#Pat Boone

[lovelyangryheart]

Pat Boone filming Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

#vintage men #vintage actors #Pat Boone

[oldshowbiz]

personality hurdle

#pat boone

[hereallalong]

#vintage men #vintage male #vintage muscle #man bulge #pat boone #swimwear

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Carlos Santana (1947-) Santana - lead guitar Songs: "Oye Como Va," "Jingo" Propaganda: none

Pat Boone (1934-) solo Songs: "Ain't That a Shame," "Love Letters in the Sand" Propaganda: none

#carlos santana #pat boone #billboard hotties tourney #round one

[biscuitsnow]

#vintage men #pat boone

[dabiconcordia]

#beautiful oldie #pat boone #remember you're mine #Youtube

[gatutor]

Shirley Jones-Pat Boone "April love" 1957, de Henry Levin.

#Shirley Jones #Pat Boone #Henry Levin

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In 1956, Pat Boone had a #1 hit single and rivalled Elvis in popularity. He was also living in New York and attending Columbia University's School of General Studies, where he majored in English and Speech and graduated magna cum laude in 1958. Here he studies on the steps outside Low Library (which is not actually a library but an administration building) on May 8, 1956. The cover of one of his books is from Salters, a big, dusty bookstore that specialized in Columbia course books and used books and closed in 1985.

Photo: Associated Press via eBay

#vintage New York #1950s #Pat Boone #Columbia Univ. #college #university #students #Low Library #May 8 #8 May #Salter's Books #college students

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #6: 1955

The sound of a decade does not change the minute the ball drops on New Year's Eve. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easier to form these cultural shifts into a narrative, even when said shifts aren't always obvious. 1955 offers us the music we've grown accustomed to over the course of this decade: traditional pop, vocal quartets, jazz standards. However, this year also gives me an opportunity to highlight some different genres that will come to shape the decade in the years to come.

The post-war 1950s saw a boom in popularity when it came to music from South and Central America. We saw this before with the inclusion of other Spanish language songs reaching the Top 30, but artists like Pérez Prado and later Ritchie Valens helped to popularize Latin music in the States. Pérez Prado is, of course, known for popularizing mambo, a Cuban genre of dance music, by incorporating big band influence. The Prado song featured on this poll is not mambo, but rather one of its descendants, cha-cha.

In 1955 year-end chart, we're seeing the first traces of a genre of music that will help define the decade's sound: rock and roll. With the inclusion of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, we're seeing the first rock and roll song to top the Billboard charts. Obviously, rock and roll has existed long before Bill Haley and Pat Boone reached the top 10. Unfortunately, like many other historically Black genres, white faces typically sold better with mainstream audiences. Is this the last we'll see of record executives using white performers to market Black music to white audiences?

Foreshadowing is a literary device--

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#billboard music #billboard poll #1950s music #music poll #perez prado #bill haley #mitch miller #roger williams #les baxter #bill hayes #the four aces #the mcguire sisters #pat boone #georgia gibbs

[yourwizardofaus]

Elvis with onstage sidekick and entourage member Charlie Hodge with singer Pat Boone in Memphis sometime during mid to late September 1974.

#Elvis #Elvis Presley #Pat Boone #Charlie Hodge #1974 #1970s #70s #seventies #Memphis #candid #pop culture

[trexalicious]

I just heard this at my Dad's memory care facility. I had no idea Pat Boone put out an album of heavy metal cover tunes. I could have happily lived my entire life without EVER hearing his cover of Ozzy Osborne's Crazy Train...🤢

#not an earwurm #pat Boone #ozzy osbourne #crazy train #in a metal mood: no more Mr. nice guy #Youtube #metalhead #heavy metal

[archivist-crow]

This Mortal Coil - “Song for the Siren” (1985)

Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Frazier and Robin Guthrie performing their gorgeous version of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren”. Recorded for the musical collective This Mortal Coil’s 1984 album, It’ll End in Tears, this Buckley/Larry Beckett-penned song would enjoy a resurgence, reaching as high as #3 on the UK Independent Singles Chart.

Where Buckley’s version first appeared on his album Starsailor in 1970, the song was actually first recorded the previous year by Pat Boone.

#this mortal coil #song to the siren #cocteau twins #elizabeth fraser #robin guthrie #tim buckley #pat boone #music #video

[oldshowbiz]

telethons as you remember them

#telethon #pat boone #donna mills #rip taylor #Youtube

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #the australian chucklers weekly #pat boone #illustration #heart shaped #1950s

[fashioninpaper]

#paper dolls #Pat boone #1950s fashion #holy roller

[thriftstoresisyphus]

"Let's Get Cooking, America" Pat Boone

Yes, this was released by Wesson, the cooking oil company. Every time I look at this cover I think he's holding a ventriloquist dummy.

#records #lp covers #album art #lps #record covers #album covers #albums #lpcovers #vinyl #albumcovers #patboone #pat boone #wesson oil