A Little Enid Trivia
Charlie Rich (December 14, 1932 - July 25, 1995) was an American Country Music Singer/Musician. He was a Grammy Award winner that played and sang rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel.In the latter 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". "The Most Beautiful Girl" topped the U.S. country singles charts, as well as the pop singles charts.
What does all of this have to do with Enid, Oklahoma? Well, Charlie actually began his professional music career while stationed at Vance, AFB in Enid!
Charlie met his wife, Margaret Ann, in high school - they married in 1952 and raised two sons and two daughters. After a single year at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville, where he was a member of the marching band, Rich spent four years (1953 - 56) in the Air Force, based in Enid, Oklahoma, where he played with a blues and jazz group called the Velvetones. Margaret Ann was their vocalist. The jazz group moonlighted in the local honky-tonks and clubs around the area.

Upon his discharge he returned to his father's cotton farm, but Margaret Ann had other ideas. She took a demo tape to the Sun Records studios, where producer Sam Phillips was working with the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Roy Orbison. And as they say, the rest is history.
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