If you know how to interpret the MSM portrayal of Charley Pride’s country music success it is very clear country music fans accepted him as a person, as a fellow human being. It was the wealthy Music Industry Executives with their low opinion of those of us they considered lower class who worried he wouldn’t be accepted.
Here that fact is in his own words:
“ One of the more surprising aspects about Pride’s rise to fame is how easily he was accepted by the Country music audience once they heard him sing. “People often say to me, ‘You must have had it hard,’ and when I say, ‘No, I didn’t,’ they give me that you-gotta-be-lying look. But there was never one iota hoot-call at any of my shows. The big problem early on was that [concert] promoters were reluctant or scared to book me,” says Pride. “But they finally came around.”
If you know how to interpret the MSM portrayal of Charley Pride’s country music success it is very clear country music fans accepted him as a person, as a fellow human being. It was the wealthy Music Industry Executives with their low opinion of those of us they considered lower class who worried he wouldn’t be accepted.
Here that fact is in his own words:
“ One of the more surprising aspects about Pride’s rise to fame is how easily he was accepted by the Country music audience once they heard him sing. “People often say to me, ‘You must have had it hard,’ and when I say, ‘No, I didn’t,’ they give me that you-gotta-be-lying look. But there was never one iota hoot-call at any of my shows. The big problem early on was that [concert] promoters were reluctant or scared to book me,” says Pride. “But they finally came around.”
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