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Now, 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio 11 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: and welcome back to Coast to Coast. We've got quite 12 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: a treat for you this hour. Actor, singer, author, songwriter, 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: dear friend of Coast to Coast Pat Boone and his 14 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: career and entertainment began with EMCED, a teenage talent show 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: on radio and television back at Nashville, Tennessee, and his 16 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: first recording was raided in nineteen fifty five. He joined 17 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: ASCAP in nineteen sixty one and his career has taken 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: off like a rocket ship and he is in the 19 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: LA Studios while I'm here in Saint Louis and Pat, 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: I hope your Thanksgiving was well with your family, and 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: it's great to have you back. Yeah, it was wonderful. 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: And there's one draw drawback is that my wife's been 23 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: having some serious problems, and you know, we're both of 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: an age where problems are expected, but she's putting up 25 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 1: a good fight and we're doing everything we can to help. 26 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: And of course family comes together in these great times, 27 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving certainly one of them. And in fact, the 28 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: last week was our sixty fifth wedding anniversary. Now for 29 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: an entertainer, a guy that is unusual showbiz sixty five years. 30 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: What made it very unusual, though, it was she's in 31 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 1: a hospital bed in our home and she's being looked 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: after by nurses and by me, and of course it 33 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: being our anniversary, it had to be something special, and 34 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: so our anniversary meal was pizza. We ed pizza from 35 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: a rather elegant pizza place in Beverly Hills because that's 36 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: what she wanted. She wanted something fun and something nourishing 37 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: and delicious, and then we had so we had pizza, 38 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: and after that we had Jamoka almond fudge ice cream 39 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 1: from Baskin Robbins. I love it. Well, we're gonna put 40 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: her on our prayer list. We've got a prayer list 41 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: on full do it please? Do? I mean you're very spiritual. 42 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: You always have, ben, haven't you? Yeah? Really, since I was, 43 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: I guess thirteen. When I was thirteen, I was thinking 44 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: very seriously, as I should, but not all thirteen year older, 45 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: was due about where my life was going to go, 46 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: and I was asking important questions about you know, why 47 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? 48 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: Who do I what do I want to be? And 49 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: so thankfully my dad a building contractor and mama a 50 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: registered nurse, very practical professions, brother, two sisters. I was 51 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: the oldest, but we were churchgoing people. We had even 52 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: family devotionals. Now I won't say every day, but often, 53 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: so the Bible was kind of the centerpiece of our lives. 54 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: We were very all, very practical, very with it involved 55 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: in all the sports and everything else going on. But 56 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: this was kind of the lynchpin. So when I was 57 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: barely thirteen, I made the decision that I was going 58 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: to ask God to take over my life and to 59 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: direct my steps and helped me do something with my 60 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: life that might be of benefit to other people and 61 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: pleasing to him. And I knew if that happened that 62 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: it would be a blessed life. I mean, I figured 63 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: this out when I was thirteen, and I will say 64 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: that ever since. I think I was an unusual teenager. 65 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: I mean I was. I was with it in every 66 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: way except cursing. I never learned to curse. Good for you, 67 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: and I sometimes wished I had, because we all get 68 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: into situations where it would be a great release and 69 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: relief to just cuss a blue streak. But I don't 70 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: know how. I never learned how. I'm like you on that, 71 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: And so I find, you know what, When I'm on 72 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: the tennis court with a friend of ours name Ed Lubin, 73 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: we played singles tennis. I hear, I'm eighty four, and 74 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: we played really cutthroat competitive singles tennis three sets, usually 75 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: on Friday or Saturday. But when I do something crazy 76 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: and bad, my curse word is boon boon. Now, the 77 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: irony there is boon is is an Anglo Saxon word 78 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: for blessing. So and so granted a boon to his subjects, 79 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: or so and so's a boon to his profession. Well, 80 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: when I yell at on the tennis court. It's a 81 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: cuss word and they and they know it. Where do 82 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: you get your energy, Pat, I'm sure some of us 83 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: genetic because I was My dad lived to be a 84 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: ninety four mama ninety one. They weren't even trying and 85 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: I am. And so you know, I was born with 86 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: a good, solid, healthy body. But again, in those early years, 87 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: I learned some principles about eating and what was good 88 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: for you and what wasn't. And I'm majored in the 89 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: good stuff raw green vegetables and protein and you know, 90 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: raw milk and things like this that we know we're 91 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: really good for us. And then I can have plenty 92 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: of sweets, which I love, but but the balance is 93 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: tilted towards the health. And my breakfast four mornings a 94 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: week is cut up fresh fruit with cereal, a good 95 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: kind of protein, cereal with goat yogurt, coconut milk, collagen, 96 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: powder of chocolate, protein powder and this A lot of 97 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: people would say, well, that sounds like garbage. You know, 98 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: it's very very healthy. I must say. At there are 99 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: times when I'd rather just have scrambled Asian bacon, and 100 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: I do that a couple a couple of mornings a week. 101 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: But my long winded answer is I've just always tried 102 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: to be healthy and of course stay active, stay active, 103 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: that is so critical. Yeah. I remember when you first 104 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: came on