Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

" Like many other country performers he has paid tribute to Hank Williams with an album of songs that were all written by Hank entitled There's a Little Bit of Hank in Me which included top-sellers of Williams' classics "Kaw-Liga" "Honky Tonk Blues" and "You Win Again". Personal
Pride met his future wife Rozene while playing baseball in the southern states. Soon after Pride's third single "Just Between You and Me" was released.

His greatest musical success came in the early to mid-1970s when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. In total he has garnered 39 No.