Pat Boone

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Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, writer, television host, motivational speaker, and spokesman.

During the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a hit pop star in the United States.

He has made more than 45 million albums, had 38 top-40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films. Boone was the second-largest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley, and was ranked at No. 78, according to Billboard. In its list of the Top 100 Artists of 1955–1995, there is 9 on the list.

Boone had the most weeks on the charts for 220 weeks in a row before the 2010s, with one or two songs per week. At the age of 23, he began hosting The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, an ABC variety television show that aired for 115 episodes (1957-1960).

On the program, many musical artists, including Edie Adams, Andy Williams, Pearl Bailey, and Johnny Mathis, were among the show's performers.

His cover versions of rhythm and blues had a major influence on rock and roll's widespread success.

Elvis Presley appeared in Cleveland, Ohio, as an author, and he had a number one bestseller in the 1950s (Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Prentice-Hall).

He primarily concentrated on gospel music in the 1960s and is a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

He continues to work and speak as a motivational speaker, a television presenter, and a conservative political commentator.

Early life

Boone was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 1, 1934, the son of Margaret Virginia (née Pritchard) and Archie Altman Boone. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, where his family moved when he was two years old. Boone graduated from David Lipscomb High School in Nashville in 1952. Nick Todd, his younger brother, who goes by Nick Todd, was also a pop singer in the 1950s and is now a church music leader.

Boone claimed to be the great-great-grandson of American pioneer Daniel Boone in a 2007 interview at The 700 Club.

When Boone was 19 years old in November 1953, he married Shirley Lee Foley, a Chicago-born Tennesseean, on January 24, 1934 – January 11, 2019, the son of country music legend Red Foley and his wife, singer Judy Martin. They had four children: Cheryl "Cherry" Lynn, Linda "Lindy" Lee, Deborah "Debby" Ann, and Laura "Laury" Gene. Boone and his family were residents of Teaneck, New Jersey, beginning in the late 1950s. Shirley Boone, a lesser known recording artist and television presenter, was less well known than her husband. Mercy Corps, a hunger-relief Christian ministry, was also founded by her. She died in 2019 at the couple's Beverly Hills home from vaping related issues, which she had discovered less than a year before.

Pat Brown attended David Lipscomb College and then Lipscomb University in Nashville. In 1958, he graduated from Columbia University School of General Studies magna cum lauded for attending North Texas State University, now known as the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.

Personal life

Boone grew up in the Church of Christ. Boone's marriage to Shirley Foley in the 1960s came close due to his alcohol use and his love for attending parties. Shirley, on the other hand, began to concentrate more on her faith and eventually led Pat and their children toward a more orthodox faith-based approach. They attended the Inglewood Church of Christ at this time.

Boone spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally attended by 2,500 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in the spring of 1964. Following two cases in 1962 and 1963 that the United States Supreme Court refused to mandate compulsory school prayer as a result of conflicting with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Anthony Eisley, a celebrity of ABC's Hawaiian Eyes, attempted to flood the nation Congress with letters in favor of mandatory school prayer. Walter Brennan, Lloyd Nolan, Rhonda Fleming, Gloria Swanson, and Dale Evans were among those in Boone and Eisley at the Project Prayer rally. "What the communists want is to subvert and humiliate our young people," Boone said. ... I believe in the power of aroused Americans, and I believe in the Constitution's wisdom. "God has the power of God." Roy Rogers, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Mary Pickford, Jane Russell, Ginger Rogers, and Pat Buttram had all agreed with the rally's objectives, and they may have attended if their schedules weren't interrupted.

The Boones hosted Bible studies for artists such as Doris Day, Glenn Ford, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Priscilla Presley at their Beverly Hills home in the 1970s. The family then began attending The Church On The Way in Van Nuys, a Foursquare Gospel megachurch pastored by Jack Hayford.

Boone talked on Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show on Saturday Night Live, which featured a sketch called God Is a Boob Man; the sketch parodied the film God's Not Dead 2 in which Boone appeared; He referred to the sketch as "blasphemy" and that the Federal Communications Commission should prohibit such material from being released, as well as removing any "network, or whoever is in possession of the programs."

In the 1964 United States presidential election, Boone endorsed Barry Goldwater.

Boone campaigned unsuccessfully for incumbent Republican Ernie Fletcher in the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election, despite a written message that stated that the Democratic Party nominee, Steve Beshear, would favor "every homosexual cause." "Now do you want a governor who'd like Kentucky to be another San Francisco," Boone said as part of the campaign.

Boone compared American political liberalism to cancer on August 29, 2009, likening it to "black filthy cells."

