Editing Pat Boone (section)

== Career ==
[[File:Pat Boone's handprints, footprints, and signature in cement.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Boone's handprints and shoe prints in front of [[The Great Movie Ride]] at [[Disney World]]'s [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]]]]

=== Music ===
Boone began his career by performing in Nashville's [[Centennial Park (Nashville)|Centennial Park]].<ref name="Kingsport Evans Music City">{{cite news|last1=Evans|first1=Jim|title='Music City' Tour Set Up|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/75318152/?terms=%22centennial%2Bpark%22|access-date=April 22, 2017|work=The Kingsport Times|date=July 16, 1964|page=11|location=Kingsport, Tennessee|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration |quote=The folks are shown where Pat Boone attended school and told how Pat got his start with the Sunday concerts in Centennial Park}}</ref> He began recording in April 1953 for Republic Records (not to be confused with [[Republic Records|the current label with that name]]), and by 1955, for [[Dot Records]]. His 1955 version of [[Fats Domino]]'s "[[Ain't That a Shame]]" was a hit. This set the stage for the early part of Boone's career, which focused on covering R&B songs by black artists for a white American market.<ref name="Schoemer">[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_28.shtml Karen Schoemer] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902150344/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_28.shtml|date=September 2, 2010 }} "More Mr. Nice Guy", ''American Heritage'', Feb/March 2006.</ref> Randy Wood, the owner of Dot, issued an R&B single by the Griffin Brothers in 1951 called "Tra La La-a" — a different song from the later [[LaVern Baker]] song of the same name — and was keen to put out another after the original failed. This became the [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] of the first Boone single "Two Hearts Two Kisses", originally by the Charms.
[[File:Pat Boone 50's.png|left|thumb|Pat Boone]]
A number-one single in 1956 by Boone was a cover of "[[I Almost Lost My Mind]]", by [[Ivory Joe Hunter]], which was previously covered by [[Nat King Cole]]. According to an opinion poll of high-school students in 1957, Boone was nearly the "two-to-one favorite over Elvis Presley among boys and preferred almost three-to-one by girls&nbsp;..."<ref>See the statistics in Ennis, Philip H., ''The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music'' (Wesleyan University Press, 1992), pp. 251–52</ref> During the late 1950s, he made regular appearances on ABC-TV's ''[[Ozark Jubilee]]'', hosted by his father-in-law. He cultivated a safe, wholesome, advertiser-friendly image that won him a long-term product endorsement contract from [[General Motors]] in the late 1950s. He succeeded [[The Dinah Shore Chevy Show|Dinah Shore]] singing the praises of the GM product: "See the USA in your Chevrolet&nbsp;... drive your Chevrolet through the USA, America's the greatest land of all!" GM also sponsored ''The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom''.

Many of Boone's hits were covers from Black artists. Along with "Ain't That a Shame" were "[[Tutti Frutti (song)|Tutti Frutti]]" and "[[Long Tall Sally]]" by [[Little Richard]],<ref name="Show 6">{{cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19752/m1|title=Show 6 – Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway|website=Digital.library.unt.edu |date=March 16, 1969|access-date=September 20, 2010}}</ref> "[[At My Front Door|At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)]]" by [[The El Dorados]], and the [[blues ballad]]s "[[I Almost Lost My Mind]]" by [[Ivory Joe Hunter]], "I'll be Home" by [[the Flamingos]] and "[[Don't Forbid Me]]" by [[Charles Singleton (songwriter)|Charles Singleton]]. Boone is known as an example of [[Whitewashing in film|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-whitewashing-of-black-music-five-singles-made-popular-by-white-artists/|title=The whitewashing of Black music: Five singles made popular by white artist|date=August 11, 2021 |work=Far Out magazine|access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref>

