Hillbilly Music: Charley Pride couldn't make it in professional baseball, but he's a hitmaker in song.Hillbilly-Music.com

Friday, August 27, 2004

Charley Pride couldn't make it in professional baseball, but he's a hitmaker in song.

Charley Pride thought baseball would be his ticket out of the cotton fields of Sledge, Miss., where he was born in 1938 into a family of sharecroppers with 12 children. Between 1955 and 1960, Pride was found regular work in the American Negro baseball league. He also tried to break into the majors with the hapless New York Mets and the newly formed Los Angeles Angels.

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In April, Pride was forced to cancel his first Canadian tour in more than a decade when he was rushed to hospital for brain surgery to remove a blood clot. His recovery is complete and he has rescheduled his tour with performances in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Pride plays a sold-out show the RBC Theatre at the John Labatt Centre tonight in the arena's 3,200-seat format.

Since releasing his first single in 1966, Pride has sold more than 70 million records, making him second only to Elvis Presley in RCA sales.

His hit Kiss an Angel Good Morning is one of the best-loved country songs of all time. He's also done well in business -- he owns a bank near his home in Dallas, as well as a recording studio and a real estate company.

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