In December 2009, Boone supported conservative Senator John Wayne Tucker's campaign in Missouri's 3rd congressional district against incumbent Russ Carnahan (D) in the 2010 midterm elections. In 2010, Boone endorsed Republican Clayton Trotter in Texas's 20th congressional district with an ad campaign remarking on his song Speedy Gonzales' Looney Tunes persona, which critics have characterized as offensive stereotypes.

At the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference, held in February 2011, Boone received a lifetime achievement award.

Boone, along with Mike Huckabee and executive producer Troy Duhon, all of whom were involved in the film God's Not Dead 2, wrote a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown in opposition to Senate Bill 1146, which "prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination" at California universities in June 2016. Schools that teach pastors and theology teachers might no longer be allowed to recruit Christian-only students, teach religious beliefs in regular classes, require attendance at chapel services, or keep toilets and dormitories restricted to males or females."

Boone is a basketball fan and has an interest in two franchises. The Cooga Moogas owned a Hollywood Studio League team. Bill Cosby, Rafer Johnson, Gardner McKay, Don Murray, Don Murray, and Denny "Tarzan" Miller were among the Cooga Moogas.

Boone became the majority owner of the Oakland, California team on February 2, 1967, following the formation of the American Basketball Association. The Oakland Americans were the team's first name but it was later renamed the Oakland Oaks, the nickname under which it competed from 1967 to 1969. The Oaks took home the 1969 ABA championship.

Despite the Oaks' triumph on the court, the team still had a lot of money problems. By August 1969, the Bank of America was going to foreclose on a $1.2 million loan to the Oaks, and the team was sold to a group of Washington, D.C. businessmen, who became the Washington Caps.

Boone later competed for the Virginia Creepers, an 80-84 youth group Senior Olympics team that barely lost to the gold medal winning squad; Boone aged out (by turning 85) on June 1, 2019.

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Career

Boone began his career by appearing in Centennial Park in Nashville. He started recording in April 1953 for Republic Records (not to be confused with the old label), and Dot Records, 1955. Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" in 1955 was a hit. This set the tone for Boone's early years, which concentrated on black artists' R&B songs for a white American market. After the initial's failure, Randy Wood, the owner of Dot, had released "Tra La La La-a" (a different track from the earlier LaVern Baker one), and he wanted to perform another version. This was the B-side of Boone's first Boone single "Two Hearts Two Kisses," which had been released by the Charms, whose "Hearts Of Stone" had been overlaid by the label's Fontane Sisters.

Boone's second cover and a revival of a then seven-year-old song "I Almost Lost My Mind," which was originally covered by another black artist, Nat King Cole. "According to an opinion poll of high-school students in 1957, the singer was nearly identical "two-to-one favorite over Elvis Presley among boys and girls' preferred almost three-to-one by girls." He developed a safe, nutritive, advertiser-friendly brand that earned him a long-term product endorsement deal with GM in the late 1950s and 1960s. "See the USA in your Chevrolet; ride the nation's greatest land of all," Dinah Shore, who accompanied Dinah Shore as the GM product's praises. The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom had also been sponsored by GM.

Many of Boone's hit singles were based on black Rock and Roll artists' hits. Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino; "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard; and "I Almost Lost My Mind" by Ivory Joe Hunter; and Charles Singleton's "Don't Forbid Me" and "Don't Forbid Me" by Ivory Jones. Boone also wrote the lyrics for the Exodus instrumental theme song, which he titled "This Land Is Mine." (Ernest Gold had written the songs.)

Boone, a conservative Christian, rejected certain songs and film roles that he felt might violate his convictions, including a role with sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. Henry Levin, director Henry Levin, wanted him to kiss co-star Shirley Jones in one of his first films, April Love (which was not in the script). Boone said he wanted to talk to his wife first to make sure it was all right with her because it was his first on-screen kiss. He owned Cooga Mooga Productions, his own film production company.

He appeared on Arthur Godfrey and His Families from 1955 to 1957, and later hosted his own The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom on Thursday evenings. Boone's likeness was first licensed to DC Comics in 1959, first appearing in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 9 (May 1959) before appearing in his own collection from the publisher, which ran for five issues from September 1959 to May 1960. He began writing a series of self-help books for teens, including Twixt Twelve and Twenty. Boone's career as a hitmaker came to an end, but he kept recording into the 1960s. He appeared at the San Diego Music Festival in Italy in 1966, performing the songs Mai mai mai Valentina with Giorgio Gaber and Se tu non fossi qui with Peppino Gagliardi. During his trip to Italy, he visited Ferrari's Maranello, near Modena, with the intention of purchasing a Superamerica Sports Car, but Enzo Ferrari advised him that there would not have been enough space for Boone's four children, and instead gave him a Ferrari 2+2 instead. Boone confessed to selling the "Ferrari he didn't like" to Tom Smothers of the comedic duo Smothers Brothers in a 2021 interview.

