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Charley Pride

Charley Pride

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Charley Pride — America's Coloured Cowboy

Profile by John Abbey, Record Mirror, 5 August 1967

ASK ANYBODY who knows anything about Country Music to name an artiste with a bright future in this field and you'll hear the name Charley ...

Charley Pride: Country Pride

Comment by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 17 March 1969

IT WAS COUNTRY Music Week in Nashville, Tennessee, during the fall of 1966. Several of us from the Southern Student Organizing Committee were in town ...

Charley Pride, Lynn Anderson: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 30 October 1971

Perplexing Popularity Of Pride ...

Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette and George Jones: Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta GA

Live Review by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 31 February 1972

GOOD COUNTRY ...

Charley Pride

Interview by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 1 February 1973

CHARLEY PRIDE has come a long way from Sledge, Mississippi, where he and ten brothers and sisters picked cotton alongside their parents. In 1971 the Country ...

Jerry Bradley: This Nashville dynamo doesn't sing a note

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 13 February 1977

PEOPLE WITH careers in the record world refer to their industry as the music business for one elementary reason. It is a business, with a ...

Ronnie Milsap: Inside Ronnie Milsap (RCA AHL1-4311); Charley Pride: Charley Sings Everybody's Choice (RCA AHL1- 4287)

Review by Joe Sasfy, The Washington Post, 16 July 1982

Milsap Loses Soul; Pride's in a Rut ...

Charley Pride: Painters Mill Star Theatre, Owings Mills MD

Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 8 November 1982

Charley Pride has the voice but not verve. ...

Charley Pride: Pride In His Country

Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 6 July 1984

The Black Singer Who Crossed Over ...

Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? Black country music in the USA

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, BMG Books, 1987

NOTE: This piece is adapted from the 1987 book Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted, which was reissued in 2018 by BMG with the ...

Charley Pride

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

b. 18 March 1938, Sledge, Mississippi, USA ...

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