10 Interesting facts about Pat Boone |
# | Top 10 Interesting Facts |
1 | He sold over 45 millions of albums. |
2 | He is also a actor and played many roles. |
3 | He is successful by hosting a network television show, The Pat Boone Chevy Show from 1957-1959. |
4 | He was second biggest charting artist of 1950s behind elvis presley. |
5 | He attended and graduated from David Lipscomb High School in Nashville in 1952. |
6 | He is also a cousin of two stars of western television series: the late Richard Boone of CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel and Randy Boone, one of the co-stars of NBC's The Virginian and CBS's Cimarron Strip. |
7 | He hosted a TV series in the late 1950s and began writing a series of self-help books for adolescents, including Twixt Twelve and Twenty, in the early 1960s. |
8 | In 1953 Boone married Shirley Lee Foley, daughter of country music great Red Foley and singer Judy Martin. They had four daughters: Cheryl Lynn Boone, Linda Lee Boone, Deborah Ann aka "Debby" Boone, and Laura Gene Boone. |
9 | He was interviewed for writing an article for world net daily in which he argued that Democrats and others who were against the President during the Iraq War could be questioned for their patriotism. |
10 | Boone was a basketball fan and had ownership interests in two teams. He owned a team in the Hollywood Studio League called the "Cooga Moogas." The Cooga Moogas included Bill Cosby, Rafer Johnson, Gardner McKay, Don Murray, and Denny "Tarzan" Miller. |