Reflecting on Charley Pride. How he went from picking cotton in his home state of Mississippi to Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville Tennessee. A PBS documentary. RIP Charlie.
Charley sang a song that he hadn't rehearsed live on stage, he had to have someone print out the lyrics... he did it because I told him it was my wife and I's anniversary and it was her favorite song. That is the kind of guy Charley Pride was. The fact that covid stole this wonderful man away from us breaks my heart. We will ALWAYS love you Charley... thank you for the music my friend.
Aww i didnt know covid killed our beautiful singer charley pride .i remember me &my brother sitting in the back of our station wagon when we were kids & singing his songs real loud it drove my dad mad cause he couldnt hear charley on the radio thru our singing .he just loved charley .
@@janiece1439 Yes, sadly, Charley passed of complications due to Covid-19. He got it earlier on when the strains were stronger the treatments weren't as good. He was such a great guy, it made me so sad to learn that covid had stolen him away from us.
@@bigbadjohn8099 thank you for sharing this info .he will forever be missed .if my father was still alive he would be sadened by this news .chareley was one of his favorite & most proud of singers .he was just tickled over him .i miss them two dearly .when i hear a song from charley i always remember the times with my dad & brother.
One of the greatest blessings in this life is to behold natural talent & ability fully developed, realized, and appreciated. Mr Charley Pride personified courage, dignity, humanity, humility and grace. We love you, Mr Charlie Pride. Thank you for sharing your light with the world...
George jones said who's gonna fill their shoes.. And one of those guys is Charlie.. There are only a few of the pioneers left. Rip Mr Pride, thank you for your talent and music.
That is so true. I am from the Caribbean the place of Calypso and reggae music but there counrty music is very popular in some of the island . I have appoint myself s the Classic Country Muisc Medic of the Caribbean keeping the tradition alive.
I am an old 81 year old “white” great Grannie, I have loved Charley Pride since the first time I heard him sing,& he is STILL MY VERY FAVORITE SINGER & I still Love ❤️ him. Rest In Peace, Dear Charley, all of us, your fans will always miss you,& still listen to you sing.♥️🙏🏼
Charlie Pride is a legendary country music 🎶 pioneer! Sadly, Charlie is no longer a living legend, but he is still a country music legend 😢 💔 Charlie Pride sings with the angels now, but he will never be forgotten 😢 💔 💙 ❤️ 🙏 😔
If it will help you please remember this great American singer, Had great voice , and sang with all his Heart and soul opening many doors for black children to follow ! God bless You Charlie because you had pride in all your music
Charlie Pride had the perfect voice to reflect the pain, grit, hope, love that captures the soul and emotion that country music fans understand and relate to.
I can't "like" or "dislike" this video. I grew up in the 60's. I had NO IDEA Charie Pride was black, I didn't care. Only knew I loved his music. Thank you, GOD, for Mr. Charlie. ...and here I am almost 60 years later. Still LOVE HIS MUSIC, still don't give a crap about the pigment of either of our skin. He knew he was more than his skin color: THANK YOU, GOD, FOR Mr. Charlie.
Looks are overrated in this aesthetically driven society. As a black teen in 70s my parents often played country music on the 📻 radio and we loved it. We saw Mr Pride on Hee 📺Haw as well.
We find that Strange, as growing up in the 40s and going to church we sang this song, Jesus Loves the Little Children All The Children of the World, RED and Yellow, Black and white ALL are Precious in His sight Jesus Loves the Little Children of the World. And it never bothered us to be more browner then others, it's only skin deep, remove that and we are all the same, They where the Good times, all the best to everyone, and the Pride Family, Chow for now lol 🎸🎷🎤🥁🍰
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Never knew much about him.. while I’m not a fan of country music.. I appreciate this man’s dignity, class and perseverance through it all… truly an American hero 🙏🏾✊🏾
I started listening to Charlie sing back in the 60's and still do. His voice was a magic that took him to the top of country music and we'll be playing his music for a long, long time.
I am from Kingston, Jamaica and I grew up with my mommy listening to Charley Price every Sunday after church. Now I listen most days and it bring me such Joy.🙏
I had the joy to see him in Branson Mo and I knew almost every song he sang and I sang quietly with him . I started dating my husband in 1971 he put a player in his car I told him I would buy some music. I bought Charles Pride Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn. We would ride around and listen to them over and over. We got married had 3 kids and in 1983 he was killed in a car wreck . I was 30 and so scared and heartbroken when my kids went to bed I would listen to music it seem to help but by that time I loved Conway Twitty so I have several of his CDS. Rest In Peace Mr Charly Pride , Conway Twitty and of course the big Elvis. There are so many more but I can’t put all of them on here but I still listen to all of you and it makes my heart feel good because it brings back memories of me dating my first. husband the father of my children and it’s a good memory. Thank all of you so much you will never be forgotten
Charlie's mother-in-law lived across Highway 6 from me in Oxford, MS in 1979. She was a great story teller and wonderful personality. She (Mama) lived in a 3 room sharecropper house where she and her husband raised several children while farming 300 acres of cotton. The house is still there and has doubled in size. Although I am white ... she welcomed me into her home where we had several visits.
