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Pat Boone

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Actor, singer, author and songwriter ("Exodus") Pat Boone was educated at David Lipscombe College, North Texas State College and Columbia University (from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958). His career in entertainment began when he emceed a teenage talent show on radio and television in Nashville, Tennessee. He won a Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour amateur show, and an Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts show. His first professional recording was made in 1955, and he joined ASCAP in 1961, with Ernest Gold being his chief musical collaborator. Over the years he has had many hit songs ("Moody River", "Speedy Gonzales", "Bernadine") and appeared in a string of films in the 1950s and 1960s, some successful and some not. His other song compositions include "Lover's Lane" and "The Main Attraction". He has served as a board member of the Northeastern Institute for Christian Education.
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Turned down another television offer when he learned that its sponsor would be a cigarette company. Boone didn't smoke and didn't want to give the impression he condoned the habit.
Singer Roy Orbison was a classmate when both future singers attended North Texas State College.
He badly wanted to play the lead role in The Sand Pebbles (1966), but director Robert Wise wanted Steve McQueen instead.
His 1962 hit song "Speedy Gonzalez" featured the unmistakable vocal impression of Mel Blanc on the recording (Blanc improvised all of his lines).
Cousin of Richard Boone and Randy Boone.

[on why his wife didn't travel with him:] It seemed that my wife [Shirley Boone] was always pregnant until we found out what was causing it.
You know there's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up. And I think I know what it is ... In some cases, it may be a reaction to my music. In most cases, I think it's a reaction to my lifestyle and the things that I stand for.
Now do you want a governor who'd like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?
And while it maintains, by far, the highest average living standards and per-capita income, exceeding even those of the UK, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth, relative to its population. It is truly an unparalleled marvel of our time.
I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. Here was the very liberal senator from New York, wife of the former president, part of the team that favored partial-birth abortion - in fact, abortion as a woman's choice under virtually any circumstance. Weren't she and Bill pretty consistent supporters of same-sex marriage and multiple homosexual rights, and champions of the much perverted and misapplied separation of church and state slogan? Was this the same person now using the Bible and well known Bible parables and names in vigorous statements advocating governmental policy?