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Pat Boone: The Ballads Of Pat Boone (CD)

1 CD Digipac (4-plated) with 40-page booklet. 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 81 mns.
  • 31 essential tracks, recorded during Pat's golden era, 1955 to 1962.
  • Includes seven million-selling singles: I'll Be Home (UK #1), I Almost Lost My Mind (US #1), Friendly Persuasion/Chains Of Love, Love Letters In The Sand (US #1), April Love (US #1), It's Too Soon To Know and Sugar Moon.
  • Also features memorable B-sides like There's A Moon Out Tonight, Pictures In The Fire and The Locket, as well as fabulous LP tracks like Wait For Me Mary, Unchained Melody, He'll Have To Go, My Queen In Calico and Tennessee Waltz.
  • The lavish, 40-page booklet comprises in-depth liner notes, rare photos and a detailed discography.
Perhaps the most remarkable statistic of Pat Boone's career is that he was the biggest charting artist of the 1950s, with 39 US Top 100 entries, one more than Elvis (indeed Pat still holds the 'Billboard' record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the US charts). Although he later became identified with big ballads and movies themes, Pat first exploded onto the US charts in March 1955 - a full year before Elvis - as a straightforward Rock 'n' Roller. His early releases were covers of up-tempo R&B hits. However, it wasn't long before his record company, Dot, realized that there were plenty of R&B ballads that Pat could cover, and those were better suited to his warm, rich baritone.

This one-of-a-kind compilation presents 31 of Pat's memorable ballads, from the most commercially successful phase of his extraordinary, sixty-year recording career. It features three US #1s and a further dozen US hits, including his self-penned, original landmark recording of Exodus (This Land Is Mine), plus a carefully-chosen selection of B-sides, LP tracks, and other rarities.

'The Ballads Of Pat Boone' is in digipac format and will feature all the usual high standard Bear Family trademarks; a 40-page booklet with abundant photographs, biographical information and full discographical and session details of the featured tracks.


Track Listing:
 I'll Be Home • I Almost Lost My Mind • Friendly Persuasion • Chains Of Love • Love Letters In The Sand • April Love • It's Too Soon To Know • Sugar Moon • Gee But It's Lonely • Midnight (& Shirley Boone) • Wait For Me Mary • For A Penny • Twixt Twelve And Twenty • Fool's Hall Of Fame • Unchained Melody • Rich Man's Daughter • He'll Have To Go • Dear John • Send Me The Pillow You Dream On • The Exodus Song • There's A Moon Out Tonight • My Queen In Calico • A Thousand Years • (If I’m Dreaming) Just Let Me Dream • Pictures In The Fire • Tennessee Waltz • Quando, Quando, Quando •The Locket • Ten Lonely Guys • Every Step Of The Way (& Shirley Boone) • You’ll Never Be Lonely (& Shirley Boone)

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  • Album titlle: The Ballads Of Pat Boone (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AR
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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Boone, Pat - The Ballads Of Pat Boone (CD) CD 1
01 I'll Be Home Pat Boone
02 I Almost Lost My Mind Pat Boone
03 Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) Pat Boone
04 Chains Of Love Pat Boone
05 Love Letters In The Sand Pat Boone
06 April Love Pat Boone
07 It's Too Soon To Know Pat Boone
08 Sugar Moon Pat Boone
09 Gee But It's Lonely Pat Boone
10 Midnight (& Shirley Boone) Pat Boone
11 Wait For Me Mary Pat Boone
12 For A Penny Pat Boone
13 Twixt, Twelve And Twenty Pat Boone
14 Fool's Hall Of Fame Pat Boone
15 Unchained Melody Pat Boone
16 Rich Man's Daughter Pat Boone
17 He'll Have To Go Pat Boone
18 Dear John Pat Boone
19 Send Me The Pillow You Dream On Pat Boone
20 The Exodus Song Pat Boone
21 There's A Moon Out Tonight Pat Boone
22 My Queen In Calico Pat Boone
23 A Thousand Years Pat Boone
24 (If I'm Dreaming) Just Let Me Dream Pat Boone
25 Pictures In The Fire Pat Boone
26 Tennessee Waltz Pat Boone
27 Quando, Quando, Quando Pat Boone
28 The Locket Pat Boone
29 Ten Lonely Guys Pat Boone
30 Every Step Of The Way Boone, Pat & Boone, Shirley
31 You'll Never Be Lonely Boone, Pat & Boone, Shirley
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"Pat Boone"

Pat Boone

Unwilling to meet the increased rent imposed by the managers of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, New York City disc jockey Alan Freed moved his hugely successful 'Rock 'n' Roll Holiday Jubilee' to the Academy of Music in Manhattan.