One of the best Country Singers to ever live. I loved his music. I never could get to one of his concerts, but I still listen to his music. Thanks You for all of the great songs Charley. You will be missed.
I was only able to 3 times because he came to our fair. And that's the only times I ever seen him. My mom had every 33rpm album he ever recorded up to the year she died in 1973. She especially liked his gospel music.
Well I guess right now I'm older than any of you 77 closer to 78. My grandparents sugarcane and they themselves picked it. They raised everything they ate nearly the cotton sail went for modern mattresses back then coffee sugar and flour the rest of it as far as I know they raised if they didn't raise it they didn't eat it. My mother picked cotton there was no one in the parish that was poor and my daddy and his family. They nearly starved to death. They had no shoes in the winter and on occasion and they wanted to they went to school the dead of winter breaking eyes with their bear feet .
Their daddy living but deserted them their mother had a nervous breakdown and was unable to care for the children today defended themselves best they could. How they make bandage to live I don't know. Here I come during the last years of World War II daddy made managed to miss the war because he was needed, still poor you have to live without. His talent was on the end of a shovel LOL my mother pick cotton also and it was just as hot on the whites as it was on the blacks just about everybody in the South was poor and at the verge of starvation most of them never got out of property but did work and worked hard!!!.. yes you got very serious trouble if you weren't able to work.
I remember my grandmother washing clothes by hand across the road near their house and a ditch with homemade soap. In the death of hot sun and the hot summers of the South they worked and the brutal winners yes the winners were extremely cold cuz it's wet. They worked getting up before daylight milking feeding chickens taken care of the other animals and getting ready for the field. My grandmother work right besides my grandfather all day learn to cook on the wood stove without burning the house down. Came in for dinner rested about an hour and went back to the field till dark eating leftovers are cornbread and milk for supper nearly every day and was very thankful for it!
I will stop here to keep from boring new to death. My sad mistreating story is. We were all poor to the Bone and the South even in the 50s a few years after the war. White people knew how to do without I still be thankful they had what little they had work very hard eating dirt all day. And pick cotton.!!! Oh by the way they were too poor to have a radio!!... I never heard any one of them complain R belly ache not one time!!! Did not have a car horse and buggy went to town on the back roads in the early fifties. The point of my story is white people also done without in hard times , you worked all you didn't eat!! I remember going to school barefooted myself and I wasn't the only white kid that didn't have any shoes. I remember being hungry woke up hungry and went to bed hungry. You don't have to be black to be hungry you don't have to be black to pick cotton or do any kind of Labor you don't even have to be black you have to work to eat. Just so you know!
I have listened to Charlie Pride from the mid 60's a long time . I can remember the first time I heard him on KFDI radio station in Wichita , Ks. He is the one man in my life I always admired and looked up to . To me there was no greater country artist. There are several close. But to me he was the very best .
Charlie was a mighty singer, and an inspiring person. Praise God he had a strong faith. I'd like to meet him in Heaven, where the Saviour of sinners of every colour, will dwell in perfect peace. Hallelujah!! What an assurrance is ours!! Standing on the promises of God!!
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What a great man , period! I never even thought of his color , color is not a factor in life unless your a fool! Mr. Charley Pride, A great man a living legacy has been left by this great man Awesome voice, great personality, he had it all
Once when Charlie Pride played at the Louisiana Hay Ride in Shreveport my husband and I with another couple rode our motorcycles 🏍 to the show. After the show Charlie signed our motorcycle 🏍 helmets ⛑. I don't know what happened to mine but I wish I still had it. He was #1 in my book.
I first heard Charlie Pride as a DJ at KADL in Pine Bluff Ar. The Station Mgr. Chester Pierce brought a record into the control room where I was on the air, and told me to play it and tell him what I thought of it. I believe that was 1964. It was one of those tunes you knew was going to be a hit as soon as you heard it. That song was the Snakes Crawl at Night, and the singer was a Black Man. It blew me away. I had never heard a Black man sing country music in the true country fashion. What a great Country star He was. RIP Mr Pride. I'm sure your singing for the Angels now.
Sankes Crawal at Nights was one of Charlie's first recoding the producers at the time did not expect much from the black singer as to how he would be acepted by the movers and shakers of the country genre . So they did the publicity without his photo. Today his photo is recognized worldwide.
Charlie Pride was a great singer in country music he will be missed I really love his voice he is a true singer and I will miss him dearly he is singing country music in heaven with the others that has gone before us he is also singing in God’s choir with all the angels 😇
There are some well known stars that die, and it just hits so hard. Charlie Pride's passing still hurts. I still have a Charlie Pride cassette tape from around 1968. The first songs I remember hearing was Crystal Chandelier, Millers Cave, Before I Met You, & Detroit City. His voice was unique.
