I have never considered Pat Boone to be a rocker! 

Dot records was a exploitive record company in the 50's, scoring big with
white
bread covers of R&B artists. Gayle Storm covering Frankie Lymon, the Fontaine
Sisters covering Fats Domino, Jim Lowe doing Carl Perkins, The Mills Brothers
even covering the doo-wop classic "Get A Job". A real house of chit. 

Had Pat's career started in the late 40's-early 50's he would have been
recording the same kind of pap other white MOR artists were recording before
Rock exploded. And he has done nothing to show me that he could really rock
out
- "In a Metal Mood" and 1964's "Beach Girl" (a rare 45 produced by Bruce
Johnson) 

But It is strange when you talk to people who were teenagers in the late 50's
they consider Pat Boone to be as much of a rocker as Little Richard and Elvis.
He did know his way around a pop ballad when he (rarely) got good material -
and should have stuck to them exclusively like Johnny Mathis did.

Billy


At 06:25 PM 3/26/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>If Little Richard has forgiven him (see "Hail Hail Rock And Roll"), why
>can't you?
>
>--- Barry Schlom
> 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Bash [mailto:bashpop@earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:04 PM
>> To: Audities
>> Subject: Re: Pat Boone For the R&RHOF? (was Monkees / R&RHOF)
>
>
>> However, for the blasphemies that were his renditions of "At My Front
>Door",
>> "Ain't (Isn't) That A Shame", and "Long Tall Sally", the doors of the
>Rock
>> 'N Roll Hall Fame should remain forever closed to him.  :-)
>> --
>> Pop Rules!!!!!
>> Take Care,
>> David
>  
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio