Pat Boone is a television personality, singer, composer, actor, and author. He has been featured in Hollywood films, sold approximately 50 million records, and had 38 top-40 hits. He was among the most successful recording artists in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1970s, he founded a record label named Lion and Lamb Records.
Pat Boone has a net worth of $50 million.
Career Life Of Pat Boone
In 1957, he was one of the most popular entertainers in the United States and became a teen idol. He started hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom aired from 1957 to 1960, with 115 episodes. He hosted musicians like Andy Williams, Pearl Bailey, and Edie Adams.
Boone started recording in 1953 for Republic Records then Dot Records, and his first performance was in Nashville Centennial Park. His first hit, Ain’t That a Shame, was released in 1955.
In the 1970s, he switched to gospel and country music touring as a gospel singer and making gospel albums such as The Pat Boone Family and The Family Who Prays. He founded a record label Lamb and Lion Records featuring artists like Dan Peek, Dogwood, and DeGarmo. He hosted a weekly radio show on the 50s Gold channel on SiriusXM.
Boone made his first movie Elvis Presley with 20th Century Fox. They reworked a play he had named Bernardine into a vehicle for Boone and earned $3.7 million. He produced and was featured in a documentary Salute to the Teenagers and a military comedy, All Hands-on Deck. His last film was The Cross and the Switchblade.
He performed several musical genres including pop, rock and roll, country music, R&B, and gospel. He has a tenor voice and was well known for his vocal range with more than 2,600 recorded songs.
Personal life of Pat Boone
Patrick Charles Eugene Boone was born on June 1st, 1934 in Jacksonville, Florida. He grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and joined David Lipscomb High School and graduated in 1952. He attended David Lipscomb College, Lipscomb University, and North Texas state university and graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1958.
At the age of 19, Boone married Shirley Lee Foley and had four daughters: Cheryl, Linda, Deborah, and Laura Gene. His wife was also a recording artist and television personality but passed away in 2019 at the age of 84 due to vasculitis.
Pat Boone’s Religion and Basketball Life
Boone grew up in the church of Christ. his marriage almost ended due to alcohol addiction but his wife influenced him to attend the Charismatic Movement, he became devoted and stopped drinking. In the 70s he hosted bible studies for celebrities such as Glenn Ford, Doris Day, and Priscilla Presley. In 2016, on Fox News radio podcast, The Alan Colmes Show, he criticized a film he was featured on as blasphemous urging the Federal Communication Commission to allow such content into the mainstream.
Boone owned a team in the Hollywood studio league called the Cooga Moogas, which included Bill Cosby, Denny Miller, Rafer Johnson, Don Murray, and Gardner McKay. He was the majority owner of the league’s team in Oakland, California and they won the 1969 ABA championship. The team was however sold due to financial problems. He played for Virginia Creepers in the senior Olympics team 80-84 age group.