He migrated to gospel and country in the 1970s, and he continued to appear in other media as well. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were changes in the 1960s and 1970s. The Boone family performed gospel music and released The Family That Prays, a gospel singer and producer of gospel albums, including The Pat Boone Family and The Family Who Prays.

Boone created Lamb & Lion Records in the early 1970s. It featured musicians such as Pat, the Pat Boone Family, Debby Boone, Dan Peek, DeGarmo and Key, as well as Dogwood. Boone was signed to Melodyland, a Motown country subsidiary.

Boone was the first victim in the Federal Trade Commission's crackdown on false-claim product endorsements by celebrities in 1978. He and his daughter Debby were in a commercial claiming that all four of his children had found Acne-Statin a "true assist" in keeping their skin clean. The FTC lodged a lawsuit against the manufacturer, alleging that the drug did not really leave skin free of blemishes. Boone eventually signed a consent order in which he promised not only to avoid being in the ads but also to pay approximately 2.5% of any funds that the FTC or the court could order the manufacturer to refund to customers. Boone said, via a lawyer, that his daughters did use Acne-Statin, and that he was "disgust to learn that the product's effectiveness had not been scientifically proven as he expected."

Boone, who was born in 1956, was one of the country's best recording stars. Several film studios wanted him for movies; he chose to go with 20th Century Fox, which had produced Elvis Presley's first film. Fox converted a play he had bought, Bernardine, into a Boone vehicle. The resulting film was a huge success, grossing $3.75 million in the United States.

April Love (1957), a Indiana reimagination of Home, was even more popular. "I wish I could have made 20 more of these movies": a musical, appealing characters, some romance, a good storyline, and a happy ending, Boone says, it's the kind of film that makes you feel good." I never set out to make a depressing or immoral film."

Mardi Gras (1958), Edmund Goulding's last film, was less well known. However, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), a science fiction adventure book, was a big success. Boone had been reluctant to do it, and needed to be warned by being able to perform multiple songs and receiving a share of the proceeds. However, he was glad he did.

He produced and appeared in a documentary called Salute to the Teenagers (1960), but he did not make a film for a long time while doing acting with Sanford Meisner. All Hands on Deck (1961), a mild success, returned to a military comedy.

He was one of many names in another remake, State Fair (1962), a box office flop. Musicals were becoming less popular in Hollywood, so Boone decided to play a big part in Seven Arts Productions' Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1962), his first film outside of Fox. Boone had an unhappy encounter with the suggestion that his character had sex with Nancy Kwan's, which culminated in several public contests with the designers. He had a deal with Fox to produce three films at $200,000 a film with his production company. In 1965, Boone would play an empathetic character in The Yellow Canary (1963). New people were brought to the studio, who was unimpressed by the image, but Boone decided to make it anyway, but with a much smaller budget. Boone even took some money from his own pocket to help finish it.

The Horror of It All (1963), shot in England, was Boone's next film for Fox. He shot a comedy in Ireland called Never Put It in Writing (1964) for Allied Artists. Boone's third film for Fox, Goodbye Charlie (1964), but Boone was in favour of Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis. In The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), he was one of the many characters. He appeared in The Perils of Pauline (1967), a pilot for a television series that did not resultuate, and was screened in some theatres. The Cross and the Switchblade (1970), Boone's last film of note, was The Cross and the Switchblade (1970).

Pat Boone appeared in "The Will Rogers Follies" in Branson, Missouri, in 1994.

Boone's In a Metal Mood: Mr. Nice Guy, a series of heavy metal covers, was released in 1997. He appeared in black leather at the American Music Awards to promote the album. He was then booted from Gospel America, a television show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Many fans of the leather outfit became "parody of himself" after making a special appearance on TBN with network president Paul Crouch and his pastor, Jack Hayford. He was restored to Trinity Broadcasting, and Gospel America was restored to Gospel America.

In 2003, the Nashville Gospel Music Association honoured his gospel recording work by inducting him into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Boone's We Are Family: R&B Classics, featuring cover versions of 11 R&B hits, including the title track, "Soul Man," "Get Down Tonight," "A Woman Needs Love," and six other classics in September 2006.

In 2010, plans for the Pat Boone Family Theater at Broadway in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, were announced. The attraction was never constructed.

Boone, a reverse mortgage company, served as a spokesperson for Security One Lending in 2011. Since at least 2007, Boone has been a spokesperson for Swiss America Trading Corporation, a gold and silver coin broker who alerts of "America's Economic Collapse."

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