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My Life with Charley Pride
OPINION I had been in Nashville for six long years I started as an agent forThe Hubert Long Agency, then hired on as a tour consultant for two years with Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn. As that tour came to an end I got a call from Tom Collins, a well known producer and head of Charley Pride’s Pi Gem music. Could I meet with Charley next Tuesday? Of course.
Pride was relaxed in a golf shirt and jeans. He immediately went straight to the point. His intention was to establish a booking and management agency headquartered in Dallas. Would I run the operation, he asked. In just 24 hours I was packed and headed home to Texas.