52 Facts About Pat Boone

Patrick Charles Eugene Boone was born on June 1,1934 and is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, television personality, radio host and philanthropist.

Pat Boone has sold nearly 50 million records and had 38 Top 40 hits and has acted in many films.

Pat Boone spent 220 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 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.

Pat Boone was born June 1,1934, in Jacksonville, to Margaret Virginia and Archie Altman Pat Boone.

Pat Boone grew up in Nashville, 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 Cecil, billed as Nick Todd, was born one year later to the day, and was a pop singer in the 1950s before becoming a church music leader.

Pat Boone primarily attended David Lipscomb College, 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 in the late 1950s.

Pat Boone is known as an example of whitewashing by taking songs by Black artists and sanitizing them to make them more palatable to a white audience, which denied exposure to the Black artists.

Pat Boone wrote 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 cleared it with his wife before playing the scene.

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

Pat Boone was a regular on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends from 1955 until 1957 and later hosted The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom on Thursday evenings.

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 called Acne-Statin a "real help" in keeping their skin clear.

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

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

Pat Boone has acted as spokesperson for Swiss America Trading Corporation, a broker of gold and silver coins that warns of "America's Economic Collapse".

In 2023 Pat Boone was a guest vocalist on Born to Be Wild, an album by Ann-Margret, for a duet, "Teach Me Tonight".

In 1953, Pat Boone married Shirley Lee Foley, the daughter of Red Foley and Judy Martin.

Shirley Pat Boone was a recording artist and television personality, though less known than her husband.

Pat Boone founded a hunger-relief Christian ministry that evolved into Mercy Corps.

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

Pat Boone has been a close friend to many US presidents, including Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.

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

In December 2009, Pat Boone endorsed conservative Republican John Wayne Tucker 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.

Pat Boone received a lifetime achievement award at the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in 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, which included Bill Cosby, Rafer Johnson, Gardner McKay, Don Murray, and Denny "Tarzan" Miller.

Pat Boone has 38 hits on the US Top 40, securing the number one spot six times.

In 1964, Pat Boone spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

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

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

Pat Boone went with 20th Century Fox, which had made Elvis Presley's first movie.

Pat Boone had been reluctant to do it, and needed to be persuaded by being offered the chance to sing several songs and getting 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, which disappointed at the box office.

Pat Boone had a deal with Fox to make three films at $200,000 each 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, it was made, but with a much-reduced budget.

Pat Boone 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 he was supporting Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis.

Pat Boone was one of the many names in The Greatest Story Ever Told and appeared in The Perils of Pauline, a pilot for a TV series that did not eventuate, which was screened in some theatres.

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