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Charley Pride was a great American. A professional ball player at 17 years of age. Country Music's Jackie Robinson. He adhered to the faith that God is in charge of all. He said that there's worse things than being thought Republican ........

I enjoy many types of music at some point or another. I have a CD by Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans. I never tire of hearing Tumbleweed or 'Cool Clear Water'. I was looking for something similar but more recent. I took a chance on this CD collection by Charley Pride. The Essential Charley Pride. This is what I call a Back to Back playable album collection. Meaning, I enjoy listening to it from the first to the last of 20 songs. (Maybe just one track that I can do without). I came across a sweet little tune that pleasantly...

..Welcome to the weekend gotta get "love" into the music. The governments spend more money, borrow more money from China, the countries become more like China. Which country gave us the first concentration camps any with some bad consequences for the country that was hurt by the concentration camps their own racist era followed by a left-wing one party dominated which is what South Africa is today? The country that erected the first concentration camps where thousands died (and gassed its enemies in World War One wounding Corporal Hitler among others) went on a downward spiral... Newsdump Update: Joe Biden...

The pants are down and the truth is out "The Five" of the US Supreme Court turned out in reality to be only "The Two". The "Conservative Movement" sales pitch for four "Conservative" justices (Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett) turned out to be a scam... Day 272 Of The Dictatorship of COVID-19: Trump's Shrewd Response Way back in March President Trump put Vice-President Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus response leading the White House Coronavirus Task Force with its cast of characters including the high-profile Dr. Anthony Fauci and others like Dr. Robert Redfield of the Centers for Disease...

Country music legend Charley Pride has reportedly died from complications from COVID-19. The pioneering black country music star was a legend in the country music industry with over two dozen number one hits. Born in Mississippi in the 1930s, Pride picked cotton before playing baseball in the then-segregated leagues. Pride served in the U.S. Army and worked in a Montana smelting plant before breaking out as Nashville's first black superstar, Rolling Stone reported. While accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, Pride addressed his experience as a black singer in the country music industry. "My older sister one time said,...

Country legend Charley Pride — cited as an early pioneer for Black musicians in country music — died on Saturday in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 86 due to complications from COVID-19, a statement on his website confirmed. With top hits including “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” and “Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone,” Pride became the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. He was born in Mississippi in 1934 as the son of a sharecropper. After a brief time serving in the Army and some unsuccessful attempts at becoming a professional baseball...

Country music legend Charley Pride has died at the age of 86 of complications from COVID-19 in Dallas, his representative announced Saturday.

The nerves of the world frayed by an authoritarianism imposed on all of us by the forces of Big Government (All Major Established Political Parties Worldwide) and Big Business in the name of "health and safety" and the drama of politicians demanding money so we can elect US Senators who will supposedly defend our freedom from a "socialist, communist President Joe Biden". The socialism and communism is already here, the whole world is Venezuela... God forbid you would learn of the Danish study of six thousand, a real scientific study. It revealed that the difference between wearing the face diaper...

I've been working like crazy 'in the front line' of coronavirus transmission this week and forgetting to accurately chronicle the tyranny imposed on us using COVID-19 as an excuse. Today is Day 251 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19 as measured here in Pennsylvania. And here he is the man who would have been America's first President of Jewish heritage had he been elected in 1964. A man whose ancestors were Russian Jews demonized as a "hater" and an "anti-Semite" and an admirer of Hitler's Germany, a "racist" Barry Goldwater speaks of defending "liberty" and "justice". "extremism in the defense of...

Country Music Hall of Famer, who turns 86 today, made a return appearance to show and sang Lead Belly’s “Cotton Fields”Born March 18th, 1934, singer Charley Pride, left his birthplace of Sledge, Mississippi, at age 16 and later became one of the most successful country artists of all time. But that wasn’t exactly what he had first planned. The son of a sharecropper, Pride first left his family’s 40-acre cotton farm 50 miles south of Memphis to play professional baseball in the Negro American League. Pride would go on to work at a smelter in Montana, playing ball and also...

Country music singer Charley Pride dropped by the Arkansas Senate to lead lawmakers in a sing-along, and to praise the Little Rock hospital that removed a tumor from his vocal cords 10 years ago.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In the 1992 film "White Men Can't Jump," dimwitted Billy (Woody Harrelson) and his sassy girlfriend Gloria (Rosie Perez) are riding in a convertible and listening to a cassette of Ray Charles' classic country album, "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music." As Charles croons "Careless Love," Billy asks, "Would somebody please explain to me why this Negro is singing cowboy music?" "You know, this is my favorite song," Gloria says. "It makes me think about making love to you. It makes me want to just take you, and lock you up in a room, and make...