Pat Boone

John Rook ^ | August 14, 2005 | John Rook

[USMale]

The original American Idol, Pat Boone, is celebrating his 50th year with a career few singers come close to, I am shocked and astounded to learn Pat Boone is absent from his rightful place in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. How couId this terrible oversight have occurred? No one alive today is more deserving of this honor than Pat Boone.

[luvbach1]

In my opinion Bobby Darin was an excellent rocker. He could sing anything well. Splish Splash and Sea Cruise are definitely rock. I those days rock tunes had simple themes. But he didn't do enough, and didn't live long enough, to enter hall of fame. Sorry for slight digression from Pat. I did comment on him.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Because he was clean cut then and continued to be later, some people find that fact incongruous with being a rock and roll idol. Well, he was just that to thousands of teens during his peak years. They swooned, screamed and clapped to the beat when Pat Boone performed his show.

[luvbach1]

Way back then, what Pat sang was considered rock and roll.

Absolutely true. No heavy metal or acid rock around. We're talking mid '50s.

[sushiman]

" White Shoes, "

White " buck " shoes ...My mom bought me a pair for my first communion ...Yuck !

[skeptoid]

Once again, Pat Boone drives the masses to drug-induced sexual frenzy by his android "crooning".

Guard your children.

Plug your ears.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Pat Boone and "rock n roll" in the same sentence?

Weird.

[Banjoguy]

Pat Boone was a 'cover' singer and to some extent a white industry contrivance. He re-recorded songs that originated in the black musical community, so that they would be acceptable to the white market place. (Tutti Fritti, Ain't That Shame, Bernadine, Long Tall Sally, Crazy Little Mama, My Front Door)

IMO he never was a rocker, ecxcept in he sense that he started out, like so many other white singers of that day (including Elvis,) trying to push black entertainers out of the market, by re-recording black rhythym and blues and rock. He eventually started doing his own material.

I never liked him or his goody goody white buck shoes.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Pat Boone lost all creditability with me when he was deferred and did not go into the Army. Elvis served. I served. Pat choose to stay home. I still remember.

[nickcarraway]

What about the Big Bopper?

[Hank Rearden]

There's something about his plastic, phony-baloney veneer that leads me to conclude that he wears latex bodysuits under women's dresses when off-camera.

Anyone who tries to look 25 when he's really 102 is just suspect, that's all.

[Hank Rearden]

If you havent been to the museum in Cleveland, it's well worth your time.

Any form of artistic expression which locates its Hall of Fame in, urk, Cleveland deserves what it gets. Even, no - especially!, Pat Boone.

The bribes and payoffs must have been immense.

[this_ol_patriot]

Still don't understand how the hell Zappa made it in the Hall of Fame, he was such a zonk..

For a zonk he sure ripped the PMRC aka The Gores a new one.

"The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal's design.

"It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC's demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation."

Zappa was a gem but you had to understand his music.

Zappa

[Proud Conservative2]

"Way back then, what Pat sang was considered rock and roll. "



Where did you grow up? Here in Missouri, Pat was NEVER considered Rock and Roll....lol

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Gene Pitney could rock - check out "It Hurts to Be In Love" or "She's a Heartbreaker". He also wrote "Hello Mary Lou" and "He's a Rebel". True, his forte was the melodramatic ballad, but I think he belongs in the R&RHOF a lot more than Joni Mitchell (gimme a break!) or Bonnie Raitt (ditto!). Gene is the man!

Brenda Lee could have been one of the great female rockers if she had done more material like "Sweet Nothings". She could have given Wanda Jackson a run for the money! And why isn't Wanda in the HOF? And why did it take so long for Gene Vincent to get in? Arrrgh!

[Maceman]

he sang some songs such as Splish Splash

That was Bobby Darrin.

[Shazbot29]

rock music will be something you read about in an ency

Rock has passed the 50 year mark and is showing some staying power, although it is dwindling because today's artists stink so badly.

I suspect it may take 200 years before rock is a fossil. I just wish rap would die like disco did.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I agree. Pat Boone was BY FAR the more popular singer in the mid 50s, and he sang those early rock favorites in a manner that allowed them to become acceptable to a wide audience. Elvis was still considered risque and didn't reach his popularity until a little later (late 50s/mid 60s). In the mid 50s, Boone wasn't known as a "Christian" artist, either. That came later too.

The girls would swoon for Boone in my day.

[LIConFem]

"Before Elvis... there was nothing!"

Buddy Holly predated Elvis. In fact, if anyone deserves the title of "King of Rock & Roll", it's Buddy.

[Jim Noble]

Prior to Pat Boone, rock didn't exist

Oh, please!

[ovrtaxt]

I just wish rap would die like disco did.

lol there's nothing more unsettling than listening to a 'smooth jazz' song and hearing someone scratching a record softly in the background- no kidding, it happened to me yesterday! Made those little hairs on my neck stand up.

And for the record,(no pun haha) Pat Boone digs heavy metal, so he's cool with me.