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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

You're slippin', Comstock.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 05:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 08:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

"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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― Bifidus Digestivum (Dada), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:21 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

Geir Hongro to thread?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

― and what, Friday, 26 September 2008 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Hoo boy

Pat Boone
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Needed: A tenting of the White House
Posted: October 31, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
In time, it seems to happen to all older houses, no matter how well tended they may be.
All manner of parasites, vermin, roaches, rats, worms and termites find their way into the building. Long before they're detected, they infiltrate the walls, the floors, the roofs – and then chew their way into the structure, the supporting beams and the very foundation of the house itself. Silently, surreptitiously, whole communities of invaders make places for themselves, hidden but thriving, totally unknown by the homeowner.
Then, in time, telltale signs are seen. Little droppings, discolored trails, proliferating piles of residue appear in corners, on tabletops, little hanging sacs from ceilings – alarming evidence that the grand old dwelling has been invaded. Decidedly unwelcome creatures have made this place their home, and by their very existence will eventually destroy the house and bring it to ruin.
What can be done, when you learn that your house has already been invaded?
Well, the tried and true remedy is tenting.
Experts come in, actually envelope the whole dwelling in a giant tent – and send a very powerful fumigant, lethal to the varmints and unwelcome creatures, into every nook and cranny of the house. Done thoroughly, every last destructive insect or rodent is sent to varmint hell – and in a day or two, the grand house is habitable again.
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.
And they will do just that, drastically … unless we act, decisively and powerfully. Our White House is being eaten away from within. We urgently need to throw a "tent" of public remonstration and outcry over that hallowed abode, to cause them to quake and hunker down inside. And then treat the invaders, the alien rodents, to massive voter gas – the most lethal antidote to would-be tyrants and usurpers.
We must clean house – starting with our own White House.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 5 November 2009 23:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

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 (9 months ago) Permalink

"figuratively, but in a very real way"

― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Friday, 6 November 2009 00:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

this guy

― amateurist, Friday, 6 November 2009 01:28 (9 months ago) Permalink

massive voter gas

― not the type of place I imagine many big shots patronize (los blue jeans), Friday, 6 November 2009 03:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

;)

― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Friday, 6 November 2009 06:10 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― messiahwannabe, Friday, 6 November 2009 19:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

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 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

A different time.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 01:40 (7 months ago) Permalink

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