Which gave competing disc jockey Tommy 'Dr. Jive' Smalls the opportunity to move his show from Harlem to the Brooklyn Paramount, where it opened its week-long engagement on December 23, 1955, a day following the premier of Freed's 12-day stand, downtown.

While Freed's stage shows – like his trendsetting radio program – had always been integrated, this was a first for 'Dr. Jive.' He had a strong line-up of R&B performers on the show, among them Bo Diddley, Clyde McPhatter, the Flamingos, the Five Keys, and the Turbans. One of the two white acts was a vocal group, the Cheers, protégés of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, whose hits (to that point in time) included Bazoom and Black Denim Trousers And Motorcycle Boots.

The other…well, as Ruth Brown, another of the stars on the show, later put it, "Pat Boone, with them white bucks on his feet, runnin' in late from school."

Brown may have been somewhat bemused by the Columbia University English Literature student wearing his signature white buckskin shoes and singing to a predominantly black audience songs that many of them recognized from earlier versions by black acts. Others, though, were less impressed. Many years later, Little Richard biographer Charles White wrote: "As [Little Richard's] 'Tutti Frutti' climbed the charts, it was covered by two white artists – Pat Boone and Elvis Presley...This actually helped sales of Richard's original version, as people who had never heard Rock 'n' Roll (sic) before became turned on to the new sound. But in general, the policy of the 'white' record companies covering the songs of black artists was a cruel larceny of original talent." (While Boone’s version was a cover and did compete, Presley’s came out later and only as an album cut).

Of course, in life nothing is that simple. Many acts, including Teresa Brewer, Gale Storm, Georgia Gibbs, the McGuire Sisters, the Diamonds, and Bill Haley were recording their own versions of R&B hits for the white market.

As Boone himself explained to former 'Newsweek' pop critic Karen Schoemer, "The revisionist idea has sprung up, somehow, that when pop artists covered an R&B record we were inhibiting the progress, instead of enhancing the progress, of the original artists. But in those early days, R&B music did not get played on pop radio. It was too raw, rough, unfinished sounding, garbled – you couldn't understand all the words. People were used to big bands and polished productions. Deejays weren't ready to play it and people weren't ready to receive it. But when we would do a more polished pop version of a song, it had a chance, and it began to catch on. People don't understand the necessary role the cover versions played. It was pop artists doing R&B music that focused the spotlight on the original artists and opened the door."

…And to Joe Smith, "...Everybody was aware that the original artists were not going to get played on 90% of the radio stations in America. They were not going to play an R&B record by Chuck Berry, or Fats Domino, or Little Richard. In fact, the original artists hoped and prayed that their records would get covered by someone who could get airplay, because it meant that their records were going to get even more recognition in their own field. It would change later on…but we were sort of like catalysts who helped R&B become rock and roll."

"When I first heard [ Boone's'Ain't That A Shame'] I didn't like it," Domino told biographer Rick Coleman. "It took two months to write, and he put it out almost the same as I did. It kind of hurt."

Domino, who profited from writers' royalties as well as indirect exposure, may have changed his mind in later years. "I went to see…Domino at Al Hirt's place in New Orleans," Boone recounted to Smith. "When he heard I was in the audience, he called me up on stage and he said to the crowd, 'I want you all to know something. You see this ring?' He had a big diamond ring on every one of his fingers, and he pointed to the most prominent of his diamond rings and said, 'This man bought me this ring, with this song.' And we sang 'Ain't That A Shame' together." Years later,Domino would bring Rick Nelson onstage to duet on I'm Walkin', a Domino original that Nelson had taken to the top on the heels of Fats' own version.

While nobody's going to confuse a Pat Boone recording with one by Little Richard, Domino or Big Joe Turner, several of his R&B-influenced songs were legitimate hits, and had their own kind of charm. Indeed, Boone landed four singles on the 'Billboard' R&B singles chart. Certainly black and  white songwriters were lining up to get the attention of Boone, or of Dot Records' chief Randy Wood. And many of them succeeded.

Not every song on this compilation of some of Boone's more up-tempo material began its life as a R&B cover or revival; but all of them share the same vibrant spirit; that of a man who loves what he's doing, and wants to share the fun.

And now for some observations on the more notable songs in this collection.

