Charley Pride was a multifaceted Entertainer. I've never heard him sing a song badly. He lived for performing on the stage. He could bring the audience to their feet and keep them there for his entire set.
Charley Pride sang just as good in person as his records. One of the best country singers. My favorite song by him is "Someone Loves You Honey. " there is a live performance of him singing in Canada. It was amazing.
I love this song and Charley Pride! For generations Wooden Indians use to stand in front of cigar shops as a form of advertisement. Originally Native American grown tobacco was being shipped to England from America. These wooden statues were still often seen when this song was written making the lyrics funny and sad at the same time.... a wealthy customer bought Kaw-Liga's wooden maiden love, leaving him all alone
I love Charley Pride, one of the legends of country music! My husband (now deceased) played guitar, I played bass & we got together with friends &/or family all the time & did a lot of Charley's songs in our "jam sessions"! I got to meet Charley's son, Dion, who's also a classic country singer with a beautiful voice! He was a sweetheart! 😊
Many singers did this song but, nobody ever did it as well as Hank Williams Sr the original. That's what my dad always said. When he heard Charley's version, he said, "Charley didn't do it as good as Hank, he did it better." When I was young, my parents played Charley's records and tapes daily. He was my mom's favorite country singer and one my father's favorites. You must realize, my parents were prejudice but Charley broke that barrier. They loved him. He is my favorite country singer and Ray Charles is very close. Yeah, Ray Charles had a number of country hits. You should definitely check him out.
Thanks Harri for once again a great reaction to my suggested song. This song was originally written by Hank Williams and was recorded at his final recording session in September 1952, but the Charley Pride cover is pretty incredible. Can't wait to send you requests for next month. Keeping alive the great music from the past is truly a calling.
This song takes me back. My dad was in a county western band and they did this song. I can remember them practicing in our living room till all hours of the night. Always a favorite.
We did too! Native Houstonian here raised on Charley Pride. I think Hank Williams, Sr recorded this first. Thank you Harri for choosing some good ol' country music. Love you in Texan.
This has been sung by a number of artists, but Charley owns this song. Thank you for your reaction video's, you share with us so many eclectic, varied and enjoyable songs. I love the live performances, you really get to see the artistry of these singers. As a side note; do you live in Vancouver, BC? I swear I saw your spitting image a week ago downtown and was ready to call out, "Harri!", but then Ithught, "naaahh!". Thanks a million for another great video.
Charlie Pride live was an awesome experience so glad I got to see him in concert. Check out his version of Me and Bobby McGee, Millers Cave, Crystal Chandeliers and All His Children one of his many gospel songs
I went to a Charley Pride concert in Tokyo in the 1970s. It was very entertaining. This song was written by country music great Hank Williams Sr. Thanks for the share.
I've always loved this song since I was a little kid. I find the metaphor of the wooden Indians so clever. It's basically about a man who can't get up the courage to open his heart.
@@bushwriter I had an account with my real name. You Tube claimed I violated their terms, and banned me with no explanation. Now it's gloves off. Guess how many times I've come back.
Before he was a singer, he played baseball ⚾️ in the Negro Leagues. I watched him back in the 1970s. He sang tbe national anthem in the 1973 World Series in Oakland. Wonderful entertainer. Suggested video 📹: Kiss an Angel Good Morning 😇 RIP 2 years 😢
Yes. Ironically, he sang before the World Series where the Mets at Oakland Athletics game. Late Tug McGraw was on the Mets team. He graduated from St. Vincent HS in Vallejo. Then he went to Solano CC before the Mets drafted him...and before he became the father of country singer Tim.
Back in the 60s there were no music videos, we liked our singers based on their voice, and radio showed no color. I can still remember the first time I heard Charley on the radio, he sang Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger. His voice had such a richness to it. It was weeks later when we stayed up very late to see him on one of the late night variety shows that we discovered he was black. We didn’t care. He sang GOOD country music and that is all that matters. Charley would often tell about those early concerts. When his name was announced there was lots of clapping and then when he came out on stage and they saw him, it got very quiet. But people got over the shock as soon as he started singing. One time during one of those hush periods, Willie Nelson came out on stage and gave Charley a big kiss right on Charley’s lips. It was a clear message to the audience that the other artists accepted Charley, and so should they. In the end, the only thing that mattered to any of us was the quality of his music. Charley was also very much loved in Ireland. He was very good friends with Irish Country Music star Daniel O’Donnell. Sadly, Charley died on Daniel’s Birthday.
