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Pat Boone had a total of sixty hits in the US during his career, six of which reached number one, few artists in the history of music have done as well. Boone has a special significance beyond his hit making based mainly around his being the “safe” bridge between both White and Black entertainment sub-cultures of the fifties. Specifically, as a Pop-music star he is remembered best for his interpretations of Black artist’s songs. Boone recorded classic versions of sides by Fats Domino, Little Richard and countless others placing many of them in the upper reaches of the charts ultimately opening a door for the origional artists that had been solidly closed before hand.
Boone had his height in the mid-fifties as an early rocker but like so many from that period Boone switched to other styles of music as his audience aged and settled down. A string of ballads and novelty tunes in the late fifties and early sixties sold even better than his early rock and roll singles most notably “Love Letters in the Sand.”
So from this varied career comes a dozen tracks that map out an important section of road between Rock and Roll’s infancy and all the wonderful mayhem that would follow. The only thing that is missing, and very obviously so, is Boone’s version of “Tutti Frutti” otherwise this truly is the best that Boone had to offer and beside being a grand historical document it is some of the best Rock and Roll’s ever and that makes it timeless.

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