Boone also wrote lyrics for the instrumental theme song for the movie ''[[Exodus (1960 film)|Exodus]]'', which he titled "This Land Is Mine". ([[Ernest Gold (composer)|Ernest Gold]] composed the music.)[[File:Pat Suzuki Pat Boone Chevy Show 1959.JPG|thumb|[[Pat Suzuki]] with Pat Boone during ''The Chevy Showroom Show'' in 1959.]]As a conservative Christian, Boone declined songs or movie roles if they compromised his beliefs, including a film with [[Marilyn Monroe]]. In one of his first films, ''April Love'', the director, [[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]], wanted him to kiss co-star [[Shirley Jones]]. Since this would be his first onscreen kiss, Boone cleared it with his wife before playing the scene.<ref>{{cite web|last=King|first=Susan|title=A Pat Boone kiss-and-tell|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-aug-11-la-et-classic-hollywood-20100811-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 11, 2010 |access-date=June 15, 2012}}</ref> He had his own film production company, Cooga Mooga Productions.<ref name="Cooga">{{cite news|title=Boone to Expand, Buys Two Stories: West Claims Hugh Marlowe; Big Brother's '1984' to Stage |author=Scheuer, Philip K.|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 11, 1960|page=23}}</ref>
He 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 1959, his likeness was licensed to [[DC Comics]], first appearing in ''[[Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane]]'' No. 9 (May 1959) before starring in his own series from the publisher, which lasted five issues from September 1959 to May 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comicvine.gamespot.com/pat-boone-1/4000-56483/|title=Pat Boone No. 1 (Issue)|website=Comic Vine|access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cowsill |first1=Alan |last2=Irvine |first2=Alex |last3=Manning |first3=Matthew K. |last4=McAvennie |first4=Michael |last5=Wallace |first5=Daniel |title=DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle |date=2019 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-8578-6 |page=89}}</ref> In the early 1960s, he began a series of self-help books for adolescents, including ''[['Twixt Twelve and Twenty (book)|'Twixt Twelve and Twenty]]''. The [[British Invasion]] ended Boone's career as a hitmaker, though he continued recording throughout the 1960s. In 1966, he participated in the [[Sanremo Music Festival]] in Italy, performing ''Mai mai mai Valentina'' alongside [[Giorgio Gaber]] and ''Se tu non-fossi qui'' with [[Peppino Gagliardi]]. During his trip to Italy, he visited the headquarters of [[Ferrari]] at [[Maranello]] with the intention of buying a [[Ferrari America|Superamerica Sports Car]], but [[Enzo Ferrari]] dissuaded him from purchasing that model by saying that there would not have been enough room for Boone's four daughters, and sold him a four-door [[Ferrari 330|Ferrari 2+2]] instead. In a 2021 interview, Boone admitted having later sold the "Ferrari (I) didn't like" to [[Tom Smothers]] of the comedic duo [[Smothers Brothers]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pingitore |first=Silvia |date=December 21, 2021 |title=From Elvis Presley to Speedy Gonzales, from Ronald Reagan to cancel culture: the world's longest interview with 1950s superstar Pat Boone |url=https://the-shortlisted.co.uk/pat-boone-speedy-gonzales-interview/ |access-date=December 23, 2021 |website=The Shortlisted |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In the 1970s, he switched to [[Gospel music|gospel]] and [[Country music|country]]; he also continued performing in other media. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Boone family toured as gospel singers. The family also made gospel albums, such as ''The Pat Boone Family'' and ''The Family Who Prays''.<ref name="Larkin" />

In 1973, he released S-A-V-E-D, a gospel-studio album. Two songs of the album were written by his friend [[Johnny Cash]], who said of it:
{{Blockquote|text=I'm deeply honored that you would record two of my songs in this album. This is the ultimate for me, that Pat Boone would sing any of my songs|author=Johnny Cash, 1973}}
In the early 1970s, Boone founded the record label [[Lamb & Lion Records]], with himself, the Pat Boone Family, [[Debby Boone]], [[Dan Peek]], [[DeGarmo and Key]], and Dogwood as the principal artists.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mymusicway.com/labels/lamblion.html |title=Lamb & Lion Records|website=Mymusicway.com|access-date=September 20, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221183017/http://www.mymusicway.com/labels/lamblion.html|archive-date=December 21, 2007}}</ref> In 1974, Boone was signed to the [[Motown]] country subsidiary Melodyland.<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=swcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3 Motown Unveils a Country Wing: Pat Boone Signs]", ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''. October 26, 1974. p. 3. Retrieved March 17, 2021.</ref> [[File:Pat & Debby Boone.jpg|thumb|Pat and Debby Boone singing to a fan in Washington, D.C., 1997|260x260px]]In 1978, Boone became the first target in the [[Federal Trade Commission]]'s crackdown on false-claim product endorsements by celebrities. He 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. The FTC filed a complaint against the manufacturer, contending that the product did not really keep skin free of blemishes. Boone eventually signed a consent order in which he promised not only to stop appearing in the ads, but also to pay about 2.5% of any money that the FTC or the courts might eventually order the manufacturer to refund to consumers. Boone said, through a lawyer, that his daughters actually did use Acne-Statin, and that he was "dismayed to learn that the product's efficacy had not been scientifically established as he believed."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=May 22, 1978|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919667,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130110306/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919667,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 30, 2008|title=Let the Stellar Seller Beware|access-date=December 2, 2007}}</ref>

Boone hosts a weekly radio show, the ''Pat Boone hour'', on the ''50s Gold'' channel on [[SiriusXM]].

