{"id":14503,"date":"2023-08-13T00:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/ron-vasser-singer-songwriter-charlie-fred-c\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:08:28","slug":"ron-vasser-singer-songwriter-charlie-fred-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/ron-vasser-singer-songwriter-charlie-fred-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Vasser, Singer\/Songwriter &#8211; \u201cCHARLIE &amp; FRED\u201d (C)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Ron Vasser, Singer\/Songwriter - \u201cCHARLIE &amp; FRED\u201d (C)\"   width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4SeVN3Mm4o?cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\u201cCHARLIE &#038; FRED (c)\u201d is written and performed by Ron Vasser who is a Cowboy, Emmy award winning television producer, director, singer\/songwriter and a former first responder. <\/p>\n<p>I wrote \u201cCharlie &#038; Fred\u201d in honor of two African-American rodeo superstars, Charlie Sampson and Fred Whitfield. My song also pays tribute to the sprit of The American Cowboy and to everyone who ever wanted to be a Cowboy or Cowgirl. I had the pleasure of meeting Charlie and Fred on occasion during the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n<p>Charles &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Sampson was born on July 2, 1957 in Los Angeles California.<br \/>\nIn 1982 he became the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) World Champion bull rider making him the first African American cowboy to win a world championship in professional rodeo.  Charlie was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1996. <\/p>\n<p>Fred Whitfield was born on August 5, 1967 in Houston Texas.<br \/>\nHe has won eight Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) world championships world titles, including seven in tie-down roping and one was the  World All-Around Cowboy Championship. Fred was elected to the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2004 and he also wrote a book titled \u201cGold Buckles Don&#8217;t Lie, The Untold Tale of Fred Whitfield\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You Charlie and Fred you for being a true inspiration to<br \/>\nCowboys of all Colors\u2026. Long Live Cowboys<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C4SeVN3Mm4o\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCHARLIE &#038; FRED (c)\u201d is written and performed by Ron Vasser who is a Cowboy, Emmy award winning television producer, director, singer\/songwriter and a former [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,12314,12315,7288,12313,3511,12306,12307,11352,12312,12309,12308,12316,327,2095,103,12310,12311,12317],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amp","tag-bull-rider","tag-calf-roper","tag-charlie","tag-charlie-sampson","tag-country-music","tag-cowboys","tag-cowgirls","tag-fred","tag-fred-whitfield","tag-horses","tag-rodeos","tag-ron","tag-singer","tag-singersongwriter","tag-songwriter","tag-television-director","tag-television-producer","tag-vasser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}