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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I had no idea that Vera Lynn was still alive.
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.
Stand back. These people are professionals.
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
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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.
She was popular during WWII.
“White Cliffs Of Dover”, She also did a nice version of “Lile Marlene”.
“Love Letters In The Sand” is a vocal masterpiece.
How sad, but wonderful to be surrounded by your loved ones. Prayers for him as life will be very lonely.
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)
“We’ll Meet Again” is my favorite———always makes me cry.
(I remember the WWII years.)
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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.
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.
We'll Meet Again--Vera Lynn (1953)
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