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Pat Boone - Greatest Hits [Curb]

Pat Boone - Pat Boone - Greatest Hits [Curb] Audio CD

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Band: Pat Boone
Title: Pat Boone - Greatest Hits [Curb]
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Release Date: 1990-03-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Love Letters in the Sand 2: April Love 3: Remember You're Mine 4: Moody River 5: I'll Be Home 6: Speedy Gonzales 7: I Almost Lost My Mind 8: Don't Forbid Me 9: Wonderful Time Up There 10: Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)

Pat Boone's Greatest Hits CD
Just as described. CD was perfect. I am pleased. Thank you. Will buy from again. .

fine tribute to Pat Boone--as far as it goes, that is (three and 1/2 stars)
This CD of hits by Pat Boone doesn't do him justice. Pat Boone - Greatest Hits comes from the Curb Records label which manufactures a great many budget priced CDs. The ten measly tracks we get are really just too short a track set. Of course, what we hear is excellent music with Pat Boone singing his heart out; but it's just too short for my taste. The sound quality is good; and the cover artwork is done well.

The CD tracks start off with "Love Letters In The Sand;" this huge hit for Pat Boone features him squarely in the spotlight singing with all his heart and soul. Pat's excellent diction bolsters his performance; and the brass arrangement works wonders for this melancholy love ballad. "April Love" has a great backup group as Pat sings this sweetly; and Pat never misses a beat. Pat's delivery of "April Love" really strikes me as superior to other versions of this song and I like it very much.

"Remember You're Mine" is a tender love song as Pat tells his one true love not to stray; the percussion and backup chorus add to the number as Pat bats this straight out of the ballpark! Pat could really croon with the best of them.

"Moody River" has a more upbeat arrangement; Pat sings, however, of a love affair that has gone terribly awry. Pat delivers this like the pro that he always was and he doesn't sing a superfluous note. "Speedy Gonzales" has a type of rock beat that can't be beat and Pat sings this perfectly. However, there are a few lines in "Speedy Gonzales" that are embarrassingly dated--ouch!

"Don't Forbid Me" has Pat crooning beautifully with panache; Pat delivers this with sensitivity and this impresses me a lot. "A Wonderful Time Up There" has a faster tempo and Pat does this religious tune up right!

Overall, Pat Boone was probably one of the very best vocalists of the entire twentieth century. Too bad we don't get more songs by him on this album. This will appeal to more casual fans of Pat Boone's; his diehard fans will want more substantial CDs by him.

Much Maligned By The Critics - And Unfairly So
Such as most who write for Rolling Stone and people like Irwin Stambler, whose overblown and pompous The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul doesn't even mention Pat Boone (or Brenda lee and Johnny Mathis either!)

When looking back at the Rockin' Fifties, most of these supercilious idiots slough off Pat Boone as "an aberration" - someone who enjoyed considerable success only because those who bought his records, played him on the juke box, and demanded to hear his tunes on the radio, simply did not understand what constituted Rock And Roll in the early days. Every era has had its primary target for those who like to pass themselves off as the only ones with any knowledge of what is truly good music. And to that I say baloney, because you simply cannot judge music of half a century ago by today's standards.

At that time Rock & Roll was evolving and artists like Pat and Connie Francis were every bit as adept at it as most. Not in the class of Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, and Fats Domino, of course, but then again organized (and often disorganized) noise from the likes of The Velvet Underground or Parliament/Funkadelic can't be compared to those giants either - and yet both are now ensconced in the same R&R Hall Of Fame. Different eras, vastly different approach.

Pat is also vilified for "daring to cover" such tunes as Ain't That A Shame and Chains Of Love. But Fats Domino once stopped in the middle of a tune at a concert, walked to the front of the stage and showed the audience a huge, glittering, diamond-studded ring in the shape of a piano and said "I owe this to Pat Boone and the royalties I received from his version of Ain't That A Shame. "

For the record, Pat had 60 Billboard Pop Top/Hot 100 hits from 1955 to 1969, four of which crossed over to the R&B charts, eight to the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts following their inception in 1961 (and added two more to those charts only), as well as putting five on the Country charts. Not bad for a "slug. " And in this release you get 18 of those Pop hits and three of the four R&B cross-overs (Ain't That A Shame - # 1 Top 100/# 14 R&B in the fall of 1955; Don't Forbid Me - # 1 Top 100/# 10 R&B in spring 1957; and Love Letters In The Sand - # 1 Top 100 (for SEVEN weeks)/# 12 R&B in late summer 1957).

All told he had five Pop # 1 hits and, in addition to the ones just mentioned, you also get I Almost Lost My Mind (# 1 for FOUR weeks in early summer 1958) and April Love (# 1 for SIX weeks in November/December 1957). On the vast majority of his hits he was backed by the orchestra of Billy Vaughn, musical director at Dot Records (on his first, Two Hearts - # 16 Top in spring 1955 - he was backed by Lew Douglas & His Orchestra).

With the insert you get nine pages of background notes written by Todd Everett, as well as a complete discography of the 18 tracks and a few more nice photos of Pat. The AAD sound quality is perfect. .

pat boones greatest hits
I've got most of pat boone's songs except for the song "louella". I use this web to shop for items I can't find locally. Frankly I don't mind buying a cd as long as this song is there. .

Great singer-Great songs
Pat Boone's misfortune was that he came along too late in the game. . Boone is essentially a crooner,even if I am stretching the definition of that word a bit. . He came along at a time when popular music was undergoing a very radical change(a change that has not been for the better,as rap and heavy metal ,two forms of musical self-abuse,have shown). . His voice is pleasant(whereas most of today's"stars" have ruff,untrained,untalented voices,better suited to singing in the shower-or not singing at all-than singing for a living),and most of his songs are sentimental rather than artsy-fartsy,mind-numbingly personal,or just plain rubbish(as are most of the stuff we are subjected to today). . . and Boone suffers because some of his cover versions are sweetly done,while the originals,often by "artists"with less talent than Boone,sound raw which,unfortunately,has been the standard since the late 1950s. . . For those who hate talent,sentiment,quality,romance,and other pre-Elvis musical attributes,Pat Boone's music is anathema. . Most listeners who hate Boone's work have very little tolerance for anything other than the gutter trash that is today's'popular"music. . But for those who appreciate QUALITY,Pat Boone remains a hero,and this album contains a lot of his very best sides.

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