1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Podcasting. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: Can I'm buzzsnight and today taking a walk? Music history 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: on foot has someone who is the number ten all 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 2: time top recording artist of all time according to Billboard Magazine. Also, 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 2: he was a teen idol. That's right, maybe one of 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 2: the first record label owner. He dabbled in heavy metal. 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: He's been a best selling author. We're gonna have Pat 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: Boone next. I'm taking a walk, mister Boone. 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Pat Buzz. 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: Hello. Pat. 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: It's so great having you on taking a walk. I 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: wish we could do it in person now. 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 3: Well, I wish we could too. For one reason. I 14 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 3: love Boston. Oh wonderful memories in Boston. And I was 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 3: just looking at your name because this is my first 16 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: time to talk talk to you, and I bet you 17 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 3: have a slogan it's a buzz night every night, every night, buznight. 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: I love that. Are you in California? 19 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm out in Beverly Hills, sitting in a rocking chair. 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 3: I'm a Beverly Hills billy. Now. I've been out here 21 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 3: since nineteen sixty. I lived in New Jersey for a while, 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 3: of course, raised in Nashville, but I remember so fondly 23 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: being on radio and Boston and appearing at Blenstrops. Is 24 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 3: this still a Blenstrops or not? 25 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: I don't believe. 26 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 3: Well, it was one of the best places for performers 27 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 3: to sing A big, big deal to you. Performed at 28 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 3: Blenstroops in Boston, and I was a headliner there several times, 29 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 3: and it was I just always loved being there, partly 30 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 3: because of the historic part of Boston. And I'm very 31 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: much into what goes on in our country and where 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 3: our country is headed, very concerned about where we're headed. 33 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: I actually I may be responsible for what's called the 34 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 3: Tea Party. I think it's ninety five that in articles 35 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 3: I was writing for WorldNet Daily every week for a 36 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: while for a couple of four years actually, and I 37 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 3: call for a new American Tea Party and told the 38 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 3: story of how the first one happened and how the 39 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 3: citizens decided they didn't like the way they were being governed, 40 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: and so they came together and they created a new 41 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 3: and an an independent United States of America. And so 42 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 3: you know, I've always had a very fun spot in 43 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 3: my heart for Boston. 44 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, that's very kind. 45 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 2: Now it's six o'clock or so in the morning where 46 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: you are, what the heck do you put in your 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 2: oatmeal to be so energetic? 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 3: Well, usually it is oatmeal really three mornings a week, 49 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 3: and then three mornings a week it's fresh fruit and cereal. 50 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: But then on Fridays that's my egg day, and I 51 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 3: have hard boiled eggs. I cut into quarters, that two 52 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 3: of them, and then on each of the quarters that's 53 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 3: eight pieces. I put a sprinkle, a little tabasco, and 54 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 3: I have some sour dough toast buttered and have I 55 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 3: spurge on eggs on Friday. But the other six mornings 56 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 3: it's health. And also you know, I do take this 57 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 3: product I've advertised on TV for a long time, relief Factor, 58 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 3: and it fights any kind of inflammation in your body naturally, 59 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 3: and so I take that every morning, and I take 60 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: Nature Balance. I take that every morning too. So I've 61 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 3: been health conscious. And I exercise. I swim my pools, heated, 62 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 3: I swim, I ride my bike, I work out in 63 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: the gym. And I played in the basketball games, not years, 64 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 3: because there was every other year, but I played in 65 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 3: the seventy seventy five bracket three on three and then 66 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 3: the seventy five to eighty bracket three on three and 67 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 3: then twenty minute halves, and then the eighty to eighty 68 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 3: five bracket. I decided I'd press my luck as far 69 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 3: as I should, but I still shoot baskets. I've got 70 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 3: a regular ABA regulation goal and twenty six foot semicircle 71 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: semicircle out and back right next to the hedge where 72 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 3: across from which Ozzy Osbourne lived for three years. He 73 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 3: was my next door neighbor. Ozzy Osbourne. His dogs would 74 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: be barking in the morning and I'd be out to 75 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 3: shooting baskets a little alyen weekly life. I just am 76 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: committed to staying healthy. And I'm eighty eight. I'll be 77 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 3: eighty nine in June, and I'll still shoot baskets and 78 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 3: play singles tennis and the host of the golf tournament. 