PBS: American Masters-Charley Pride

[Stallion]

talk about a trail-blazer-he was about 5 decades before his time. He is one of the greats-enjoying hearing some of those songs that don't get played much any more. Recommend

[erpowers]

1. Watching

I am watching the show now. I am enjoying much of his music. It is an interesting show.

[Stallion]

2. Mountain of Love

3rd Verse is the best

Way down below there's a half a million people
Somewhere there's a church and a big tall steeple
Inside the church there's an alter filled with flowers
Wedding bells are ringing and it should have been ours
That's why I so lonely, I dream from above
High on a mountain of love

[CaptainTruth]

9. +1

[ripcord]

3. Always loved his voice

[SHRED]

6. I love that song💘

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. Thanks for the alert. Not a country fan, but I do listen to this one from time to time.

Somebody gave me the RCA LP back around 1969 and I still have it. Out of the hundreds of CDs and LPs I own, this is probably one of the very few country music albums I play.

Charlie Pride In Person - Panther Hall Ft Worth, Texas in 1969.

[Stallion]

5. The Guy was so authentic that He Literally had Millions of Racist Southerners...

singing along to a tune about the life of a cotton-picker-and the working men could relate to that beyond the race line

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. Pride used to tell the story about a lady who went to one of this concerts.

She didn't believe he was really black. When Charlie came out on the stage and started singing, she screamed out "It's True, It's True".

[GulfCoast66]

8. Wow! Blast from the past!

My 80 something year old mother, now very financially secure picked cotton as a child.

He father would hire a man(white) to bring in a crew(black) to pick the cotton. But pawpaw did not believe in hiring people to do work you would not do yourself. So he would have the whole family out there picking cotton with the help.

I remember when Roots aired and looking back with the nudity and all, I can’t believe it was aired!

Anyway, I was pretty young, but I remember they showed slaves with bleeding hands and Mother hollering out that their hands were bleeding in the wrong spot. If I remember correctly, and I admit that after 45 years I may not, they showed bloody palms. Mother said it was the back of her fingers that got torn up.