[ladyinred]

Pat is a vocal Christian. That explains it.

[A CA Guy]

He did some mainstream stuff, but would he be called rock in any way?

[skip_intro]

You're kidding, aren't you?

[Clemenza]

Pat's a good guy, but NOT a rocker. "Love Letters in the Sand" was a great POP tune though. I'm 29 by the way.

[inkling]

No offense, Pat's a great guy, but he ain't rock'n'roll.

[garyhope]

Pat Boone makes Perry Como look frenetic.

Pat Boone rock and roll? Please, ROFL.

[Jim_Curtis]

Rock has nothing more to give, induct this person as the last Rock Hall of Famer and then shut the genre down for good.

Discover the great music. Beethoven, Haydn, etc.

[TexasTransplant]

White Shoes, White Belt and Gold Chains and a Toup

EuWWWWWHHH

My keyboard now is contaminated! aughqf aughft

I figure I bash it a few more times it will free up

As a Bald headed (Grey on the sides) old guy that is probably 20 years younger than him, he should have probably not tried to look like he was twenty something when he was 70 something, Plastic Fakes are Plastic Fakes

Johnny Cash performed his exit the right way...

TT

[Kirkwood]

Is Bobby Darrin in the R&R hall of fame? He is also not a true rock & roll artist, although his people tried to force him into that genre and he sang some songs such as Splish Splash that were marginally R&R. Anyway, I could see BD in the R&RHF, but not PB.

[SevenofNine]

He is pop singer not Rock and roller beside only thing that my generation Generation X known him as former neighbor of Ozzy Osbourne

[Jeff Chandler]

When Pat sings rock tunes, he completely de-rocks them.

[Jeff Chandler]

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.

[Dr.Hilarious]

I'll vote for Pat Boone to enter the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ONLY after they let Minnie Pearl in.

[paulat]

If this is a vanity post, please label it as such in the headline.

Thanks.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

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.

[luvbach1]

Pat's biggest rock hits (there were not that many, were there?) were slightly sanitized "covers" of other rockers' such as Little Richard. Ergo, exclusion from rock Hall of Fame not so egregious.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Pat Boone and "rock n roll" in the same sentence?

Weird.

[Banjoguy]

Pat Boone was a 'cover' singer and to some extent a white industry contrivance. He re-recorded songs that originated in the black musical community, so that they would be acceptable to the white market place. (Tutti Fritti, Ain't That Shame, Bernadine, Long Tall Sally, Crazy Little Mama, My Front Door)

IMO he never was a rocker, ecxcept in he sense that he started out, like so many other white singers of that day (including Elvis,) trying to push black entertainers out of the market, by re-recording black rhythym and blues and rock. He eventually started doing his own material.

I never liked him or his goody goody white buck shoes.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Pat Boone lost all creditability with me when he was deferred and did not go into the Army. Elvis served. I served. Pat choose to stay home. I still remember.

[Hank Rearden]

There's something about his plastic, phony-baloney veneer that leads me to conclude that he wears latex bodysuits under women's dresses when off-camera.

Anyone who tries to look 25 when he's really 102 is just suspect, that's all.