54 Facts About Pat Boone

Patrick Charles Eugene Boone was born on June 1,1934 and is an American singer, actor, and composer.

Pat Boone was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Pat Boone sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films.

Until the 2010s, Pat Boone held the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week.

Pat Boone's cover versions 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.

Pat Boone continues to perform and speak as a motivational speaker, a television personality, and a conservative political commentator.

Pat Boone was born on June 1,1934, in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Margaret Virginia and Archie Altman Pat Boone.

Pat Boone was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where his family moved when he was two years old.

Pat Boone graduated in 1952 from David Lipscomb High School in Nashville.

Pat Boone's younger brother, whose professional name was Nick Todd, was a pop singer in the 1950s and later a church music leader.

In November 1953, when he was 19 years old, Pat Boone married Chicago-born Tennesseean Shirley Lee Foley, 19 years old, daughter of country music great Red Foley and his wife, singer Judy Martin.

Shirley Pat Boone was a lesser-known recording artist and television personality than her husband.

Pat Boone died in 2019, aged 84, at the couple's Beverly Hills home from complications from vasculitis, which she had contracted less than a year earlier.

Pat Boone primarily attended David Lipscomb College, and later Lipscomb University in Nashville.

Pat Boone began his career by performing in Nashville's Centennial Park.

Pat Boone began recording in April 1953 for Republic Records, and by 1955, for Dot Records.

Pat Boone's 1955 version of Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" was a hit.

Pat Boone 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.

Many of Pat Boone's hit singles were covers of hits from Black Rock and Roll artists.

Pat Boone has been highlighted as an example of 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.

Pat Boone wrote the lyrics for the instrumental theme song for the movie Exodus, which he titled "This Land Is Mine".

Since this would be his first onscreen kiss, Pat Boone said that he wanted to talk to his wife first, to make sure it was all right with her.

Pat Boone had his own film production company, Cooga Mooga Productions.

Pat Boone appeared as a regular performer on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends from 1955 through 1957, and later hosted his own The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, on Thursday evenings.

In 1959, Pat Boone's likeness was licensed to DC Comics, first appearing in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No 9 before starring in his own series from the publisher which lasted for five issues from September 1959 to May 1960.

In 1974, Pat Boone was signed to the Motown country subsidiary Melodyland.

In 1978, Pat Boone became the first target in the Federal Trade Commission's crackdown on false-claim product endorsements by celebrities.

Pat Boone had appeared with his daughter Debby in a commercial to claim that all four of his daughters had found a preparation named Acne-Statin a "real help" in keeping their skin clear.

In 1956, Pat Boone was one of the biggest recording stars in the US.

Pat Boone had been reluctant to do it, and needed to be persuaded by being offered the chance to sing several songs and given a percentage of the profits, but was glad he did.

Pat Boone produced and starred in a documentary, Salute to the Teenagers, but did not make a film for a while, studying acting with Sanford Meisner.

Pat Boone returned with a military comedy, All Hands on Deck, a mild hit.

Pat Boone was one of several names in another remake, State Fair, a box office disappointment.

Pat Boone had a deal with Fox to make three films at $200,000 a film with his production company.

New management came in at the studio which was unenthusiastic about the picture but because Pat Boone had a pay or play deal, they decided to make it anyway, only with a much shorter budget.

Pat Boone even paid some money out of his own pocket to help complete it.

Pat Boone made a comedy in Ireland, Never Put It in Writing, for Allied Artists.

Pat Boone's third film for Fox was an "A" production, Goodbye Charlie, but Pat Boone was in support of Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis.

Pat Boone was one of the many names in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Pat Boone appeared in The Perils of Pauline, a pilot for a TV series that did not eventuate, which was screened in some theatres.

In 1994, Pat Boone played the title role in The Will Rogers Follies in Branson, Missouri.

In 1997, Pat Boone released In a Metal Mood: No More Mr Nice Guy, a collection of heavy metal covers.

Pat Boone was then dismissed from Gospel America, a TV show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

In 2011, Pat Boone acted as a spokesperson for Security One Lending, a reverse mortgage company.

Since at least 2007 Pat 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".

Pat Boone described the sketch as "blasphemy", stating that the Federal Communications Commission should forbid any such content, and that it should revoke the broadcast licenses of any "network, or whoever is responsible for the shows".

Pat Boone supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.

In December 2009, Pat Boone endorsed conservative Republican John Wayne Tucker's campaign in Missouri's 3rd congressional district against incumbent Russ Carnahan in the 2010 midterm elections.

In 2010, Pat Boone endorsed Republican Clayton Trotter in the race for Texas's 20th congressional district with an ad campaign referencing his song "Speedy Gonzales", about the Looney Tunes character, which critics have characterized as offensive stereotypes.

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

Pat Boone is a basketball fan and had ownership interests in two teams.

Pat Boone owned a team in the Hollywood Studio League called the Cooga Moogas.

Pat Boone was considered one of the most popular box-office stars in the US as judged by the Quigley Poll of Movie Exhibitors in its Annual "Top Ten MoneyMakers Poll":.