79 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 3: And I just got back from the co of Georgia 80 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 3: yesterday morning. Well, I hosted a golf tournament before. So 81 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 3: I stay active. And I think really staying active in 82 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: multi activities as I do, must be one of the 83 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 3: ways you can just stay active. You just keeping my 84 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 3: granddaddy said a long long time ago, if you quit 85 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 3: using it, you lose it, and so just keep using 86 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 3: it whatever it is, and he had some salty definitions 87 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 3: of his own. 88 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: But you mentioned Ozzy Osbourne. 89 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 2: So is pop boone ever still in a heavy metal 90 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: mood every now? 91 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 3: And yes I am, because there was those songs. The 92 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 3: reason I did them that was my own musicians wanted 93 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 3: to do a new album, and I said, what can 94 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 3: I do? I have a ten have it done ten times. 95 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: I've already done country and pop and big band swing 96 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 3: and patriotic and gospel and even two albums of a 97 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 3: cappella with no music. And they said, we've never did 98 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 3: any heavy metal. Well, we joked about it for a 99 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 3: little while, and then one of my conductor, Pianna, said, 100 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 3: you know, there's some really good songs under all that noise, 101 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 3: and we could do them a different way. I said, 102 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 3: like what he said, big band jazz. I said, you 103 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 3: got me, what is it? Give me some songs. And 104 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 3: so we found all these great songs. As you know. 105 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 3: Winn cried Mary and Smoke on the Water and Ozzy 106 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 3: Osbourne's Crazy Train. And he moved in next door to 107 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 3: me for three years, and when I met him, I'd 108 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 3: already done his song, but he moved in and I 109 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 3: went out to get the mail. And here he comes 110 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 3: walking down the sidewalk, or I should say shuffling down 111 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,559 Speaker 3: on the sidewalk. He didn't walk, he shuffled Hello, Hello, 112 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 3: Pat Dys of Echa And I got to go to 113 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 3: a meeting right now. But when I got home, I'm 114 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 3: on t okay. And and we did. And we were 115 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 3: friends for three years until he moved. And then when 116 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 3: he started his show, The Osborne's My Amazement, and it 117 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 3: was it was, you know, the talk of TV. And 118 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 3: I tuned in to see his show and I heard 119 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 3: my song, I mean, my version of his crazy train 120 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 3: Crazy Hey, that's how we go. Oh, I heard his 121 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: my version of his song as his theme song. He 122 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: and Sharon liked it. Uh, And so they used my 123 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 3: version of his song as their theme song. And and 124 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 3: so I I have an affinity. 125 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: Now. 126 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 3: I got to know a bunch of the of the 127 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 3: heavy metal guys, like Alice Cooper He's the son of 128 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 3: a Preacher, and Dave Mustain of Mega Death and and 129 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 3: and the thing about that album, it went halfway up 130 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 3: the charts the first week on MCA, and it was 131 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 3: college kids that were buying it. It went into rock 132 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 3: charts immediately because they were uh. They knew all the 133 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 3: songs and loved all the songs, but they wanted to 134 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 3: hear how in the world I was doing them. And 135 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 3: then they loved the big band jazz versions everywhere I go. 136 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 3: Now today, of course I haven't been appearing anywhere for 137 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: a while, but I asked the audience, audiences that are 138 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 3: usually gray and white haired people, how many of them 139 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 3: rushed out and bought my heavy metal album. And almost 140 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 3: no hands go up. But the sound guys that are 141 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 3: operating the sound and the tech and the lights all 142 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 3: have that album. And so it endeared me to a 143 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 3: lot of people who had no idea who in the 144 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 3: world I was. 145 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 2: Let's play a little game here real quick. I'm going 146 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 2: to read you some lyrics. I'm going to read it 147 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: like I'm in poetry class, and let's see if you 148 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 2: guess which one of those songs off of your album 149 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 2: this is. I'm betting you're going to guess this. Okay, 150 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 2: are you ready? 