CHARLIE PRIDE - KISS AN ANGEL GOOD MORNING

KISS AN ANGEL GOOD MORNING

CHARLEY PRIDE

SONGWRITER: BEN PETERS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CHARLEY PRIDE SINGS HEART SONGS

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1971

 

           Charley Frank Pride (March 18, 1934 – December 12, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and professional baseball player. His greatest musical success came in the early to mid 1970s, when he was the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. During the peak years of his recording career (1966–1987), he had 52 top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 30 of which made it to number one. He won the Entertainer of the Year award at the Country Music Association Awards in 1971.

         Pride is one of three African-American members of the Grand Ole Opry (the others being DeFord Bailey and Darius Rucker). He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.

          "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" is a song written by Ben Peters, and recorded by American country music artist Charley Pride. It was released in October 1971 as the first single from the álbum Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs. The song has since become one of his signature tunes and was his eighth song to reach number one on the country charts. and was also Pride's only single to reach the Top 40 on the pop charts, peaking at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, and also went into the Top Ten of the Adult Contemporary charts. It also reached #19 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100. The song spent four months on the pop chart, longer than any of his other hits. Billboard ranked it as the Nº. 74 song for 1972.

Whenever I chance to me, some old friends on the street

They ask me: How does a woman get to feel this way?

I've always got a smilin' face, anytime and any place

Every time they ask me why, I just smile and say

 

You've got to kiss an angel good morning

Let her know you think about her when you're gone

Kiss an angel good morning

Love her like the devil when you get back home

 

Well, people may try to guess, the secret of happiness

Some of them never learn, and it's a simple thing

The secret I was speakin' of is a woman and a man in love

The answer is in this song that I always sing

 

You've got to kiss an angel good morning

Let her know you think about her when you're gone

Kiss an angel good morning

Love her like the devil when you get back home

 

Kiss an angel good morning

Let her know you think about her when you're gone

Kiss an angel good morning

Love her like the devil when you get back home.