I grew up listening to Charlie Pride, my grandparents (on both sides) and parents were obsessed with him. I got to go to his concert for my eleventh birthday and went even though I had a broken ankle and was on crutches. After the show he was signing autographs, I was in the line with my family, he had seen me in the line and got his security guard to take me to the front of the line, so I got my book signed and a picture with him. Good memories.
My dad is 72 and still has his faculties, and he says this song couldn't be more right. I hear a lot of people say this song looks back on the past with rose colored glasses, but that's a load of bull. That time in history was simpler and better for it because time was precious. My dad took my mom out for burgers and fries a lot when they were younger, and they did go out for nighttime movies at the drive-in. He saw WotW in the theater; gave him nightmares for weeks! lol.
be pc man cant have burgers an fries too much chloresterol and think of the suger man cherrie pies?? lolol thaks charlie for the song and thank you poster!!!
Awesome! Thank you for putting up this music. Charlie Pride is a living legend, and a true version pure country music. They can't make it this good any more, the mold is broken.
OMG, pancake house , Texas, I was 14 years old and bus the tables after the rush. OMG. she would , she the waitress would play this song in the juxbox. over and over again. OMG wow...pay back then was 2.85 an hour. I still have my first pay stub!
I love this song. I just uploaded a version on my channel, accompanied by pictures from the 50s and 60s. It is really sad what has happened to this country.
Charlie Pride used to live in the apartment complex that my parents managed when I was very small. He tried to teach my mom how to ride a motorcycle, and she was wearing flip flops and cut her toe very badly. He took her to the hospital to get fixed up...
My older brother told me that he was made out of chocolate, and considering he was the forst African American person I had ever seen...I almost believed him. He kept telling me, "Go on, ask him. He will tell you!" So I would.
He's singing about the time when I was a kid growing up. Now my beautiful wife and I relive those of the best of times. We aren't kids anymore but songs like
this take us back to those great times. Thanks Charley
Who actually wrote this song? I was told that it was co-written by a fellow from Buchans, Newfoundland, Canada. Could someone please try and verify this for me? I think his name is Jerry( Junior) Hall. He was a former member of Stompin' Tom Connor's band out of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Charley Pride is one of the best country singers ever and he does a beautiful job on this song. Thanks.
@oxfordcolumbus I posted this one on my own as a message to a girl. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I am glad you - and everybody else - have enjoyed it though. That's why I kept it up.
OMG he's black he's really black...jk jk jk...but i just fingered that out like 4 week ago i have listen to this song all of my life tho and im only 12 :D
His music is so good, and I didn't even know he was black until I seen him on CMT. His music is so relaxing and this song makes me think back to when I was a kid, I'm only 28 now but even in these few years so much has changed, I wish I could go back to when I was a kid and relive those days knowing what I do now. Thank you for the post.
I lived in a all white community in northern Arizona back then but Mr.Charlie Pride was on the radio,man I loved his voice and many of his songs and am so happy that they will live forever,he brings me so close to my youth as he sings in "Roll on Mississippi,we love ya Charlie!!!!!
We really need more singers like this now'a days.What made Charley Pride Legendary is that he sang from his heart and was sincere. He gave every song he sang all that he had and it made him great. which just goes to show you can be something great without being a show off or runnin your mouth. Thank you for the post I love Charley Pride.
Way cool upload , Bravo , Bravo ..My great uncle Tiny stokes told me how he got Charlie pride started ..Nobody would give him a job for certain reason's . . But my uncle gave him one at the radio station where he DJ'ed. The rest is history ..He was the fist black person my cousin's ever seen in person .Uncle told them stop staring when they had dinner together he told me .
@hepzibhadavid12 Agreed. The only other video I've posted that has gotten nearly as many comments is a post-race shouting match between Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon in 2000, and those have mostly been negative in one direction or the other. This one has gotten a ton of comments and nearly all of them have been extremely positive. Especially the other people around my age (23) who love it.
@HomeDepot20TS Why would there be any hate comments? Being Italian, I swear, I don't understand this color thing. We're just "Diff'rent strokes", after all.
@thegiops Oh ya, ya once again a western European trying to claim he is too good for racial hatred not like us stuped Americans. Well pray tell that to the Ethiopians who you slaughtered hundreds of thousands of. When asked why you were being so harsh your Government responded that the Ethiopians were not even human and therefore not worthy of respect ,might it not have been because they were black that you acted in that way.
I was thinking of this old song the other day, and found it here. Thanks, You Tube. I have a classic country station in my town. And they play some Charlie Pride, but they never play this one. Nice soothing memories, from way back when...... Burgers and fries and cherry pies. Wow.
@colinballer I remember listening to this song back in 1979, driving on Highway 15 over the Cajon Pass going toward the Highway 395 fork. It was foggy and snow was falling. I was driving out to the Randsburg, CA area to hunt cottontails. It is hard to think how long ago it was.
this song is in the film breakdown. am from england and this sort of music reminds me of places like whats in the film, with miles and miles of land and just a little diner every few hundred miles.
I have this song on my mom's car. I remember coming home from a long night and listening to this song.. then I ask for some McDonalds for some reason.
"And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" by the same Mark Lindsay, and done even better by Elvis Presley.
Also "Pancho and Lefty" by Willie Nelson. i like all of these songs because they tell stories and have beautiful refrains. Yeh, they do not make music like this any more; our culture has changed and it is real sad.
@Albacorewing There is a Mojave Desert radio station with an Internet stream, called KFXM. You can listen on your computer. Most of their songs are from 1950 to 1965, with a few up to 1976 or so.
My mom passed away not long ago and I can relate to her listening to this. It was so simple back then just like he says. She would give me $3/wk, I could put gas in my car and still have enuff left over for pop in study hall all week long. Why cant it be like that anymore? These are my grandkids good ole days now, how freekin scary is that?
Emerson a very good 1973 instrumental was POPCORN and you can find it on YouTube. For a group whose song, and act, was so stupid it is beautiful, see the group DEVO and their song "Whip It" from 1980.
Emerson, I just found a forgotten jewel on You Tube. I heard this song once in Nov. of 1976 but never forgot it. I looked for it for more than 33 years!!!! It is "Everybody Wants To Find A Bluebird" by Randy Edelman. They sure do not make these songs any more. The last part of this song is the best.
For forgotten glorious songs, I suggest TIN TIN's song Toast and Marmalde for Tea and RINGS by CYMARRON. But none can beat, from January of 1972, the ENGLISH CONGREGATION singing Softly Whispering I love You. A fantastic forgotten number. Also check out PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND BY The Stylistics.
It was Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime. Sorry. I always loved songs that had glory. Charlie Pride made such songs, so did a guy named Chris Rea, whose songs are on You Tube too.
When this song came out, if you drove in the Mojave Desert, you could hear it on just about every station now and then. It was a different world then.
I know. Growing up in the 90's and 2000's, which I hate pretty much everything about, I'm nostalgic for a time I never even got to live in. I know that there used to be a whole different world, a more fun and exciting world, that doesn't exist anymore. It's a pretty sad thing.
Two good songs from the 1978-1979 era that make me think of the Mojave Desert: This one by Pride and one by Robert Palmer called Every Kind of People. A third song that brings desert memories is called Take A Little Rhythm by Ali Thomson (about 1980). I think all three are now on You Tube.
Sorry Ali Thompson was his name. Take A Little Rhythm is an unknown but glorious song. Another tune popular in that era in the Desert was by the KORGIS called Everybody's Got To Love Someone Sometime. Look it up.
im only 19 and i wish i was born back then ha ha when gas was like 30 cents a gallon where i could afford to drive my truck that i own now! but i notice people were more entertained back then without computers and video games and such i guess all you needed was friends
@MrAlexKeaton was born in 1967 the 70s was a great time to live kids never took a gun to school, people where alot nicer back then you could buy a new car for about $5k or a used one for a couple hundred.my dad payed $21k for a 3 bedroom home in a very nice place where if your hubcaps on your car where stolin it would be big news,not that it happend to us.i feel bad for new born kids i allways think what kind of world they will grow up in.?
@tryby12 They will grow up in an Islamic Republic as long as our Government continues to appease to the crowd that holds us hostage by our dependence on "their" oil. Having turned 18 while deployed in a far away Islamic land I hated has been enough to haunt me for the rest of my life.
