IN HIS FINAL YEARS, HAROLD REID WAS DIAGNOSED WITH KIDNEY FAILURE. FOR YEARS HE FOUGHT IT — 58 TOP 40 HITS BEHIND HIM, THE STATLER BROTHERS RETIRED, AND A BASS VOICE THAT WAS SLOWLY GOING QUIET. “I’ve been a blessed man. I’m ready to go whenever the Lord calls me.”
Introduction By the time Harold Reid entered the final chapter of his life, the applause had faded, the tour buses were gone, and the long run of hits with The…