Charley Pride is the greatest ever country singer . Please i want you to tske tome and listen these tracks (1), In The Middle of Nowhere (2), The Little Folks (3), just Between You and Me (4)The Day The Worl Stood Still (5), Someone Loves You Honey I can go on and on, to list Charley Pride's classics tracks where he tells significant life stories. His voice was unmatchable by any other country singer. May His Soul Rest In Peace. Amen
Kaw Lijah (sound like) Original Hank Williams Sr. song. He wrote it. I always felt sad when listening to this song. You ought to see Hank Jr. do this live. He really beats down on the fiddle.
This is another song that the cover is better than the original. Hank Williams Sr originally recorded this, but Charley covered it, and in my mind it became Charley's song. Nobody had sung it better.
So glad you've got round to listening to some Charley Pride, Harri. I discovered this great singer thanks to the BBC's 'Country Club' radio programme in the early 1970s. Not the sort of thing my school friends listened to, but I loved it!! My favourite of his is 'Crystal Chandaliers', a poignant vignette of a story - think you'd like it. Two other story songs that I heard on that programme that make a great impact on me , never forgotten though it was years before I heard them again, lwere Dolly Prton's 'Down to Dover' and Dave Loggins 'Please Come to Boston'. Check those out when you need another dose of great storytelling.
Phonetically: Kaw LEIJ Uh... I love Charley Pride so much. He has got so many great songs. Probably his most well-known song is Kiss an Angel Good Morning, if you haven't heard it already: m.ruclips.net/video/hRIRTQ_k-Sg/видео.html This is a fantastic live version of Kaw Liga. That yip sound you commented on is a cowboy call; they used a variety of such calls when driving cattle. Still, my favorite is the original by Hank Williams from 1952, which held the number one spot on the chart for 14 weeks. And if you're familiar with his catalog, one of his biggest hits ever was actually on side B of the single, Your Cheatin Heart. 17 years later, Charley Pride recorded this version and it went to number 3 on the charts. Many others have covered it, including Marty Robbins. Here is the classic Hank Williams version: m.ruclips.net/video/TtTlAsJ_1pk/видео.html We used to cover this song in my honky-tonk band, though we did it a bit more up-tempo, like Hank Williams only even slightly faster, and we had really strong reinforcing harmony vocals in the chorus. The audience loved it. At first my drummer refused to play it because he thought it would be disrespectful to Native Americans, but I have several Native American friends and several of them said that it was a classic song and that they liked it and to go ahead and play it. So he finally relented and he would play toms on the verses and then brushes on the snare for the chorus. So fun. In my town of Lawrence Kansas here, when I was in my twenties in the 1980s, there was a tiny little shop wedged between newer shops downtown on the main drag, and this old guy named George who was born around 1910 was still the proprietor of George's Pipe and Tobacco Shop. He was in his seventies and fell into ill health by the late 80s and closed the shop forever. He was a delightful character, from a totally different time in America. When I walked in there, I literally felt like I was walking into the previous century - the aroma, the ancient dust, the whole ambience of it. He had a twisted waxed handlebar mustache shop and old fashioned spectacles and he was really eccentric. This tiny shop was cluttered with all kinds of old things but it smelled wonderful, the aroma of decades of pipe tobacco and all that. I would buy rolling papers from him, laugh, and he would always tease me about it. But he had the classic red wooden Indian out in front propping his door open. Someone below described this phenomenon well. But in his case, being a joker, he had installed a little speaker in the wooden Indian. When young sorority girls would stroll by on the sidewalk and not give his store a second glance, he would speak into the old radio microphone behind the counter and say something shocking and they would jump out of their skins! He had a red and white sign in the window that said "If the Indian is out, George is in". Old townies like me still quote that expression now and then.
Oh yeah, I meant to mention how wonderful the pedal steel is and how important it is to the song. We had a pedal steel player in our band and it also shows up on the Hank Williams version.
Probably always a good idea to hear the original first and then compare. I believe Hanks is better, but I’m prejudiced. Lol (Hank has much better range)
You can't tell me Charlie Pride didn't break the color barriers. He melted my mom's heart throughout the 70's.
