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Charlie's "entertainment career" began at age 15, sweeping floors at WGEA in Geneva, Alabama. He eventually landed a weekend airshift at the station, and remained in radio throughout his high school and college years.
While attending Troy University, Monk worked a full time shift on WTBF radio. He moved to Mobile, Alabama and remained for four years at WKRG radio and television. While he was a prominent radio staffer, he was often called upon to work the television side of the company, working sporting events, parades, etc.
Following the nomadic lifestyle of most radio personalities, Monk did a stint as program director and afternoon personality at WACT in Tuscaloosa before returning to Mobile as Program Director at WUNI. The country station captured the Number One position in their market under Monk's tutelage.
In 1968, Monk made his move to Murfreesboro, Tennessee and WMTS radio to be close to the hub of the country music business. His freeform music and talk show for the station was broadcast from Music Row, and Monk got his first taste of "speaking out" about the music business, and he's never backed off since.
He joined the staff of ASCAP in 1970 as associate director, learning the song writing and publishing business from the ground up.
In 1977 he became the first Nashville executive of CBS Songs, where he stayed until forming his own music publishing company, Monk Family Music, in 1983.
Monk spent five years developing Opryland's music publishing operations to its prominence.
One of the founders of the Country Radio Seminar, monk hosted the annual New Faces Show for twenty-five. He is presently on the Alumni Board of Leadership Music, Country Radio Broadcasters board of directors, a member of the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, Gospel music Association, and Copyright Society of the South. He is a past vice-president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, past vice-president of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, past vice-president of the Gospel Music Association, and past president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Monk has been involved in numerous areas of the entertainment business including acting, writing, commercials, television, record production, and song writing. Some of his own have been recorded by such artists as Jerry Reed, Eddy Arnold, Pat Boone, Louise Mandrell, Jimmy Dean, Charley Pride, Angelo Badalamenti, and Charlie Chase.
Some of the writers that Monk has signed "off the street" include Buddy Brock, Kenny Chesney, Holly Dunn, Keith Stegall, Aaron Tippin, Randy Travis, and Chris Waters.
Publisher:
Signed or worked with writer Randy Travis, Aaron Tippin, Stewart Harris, Jim Weatherly, Skip Ewing, Buddy Brock, Dean Dillon, Whitey Shafer, Keith Stegall, Jim McBride, Holly Dunn, Chris Waters, Kenny Chesney.
Songwriter:
Songs recorded by Charley Pride, Jerry Reed, Eddy Arnold, Pat Boone, Angelo Badalamenti, Louise Mandrell, Jimmy Dean, Keith Stegall, Charlie Chase.
Co-Writers include Stegall, Badalamenti, Jim McBride, Milton Brown, Jerry Salley, Mickey Hiter, Philip Douglas, Michael Puryear, Mack David, Janet McMahan, Becki Foster.
Producer:
Charlie Chase (Epic/Sony)
Keith Stegall (Capitol, EMI, Epic)
Journalist:
Columnist and feature writer for Country Song Roundup, Songwriter, and other music trade magazines.
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