Charlie Rich ~ Similar Artists

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Ray Price - 100% match to Charlie Rich

Ray Noble Price, 12 January 1926, on a farm near Perryville, Cherokee County, Texas, USA. Price grew up on a farm and by the time he left high school, was already singing and playing guitar locally. In 1942, while studying veterinary medicine at Abilene's North Texas... Read more

Charley Pride - 94% match to Charlie Rich

18 March 1938, Sledge, Mississippi, USA. Charley Pride was born on a cotton farm, which, as a result of his success, he was later able to purchase. Pride says, "My dad named me Charl Frank Pride, but I was born in the country and the midwife wrote it down as Charley". Harold... Read more

Tom T. Hall - 92% match to Charlie Rich

25 May 1936, Olive Hill, Kentucky, USA. Hall was one of eight children and his father was a bricklayer and part-time minister. Hall described the family home as "a frame house of pale-grey boards and a porch from which to view the dusty road and the promise of elsewhere beyond... Read more

Conway Twitty - 90% match to Charlie Rich

Harold Lloyd Jenkins, 1 September 1933, Friars Point, Mississippi, USA, d. 5 June 1993, Springfield, Missouri, USA. His father, a riverboat pilot, named him after a silent-film comedian and gave him a guitar when he was five years old. The family moved to Helena, Arkansas, and... Read more

Don Gibson - 83% match to Charlie Rich

3 April 1928, Shelby, North Carolina, USA, d. 17 November 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. If loneliness meant world acclaim, then Gibson, with his catalogue of songs about despair and heartbreak, should have been a superstar. Considering himself "a songwriter who sings rather... Read more

George Jones - 82% match to Charlie Rich

George Glenn Jones, 12 September 1931, Saratoga, Texas, USA. Jones is the greatest of honky tonk singers but he has also been a victim of its lifestyle. He learned guitar in his youth, and in 1947, was hired by the husband-and-wife duo Eddie And Pearl. This developed into his... Read more

Donna Fargo - 78% match to Charlie Rich

Yvonne Vaughn, 10 November 1949, Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA. Fargo is the daughter of a tobacco farmer, and she sang in church as a child. She became a schoolteacher and was discovered by her future husband, record producer Stan Silver, singing in a club in Los Angeles. She... Read more

Bobby Bare - 77% match to Charlie Rich

Robert Joseph Bare, 7 April 1935, Ironton, Ohio, USA. Bare was raised on a farm; his mother died when he was five, and his sister was adopted. As an adolescent, he dreamed of being Hank Williams: "then Hank died and I didn't want to be like him no more". Nevertheless, he started... Read more

Marty Robbins - 77% match to Charlie Rich

Martin David Robinson 26 September 1925, near Glendale, Arizona, USA, d. 8 December 1982, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Robbins later maintained that his father hated him and that his early childhood was unhappy. Reports indicate that John Robinson (originally a Polish immigrant... Read more

Warren Smith - 75% match to Charlie Rich