Pat boone biography
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PAT BOONE BIOGRAPHY
Google Pat Boone – be warned, more than million results show up! – and a word picture of an astonishing, long lasting, still thriving career in music and entertainment emerges.
Singer, actor, TV host, producer, songwriter, author, motivational speaker, TV pitchman, radio personality, record company head, TV station owner, sports team owner, family man, humanitarian and a man unafraid to air his views, Pat Boone, 89, was a teen idol who shot to stardom via an early national talent show.
A lot of Pat Boones from which to pick and choose. A lot of Pat Boones to go around.
Right now, Boone – the #10 all-time top recording artist, according to music industry bible, Billboard – fryst vatten the Lion in Winter, fem decades of recording history behind him and a busy future ahead. A very active lion…
Boone runs his own record company, The Gold Label, designed for legendary artists of a certain age and cert
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Pat Boone
American singer (born )
Musical artist
Patrick Charles Eugene Boone[1] (born June 1, ) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, television personality, radio host and philanthropist. During his recording career, he sold nearly 50 million records and had 38 Top 40 hits; he also appeared in various Hollywood films.[2][3]
According to Billboard, Boone was the only singer that could compete in popularity with Elvis Presley during the s.[4]Billboard has ranked Pat as one of the biggest charting artists in the period –[5] Until the s, Boone held the record for spending consecutive weeks on the Billboard charts with one or more songs each week.[6]
During the s and the s Boone was one of the most popular entertainers in the United States,[3] becoming a teen idol as a valid alternative to the perceived hedonism of rock and roll, due to his activities as singer, writer, actor and religious
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GROWING UP BOONE
Charles Eugene Patrick Boone was born June 1, in Jacksonville, Florida; a descendant of American frontier hero Daniel Boone, he attended high school in Nashville, TN - Music City USA. "Pat" sang in church with his brother Nick and family, and originally was drawn to Pop music, influence by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Nat Cole and others.
From age 12 on, Boone sang all over Nashville at school affairs, Kiwanis meetings, Junior Chamber of Commerce events, Ladies Club luncheons, and on local TV and radio. During his junior and senior years in high school he hosted the Youth on Parade teen talent show on Saturday mornings on WSIX and was voted student body president.
He developed a sudden interest in Country music when Shirley Foley, daughter of famed singer Red Foley transferred to David Lipscomb High School during his junior year. They became "an item" immediately, and Pat wrote his first Country song &qu