Charley Pride was a multifaceted Entertainer. I've never heard him sing a song badly. He lived for performing on the stage. He could bring the audience to their feet and keep them there for his entire set.
Hank Williams Sr. Co-wrote this song. It was a hit for him. Hank Jr also recorded a version. I live Charley Pride version the best.
Charley Pride sang just as good in person as his records. One of the best country singers. My favorite song by him is "Someone Loves You Honey. " there is a live performance of him singing in Canada. It was amazing.
A lot of people were surprised he was black.
He has many great songs. Was a great man.
I LOVE Charley Pride!!!! He has a great catalog! Thank you Harri for listening and reacting to Mr. Charley Pride!
I love this song and Charley Pride! For generations Wooden Indians use to stand in front of cigar shops as a form of advertisement. Originally Native American grown tobacco was being shipped to England from America. These wooden statues were still often seen when this song was written making the lyrics funny and sad at the same time.... a wealthy customer bought Kaw-Liga's wooden maiden love, leaving him all alone
My In-laws have 2 on either side of their porch.
@@Someonelser1 Oh that is awesome! I haven't seen any in years, but use to see them often.
I love Charley Pride, one of the legends of country music! My husband (now deceased) played guitar, I played bass & we got together with friends &/or family all the time & did a lot of Charley's songs in our "jam sessions"! I got to meet Charley's son, Dion, who's also a classic country singer with a beautiful voice! He was a sweetheart! 😊
Many singers did this song but, nobody ever did it as well as Hank Williams Sr the original. That's what my dad always said. When he heard Charley's version, he said, "Charley didn't do it as good as Hank, he did it better."
When I was young, my parents played Charley's records and tapes daily. He was my mom's favorite country singer and one my father's favorites. You must realize, my parents were prejudice but Charley broke that barrier. They loved him.
He is my favorite country singer and Ray Charles is very close. Yeah, Ray Charles had a number of country hits. You should definitely check him out.
Roll On Mississippi is another amazing song by him!
Had a huge crush on Charlie Pride since I was young!!! 🥰So glad my parents brought us up on "Real Country"!!! Loved Charlie Pride since I was 7!!!❤
Me too!
Grew up listening to Charley. Amazing voice and personality.
"Crystal Chandeliers" is a fantastic song, too. In fact, that whole album is. My mom and dad had the LP back in the 1960's.
Thanks Harri for once again a great reaction to my suggested song. This song was originally written by Hank Williams and was recorded at his final recording session in September 1952, but the Charley Pride cover is pretty incredible. Can't wait to send you requests for next month. Keeping alive the great music from the past is truly a calling.
This song takes me back. My dad was in a county western band and they did this song. I can remember them practicing in our living room till all hours of the night. Always a favorite.
He had a fantastic voice !
We saw him live at the Houston Astrodome many years ago. He was fantastic!
We did too! Native Houstonian here raised on Charley Pride. I think Hank Williams, Sr recorded this first. Thank you Harri for choosing some good ol' country music. Love you in Texan.
The “g” is pronounced like “J”. Haven’t heard this in years. Love Charley Pride!
Been a big Charley Pride fan for many years. He was still going strong when he passed in his 80s of Covid, and it was a real loss to the music world.
Charlie Pride was one of the few records (vinyl) that my parents had. Loved listening to it and a country duo, Buck Owen and Roy Clark.
Charley Pride was the man.
You must check out the original by Hank Williams SR
Charlie Pride was an awesome singer.
Great singer
back in 1800's the store had a Wooden Indian holding cigars. Cah-lye -ja,
This is my favorite performance of this song . Happy you were recommended this 'version'
This has been sung by a number of artists, but Charley owns this song. Thank you for your reaction video's, you share with us so many eclectic, varied and enjoyable songs. I love the live performances, you really get to see the artistry of these singers.
As a side note; do you live in Vancouver, BC? I swear I saw your spitting image a week ago downtown and was ready to call out, "Harri!", but then Ithught, "naaahh!".
Thanks a million for another great video.
Always loved this song and play it often ❤️😀
Charlie Pride live was an awesome experience so glad I got to see him in concert. Check out his version of Me and Bobby McGee, Millers Cave, Crystal Chandeliers and All His Children one of his many gospel songs
he had the most awesome concerts
I went to a Charley Pride concert in Tokyo in the 1970s. It was very entertaining. This song was written by country music great Hank Williams Sr.