@shartasticful You are so right. Such a great country but everyone has to get their piece of the "pie" and we are being sold out bit by bit by people without insight or understanding. Some day.....................
im 13 i LOVE This song, i was raised on country, and old rock. Man, to many rap people. They need to listen to the good stuff without the cursing and sex talk.
I'm 21 and I was raised on waylon jennings, johnny cash, willie nelson, charley pride and all the classiscs I loved it but I like the new stuff too but I would just rather listen to classics like this
@BlakePlaya there is nothing better then to set back and listen to classic music ihave listined to it all my life and love it all but idon't like the countrey music they have today (you have good taste in music).
Country music today (in my opinion) isnt as 'Pure' as it was in the decades past. Too twangy today...country music back then had 'meaning'. Today's does too....but not nearly as much!
haha that's where I learned of this song from...really scary movie....now this song is just creepy to me cuz of the scene in that movie this was playing in
I grew up listening to Hank Williams, Jr., Patsy Cline, and Charley Pride. My dad loved all kinds of music, but throughout my youth, we listened to his favorite country-western music the most. Even today, there's almost nobody with the deep, resonant voice of Charley Pride singing about such simple, emotional things.
I think the most special thing in the world is hearing my 88 year old grandpa singing this along with the radio :)
MadisonH19 6 days ago
This is great music, the 9 dislikes must be people that dont know what good music is.
Camopar87 1 week ago
Charlie Pride: I first saw him on the Lawrence Welk Show, when I was a kid at my gramma's. Loved him from the start : )
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RockyWhyNott 1 week ago
alsome
bman7cross 3 weeks ago
how about geven the dude that thinks charley Pride is fat a thums DOWN!!!
bman7cross 3 weeks ago
shut up look whos FAT!!!!!!!!!! the world we will always have it will alway never end dumbo
bman7cross 3 weeks ago
wtf? does this guy like to be a fatass?
americanTaNgO757 3 weeks ago
I grew up listening to Charlie Pride, my grandparents (on both sides) and parents were obsessed with him. I got to go to his concert for my eleventh birthday and went even though I had a broken ankle and was on crutches. After the show he was signing autographs, I was in the line with my family, he had seen me in the line and got his security guard to take me to the front of the line, so I got my book signed and a picture with him. Good memories.
TheJamiJamster 1 month ago
@TheJamiJamster Thats awesome
Camopar87 1 week ago
Ah, yes. THIS is the version I first heard in the movie Breakdown. Haunting song.
Mastery1a 1 month ago
love this song. When my son was a newborn, I'd listen to this song and cry.
caclose72 2 months ago
charley pride is my favorite country singer he has a great voice
tryby12 2 months ago
I love listening to Charlie Pride singing the good old country songs!
calgondave 2 months ago
My dad is 72 and still has his faculties, and he says this song couldn't be more right. I hear a lot of people say this song looks back on the past with rose colored glasses, but that's a load of bull. That time in history was simpler and better for it because time was precious. My dad took my mom out for burgers and fries a lot when they were younger, and they did go out for nighttime movies at the drive-in. He saw WotW in the theater; gave him nightmares for weeks! lol.
millenniumf1138 3 months ago
be pc man cant have burgers an fries too much chloresterol and think of the suger man cherrie pies?? lolol thaks charlie for the song and thank you poster!!!
cippy2k 3 months ago
FLASH POINT BOOGIE BURGER LIVES FOR CHARLIE
kenyongreg 4 months ago
Songs do not get better than this.
Albacorewing 4 months ago
He has a beautiful voice: I heard this song a lot in the 1980's on the radio!!
Snowcat77777 4 months ago
Awesome! Thank you for putting up this music. Charlie Pride is a living legend, and a true version pure country music. They can't make it this good any more, the mold is broken.
blackprl 6 months ago 5
Hes the only black singer i like
Galloway54499 7 months ago
OMG, pancake house , Texas, I was 14 years old and bus the tables after the rush. OMG. she would , she the waitress would play this song in the juxbox. over and over again. OMG wow...pay back then was 2.85 an hour. I still have my first pay stub!
ahfaxthis 7 months ago 3
I love this song. I just uploaded a version on my channel, accompanied by pictures from the 50s and 60s. It is really sad what has happened to this country.
Beautiful song.
jkhfilmvideo 7 months ago 6
He's still alive. Thought he was dead.
southport97 7 months ago
Charlie Pride used to live in the apartment complex that my parents managed when I was very small. He tried to teach my mom how to ride a motorcycle, and she was wearing flip flops and cut her toe very badly. He took her to the hospital to get fixed up...
