America The Great Written By Ed Gowens and Larry Mercy, Charley Pride Recorded this song and it is on his latest album Choices.

 

Taste Of Country magizine asked Charley Pride, 

 

What has the fan feedback been on the new music so far?

 

The first time I did these songs, I did ‘America the Great.’ I didn’t realize we were going to get that kind of response. It was a standing ovation from 12,000 people at a festival outside of Tampa. I didn’t realize I’d get that reaction. I said, “Here’s a song that’s the first cut on the album, and you might want to pick one up here.” We didn’t take but 120-130 CDs with us. I said, “If you like it, we do have about 100 of them there.” They went like hotcakes!  Charley Pride Is Still Making Wise ‘Choices’ With a New Album and the Texas Rangers

 

,Nashville Scene Magazine says,

 

After a five-year absence, Pride returns to the country music marketplace March 8 with Choices. It is a resolutely traditional country record, with steel and fiddles prominent on several cuts, Pride's still-formidable baritone in solid shape, and the lyrical and story settings a blend of topical ("Hickory Hollow Times and Country News," "Guntersville Gazette") realistic relationship tunes ("This Bed's Not Big Enough," "Maybe Love Will Save The Day") and reflective/biographical material ("Resting Place," "You Touched My Life," "The Bottom Line"). Then there's "America the Great," co-written by Larry Mercey and Edward Allen Gowens, for which Pride says he prefers the term "patriotic," rather than "political" or "conservative."