{"id":11119,"date":"2020-12-12T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:12:00","slug":"charley-pride-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/12\/charley-pride-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Pride Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/music-charley-pride-country-music-774ff52dd02d1d857983b1e9f41fcf34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charley Pride, a country music Black superstar, dies at 86<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By MARK KENNEDY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lgBub4H_T6s\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Charley Pride, one of country music\u2019s first Black superstar whose rich baritone on such hits as \u201cKiss an Angel Good Morning\u201d helped sell millions of records and made him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pride died Saturday in Dallas of complications from Covid-19, according to Jeremy Westby of the public relations firm 2911 Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so heartbroken that one of my dearest and oldest friends, Charley Pride, has passed away. It\u2019s even worse to know that he passed away from COVID-19. What a horrible, horrible virus. Charley, we will always love you,\u201d Dolly Parton tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pride released dozens of albums and sold more than 25 million records during a career that began in the mid-1960s. Hits besides \u201cKiss an Angel Good Morning\u201d in 1971 included \u201cIs Anybody Goin\u2019 to San Antone,\u201d \u201cBurgers and Fries,\u201d \u201cMountain of Love,\u201d and \u201cSomeone Loves You Honey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/music-charley-pride-country-music-774ff52dd02d1d857983b1e9f41fcf34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP Charley Pride, a country music Black superstar, dies at 86 By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Charley Pride, one of country music\u2019s first Black superstar whose rich baritone on such hits as \u201cKiss an Angel Good Morning\u201d helped sell millions of records and made him the first Black member of the Country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}