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Surprising that this song did not make #1 in Billboard, it stalled at #3 for three weeks. (It did hit #1 in Cashbox) This remained one of the most requested Charley Pride hits on the radio during the early 1970′s. It always brought the house down whenever he sang it in concert.
There’s not an exact correlation between songs that go #1 and songs that bring the house down in concert. I’ll bet “Indian Outlaw” brought the house down for Tim McGraw for years–maybe still. And it didn’t even go top-5.
“Indian Outlaw” was only big with McGraw’s CORE fans. It was NOT a big request item at radio stations and performed horribly in music research tests. Extemely high negatives which is why it disappeared from most radio station oldies libraries.
“Indian Outlaw” did extremely well in the southeast. It got to #1 on several of the local radio charts and even on those stations without charts, it was heavily programmed. You still hear the song played occasionally as an oldie
I was very familar with Hank’s original recording of “Kaw-Liga” – Charley messes up the lyrics so badly, that it somewhat ruins my enjoyment of his recording, and I’m about as big a Charley Pride fan as exists
Charley Pride’s taking liberties with the lyrics didn’t bother me as much as Paul. I don’t care for Pride’s (or Hank Jr’s) recording of “Kaw Liga” because of his vocal performance. This is such a weird and wonderful song and Pride seems to have worked to smooth out the delivery of the narrative in the verses. That, and he simply lacks the elder Williams’ plaintive moan when singing the title line.