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The world lost country music icon Charley Pride to complications from COVID-19 back in 2020.<\/p>\n
He was 86. <\/p>\n
Pride\u2019s death came just weeks after he received a lifetime achievement award at the Country Music Association Awards. And now, all these years after his death, Pride has one final gift to give back to all of us \u2014 a new album.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not really new, though. In fact, it\u2019s an album that the country crooner recorded back in the mid-1980s called \u201cEndlessly: A Tribute to Brook Benton.\u201d It is set to be released on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n
So, why now and what prevented Pride from dropping the album all those years ago?<\/p>\n
Well, according to The Dallas Morning News<\/b><\/a>, he recorded the 10-song album paying homage to Benton, which the outlet called \u201can under-sung R&B crooner\u201d from the 1950s and 1960s, but the timing was all wrong. <\/p>\n While he was recording the album, Glen Campbell landed a top 10 hit with a remake of Benton\u2019s \u201cJust a Matter of Time,\u201d and four years later, Randy Travis released a version of Benton\u2019s song and it went to No. 1.<\/p>\n Charlie\u2019s album sat on the shelf until 1992 when he released a version of \u201cJust a Matter of Time,\u201d on a B-side, per the Morning News. But with so many Benton tributes out there, Pride decided to keep his album from being released. <\/p>\n Parade said the album <\/b><\/a>shows a new side of Pride, where he blends R&B, pop and classic country. <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world lost country music icon Charley Pride to complications from COVID-19 back in 2020. He was 86. Pride\u2019s death came just weeks after he received a lifetime achievement award at the Country Music Association Awards. And now, all these years after his death, Pride has one final gift to give back to all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[347518],"class_list":["post-2020879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-country-music-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}