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'''Patrick Charles Eugene Boone'''<ref>{{cite book |title=Current Biography Yearbook |year=1959 |publisher=The H.W. Wilson Company |location=New York}}</ref> (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, actor, television personality and composer. During [[Pat Boone discography|his recording career]], he sold nearly 50 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and he also appeared in various [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] films.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-28 |title=Pat Boone {{!}} Biography, Songs, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pat-Boone |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Boone, Pat, Born 1934 {{!}} Discover Our Archives |url=https://archives.shef.ac.uk/agents/people/352 |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=archives.shef.ac.uk}}</ref>
According to ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'', Boone was the only singer that could compete in popularity with [[Elvis Presley]] during the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite web
During the 1950s and the 1960s Boone was one of the most popular entertainer in the [[United States]],<ref name=":0" /> becoming a [[teen idol]] as a valid alternative to the [[hedonism]] of rock and roll, thanks to his activities as singer, writer, actor and religious motivational speaker.<ref name=":1" /> In 1957, the age of 23, Boone began hosting a half-hour [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] variety television series, ''The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom'', which aired for 115 episodes (1957–1960). Many musical performers including [[Edie Adams]], [[Andy Williams]], [[Pearl Bailey]], and [[Johnny Mathis]] made appearances on the show.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pat Boone |date=May 29, 2024 |title=Pat Boone |url=https://www.goldlabelartists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PAT-BOONE-BIO.pdf}}</ref> His [[cover version]]s of [[rhythm and blues]] hits had a noticeable effect on the development of the broad popularity of [[rock and roll]]. [[Elvis Presley]] was the opening act for a 1955 Pat Boone show in [[Brooklyn, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/pat_boone_elvis_presley.shtml|title=Pat Boone Remembers Elvis Presley : Elvis Articles: Official Elvis Presley Fan Club : Elvis Australia : Pat Boone |website=Elvis.com.au|access-date=September 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928072111/http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/pat_boone_elvis_presley.shtml|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Albrecht |first=Brian |title=Headliner Pat Boone recalls 1955 Brooklyn High School rock concert with Elvis.... who? |url=https://www.cleveland.com/news/g66l-2019/02/6c984b606a5172/headliner-pat-boone-recalls-1955-brooklyn-high-school-rock-concert-with-elvis-who.html |access-date=April 8, 2021 |work=The Plain Dealer |date=February 10, 2019}}</ref>
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== Early life ==
Boone was born on June 1, 1934, in [[Jacksonville, Florida]], the son of Margaret Virginia (née Pritchard) and Archie Altman Boone. He grew up in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], where his family moved when he was two years old. Pat Boone graduated in 1952 from [[Lipscomb Academy|David Lipscomb High School]] in Nashville. His younger brother Cecil (1935–2023), professionally known as [[Nick Todd]], was born a year later to the day,<ref name="obiNBoone">{{cite web |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/nashville-tn/nick-boone-11118203|title=Obituary Nick Boone June 1, 1935 – January 20, 2023|date=|
[[File:Pat Boone's handprints, footprints, and signature in cement.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Boone's handprints and shoe prints in front of [[The Great Movie Ride]] at [[Disney World]]'s [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]]]]
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A number-one single in 1956 by Boone was a second cover and a revival of a then seven-year-old song "[[I Almost Lost My Mind]]", by [[Ivory Joe Hunter]], which was originally covered by another Black star, [[Nat King Cole]]. According to an opinion poll of high-school students in 1957, the singer was nearly the "two-to-one favorite over Elvis Presley among boys and preferred almost three-to-one by girls ..."<ref>See the statistics in Ennis, Philip H., ''The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1992), pp. 251–52</ref> During the late 1950s, he made regular appearances on ABC-TV's ''[[Ozark Jubilee]]'', hosted by his father-in-law. He cultivated a safe, wholesome, advertiser-friendly image that won him a long-term product endorsement contract from [[General Motors]] during the late 1950s, lasting through the 1960s. He succeeded [[The Dinah Shore Chevy Show|Dinah Shore]] singing the praises of the GM product: "See the USA in your Chevrolet ... drive your Chevrolet through the USA, America's the greatest land of all!" GM had also sponsored ''The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom''.
Many of Boone's hit singles were covers of hits from Black Rock and Roll artists. These included: "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino; "[[Tutti Frutti (song)|Tutti Frutti]]" and "[[Long Tall Sally]]" by [[Little Richard]];<ref name="Show 6">{{cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19752/m1|title=Show 6 – Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway|website=Digital.library.unt.edu |date=March 16, 1969|access-date=September 20, 2010}}</ref> "[[At My Front Door|At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)]]" by [[The El Dorados]]; and the [[blues ballad]]s "[[I Almost Lost My Mind]]" by [[Ivory Joe Hunter]], "I'll be Home" by [[the Flamingos]] and "[[Don't Forbid Me]]" by [[Charles Singleton (songwriter)|Charles Singleton]]. Boone has been highlighted as an example of [[Whitewashing in film|whitewashing]] by taking songs by black artists and sanitizing them to make them more palatable for a white audience, denying exposure to these black artists.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-whitewashing-of-black-music-five-singles-made-popular-by-white-artists/|title=The whitewashing of Black music: Five singles made popular by white artist|date=August 11, 2021 |work=Far Out magazine|
Boone also wrote the lyrics for the instrumental theme song for the movie ''[[Exodus (1960 film)|Exodus]]'', which he titled "This Land Is Mine". ([[Ernest Gold (composer)|Ernest Gold]] had composed the music.)
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In 2011, Boone acted as a spokesperson for Security One Lending, a reverse mortgage company.<ref name=":3">{{Cite AV media |title=Security One Lending – Innovative Direct Response|date=October 5, 2011|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUCtEL7kAA| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/mvUCtEL7kAA| archive-date=October 31, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=February 6, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Since at least 2007<ref>{{Cite AV media |title=Swiss America-Free Gold Info w/ Pat Boone|date=September 11, 2007|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASpX9gNkfHs| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/ASpX9gNkfHs| archive-date=October 31, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=February 6, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Boone has acted as a spokesperson for Swiss America Trading Corporation, a broker of gold and silver coins that warns of "America's Economic Collapse".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.swissamerica.com/press.php|title=Investment Market & News Reports {{!}} Swiss America Trading|access-date=February 6, 2017}}</ref>
In 2023 Boone, at 89, is one of the guest vocalists on ''[[Born to Be Wild (Ann-Margret album)|Born to Be Wild]]'', an album by [[Ann-Margret]]. Together they perform the song "[[Teach Me Tonight]]" on the album.<ref>[https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/ann-margret-returns-with-all-star-collaborators-onborn-to-be-wild-her-first-album-in-over-a-decade-due-out-april-14-on-cleopatra-record] {{dead link|date=June 2024}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
In November 1953, when he was 19 years old, Boone married Chicago-born
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