Charlie Rich

Charles Allan Rich (December 14, 1932 – July 25, 1995) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. His eclectic style of music was often difficult to classify, encompassing the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, soul, and gospel genres. In the later part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname the Silver Fox. He is perhaps best remembered for a pair of 1973 hits, "Behind Closed Doors" and "The Most Beautiful Girl, and “Big Boss Man” topped the U.S. country singles charts, as well as the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles charts and earned him two Grammy Awards. Rich was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2015.
==Links to Peel==
When reviewing Charlie Rich's The Most Beautiful Girl single in Singles Reviews, which was published in the Sounds paper on 22nd December 1973, Peel described one of Charlie's tracks as one of the great records of all time:
"Charlie Rich made one of the great records of all time when in the mid-fifties, he did "Lonely Weekends". The "B" side "Everything I Do Is Wrong" was even better and also came pretty close to summing Charlie up."
On his 27 July 1991 show, Peel was going to play Charlie Rich's Everything I Do Is Wrong after Life With Patrick's Wrong song, but didn't have the record in the studio to play. He then went on to sing a bit of Everything I Do Is Wrong. 
After Charlie's death in 1995, Peel paid tribute by playing Lonely Weekends on his show. 
Although the Lonely Weekends track was played a few times by Peel, it was not added to his Peelenium. 
==Shows Played==
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*28 July 1995: 'Lonely Weekends (CD-Lonely Weekends)' (Sun)
;2001
*05 April 2001: 'Lonely Weekends'
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists