toslow Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 (edited) will not be down for breakfast, Sad really i grew up listening to classic country Edited December 12, 2020 by toslow no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayward Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Man the older one's are disappearing regularly anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awful knawful Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 This is so sad. Last Christmas my wife and I bought my parents front row Charlie Pride tickets for Moncton NB. My mother called me immediately Christmas morning crying. She said it was the best gift she had ever got. I did not know, but my parents went to see him in the early 70s when they first got married, they're now 70 & 71. Unfortunately, the concert was cancelled due to covid. My parents are quite upset they won't get to see him. RIP Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Blackstar Posted December 13, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 13, 2020 1 hour ago, awful knawful said: This is so sad. Last Christmas my wife and I bought my parents front row Charlie Pride tickets for Moncton NB. My mother called me immediately Christmas morning crying. She said it was the best gift she had ever got. I did not know, but my parents went to see him in the early 70s when they first got married, they're now 70 & 71. Unfortunately, the concert was cancelled due to covid. My parents are quite upset they won't get to see him. RIP Charlie That’s too bad. I always intend to see him as he came through Ontario regularly. But it was always in the summer and I never had the time. RIP Charlie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Crappie Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 RIP, really a great one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The One Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 My papa and nana loved his music, RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
favoritos Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I grew up hearing his music along with a pile of other country artists of the time. The record stack was basically limited to that genre. I don't remember what age I was when I noticed that he had a different color skin. At that time it didn't seem like any big deal. It was all country music in my head. It seems odd that now it is such a big deal. This is quoted text from an old Charlie Pride interview. “They used to ask me how it feels to be the `first colored country singer,‘” he told The Dallas Morning News in 1992. “Then it was `first Negro country singer;’ then `first black country singer.′ Now I’m the `first African-American country singer.′ That’s about the only thing that’s changed. This country is so race-conscious, so ate-up with colors and pigments. I call it `skin hangups’ — it’s a disease.” He always seemed like a level headed guy. He will be missed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I thought he was already dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awful knawful Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 2 hours ago, ActionfigureJoe said: I thought he was already dead. Figures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snatchslayer Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I met Charlie Pride in 09 on a reserve while we were up there selling atvs and sleds. Was performing at an event they put on. Got a signed poster for the mom in law who absolutely loved Charlie. She shit her pants when I gave it to her. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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