Born in Tennessee and attending North Texas State College, Pat Boone performed on local radio programs, and was selected to appear on the nationally-telecast 'Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour,' where he won three times, and was invited back to appear on a special competition among multiple winners. While in New York City, he auditioned for another national program, 'Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.'

"On Saturday night," Boone told me in 1993, "I won on 'Ted Mack,' qualifying for the finals, and on Monday I appeared on 'Arthur Godfrey' and won a week's worth of performances on his daily radio show. The Ted Mack people told me that I had won hands down, but that they'd have to disqualify me."

Pat had recorded a few sides in a Tony Martin pop vein on a small, local label without any success. But one day, visiting his parents in Tennessee, he received a call from Randy Wood. Owner of Randy's Record Shop in nearby Gallatin, Wood also ran the Dot Records label from his store. "Randy had been watching me for a couple of years, and was convinced that I could sing like a professional. He was enthusiastic, he was nice, we shook hands, and he said he'd call me as soon as he found a song that was right for me."

Months passed, and Boone was back at school in Texas when he at last heard from Wood. "He sent me a ticket to Chicago, where he wanted me to record a song he'd found called 'Two Hearts'."

An unlikely choice for Boone – whose idols (keep in mind that this was before Elvis Presley broke through) included his father-in-law, country singer Red Foley, and Bing Crosby – Two Hearts was the third hit by the Charms, a black group from Cincinnati recording for the Deluxe label. Another Charms' hit, Hearts Of Stone, had been successfully covered for the white market by the Fontaine Sisters several months earlier, also for Dot (another of the Charms' hits had been a cover for the black market of the Cheers' Bazoom).

"I'd never heard 'Two Hearts,' but from the title I imagined that the song would be something in waltz time, like Perry Como might do." Then, Wood set up a portable record played in his hotel room and repeatedly played the jumping R&B dance tune with a boogie beat. The arranger and conductor on Boone's version was Lew Douglas, who'd been an arranger for the NBC Radio's Chicago orchestra, and who was recording with Chicago-based acts including Joni James.

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21 Apr 2020

Outstanding selection of rock & roll ballads.

Pat Boone was a great singer of rock & roll ballads but was poor when trying to sing uptempo songs.
Therefore this is by far the best selection of his songs available on Cd.

10 Dec 2018

Tolle CD

Pat Boone , wie man ihn kennt . Topaufnahmen wie immer von Bear Family Records sowie tolles Booklet.

10 Dec 2016

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Vergeben sie mir, bitte; mein Deutsch is nicht sehr gut. 'The Ballads of Pat Boone' is an excellent collection. The extensive 'liner notes' are informative, with several photos of Pat with the love of his life, Shirley. Even though the songs included are all ballads (at least as he does them), they manage to present a good cross section of the various genres his body of work spans, from R&B to top 40 to movie themes. The three duets with Shirley are a special treat, and I was pleasantly surprised by 'My Queen in Calico' with which I was unfamiliar. And his skill as a lyricist is represented by 'The Exodous Song' and 'Quando, Quando, Quando'.

13 Mar 2014

Wer Pat Boone's sanfte Baritonstimme gern hört, der kann es mit dieser CD nicht besser treffen. Natürlich mit einem exzellenten Booklet.
R & R Musikmagazin 1/2014 H.-G. Hartwig

13 Mar 2014

Herrliche Songs, klasse Zusammenstellung und noch dazu profund im Booklet dokumentiert!
Good Times 6/2013 Ulrich Schwartz

15 Dec 2013

eine sehr schöne Zusammenstellung, beste Tonqualität, die CD ist jeden Cent wert...

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Tracklist
Boone, Pat - The Ballads Of Pat Boone (CD) CD 1
01 I'll Be Home
02 I Almost Lost My Mind
03 Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
04 Chains Of Love
05 Love Letters In The Sand
06 April Love
07 It's Too Soon To Know
08 Sugar Moon
09 Gee But It's Lonely
10 Midnight (& Shirley Boone)
11 Wait For Me Mary
12 For A Penny
13 Twixt, Twelve And Twenty
14 Fool's Hall Of Fame
15 Unchained Melody
16 Rich Man's Daughter
17 He'll Have To Go
18 Dear John
19 Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
20 The Exodus Song
21 There's A Moon Out Tonight
22 My Queen In Calico
23 A Thousand Years
24 (If I'm Dreaming) Just Let Me Dream
25 Pictures In The Fire
26 Tennessee Waltz
27 Quando, Quando, Quando
28 The Locket
29 Ten Lonely Guys
30 Every Step Of The Way
31 You'll Never Be Lonely