Charley Pride
Charley Pride
Charley Frank Prideis an American country music singer, musician/guitarist, recording artist, performer, and business owner. His greatest musical success came in the early- to mid-1970s when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. During the peak years of his recording career, he garnered 52 top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 29 of which made it to number one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth18 March 1938
CitySledge, MS
CountryUnited States of America
There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.
Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.
Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.
As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.
A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.
After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.