My older brother told me that he was made out of chocolate, and considering he was the forst African American person I had ever seen...I almost believed him. He kept telling me, "Go on, ask him. He will tell you!" So I would.
Poor guy.
lullabyeyes100 7 months ago
@lullabyeyes100 a friend of mind has a little girl and was at a park, and she said she liked playing with a chocolate little girl
tryby12 2 months ago
He's singing about the time when I was a kid growing up. Now my beautiful wife and I relive those of the best of times. We aren't kids anymore but songs like
this take us back to those great times. Thanks Charley
LadODell 8 months ago 3
this is a great old song. Charley pride was truly a great singer.
fan0000 8 months ago
buggers and fries and bugger cherry pies
95bradley08 8 months ago
Honestly i don't like country but this song is different for some reason I don't know why.
tdogman111 8 months ago
Good Country is Endless
wdeatonjr 8 months ago
Good old wholesome country goodness!! Love it!!!
Boeingboy72 8 months ago
Who actually wrote this song? I was told that it was co-written by a fellow from Buchans, Newfoundland, Canada. Could someone please try and verify this for me? I think his name is Jerry( Junior) Hall. He was a former member of Stompin' Tom Connor's band out of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Charley Pride is one of the best country singers ever and he does a beautiful job on this song. Thanks.
junctionjuggler 9 months ago
God bless music , no races no religions . Peace from Tunisia !!
ifeelwell1 9 months ago
This has been a production of FatASS videos...GOODBYE! and have a nice day!
Southpawuppercut 9 months ago 2
This song was actually written about segregation.
david5345 9 months ago
Cant find this song on a CD anymore and such a shame I could listen to it over and over
athruz09ful 9 months ago
Awesome video . I was the one who requested this song.
oxfordcolumbus 10 months ago
@oxfordcolumbus I posted this one on my own as a message to a girl. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I am glad you - and everybody else - have enjoyed it though. That's why I kept it up.
HomeDepot20TS 9 months ago 2
FATMANS DAD SANG THIS ONLINE WOHOOO FOLKS AWWW YEEEAH!!!
dannyday58218195 10 months ago 3
@dannyday58218195 AUSSIE DOSSIE!
vinbroccoli 10 months ago
@vinbroccoli augh yeahh folks
andrewvanrhoberts 10 months ago
Thumbs up if you searched for this video because of Fatman's dad. Augh yeah folks.
NickArcade 10 months ago 3
@NickArcade lol i did for one haha :D
withrespect90 10 months ago
this is an awsome song cant wait till he comes to harbour station may 14th
crazytruckman16 10 months ago
this is an awsome cant wait till he comes to harbour station may 14th
crazytruckman16 10 months ago
Charlie is one hell of a beautiful person and an even better singer!
55terriblegasser 10 months ago
That was the best kind of world to be growing up as a teenager. The 50's and 60's
was the best of times.
LadODell 11 months ago
Me and my Partner Love this one :) Classic
ktg44 11 months ago
when i was young me and brother was so abused and negeleted i connect with this song
Goraiders75 11 months ago
Discovered this song in the movie "Breakdown", it played in Bell's Diner as Kurt made an ass of himself. Good movie though.
Lokstock220 1 year ago
@Lokstock220 " Look Mr. I told you before, maybe she was here, and maybe she wasn't, all I'm sayin' is I didn't see her!" Haha.
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jimotazertaki 1 year ago
A good karaoke nite and its alot of Charlie Pride I sing...love the voice...mellow and sincere.
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1 week ago
OMG he's black he's really black...jk jk jk...but i just fingered that out like 4 week ago i have listen to this song all of my life tho and im only 12 :D
XxstephennxX 1 year ago
He's the greatest.
ADeadHeaDz 1 year ago
i remember hearing this song when i was 3 haven't herd it in like 11 years and it just stuck with me...
222delta1 1 year ago
My son and I danced to this at my wedding after he gave me away. It's very special.
wandap667 1 year ago 10
@wandap667 Thats a sweet story, thanks for sharing.