the program. What a delight it was for 105 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: me personally, pat because as a kid, one of my 106 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: favorite movies was Journey to the Center of the Year 107 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: and I I just loved that movie and I love 108 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: the way that you were in it. And then when 109 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: we had the opportunity to interview you and meet you, 110 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: I mean it was like a little boyhood dreamed unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah, 111 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: And I love that about life and I and I 112 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: love when I hear from people like you just said, 113 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: maybe younger than me and who well, you know, some 114 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: of the other performers have startled me. I was coming 115 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: after at the MCA at MCA party after the Grammys 116 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: one year, when when you two had just won for 117 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: Record of the Year with Beautiful Day, and I'm walking 118 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: into the party behind you two, and Bono is in 119 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: front of me, and he's short, you know, compared to me, 120 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: I'm about six feet and loud enough for him to say, 121 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: I said, I think it's time Buno met Bono and 122 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: he turns around and he says, we met before. I 123 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: said what we did? He said, yeah, in England, he said, 124 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: but you wouldn't remember we were I think I think 125 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: they were called the Journeyman or something somebody. They were 126 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: thought of as a Christian rock group at the moment. 127 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: And he said, we met, we were on tour. You 128 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: wereb and you didn't know us from anybody, but you 129 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,119 Speaker 1: were nice to us. But so we remember you. So 130 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: when I realized the Beatles and Bono, that is you 131 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: two and some of the other major stars, they were 132 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: just kids when I and Elvis and others were coming 133 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: up and having our heydays. That's right. And then we 134 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: get to meet them and they may have stripped us 135 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: by far in their careers, but they but they still 136 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: look up to us as for runners kind of and 137 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: the kind of people they were jealous of while they 138 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: were young. And you knew the giants of the industry 139 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: at the time too. You knew Bobby Darren, you knew 140 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra. Yeah. Do you ever meet Tony Bennett? Oh? Yeah, 141 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: many times. He's still going strong, isn't that guy? What's 142 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: he ninety two? Yeah? He was just on the Christmas 143 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: Show with he just keeps going with Diana. Oh goodness 144 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: of letter names. So the pianist anyway, we all know. 145 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: And they're still singing together, of course, he and Lady 146 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: Gaga as well, and and Tony. You know, you get 147 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: the impression he can hardly stand up, but he can 148 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: still sing. And uh, and my hat's off to him 149 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: because he he's done two things with his adult life, 150 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: paint and sing. He kept it everything else. I used 151 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: to see him at the gym. He never worked out. 152 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: He just went in the steam room and was just there. 153 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: I didn't know exactly, couldn't tell exactly why he was 154 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: there because he wasn't working out with any equipment or 155 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 1: doing any exercise. But I think it was his means 156 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: of just kind of staying healthy and that he's done 157 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 1: and boys paid off for him in a big way. 158 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: I remember when the great Andy Williams passed away a 159 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: few years ago and we had you on to react 160 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: to that, and you had told us the incredible story 161 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: that you were offered the song Moon River and passed 162 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: on it, you didn't think it was and gave it away. 163 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: They gave it to Andy. What could have happened. It 164 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: was his career song, one of my great moves. Henry 165 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: Mancini came to the house with Randy Wood of Dot Reckers, 166 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: who ran the company, and he had written this song 167 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: for Breakfast at Tiffany's, the movie, and he felt he 168 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:54,599 Speaker 1: had a good song and it was sung by a 169 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: chorus and of course with his orchestra in the movie, 170 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: but he thought it ought to be recorded by a 171 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: male vocalist. So I listened to it, and of course 172 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: I had great respect for Henry Mancini. I called him Hank. 173 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: I said, hank uh, this is a beautiful song. It 174 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: really is. But you know, it's about a river. It's 175 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: not a love song. It sounds like it ought to 176 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: be a love song, but it's not about a person. 177 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: It's about a river. And we've got Old Man River 178 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: and Up the Lazy River and other river songs, and 179 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: I just don't hear this as a as a hit record. 180 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: So he was disappointed, and he went over to see 181 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: Andy Williams and he heard something I didn't hear. And 182 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: the funny thing is he and he always sang it 183 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: like it was a love song. I think I think 184 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: a lot of people think Moon river is a love song, 185 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: but it's not. It's a fact. One of my big 186 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: hit records was gold Mine in the Sky. Yeah, and 187 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,439 Speaker 1: I mean it was a big million seller, a gold record, 188 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: And it was while my record career was just booming 189 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 1: and looked like I could put out anything the phone 190 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: book and it would be a hit. And it wasn't 191 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: till later that even I stopped to listen to the lyrics. 192 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: It's about a guy saying into his mule, that's funny, 193 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: go along, old mule, La Da da da da da. 194 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: They're gonna together. He and his mule are going to 195 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: find a gold mine in the sky. And it was 196 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: teenagers were loving the song because it sounded like it 197 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: might be a love song. Listen to more Coast to 198 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: Coast AM every weeknight at one am Eastern, and go 199 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: to Coast to Coast am dot com for more