Thanks for the share.
You never thought of Charley being black or white. He was just a great country singer. One of the most beloved.
Love his every song ❤❤❤
I've always loved this song since I was a little kid. I find the metaphor of the wooden Indians so clever. It's basically about a man who can't get up the courage to open his heart.
I’m listening to this again❤
I'm Just Me, Is Anybody Going to San Antone, Kiss an Angel Good Morning are my three favorites in that order.
As soon as I hear the name Charlie Pride I think You've got to Kiss an Angel Good Morning.
Love you handle
@@bushwriter I had an account with my real name. You Tube claimed I violated their terms, and banned me with no explanation. Now it's gloves off. Guess how many times I've come back.
Back in the 6os Charlie would call his friends who were our neighbors and we would secretly listen 8n as we were on a party line..
Great song by the legend, RIP Charley. 💜
Before he was a singer, he played baseball ⚾️ in the Negro Leagues.
I watched him back in the 1970s. He sang tbe national anthem in the 1973 World Series in Oakland. Wonderful entertainer.
Suggested video 📹: Kiss an Angel Good Morning 😇
RIP 2 years 😢
He also played a few games at 3rd base for the NY Mets in 62 or 63.
Yes.
Ironically, he sang before the World Series where the Mets at Oakland Athletics game.
Late Tug McGraw was on the Mets team. He graduated from St. Vincent HS in Vallejo. Then he went to Solano CC before the Mets drafted him...and before he became the father of country singer Tim.
Back in the 60s there were no music videos, we liked our singers based on their voice, and radio showed no color. I can still remember the first time I heard Charley on the radio, he sang Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger. His voice had such a richness to it. It was weeks later when we stayed up very late to see him on one of the late night variety shows that we discovered he was black. We didn’t care. He sang GOOD country music and that is all that matters. Charley would often tell about those early concerts. When his name was announced there was lots of clapping and then when he came out on stage and they saw him, it got very quiet. But people got over the shock as soon as he started singing. One time during one of those hush periods, Willie Nelson came out on stage and gave Charley a big kiss right on Charley’s lips. It was a clear message to the audience that the other artists accepted Charley, and so should they. In the end, the only thing that mattered to any of us was the quality of his music. Charley was also very much loved in Ireland. He was very good friends with Irish Country Music star Daniel O’Donnell. Sadly, Charley died on Daniel’s Birthday.
He sounded amazing live always!
Thanks for the memories of my father ever time he heard this song he would tap his foot he loved this song.
Charley Pride is the greatest ever country singer . Please i want you to tske tome and listen these tracks
(1), In The Middle of Nowhere
(2), The Little Folks
(3), just Between You and Me
(4)The Day The Worl Stood Still
(5), Someone Loves You Honey
I can go on and on, to list Charley Pride's classics tracks where he tells significant life stories. His voice was unmatchable by any other country singer. May His Soul Rest In Peace. Amen
This song was written by Hank Williams Sr. I love it. Hank yodeled the Kawliga part.
A very cool and unique song.
What an awesome live performance. Only one Charlie Pride. This is a song originally by Hank Williams Sr.🙂
Charlie Pride don't get no better then this !
Another artist we lost to covid R.I.p. Charlie
Hank Williams Sr and Hank Jr both did song check them out
The greatest country artist ever.. listen to his material that wasn't released as singles and then tell me I am crazy
Kaw Lijah (sound like) Original Hank Williams Sr. song. He wrote it. I always felt sad when listening to this song. You ought to see Hank Jr. do this live. He really beats down on the fiddle.
Kaw Liga was a Hank Williams song. Hank would visit a lake near Birmingham and there was a wooden Indian near his cabin.
Hi Harri, should also check out All I have to offer you is me, I believe it was his first hit
I had never heard this one but he did an amazing job of it. He did some real vocal gymnastics with this song. Great pick. 🌺✌️
He also played professional baseball.
This is another song that the cover is better than the original. Hank Williams Sr originally recorded this, but Charley covered it, and in my mind it became Charley's song. Nobody had sung it better.
Song was written by Hank Williams. Was first sung by Hank.
Charlie Pride was an awesome singer.
