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We're talking about Pat Boone. When we interviewed Pat, the first question we asked him was undeniably basic. But he answered it beautifully. We asked him how he became famous. Let's get into the story.
Take it away, Pat.
Well, I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm a country boy. My dad, a building contractor, mom, a registered nurse, very practical professor. Professions, but we were, as so many people in Middle Tennessee were and are, we were churchgoers, we were church members, and I grew up believing and was baptized when I was barely 13.
So in my teens, I was thinking of myself, seeing myself as a Christian, a child of God, and really living a good, wholesome life and dating Shirley Foley, the daughter of Red Foley, the Country Music Hall of Fame. He wasn't done, but he was hosting the Grand Ole Opry, having replaced Roy Acuff after many years. And I was not a big country music fan until I met Shirley Foley. She came to our high school. Her mom was not well, and so she had to be in the dorm at Lipscomb.
And at sixteen we met and really a romance began then that continues to this minute. But we were just teenagers, and then her mom died when Shirley was. Sixteen, seventeen. Her mom was young, but rheumatic fever and heart condition. First open heart surgery ever in Nashville at Vanderbilt Hospital.
But she didn't uh live long after that, so then her mom's death brought us even closer together. And so when Red Foley was given the opportunity to go to Springfield, Missouri to start the Ozark Jubilee. which would become the first and huge A nationwide country music show on Saturday nights from Springfield, Missouri, but he hadn't done it yet, and he was taking his three widowed. Daughters including Shirley, to Springfield, and I couldn't stand to let her go. We were nineteen then.
So I asked if she would marry me, and I asked him, and he tearfully gave us permission and bought our rings.
So we married at nineteen, And I was on my way now to being a a preacher, teacher. But I had won seemed like incidentally I had won the TED Mac Amateur Hour three weeks in a row, and it was the forerunner of shows like, you know, The Voice and America's Got Talent. The winners were selected by the viewers. With cards and letters. The show would appear on Saturday night, and by Thursday, the votes were counted.
And if you won one week, you would come back for another. And I won three weeks in a row.
Well, I was thinking of being a singer at that point, but Nothing came up. No contracts, no offers.
So now I'm married and I'm in Texas. And I get a call from New York and they're assembling all the three time winners. to come back and compete with each other.
Well, I was one.
So I flew back to New York, and I was expecting our little, our first baby by then. And so I was on that show and they told me I was winning, but while I was Having to wait in New York, I couldn't afford to go back to Texas and then back to New York again.
So I waited in a seedy little hotel off Times Square. Until they let me know If I was winning or not.
So while I was waiting, I went on Arthur Godfrey's talent show on a Monday after being on the talent show Saturday. and auditioned for the Arthur Godfrey Show, which was a Monday night. And they put me on that Monday night and I won.
Well, That disqualified me from the TED Mac amateur hour because you can't be a professional winner on Monday and then be declared an amateur winner the following Saturday. And I blew it. And it was over. I went back to Texas. And again, I came that close to being having a career in music, but it hadn't happened.
Now, as we're expecting our second child, I get a call from Randy Wood of Dot Records outside Nashville. He'd seen all of this. I was a homeboy, you know, winning these national contests. And he said he had a new record company called DOT, and he thought that I could. Make some hit records.
And he asked if I'd like to come to Chicago and record. Of course I did, not knowing what to expect, and he had me sing a rhythm and blues song. Call two hearts two kisses, make one love. It was an RB record by the Charms on the Dewtone label, but it was not known on pop radio at all. And I didn't know what RB was, but I listened to that record and I picked up on the flavor of one heart's not enough, baby.
Two hearts will make you feel crazy. One kiss will make you feel so nice. Two kisses take you to paradise. Two hearts, two kisses make one love. and that song that we recorded immediately sold a million records.
That was in March of '55. My second baby had come and number three was on the way already. And I had to do a follow-up record, so in May of 55 I recorded Fat's Domino's Ain't That a Shame. His had been Number one R and B, which was a separate genre called race music, sold $150,000. I did his song my way, You Made Me Cry When You Said Goodbye, ain't that a shame?
And I did my version of rock and roll as we were calling it. Mine sold a million and a half, ten times what Fatz had sold with his own song. And his own record. And he was thrilled, and he said many times, I made more money with Pat Boone's record of my song than from my own record. Because he was the writer.
and publisher of his song, and he actually made more royalty. From my version of his ain't that a shame than I made from mine. I was getting like a beginner three per cent royalty. And he was making twice that. As the writer produce Publisher of the song.
So people had the crazy idea in latter years that I was somehow taking something from the original performers, the RB performers like Little Richard. And others that I covered their songs, but I took their songs, which were already hits, R and B. selling a modest amount of records. And I'd do their song and sell a million or a million and a half of their song, and they made more money from my versions than from their own.
So Now as I say This all happened. I wasn't seeking it. it all just fell on me. But from that time, March of 55, For four and a half years, I was never off. single chart.
I hold that record in the record business 220 consecutive weeks. without ever being off the single chart. Everything I recorded from then on, I had 41 chart records in the 50s. Elvis had 40, I had 41. and he was my opening act the first time we met.
The kids didn't know who he was, but they liked the way he looked. They didn't like the way his song sounded, 'cause it was a Bill Munro bluegrass song, Blue Moon of Kentucky, keep on shining.
Well, that wasn't rhythm and blues, but he tried to make it sound like it was. And he got lots of applause when he left the stage that night. And then I went on, I got all the screams because I had 3 million sellers.
So that from then on Uh this is a very long-winded answer to your question, but I'm just trying to let you see.
Now what was happening to me was not something I was orchestrating. It was just happening to me. And as a Christian kid in Nashville, I've realized that, you know, I had some talent as a singer. I could sing anything anybody put in front of me. I didn't have any voice lessons to speak of.
But I sang I I Uh in church. as a teenager into my Early Grown years, I would lead singing in church. In our church, we didn't have instruments of music, it was all a cappella.
So I could stand up and lead three or four or five hundred people in congregational singing: sing the wondrous love of Jesus, and just wave my arms like I knew what I was doing, counting time. I didn't know how to count time. But What I didn't know at the time was it was great vocal exercise. Leading A cappella singing, congregational singing, for four or five hundred people at a time with or without microphone. Made it possible for me to sing rhythm and blues or big band swaying or anything I wanted to sing.
without without um Any worry? I could just sing it, whatever you put in front of me, I could do it. But it wasn't through training. that is consciously.
So that's a very long-winded answer. It all happened to me, but I always had the sense from that time on. that it was for a reason. That I was going to be a teacher-preacher originally, and I was being given. a different kind of platform.
and as a rock and roll singer, Yeah. not as a preacher and a teen idol. and a terrific job in the editing, production, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery. And a special thanks to Pat Boone. 45 million records sold, an astonishing 220 consecutive weeks.
on the singles charts. Even Elvis didn't do that. And what Pat Boone had to say about this career being thrust on him, well, It happens to some people. and that he had all that preparation in the pulpit. and doing worship and leading it a cappella.
There was nothing Pat Boone hadn't sung. Before He was a big time singer. The story of how Pat Boone came to fame here. on our American stories. Hey, what's up?
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