hoooooo-boy. Nyack.
Posted on 08/14/2005 10:04:47 PM PDT by USMale
The original American Idol, Pat Boone, is celebrating his 50th year with a career few singers come close to, I am shocked and astounded to learn Pat Boone is absent from his rightful place in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. How couId this terrible oversight have occurred? No one alive today is more deserving of this honor than Pat Boone.
hoooooo-boy. Nyack.
BS
Hey, I was there in that era and Pat Boone was the singer you listened to if you were afraid of R&R. If you thought Elvis was satan come to earth, then you listened to Pat Boone. PB appealed to your 40 year old mother and not to your 16 year old girlfriend. PB put down R&R for many, many years (maybe because he felt it killed his career), and it wan't until he became and old man in his 50s that he softened on R&R. FOr that reason alone, he shouldn't be honored in the R&RHF, although I do agree he was very good at what he did.
Pat Boone was to Elvis what eventually the Beatles were to the Rolling Stones.
But that never stopped us from goofin' on him when his songs came on our AM car radios! :-)
100 Years from now, popular music will just be a series of grunts, and rock music will be something you read about in an encyclopedia.
Classical music, however, will live forever.
I'll vote for Pat Boone to enter the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ONLY after they let Minnie Pearl in.
If this is a vanity post, please label it as such in the headline.
Thanks.
You might be interested in seeing a list of those who have been inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame.
http://www.rockhall.com/
Check out the total list of inductee's.
If you havent been to the museum in Cleveland, it's well worth your time.
Problem is Pat built his career on covers, mostly uncredited. That's how the industry worked when Pat was coming up, black guys wrote these great songs and managers stole them and handed them to white guys, Pat was one of the white guys. Hard to say somebody should be in the hall for somebody else's work. Good guy, not a HOFer.
When I was a kid I saw Pat Boone and other of the most popular singing stars perform many times.
I agree that Boone was certainly a top rock and roll headliner in the 1950's, equally popular with Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Bobbie Rydel, Bobbie Darin, etc.
The fact that rock got harder later does not take away from Pat Boone's having been considered a rock and roll superstar in his time. That he would be passed over for official recognition of this historical show business fact is a surprise.
LOL. I just checked the mods link and I think those who feel they know what rock is will be rather surprised to see the names who have been inducted into the hall of fame. Thanks to the mod I can rest my case! :-) ( and feel very old!)
Frank Zappa!
Worst Concert I ever went to (he was booed off the stage, Muddy Waters Opened and Closed that Concert), don't know a soul that has ever owned a Record, 8 track, Cassette or CD of or by Frank Zappa and he is in the Hall of Fame?
Name recognition?
Go to the site and see it for yourself. Each of those people inducted do have a link to rock & roll. For Pat Boone, his link is that he changed the lyrics of black R&R songs. Some legacy, huh? I would rather see Lawerence Welk in the hall of fame. At least his singers didn't change the lyrics to songs when they sang their version of R&R.
Zappa was very influential on rock in his time. He also did a lot of crap, of course.
In the Hall of Fame he is Inducted not a an Influence but as a Rocker.
I imagine Death was kind to him
TT
Pat spoke at a meeting I attended about two years ago, he spoke for about 45 minutes, He left no doubt about his faith, he put most preachers to shame.
>>>"Pat spoke at a meeting I attended about two years ago, he spoke for about 45 minutes, He left no doubt about his faith, he put most preachers to shame"<<<
Sounds like a candidate for the "Preachers" Hall of Fame, not the Rockers, (Still don't understand how the hell Zappa made it in the Hall of Fame, he was such a zonk
I have to admit I don't know who Zappa is, I quit listening to rock music in the early 70's.
He and his wife used to appear together prior to his midlife insanity. I'll bet the poor woman is morified. I haven't seen her on TV since.
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