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Fabulous Flip Sides In Memoriam – Charley Pride Remembering country music legend Charley Pride with Bill Anderson and Naomi Judd Author: CMA Music Festival, 2018, photo by John Shearer/Contour, Getty Images On December 12, we lost Charley Pride at the age of 86 from COVID-19. The prior month, he performed and received the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th Annual Country Music Association Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker. Charley was a friend of Goldmine, participating in multiple interviews in recent years. In his 2014 Goldmine interview Charley ...

By Peter Cooper and Barb Hall Often referred to as the “Jackie Robinson of Country music,” merging the line between country music and baseball was a seamless transition for Charley Pride. Raised as less than a citizen in segregated Mississippi, Pride’s buttery voice and steely resolve earned him a place as one of American music’s most impactful artists. He landed in Nashville in 1963, the same year the Tennessee capital was the site of sit-ins and racial violence. Two years later, he was a major label recording artist in the otherwise lily-white country music field, and in short time ...

Charley Pride worked a knuckle ball into his arsenal of pitches during the 1956 season with the Memphis Red Sox and the results were so successful he was named to the Negro American League All-Star team. Then, his baseball dreams were abruptly put on hold for two years as he was drafted into the Army. His military service didn’t stop his momentum as he returned to the all-star game in 1958. He eventually earned tryouts with two major league teams before shoulder problems ended his career. Pride had a solid “Plan B” to fall back on. Recording tracks at Sun Records in Memphis in ...

Charley Pride, country music’s first black superstar and the first black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died Saturday, Dec. 12 at the age of 86. Pride visited Branson many times to perform and also had an extended stay in Branson in the 90’s where he performed at the Charley Pride Theatre, now the White House Theatre, for a few years. Pride died in Dallas, Texas due to complications from COVID-19. Born a sharecropper’s son in Sledge, Mississippi on March 18, 1934, Pride left the farm to play baseball. Pride first played organized games in the Iowa State League and th...

Country Legend Charley Pride Dies From Covid At 86 American country music legend Charley Pride has become a victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pride is dead at age 86. RCA Records recording artist Pride was at one time the second biggest selling RCA artist after Elvis Presley. He is also one of only three African-American artists to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. In the 1950s Pride excelled in sport and was a baseball player for the Memphis Red Sox. In 1958 Charley visited Sun Records in Memphis and diverted his vocation to music. In 1971 he had his biggest hit ‘Kiss An Angel Good M...