HomeDepot20TS 1 year ago 8
His music is so good, and I didn't even know he was black until I seen him on CMT. His music is so relaxing and this song makes me think back to when I was a kid, I'm only 28 now but even in these few years so much has changed, I wish I could go back to when I was a kid and relive those days knowing what I do now. Thank you for the post.
wildbill23c 1 year ago
Fantastic singer! Love him and his music!
TheSunflowerlady 1 year ago
@john2johnify Gotcha. I'm glad that you enjoy that song.
lettingfreedomring09 1 year ago
Charley Pride is a beast. Color can't take that away from him. He's classic and manly.
Timrugbyflanker6 1 year ago
IT WAS SO SIMPLE BACK THEN!
30kitcat 1 year ago
Great song....my mom and dad used to dance to this song!!!!
dbruce0676 1 year ago 2
this is a great song !
donniehi 1 year ago
@donniehi
wantedxIPod89 1 year ago
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wantedxIPod89 1 year ago
This is a great song but it reminds me of when I was a child and I would get a burger, fries and cherry pie from McDonald's yummy
dustyroseFL 1 year ago
funneist thing ever was bout to eat burgers and fries when i first heard this song
DGROGG87 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you're a teen and love this music!!!!!!!!!
lettingfreedomring09 1 year ago
good ole' Country and good ole' Charlie... memories...
DERedhead65 1 year ago
I lived in a all white community in northern Arizona back then but Mr.Charlie Pride was on the radio,man I loved his voice and many of his songs and am so happy that they will live forever,he brings me so close to my youth as he sings in "Roll on Mississippi,we love ya Charlie!!!!!
candopuppy 1 year ago
We really need more singers like this now'a days.What made Charley Pride Legendary is that he sang from his heart and was sincere. He gave every song he sang all that he had and it made him great. which just goes to show you can be something great without being a show off or runnin your mouth. Thank you for the post I love Charley Pride.
PSNIndianaJones7 1 year ago
Way cool upload , Bravo , Bravo ..My great uncle Tiny stokes told me how he got Charlie pride started ..Nobody would give him a job for certain reason's . . But my uncle gave him one at the radio station where he DJ'ed. The rest is history ..He was the fist black person my cousin's ever seen in person .Uncle told them stop staring when they had dinner together he told me .
deathofisrael 1 year ago 14
@deathofisrael Thanks for your comment, that's really interesting.
HomeDepot20TS 1 year ago
@deathofisrael Thats a cool story, this is how dumb I was, I did'nt know he was black until I saw him in concert in baltimore in the mid seventies
Lazerus53 1 year ago
@Lazerus53
right on . lol. stereotype's dont alway's connect with reality do they ?
deathofisrael 1 year ago
@deathofisrael DEATH OF ISRAEL, LOL
digitalfuk 1 year ago
Nice to see that there are hardly any hate comments,speaks volumes about the music of Charlie pride
hepzibhadavid12 1 year ago
@hepzibhadavid12 Agreed. The only other video I've posted that has gotten nearly as many comments is a post-race shouting match between Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon in 2000, and those have mostly been negative in one direction or the other. This one has gotten a ton of comments and nearly all of them have been extremely positive. Especially the other people around my age (23) who love it.
HomeDepot20TS 1 year ago
@HomeDepot20TS Why would there be any hate comments? Being Italian, I swear, I don't understand this color thing. We're just "Diff'rent strokes", after all.
And Charley definitely has ha GREAT voice.
thegiops 1 year ago
@thegiops Not sure what the person whom I commented to meant, but by "hate" I meant people hating the song.
HomeDepot20TS 1 year ago
@thegiops Oh ya, ya once again a western European trying to claim he is too good for racial hatred not like us stuped Americans. Well pray tell that to the Ethiopians who you slaughtered hundreds of thousands of. When asked why you were being so harsh your Government responded that the Ethiopians were not even human and therefore not worthy of respect ,might it not have been because they were black that you acted in that way.
nbcable 1 year ago
He sang this song at the Opry in June - Scroll down - Wonder if Nancy32d was there on Friday night? It was great !!
Sing4theMaster 1 year ago
I thought this was the cat song
OrganNLou 1 year ago
I hadn't heard this song since I was a kid, until the other day when a local talk show host played it. Gonna have to thank him someday.
ihc68 1 year ago
I was thinking of this old song the other day, and found it here. Thanks, You Tube. I have a classic country station in my town. And they play some Charlie Pride, but they never play this one. Nice soothing memories, from way back when...... Burgers and fries and cherry pies. Wow.
