOKS

When these two voices hit, it creates this dimension that you can't get singular -- one without the other.

YEARWOOD

And that's why I've always enjoyed singing with Garth, you know, for the last 25 years, is that there's an energy there that's created together that isn't separate. It isn't taking anything away from the singular artist, but it's just something different. There's an energy there. I think that's why everybody thought Loretta and Conway were married, you know, or at least having an affair, you know, because it was such a connection, and it just worked. You know, hit after hit after hit.

LYNN

Everybody thought me and Conway had a thing going, you know. And that's the farthest from the truth. I loved Conway as a friend, and my husband loved him. Conway was really the only one in the music business that Doo gave a daggone for.

MAN

Really?

LYNN

Yeah. You'd hear him out, they'd be talking. You'd hear Conway just, "Ha ha ha." And I'd wonder, "What the heck is he laughing about?" And Doo would be telling him big jokes. Most of them lies.

Laughs

LYNN

But he had him laughing all the time.

TOGETHER

Love is where you find it When you find no love at home And there's nothin' cold as ashes After the fire is gone

BROOKS

When Conway and Loretta, that Do-do-do Love is where you find it And when they're sitting there, just doing those same waves and everything together, same way with Wynette-Jones, that's -- All of a sudden, man, it just crawls all over you. And that's something I think you can't get from one of them just doing it by themselves.

YEARWOOD

Love is where you find it

TOGETHER

When you find no love at home And there's nothing cold as ashes After the fire is gone