RIP Charlie Pride

[blackhawk]

Not a big country music fan but he was very talented man.
Charley Pride, Pioneering Black Country Singer, Dead at 86

 

[Auld Phart]

 

[candycorn]

Saw him perform a few times. He sang more than anyone I've ever watched live. Almost no chit-chat between songs. He understood that he was there to perform, not tell his life story.

 

[Gdjjr]

Pioneering Country Legend Charley Pride Has Died

 

[lg325]

He did his music his way. Didn't sell out to social pressure. I liked listening to him since a young boy.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

RIP Charlie.

*****SAD SMILE*****

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ I love to hear him sing that song. I also love to hear him sing this song.



God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly

P.S. 2020 can kiss my Holly hump.

 

[Rambunctious]

Don't tell us....covid right?....crash your car and die and you too will get listed as a covid death.....

 

[Gdjjr]

Don't tell us....covid right?....crash your car and die and you too will get listed as a covid death.....

The article, if you would trouble yourself reading - COVID related-
Full disclosure: He also posted about the other country music people that have died this year- when his sources, often as not, family, say COVID related he states it- his last about Billy Joe Shaver made no mention of it.

The owner of the linked website is probably the most objective journalist you'll ever read- and he is a master at crafting a eulogy.

 

[bravoactual]

I saw him in a U.S.O. in Viet Nam...damn he was good.

 

[liarintheWH]

RIP one of the greats.

 

[Concerned American]

Not a big country music fan but he was very talented man.
Charley Pride, Pioneering Black Country Singer, Dead at 86

RIP Mr. Pride, country music will be less without you.

 

[Concerned American]

Pioneering Country Legend Charley Pride Has Died

Country music has lost another legend. RIP Mr. Pride.

 

[two_iron]

RIP Mr. Pride.

Kiss an Angel Good Morning.

 

[jackflash]

Pioneering Country Legend Charley Pride Has Died

They're dropping like flies.

 

[Gdjjr]

Pioneering Country Legend Charley Pride Has Died

They're dropping like flies.

6 this year- and the year has a little time left

 

[Pogo]

Pioneering Country Legend Charley Pride Has Died

This I did not know ---

>> But Pride’s first brush with fame would not be in music, it would be in sports. In 1952 he joined the Memphis Red Sox as a pitcher, which began his career in the Negro American League. Pride was once traded from the Louisville Clippers to the Birmingham Black Barrons for a team bus—the only player trade in baseball history that included a motor vehicle. <<​

One is reminded of a similar story, another guy named Harold Jenkins who was drafted by the Phillies but then drafted by the Army before going into music. I had a 78RPM Sun Records disc, 1956 vintage, that had Jenkins' first song on it, co-written with Roy Orbison. Jenkins then went on to his own career under the name Conway Twitty.

 

[the other mike]

"Complications from Covid-19 " ?
That's highly questionable.
(interview from '94)
In his new autobiography, Pride: The Charley Pride Story, the 55-year-old singer says he has been taking drugs for depression since 1968.

MUSICIAN CHARLEY PRIDE TALKS OF FIGHTING MANIC DEPRESSION

Charley Pride says he has battled manic depression throughout his career as a country music singer. "I still sort of halfway want to deny it," he told The Tennessean newspaper. "But it's kind of hard to do that, especially with my wife telling me the stuff I've done when I really went out of...

www.orlandosentinel.com

 

[Gdjjr]

":Complications from Covid-19 " ?
That's highly questionable.

Of course it is- to begin with, he's 86- it goes down hill from there- if he was in not good health a brisk walk could kill him- but, some 'sources' have to put a twist on everything- as I said, Kyle (the website owner), is the most objective journalist I've ever read- I've been reading his stuff for probably 4 years- if he finds out differently, if he can, (and he will try), he will post his finding.

 

[Lysistrata]

I'm sorry that this man passed away, and my condolences to his family. But who was he? I take it that he was something in country music?