Defend the Indefensible: Pat Boone

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I'm listening to Billboard's top 100 singles for the latter half of the 50s and, man, does Pat Boone ever blow. Having never heard his music, I always wondered if the hatred was of the misguided "disco sucks" variety. Nope, he's real bad.

Chris H. (chrisherbert), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

This is incorect. Pat Boone was a pleasing singer of melodic MoR whose lights and shade did much to dispell the foul stench of unruly ape "music" from the like of Little Richards and Chuck Berries.

Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

You're slippin', Comstock.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

You are incorrect. I wearing sturdy mountain boot but even if not, is summer now, not winter, so no ice ergo no chance of slip.

Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nationallampoon.com/supermanisadick/images/dick/001.jpg

Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone hear his original of "Song to the Siren" ?

Anyhow, Pat is defendable for doing rock and roll songs and getting those guys that wrote the songs, paid.

Hey, he opened the door for Little Richard appreciation. Yeah, Rich would have hit, but every little door helps, right?

You have to hear Pat's "Tutti Frutti" "She's a real gone cookie.. Yes siree"

Also, even later, for taking a chance and doing a Tim Buckley song when he was unknown...

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

"Speedy Gonzalez" was a firm favourite on Ed "Stewpot" Stewart's Radio 1 Junior Choice programme of old!

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

He gets credit for siring Debby Boone, whose "You Light Up My Life" is in the Top 5 of my own personal "Fuck all y'all hipsterz, I think it's grebt!" list of '70s hits that are universally despised by everyone except the millions of people who bought and made it a hit.

Has anybody ever hear his metal LP? What the hell was that about? What sort of audience was he aiming for?

Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

I remember "You Light Up My Life," it was number one in America for about 98 weeks over Xmas '77. It didn't do much in Britain, but our equivalent at the time was "Mull Of Kintyre."

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately Dweezil Zappa was involved in his metal album so, by definition, it is worthless

Bifidus Digestivum (Dada), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

I give him props for siring the Oakland Oaks ABA basketball team, which he was the majority owner of, back in the day. More Info.

Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

He sired them in a different way to Debby, though.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

i finally heard his "tutti frutti" a few months ago on some history-of-rock show. it's worth hearing just because it's so ridiculously clueless-sounding: i can only wonder how his "long tall sally" must have sounded. relevant fact: boone wanted to change "ain't that a shame" to "isn't that a shame."

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

He came across as an okay guy in Roger and Me.

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately Dweezil Zappa was involved in his metal album so, by definition, it is worthless

and daddy FZ was rolling in his grave ...

Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

i guess that "clueless" is a better defense than "openly and viciously hostile," which is what many other folks his age were when rock started.

Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

something good with Pat Boone on it (m3u file, not sure if it's the whole track)

zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Geir Hongro to thread?

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

He's got a decent sense of humor about being the wussiest singer ever.

geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

he signed and released "love me" by the phantom, as later covered by the cramps

Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.mercuras.com/1107/PB_static_control.jpg

and what, Friday, 26 September 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Hoo boy

Pat Boone
WorldNetDaily Exclusive

Needed: A tenting of the White House
Posted: October 31, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

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What can be done, when you learn that your house has already been invaded?

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I believe – figuratively, but in a very real way – we need to tent the White House!

For reasons only he can explain, the current occupant has purposely brought a whole flock of social and political voracious varmints with him into our House. He doesn't own it; he hasn't even rented it; we the people have simply given him the keys and invited him to live there for four years, making it convenient to serve us better, to carry out our expressed wishes for our country.

...

Friend, fellow American, this is just a partial list of the people, the types of people the current president has embedded in the White House and all through the executive branch. It's not accidental, nor coincidental; he himself was virtually carried to his current residence by ACORN, that maggot-ridden organization. No, he wants people who think like this, in order to "radically transform America," as he has pledged.

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We must clean house – starting with our own White House.

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 5 November 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

Waiting until halfway through to drop "o btw i mean a FIGURATIVE tenting" really adds a O_O edge to equating dems to rats and parasites, eh.

╓abies, Thursday, 5 November 2009 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

"figuratively, but in a very real way"

uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Friday, 6 November 2009 00:26 (sixteen years ago)

this guy

amateurist, Friday, 6 November 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)

massive voter gas

not the type of place I imagine many big shots patronize (los blue jeans), Friday, 6 November 2009 03:47 (sixteen years ago)

;)

retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Friday, 6 November 2009 06:10 (sixteen years ago)

ozzy says he's a likable guy and a good neighbor

messiahwannabe, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

I'd say nice things about him too! Otherwise he might tent my house and pump in voter gas!

uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Friday, 6 November 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

A different time.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 01:40 (sixteen years ago)

five years pass...

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I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:23 (ten years ago)

Hey
I just met you
And this is crazy
But here's my number
And call me racist

arbiter of sorrow (aldo), Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:30 (ten years ago)

A+

I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:32 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

Did anyone hear his original of "Song to the Siren" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWrneyK-czg

(Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 08:59 (eight years ago)

that's quite amusing!

looks like it appears on this comp which also has treats like mud's early psychedelic efforts and mae west covering johnny kidd:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Who-Would-Have-Thought/release/4141292

i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:41 (eight years ago)

There's a very common drum fill called Pat-Boone-Debby-Boone.

https://youtu.be/wSB3RFmhCIk

fleetwood machiavellian (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:53 (eight years ago)


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