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
Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
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.
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.
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.
After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.
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.
I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.
Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.