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Pat Boone's Wife of 65 Years, Shirley, Dies: 'I've Parted with My Better Half for a Little While'
People ^ | January 11, 2019 | Joelle Goldstein

Posted on 01/12/2019 2:20:34 PM PST by EveningStar

Shirley Boone, the wife of legendary 1950’s singer Pat Boone, has died. She was 84.

Shirley passed away peacefully on Friday morning at the pair’s home in Beverly Hills after suffering complications from vasculitis, which she had contracted less than a year ago.

In her final moments, Shirley was surrounded by her husband of 65 years and the couple’s four daughters, Cherry, Lindy, Debby and Laury, all of whom were by her bedside singing hymns to her as she passed.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: obituary; patboone; shirleyboone; vasculitis
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To: Fiji Hill

I had no idea that Vera Lynn was still alive.


41 posted on 01/12/2019 6:02:09 PM PST by yarddog
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To: a fool in paradise

I also saw Cab Calloway’s daughter perform at a concert. Her mother was also a singer and made some recordings in the 1930’s.


42 posted on 01/12/2019 6:02:51 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Blue House Sue

Stand back. These people are professionals.


43 posted on 01/12/2019 6:03:51 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: entropy12

Pat Boone may never get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but he was influential all the same.

(A) his cover of Fats Domino paid the songwriters anyhow and got the other markets to play Fats’ version. Even Mr. Domino acknowledged this. Dave Bartholomew (still alive in his 90s) never made it big on the national charts.

(B) Pat Boone represented something edgier artists could be contrasted against


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_That_a_Shame
Boone liked to tell a story about a concert at which Domino invited Boone on stage, showed a big gold ring and said, “Pat Boone bought me this ring,” since Domino and Bartholomew, as the song’s writers, received royalties on it from record sales or radio airplay of other performers’ cover versions of their song.


44 posted on 01/12/2019 6:05:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yarddog

45 posted on 01/12/2019 6:05:36 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

She was popular during WWII.

“White Cliffs Of Dover”, She also did a nice version of “Lile Marlene”.


46 posted on 01/12/2019 6:09:04 PM PST by yarddog
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To: yarddog

“Love Letters In The Sand” is a vocal masterpiece.


47 posted on 01/12/2019 6:13:06 PM PST by daler
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To: EveningStar

How sad, but wonderful to be surrounded by your loved ones. Prayers for him as life will be very lonely.


48 posted on 01/12/2019 6:18:38 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: yarddog
On Vera Lynn's 100th birthday, a 300-foot image of her face was projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover. A CD of her greatest hits, remastered, was also released on that day.

In "Hollywood Square Dance," her 1949 release, which I posted earlier, she sounded like an Appalachian hillbilly, which was way, way, way out of character for her. Let's Harmonize on the flip side, is also kind of weird--and it's the only one of her songs in which her name is mentioned.

Here's my all-time favorite Vera Lynn song:

Calling Me Home (1936)

49 posted on 01/12/2019 6:29:17 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

“We’ll Meet Again” is my favorite———always makes me cry.

(I remember the WWII years.)

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50 posted on 01/12/2019 6:32:14 PM PST by Mears
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To: EveningStar

Wow, 65 years married!

When I was a young teen in the early ‘50s, Pat was a student at North Texas State (later known as NTSU and now UNT). He had a half hour show Saturday afternoons on local Ch.5 (now NBC5 Ft. Worth) in a soda shop setting. There, he would sing about a half dozen songs. Very young, good looking and very popular.


51 posted on 01/12/2019 9:01:26 PM PST by octex
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To: entropy12

Pat Boone was never a rock star, he was a pop music star along the likes of Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Sinatra, etc.

However, he did make a rock album for fun a few years ago.


52 posted on 01/12/2019 9:23:09 PM PST by octex
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To: Mears
We'll Meet Again--Vera Lynn (1939)

We'll Meet Again--Vera Lynn (1953)

53 posted on 01/12/2019 10:12:56 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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