So Farewell Then Charley Pride

[shull]

Legend dead at 86

 

[smcc]

17 minutes ago, Yflab said:

@shull

I believe he died from Covid-19. Are you still in denial?

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Of course he didn't. Covid 19 doesn't exist. He only had 'flu!

[Bud the Baker]

Interesting life, was a minor league baseball player and a regular worker before making it in C&W - his record company were initially reluctant to reveal his colour releasing his early records without photos - there's footage of him walking onstage at an early concert and the applause petering away when the audience realized he was black.....

[Eric Arthur Blair]

One of my Dad's favourites..

[Slarti]

... there's footage of him walking onstage at an early concert and the applause petering away when the audience realized he was black.

One of my Dad's favourites..

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[WeeBud]

11 hours ago, Bud the Baker said:

Interesting life, was a minor league baseball player and a regular worker before making it in C&W - his record company were initially reluctant to reveal his colour releasing his early records without photos - there's footage of him walking onstage at an early concert and the applause petering away when the audience realized he was black.....

Aye, in the American Negro League as very few black players could break through at that time in baseball and then making it on the "almost exclusively white, at that time, Country scene says quite a lot about the strength of his character. There is a really good section dedicated to him at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.