All I had to do was go over to oracle, and download the MySQL Connector C 6.0.2 (newer doesn’t work!) and do the typical install.
https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/c-c/
Be sure to include all optional extras (Extra Binaries) via the custom install, without these it did not work for the win64.msi
Once that was done, I went into pycharms, and selected the MySQL-python>=1.2.4 package to install, and it worked great. No need to update any configuration or anything like that. This was the simplest version for me to work through.