Rip Charlie Pride

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  1. Shirley Martin

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    Another one of the truly great ones gone. Charley Pride has died from complications of COVID-19.

    “I’d like to be remembered as a good person who tried to be a good entertainer and made people happy, was a good American who paid his taxes and made a good living,” he said in 1985. “I tried to do my best and contribute my part.”

     
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    Wow; I hadn't heard this sad news. Thanks for the music, Charley. RIP.
     
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    I remember listening to a country music program on the radio that played his music calling him "Country" Charlie Pride when I was in the service. He goes back quite a ways.
     
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    Charley Pride & Don Helms - "Your Cheatin' Heart"
     
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    I always liked Charley Pride...he had a gimmick that no other CW singer had!

    Hal
     
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    Charlie Pride has always been one of my favorite country-western singers, and I can’t think of any of his songs that i didn’t really like. I think that this one is probably my favorite, but it is hard to choose one of another of them.

     
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