At 90 years old, pop music legend, Pat Boone, re-emerges from the 1950’s with a voice that hasn’t aged much and a crucial message for fellow Americans to bring our nation back to its roots. Watch a sample video clip of his just-released song, Where Did America Go?, here, and download it from Spotify or other source. Listen to it in its entirety here. Read further about this entertainment icon’s amazing life below.

Patirck Charles Eugene Boone was born on June 1, 1934, in Jacksonville, Florida. In the early and mid-50’s, he rose in the charts as a teen idol and an alternative to the Elvis Presley-type rock and roll. In 1957, at age 23, he began hosting an ABC variety TV show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which ran for 115 episodes. Heading the charts among his 38 Top-40 hits were, “Love Letters in the Sand,” ” April Love,” “Moody River,” and “Speedy Gonzales.” He sold 50 million records. During this time of peak popularity, he wrote a Christian-oriented book for teens titled, Twixt Twelve and Twenty. Although listening to Elvis a lot as a preteen, I was smitten by Pat Boone. I read every word of his book. In the 60’s, he devoted more studio and stage time to gospel music and later became a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

At 19 years old, Boone married Shirley Foley, daughter of country music great, Red Foley, and they had four daughters: Cherry, Linda, Debby, and Laurey. The girls are now 70, 69, 68, and 66 respectively. Although all four daughters sang together publicly as children, only Debby had a successful singing career. Her biggest hit was “You Light Up My Life,” which was at the top of the Billboard for ten weeks. Below is the young Boone family in a casual setting followed by the couple shortly before Shirley passed away in 2019 at the age of 84.

Pat Boone now resides in Beverly Hills, California. While not being very active in the music world since the 1960’s, has been a popular motivational speaker and conservative political commentator throughout his life. He is very concerned about the direction of America at present. Please download “Where Did America Go” from your favorite music source and share it with your friends and family. Let’s make this an election year theme song by a real patriot.