Don't think he did a bad song.
The song was written by Hank Williams Sr.
Nice reaction. Sent you a new request!
Try his "Kiss an Angel Good Morning"
The pronunciation has the “I” long. This was a Hank Williams hit. Me. Pride had a huge hit in this cover.
So glad you've got round to listening to some Charley Pride, Harri. I discovered this great singer thanks to the BBC's 'Country Club' radio programme in the early 1970s. Not the sort of thing my school friends listened to, but I loved it!! My favourite of his is 'Crystal Chandaliers', a poignant
vignette of a story - think you'd like it. Two other story songs that I heard on that programme that make a great impact on me , never forgotten though it was years before I heard them again, lwere Dolly Prton's 'Down to Dover' and Dave Loggins 'Please Come to Boston'. Check those out when you need another dose of great storytelling.
❤
You could do another Indian love story, Running Bear by Johnny Preston.
The black Hank Jr !
Kaw Liga was a wooden cigar store Indian.
Charlie Pride's version is great; there's another version (probably the original) which is even better. May have been Marty Robbins
Hank Williams co wrote. I prefer his version . Would love to see your reraction to Hanks style...
It's called KAW LIJA, A INDIAN NAME
Phonetically: Kaw LEIJ Uh... I love Charley Pride so much. He has got so many great songs. Probably his most well-known song is Kiss an Angel Good Morning, if you haven't heard it already:
m.ruclips.net/video/hRIRTQ_k-Sg/видео.html
This is a fantastic live version of Kaw Liga. That yip sound you commented on is a cowboy call; they used a variety of such calls when driving cattle. Still, my favorite is the original by Hank Williams from 1952, which held the number one spot on the chart for 14 weeks. And if you're familiar with his catalog, one of his biggest hits ever was actually on side B of the single, Your Cheatin Heart. 17 years later, Charley Pride recorded this version and it went to number 3 on the charts. Many others have covered it, including Marty Robbins. Here is the classic Hank Williams version:
m.ruclips.net/video/TtTlAsJ_1pk/видео.html
We used to cover this song in my honky-tonk band, though we did it a bit more up-tempo, like Hank Williams only even slightly faster, and we had really strong reinforcing harmony vocals in the chorus. The audience loved it. At first my drummer refused to play it because he thought it would be disrespectful to Native Americans, but I have several Native American friends and several of them said that it was a classic song and that they liked it and to go ahead and play it. So he finally relented and he would play toms on the verses and then brushes on the snare for the chorus. So fun.
In my town of Lawrence Kansas here, when I was in my twenties in the 1980s, there was a tiny little shop wedged between newer shops downtown on the main drag, and this old guy named George who was born around 1910 was still the proprietor of George's Pipe and Tobacco Shop. He was in his seventies and fell into ill health by the late 80s and closed the shop forever. He was a delightful character, from a totally different time in America. When I walked in there, I literally felt like I was walking into the previous century - the aroma, the ancient dust, the whole ambience of it. He had a twisted waxed handlebar mustache shop and old fashioned spectacles and he was really eccentric. This tiny shop was cluttered with all kinds of old things but it smelled wonderful, the aroma of decades of pipe tobacco and all that. I would buy rolling papers from him, laugh, and he would always tease me about it. But he had the classic red wooden Indian out in front propping his door open. Someone below described this phenomenon well.
But in his case, being a joker, he had installed a little speaker in the wooden Indian. When young sorority girls would stroll by on the sidewalk and not give his store a second glance, he would speak into the old radio microphone behind the counter and say something shocking and they would jump out of their skins! He had a red and white sign in the window that said "If the Indian is out, George is in". Old townies like me still quote that expression now and then.
Oh yeah, I meant to mention how wonderful the pedal steel is and how important it is to the song. We had a pedal steel player in our band and it also shows up on the Hank Williams version.
Probably always a good idea to hear the original first and then compare. I believe Hanks is better, but I’m prejudiced. Lol (Hank has much better range)
Ka lie ja
I think he played baseball back when the leagues were segregated.
Hank Williams, Sr. wrote this. In today's "woke" environment a Black Man could not appropriate a song about a Native American!
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Hey duhe does own the value freddy fender
It shivers my bones when you take the Lord's name as a swear word. No thanks.
Pronounced COW....LIE....JAH