TOPOFFMAN 1 year ago
Yeah, things seemed so simple back then...that was beautiful, nostalgic, but beautiful.
dotnrlg6 1 year ago
I really miss those "great 'ol days!" Thank-you for the post!
jfrey47 1 year ago
this gives memories when i was young
just be yourself ;)
MW2XxMaSteR 1 year ago
i'm almost 13 in 3 months and i love this song dad has some music nights once in a while and he plays this now i love it i wanna meet him :)
colinballer 1 year ago
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Albacorewing 1 year ago
@colinballer I remember listening to this song back in 1979, driving on Highway 15 over the Cajon Pass going toward the Highway 395 fork. It was foggy and snow was falling. I was driving out to the Randsburg, CA area to hunt cottontails. It is hard to think how long ago it was.
Albacorewing 1 year ago 4
It brings me back to a simpler time when life was not so crazy, so hard. At 48 now I love this song and the country music of this time.
wdeatonjr 1 year ago 2
this is funny in breakdown lol
claregarrity117 1 year ago
True Country Gold Smooth A gentle
politicalwatcher1 1 year ago
ah i love good old country lik this.! oldies r thee bestt<3
corriann93 1 year ago
Can hardly wait to see him at the Opry in June.....what an awesome entertainer!
nancy32d 1 year ago
What an awesome entertainer Charley Pride is! To bad there are not entertainers around today that are as inspiring as he is!
nancy32d 1 year ago
Been listening to this guy since the 1960's, and he's always been good. This song is on of his best in my opinion. Thanks for posting it!
opticschief 1 year ago
Nice lil jingle to sing when your cooking
acidbelew 1 year ago
I wonder if Jimmy Buffet was inspired by Charlie Pride? It kinda sounds familiar, like cheese burgers in paradise.
MsWoodma 1 year ago
@MsWoodma He could do worse.
doughesson 1 year ago
This is a great song! If only it could be so east again...
RFKOdin 1 year ago
Drivin cross country before interstae
prowlybaked 1 year ago
charlie your a gentleman happy birthday from all british fans
shamvim 1 year ago
this song is in the film breakdown. am from england and this sort of music reminds me of places like whats in the film, with miles and miles of land and just a little diner every few hundred miles.
nd03ltz 1 year ago 3
Happy 70th Birthday Charlie pride
pokerperv 1 year ago
New for me! Good!
zaaritha 1 year ago
I remember hearing this on the radio when I was 18 and leaving home for the first time driving from PA to TX. Thanks for the memories.
100jules 1 year ago
I have this song on my mom's car. I remember coming home from a long night and listening to this song.. then I ask for some McDonalds for some reason.
Nachosxd13 1 year ago
My favorite Charlie Pride song. Love it.
5*****
MrSaturdayNight7 1 year ago
A couple of more forgotten greats:
"Miss America" by Mark Lindsay
"And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" by the same Mark Lindsay, and done even better by Elvis Presley.
Also "Pancho and Lefty" by Willie Nelson. i like all of these songs because they tell stories and have beautiful refrains. Yeh, they do not make music like this any more; our culture has changed and it is real sad.
Albacorewing 2 years ago 5
@Albacorewing There is a Mojave Desert radio station with an Internet stream, called KFXM. You can listen on your computer. Most of their songs are from 1950 to 1965, with a few up to 1976 or so.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
emersondrive90 check out a song called "heaven's just a sin away" by the Kendalls
baberscamille 2 years ago
if life could be that easy but life has to go on but the memories we will always hold in our hearts
rosses1988 2 years ago
A down to earth song that we all can relate too! Charley Pride takes you down memory lane with his great voice.
franklindavid 2 years ago 3
My mom passed away not long ago and I can relate to her listening to this. It was so simple back then just like he says. She would give me $3/wk, I could put gas in my car and still have enuff left over for pop in study hall all week long. Why cant it be like that anymore? These are my grandkids good ole days now, how freekin scary is that?
kevinthetruckdriverg 2 years ago
I'm 14 and I love this era of music.