I was 9 years old when Mr. Pride first sang at The Grand Ole Opry and I've been a fan ever since. He is wonderful to listen to and beautiful to look at!
Bottom line is, when black and white were not seeing eye to eye in the world, country musicians and country fans welcomed him with open arms. Every song Charlie Pride sang was an ACE in my book!!!
So many great memories of times past come to mind just when hearing his beautiful singing. God bless his family and thanks for sharing his awesome life and talent with us. Gone too soon.
Loved it when on “The View” Whoopi tried to make Charlie answer “What was it like to be the 1st black c&w singer, Charlie shut her down saying “ he was just a c&w singer, Being black didn’t cross his mind.”
back in 1970, I was station at camp jejune, some good old boys were talking in the barracks about chalie pride, one thing sticks in my mind here in 2022, one marine said, I dont care if he is black, The man can sing!!!!
I fell in love with the sound of Charlie Pride long before I ever saw a photo of him, then after I did, I was double impressed because, at that time, I saw a culture where a black man would find it very hard to progress, let alone succeed, with the attitude of the culture as I saw it.
@@flyerbob124 ...... No, my dad had no idea. Until he came to our town for the fair and my dad could get tickets through his work and he saw him interviewed on the news . Boy was he shocked and I can't say what he said. My dad was very prejudiced. To say the least.
My father was ( Pop Ivey ) disc jockey D.J. In rural New Brunswick in the early 60, 70, 80, Charley Pride was one of 🎵 songs playing in house I remember him getting ready for a dance 💃 time flys it’s was definitely great memories…….
Was so blessed to have had the opportunity of seeing Charley Pride perform when he was touring here in Wellington NZ many years ago, my husband loved his music, ty Charley Pride RIP
I have always loved his music, got to see him in concert a few years ago. He has such an awesome voice. I felt so bad when he died. Charlie was such a humble man.
Linda Martell was the first Black Female country singer on The Grand Ole Opry. Her 1970 lp, Color Me Country was re-released this summer, 2022 on orange vinyl. Linda was on the same record company as Jeannie C.Riley. After "Harper Valley PTA" huge success Linda wasn't receiving much attention and left Nashville!!! Her lp is on ebay.
I remember going to school in the 60's and someone said that song the local radio station is playing, is a black man. I can say no one didn't say anything negative. We just loved his voice and songs he sang.
Oh Charlie Pride grew up listening to you in Africa you introduced me to country music in Primary school!! Am deeply.happy to see you at the White House with our first African American President Obama!!! What a beautiful memories you two,have given me!!!!💫💖💖👏❤️❣️🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍
I Love Charley Pride I Have Since His Beginning And I Will Until The Day I Die He Has Been My Favorite Country Music Artist Since He First Came On The Scene Of Country Music And Even Though He Has Passed Away He Lives On In My Heart ❤️ And He Will For As Long As I Live May He Rest In Peace And May He Always Be Remembered As The Pride Of Country Music.
Every time I hear Charley sing,& see him perform , I still shed tears. I will always have the greatest admiration and respect for him, coming from the cotton fields to becoming a world country music legend who will ALWAYS BE MISSED ,& LOVED ❤❤❤❤💧💧💧
You are the one and only county singer that we all love so much We are going to miss you so much not coming to Ireland 🇮🇪. But we will all meet you one day when we go to Heaven you will be singing down at the River Jorden 🎻🎸🎤🤗🤗🤗
Love to hear Charlie sing. As a teenager the first song I played on a jukebox was Charlie's Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger. That was in a little diner in Webb City Mo. Loved his voice. Dan
I saw Charlie on his last tour of Australia in Perth.I fell in love with his music in the 60’s and have enjoyed it ever since.He made so many people happy with his wonderful country music.A great man who will be deeply missed.Thank you for being you Charlie Pride. Love from Australia ❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘
I grew up listening to this legend along with Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Lynn Anderson and Tammy Wynette. In 2011 we went on a 3600 mile road trip down to the South from our home here in Alberta. One of the highlights was a stop in Nashville where we visited the Ryman Theater. It was so thrilling to stand on the stage where all of these wonderful musicians stood 🌟
My parents went to see him early in his career. They didn’t know he was even black. But they said he told the audience that without them, he would still be picking cotton. They said he received a standing ovations during his performance. I wish i had seen Him perform. He’s one of the best Country Musicians of all time. I just love to hear him sing, it puts a big smile on my face.
Back then country music was country music and Charlie pride was country music the pure country music the one and only kind of country music there will ever be 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
I was born in 1957, I'm a 57 Chevy, I grew this old loving,and listening and singing Mr Charley Pride,and never really 💭 💭 thought of black or White. Charly pride did have a gift, he was gentle,and a good example to all man kind.
My husband and I have always enjoyed listing to Charlie pride and have his albums. He had such a wonderful tone voice. We never knew that he was black until I saw him which did not make any difference to me. He had a very gifted voice, that we all love them and still now. Charlie, thank you for being a role model in baseball and country music. You were the greatest. Betty Gordon, Iowa fan forever.
