Pat Boone
Classic Country
Pat Boone was one of the best-selling American recording artists of the 1950s and early '60s, a clean-cut crooner — famous for his white-buck shoes — who topped the charts with smoothed-over covers of R&B hits and his own ballads. He later moved into film acting and gospel music.
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- Born June 1, 1934, in Jacksonville, Florida, and raised in Nashville.
- Charted six Billboard #1 singles, including “Love Letters in the Sand” and “April Love,” both 1957.
- Built early fame on pop covers of R&B records by Fats Domino, Little Richard, and others.
- Cultivated a wholesome image positioned as a tamer alternative to early rock and roll.
- Acted in films including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959).
- Turned toward gospel in the 1970s and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2003.