emersondrive90 2 years ago 3
Emerson a very good 1973 instrumental was POPCORN and you can find it on YouTube. For a group whose song, and act, was so stupid it is beautiful, see the group DEVO and their song "Whip It" from 1980.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
Popcorn was by a band called Hot Butter.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
@emersondrive90 see my notes they came up but not as a response.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
@emersondrive90 I think you will like the song Main Street by Bob Seger. It came out in about 1977.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
Emerson, I just found a forgotten jewel on You Tube. I heard this song once in Nov. of 1976 but never forgot it. I looked for it for more than 33 years!!!! It is "Everybody Wants To Find A Bluebird" by Randy Edelman. They sure do not make these songs any more. The last part of this song is the best.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
Burgers, fries, cherry pies and a good woman - how much better can it get. I have all except the last one. LOL.
mikeh1159 2 years ago
Oh how I love this song...........I wish life was still so simple....and so good
GloryDays1000 2 years ago 4
I'm 46 and I wish I was born back in those days too. That's how I felt when I was 19 and heard this song on the radio.
YouWastesTube 2 years ago 2
im 12 and i love this song
if you like songs like this try and find the tape TRUCK STOP HITS it rules!!
rugbyfan78 2 years ago 3
For forgotten glorious songs, I suggest TIN TIN's song Toast and Marmalde for Tea and RINGS by CYMARRON. But none can beat, from January of 1972, the ENGLISH CONGREGATION singing Softly Whispering I love You. A fantastic forgotten number. Also check out PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND BY The Stylistics.
Albacorewing 2 years ago 2
It was Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime. Sorry. I always loved songs that had glory. Charlie Pride made such songs, so did a guy named Chris Rea, whose songs are on You Tube too.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
When this song came out, if you drove in the Mojave Desert, you could hear it on just about every station now and then. It was a different world then.
Albacorewing 2 years ago 4
"It was a different world then."
I know. Growing up in the 90's and 2000's, which I hate pretty much everything about, I'm nostalgic for a time I never even got to live in. I know that there used to be a whole different world, a more fun and exciting world, that doesn't exist anymore. It's a pretty sad thing.
There are others my age who feel the same.
MrAlexKeaton 2 years ago 7
Two good songs from the 1978-1979 era that make me think of the Mojave Desert: This one by Pride and one by Robert Palmer called Every Kind of People. A third song that brings desert memories is called Take A Little Rhythm by Ali Thomson (about 1980). I think all three are now on You Tube.
Albacorewing 2 years ago 2
Sorry Ali Thompson was his name. Take A Little Rhythm is an unknown but glorious song. Another tune popular in that era in the Desert was by the KORGIS called Everybody's Got To Love Someone Sometime. Look it up.
Albacorewing 2 years ago
Mr. Keaton, I know how you feel. I agree with you and I grew up in the 80's...after that, I was wondering what was happening to the world.
BTW...this REALLY is a GREAT SONG!!!
ForeverInLuvRA 2 years ago
im only 19 and i wish i was born back then ha ha when gas was like 30 cents a gallon where i could afford to drive my truck that i own now! but i notice people were more entertained back then without computers and video games and such i guess all you needed was friends
DRNEGOLICIS 2 years ago 3
@MrAlexKeaton was born in 1967 the 70s was a great time to live kids never took a gun to school, people where alot nicer back then you could buy a new car for about $5k or a used one for a couple hundred.my dad payed $21k for a 3 bedroom home in a very nice place where if your hubcaps on your car where stolin it would be big news,not that it happend to us.i feel bad for new born kids i allways think what kind of world they will grow up in.?
tryby12 10 months ago 4
@tryby12 They will grow up in an Islamic Republic as long as our Government continues to appease to the crowd that holds us hostage by our dependence on "their" oil. Having turned 18 while deployed in a far away Islamic land I hated has been enough to haunt me for the rest of my life.
shartasticful 10 months ago
@shartasticful You are so right. Such a great country but everyone has to get their piece of the "pie" and we are being sold out bit by bit by people without insight or understanding. Some day.....................
athruz09ful 9 months ago
One of the best songs of all time.