=== Later work ===
[[File:Pat Boone Memorial Day concert.png|left|thumb|317x317px|Pat Boone during 2007 [[Memorial Day]] concert in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C]]]]In 1994, Boone played the title role in ''The Will Rogers Follies'' in [[Branson, Missouri|Branson]], Missouri.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/1994/voices/columns/showbiz-makes-unlikely-stand-in-branson-mo-1117862463/ |title=Showbiz makes unlikely stand in Branson, Mo |date=April 13, 1994 }}</ref>  In 1997, he released ''[[In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy]]'', a collection of [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] [[cover version|covers]].<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=165/6|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> To promote it, he appeared at the [[American Music Award]]s in black leather, which resulted in his dismissal from ''Gospel America'', a TV show on the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]].  After a special appearance on TBN with the president of the network, [[Paul Crouch]], and his pastor, Jack Hayford, his explanation of the leather outfit being a "parody of himself" was accepted. TBN reinstated him, and ''Gospel America'' was back on the air.<ref name="Pat" />

In 2003, the Nashville [[Gospel Music Association]] recognized his gospel career by inducting him into the [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]]. In 2006, Boone released ''We Are Family: R&B Classics'', featuring cover versions of 11 R&B hits, including the title track, plus "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", "Soul Man", "Get Down Tonight", "A Woman Needs Love", and six other classics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/we-are-family-r-b-classics-mw0000459865|title=We Are Family: R&B Classics – Pat Boone |website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 17, 2019}}</ref>

In 2010, plans were announced for the Pat Boone Family Theater at [[Broadway at the Beach]] in [[Myrtle Beach, South Carolina]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/12/31/1895168/boone-boom-set-for-spring.html|title=Pat Boone Family Theater replaces NASCAR café in Myrtle Beach|last=Spring|first=Jake|work=[[The Sun News]]|date=December 31, 2010|access-date=December 31, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204032723/http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/12/31/1895168/boone-boom-set-for-spring.html|archive-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref> but the attraction was never built.<ref name=":2">{{cite news|title=Hollywood Wax Museum on track for summer debut in Myrtle Beach|last=Bryant|first=Dawn|work=[[The Sun News]]|date=January 13, 2014}}</ref>

In 2011, Boone acted as spokesperson for Security One Lending, a reverse mortgage company.<ref name=":3">{{Cite AV media |title=Security One Lending – Innovative Direct Response|date=October 5, 2011|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUCtEL7kAA| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/mvUCtEL7kAA| archive-date=October 31, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=February 6, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |title=Swiss America-Free Gold Info w/ Pat Boone|date=September 11, 2007|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASpX9gNkfHs| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/ASpX9gNkfHs| archive-date=October 31, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=February 6, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He has also acted as spokesperson for Swiss America Trading Corporation, a broker of gold and silver coins that warns of "America's Economic Collapse".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.swissamerica.com/press.php|title=Investment Market & News Reports {{!}} Swiss America Trading|access-date=February 6, 2017}}</ref>

In 2023 Boone was a guest vocalist on ''[[Born to Be Wild (Ann-Margret album)|Born to Be Wild]]'', an album by [[Ann-Margret]], for a duet, "[[Teach Me Tonight]]".<ref>[https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/ann-margret-returns-with-all-star-collaborators-onborn-to-be-wild-her-first-album-in-over-a-decade-due-out-april-14-on-cleopatra-record] {{dead link|date=June 2024}}</ref>  The following year, at 90, he released a single, "Where Did America Go?"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-26 |title=New Pat Boone Song Encourages Unity in America |url=https://decisionmagazine.com/pat-boone-releases-song-as-a-wake-up-call-for-americans/ |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=Decision Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>