RIP Charley Pride

[TheSportsPredictor]

Country music’s first black superstar:

Charley Pride, Country's First Black Superstar, Dies of Covid-19 Complications

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Was also a darn good baseball player:

The Baseball Career of Charley Pride

 

[maumann]

Ouch. RIP Charley.

Thirty No. 1 country hits after being traded for a used bus in the Negro Leagues and working as a iron ore smelter in Montana. Easily the biggest Black country star ever.

"(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone" and "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'" are absolute solid country gold.

 

[Tighthead]

I always loved this one. Simple song, but earnest.

Willie once kicked over a hornet’s best by kissing Charley on the cheek.

 

[DanOregon]

Streaks of six straight no. 1 singles and five straight no. 1 singles over a four year period. Four straight no. 1 albums. Few country singers have met or surpassed that kind of run. Few singers of any genre for that matter.

 

[swingline]

Ouch. RIP Charley.

Thirty No. 1 country hits after being traded for a used bus in the Negro Leagues and working as a iron ore smelter in Montana. Easily the biggest Black country star ever.

"(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone" and "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'" are absolute solid country gold.

Country Gold on your late-night lonesome AM dial is the only place you’ll hear those these days.

 

[Jerry-atric]

My friends, I could not even imagine playing baseball while hearing impaired.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

My friends, I could not even imagine playing baseball while hearing impaired.

That was Curtis Pride

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/curtis-pride/

 

[Jake from State Farm]

"(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone" and "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'" are absolute solid country gold.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Moved these over from the locked thread



Country legend Charley Pride succumbs to Covid-19 complications

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Probably the most famous Texas Rangers fan outside of W. Not too many of those around these days.

 

[maumann]

Country Gold on your late-night lonesome AM dial is the only place you’ll hear those these days.

I'm actually surprised someone hasn't created a Country Gold format (other than SiriusXM). I'd think there'd be at least as much interest in the southeast and deep south as for other oldies.

 

[ChrisLong]

Ross Newhan, Hall of Fame baseball writer, posted on Facebook today that Pride was in camp with the expansion Angels in 1961. When he was cut, the clubbie snuck him a couple of tuna fish sandwiches because he knew Pride had nothing, including an unknown future.

 

[Splendid Splinter]

Parents used to have Charlie Pride 8-tracks. Law-Liga, Kiss an Angel Good Morning, great voice, great stuff.

 

[User 149557]

Got a nice segment in Ken Burns’ documentary.

 

[BTExpress]

Probably the most famous Texas Rangers fan outside of W. Not too many of those around these days.

He was 1A . . . in Fort Worth, anyway.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Lots of chatter that Charlie caught the bug at the CMA's, his last time in public before he got ill.

 

[MTM]

Lots of chatter that Charlie caught the bug at the CMA's, his last time in public before he got ill.

CMA insists protocols were followed after Charley Pride dies of COVID-19 a month after attending event

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Lots of chatter that Charlie caught the bug at the CMA's, his last time in public before he got ill.