MrAlexKeaton 2 years ago 2
im 13 i LOVE This song, i was raised on country, and old rock. Man, to many rap people. They need to listen to the good stuff without the cursing and sex talk.
tyler44346 2 years ago 31
I remember when this song came out. I was about 13 or 14 years old...and I thought it was an awesome song even then.
prolific64 2 years ago
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i just looked up burgers and fries....this guy sux
Sumofishy 2 years ago
I'm 21 and I was raised on waylon jennings, johnny cash, willie nelson, charley pride and all the classiscs I loved it but I like the new stuff too but I would just rather listen to classics like this
Barnzulla 2 years ago 4
Great!
zaaritha 2 years ago 2
this is in the film 'breakdown' with kurt russell
nd03ltz 2 years ago
yeahh great movie xD
AK47Granny 2 years ago
I am 14, Been listenin to Country music since I was about 2-3.. It has always been Charley Pride, Johnny Cash etc. None of this new crap.
BlakePlaya 2 years ago 34
@BlakePlaya there is nothing better then to set back and listen to classic music ihave listined to it all my life and love it all but idon't like the countrey music they have today (you have good taste in music).
SuperDave915 1 year ago
Im 16 years old and simply love Charlie Pride
amburlynn24 2 years ago 6
God bless you.
I'm 21. Glad another young person enjoys this.
nevaseenamancry 2 years ago 3
Country music today (in my opinion) isnt as 'Pure' as it was in the decades past. Too twangy today...country music back then had 'meaning'. Today's does too....but not nearly as much!
orioles8383 2 years ago 2
It has been a very long time since I heard this wonderfully nostalgic song.
peeterpoon 2 years ago
Growing Up, my daddy loved Charley Pride! All shit put aside Charley Is one of the top ten Country music singers of all time!!!!!!!
thechicagorepublican 2 years ago
this is the bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
charliedontsurf70 2 years ago 2
This song reminds me of the movie "Breakdown" with Kurt Russell. It was playing on the jukebox, when he was at "Bells diner" looking for his wife.
19escort73 2 years ago
haha that's where I learned of this song from...really scary movie....now this song is just creepy to me cuz of the scene in that movie this was playing in
andeaver1937 2 years ago
@19escort73
Kurt - Let me see your order slips.
Bell's Diner Owner- What?
Kurt- You write down the names of guests, I want to see if my wifes name is there.
Bell's Diner Owner - Are you nuts? I don't have to show you jack *shit*!
NVincent1993 10 months ago
Good music is good music now matter who make or sings it as long as It's good i'm black and i love country music.
MOONTOP56 2 years ago 7
from which year is the song?
weaponexpert1 2 years ago 2
This song came out in 1978. I remember hearing it a lot after my ex hubby and I were married and before my first child was born.
TheServantofjesus 2 years ago
I grew up listening to Hank Williams, Jr., Patsy Cline, and Charley Pride. My dad loved all kinds of music, but throughout my youth, we listened to his favorite country-western music the most. Even today, there's almost nobody with the deep, resonant voice of Charley Pride singing about such simple, emotional things.
akstebbens 2 years ago
the song is right the things before :}
lamoys5 2 years ago
Good old Charley he,s the man..
briartlaw 2 years ago 3
This has always been nothing more than a damn good song, with a good message. Sometimes I think we all need to get back to simpler pleasures.
450hpCOBRA 2 years ago 4
my dad loved this song.
wrk63 2 years ago
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What a low-rent song.
highnrising 2 years ago
i do love me some charlie p.
what a great songwriter.
seifukusha 2 years ago 4
Doesn't exactly sounds like the so-named mad cat ...
ObsidianParis 2 years ago
this redneck loves some charlie pride!!!!!!
hayseed6969 3 years ago
right on i'm black but i love his music too hayseed
tonytarheel55 3 years ago
charlie is the man!!!!!!
hayseed6969 3 years ago
hey hes black lol and beside country music is for everyone of all races its the most bueatful music ever
JOHNRAMBO2012 3 years ago
lol right on rambo
tonytarheel55 3 years ago
thanks lol its 110% true
JOHNRAMBO2012 3 years ago
lol
tonytarheel55 3 years ago
this song is beautiful. always brings a tear to my eye. reminds me of my youth, kissing in the sunshine.
EmmaLemon22 3 years ago 2
I love this song.
Reminds me of my teen years, growing up in southeast Texas (Beaumont and Livingston, Texas).
"Burger and fries and cherry pies". So simple back then. We always found something to do on a date. So good and simple.
LeanaJoH76 3 years ago 4