151 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 3: Yeah? 152 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 2: Okay, say your prayers, little one, don't forget my son. 153 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 2: I tuck you in warm within, keep you from sin 154 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 2: till the Sandman comes. 155 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 3: Answer Sandman, and you know, and when I when I 156 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 3: Alice Cooper, and I gave the awards right after my 157 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: album had come out, what was coming out the next 158 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 3: day actually, and we gave the awards to Metallica Hedge 159 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 3: Hedgefield is it Yeah, the drummer. They came on stage 160 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 3: bowing to me saying I was their new the lead 161 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 3: singer because they loved the way I had done their 162 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 3: song and with big band jazz, treating their song as 163 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 3: real music. And then of course I asked him who 164 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 3: is the little kid that was answering your prayer and 165 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 3: they said it was one of our roadies kids that 166 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 3: they didn't have the kids yet. And the song, it 167 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 3: sounds so ominous and forbidding, foreboding, so dark. It's about 168 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 3: a guy putting his son to bed and trying to 169 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 3: use the time honored method of scaring him to keeping 170 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 3: in bed because something overhead's going to get him or 171 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 3: something under the bed is going to get it, so 172 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 3: you better stay in bed. And he says, now I 173 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 3: lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my 174 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 3: soul to keep. And this little kid voice, now I 175 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 3: lamed me down to sleep, I've seen and I said 176 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 3: that was some Roadies kid on my album. It was 177 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 3: my grandson who was four years old. And when I 178 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 3: did those lines in that song, it was my own 179 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 3: grandson repeating him. So I love all that music. I mean, 180 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 3: I wouldn't have done it if I didn't love it. 181 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's so tremendous. 182 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 2: So Bob Dylan in his book The Philosophy of Modern 183 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 2: Song said, and I'll quote, of all all the people 184 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: who sang two D fruity, Pat Boone was the only 185 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 2: one I think who knew what it was about. What's 186 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 2: your reaction to that? 187 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 3: Well? I have two reactions. One is and and you 188 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 3: know I knew Bob Zimmerman and Bob Dylan, and he 189 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 3: and I became Christian brothers, as you know. But he 190 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 3: downplayed that eventually because it cost him. It really cost 191 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 3: him as he came out as a Christian. And that 192 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 3: album is you got to Serve somebody. That whole album 193 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 3: won the Grammy, but the people did not want to 194 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 3: hear him do those new songs in his shows, and 195 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 3: he could tell it was. It was really going to 196 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 3: cost him, know the ongoing part of his career. So 197 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 3: he let up. But when he made that quote about me, 198 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 3: I knew he knew that I was thrilled to be 199 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 3: doing the R and B and honoring Little Richard and 200 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 3: Fats Domino and the groups groups that were doing the 201 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: songs I was also doing. But tooty fruity I think 202 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 3: at least came to have a connotation in the race 203 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 3: music at R and B music circles of a pot 204 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 3: prie of sexual appetite. 205 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: So you were Elvis's prime competitor. Did you like him? 206 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 3: Oh? I loved Elvis. We were two Tennessee boys. I 207 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 3: was in Nashville, he was from Memphis, and he opened 208 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 3: for me the first time we met. And not any 209 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 3: other entertainer can say that. But I had a six 210 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 3: month head start. In nineteen fifty five, I had three 211 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 3: R and V cover Records million selling hits. When I 212 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 3: headlined the DJ sock Coop in Cleveland. Bill Radall, the 213 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 3: nation's number one DJ, asked me to come in and 214 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 3: headline the Sock Coop for six hundred and fifty kids 215 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 3: in high school, and he brought Elvis up, had him 216 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 3: come up from report Louisiana where he was on the 217 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 3: Louisiana Hay Ride doing country songs. Trying to work R 218 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 3: and B flavor into them, which was not easy because 219 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: his first record, which he was done a panamime. That 220 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 3: night at the sock Coop was Blue Moon of Kentucky 221 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 3: Bill Monroe bluegrass on Blue Moon of Kentucky keep on Shining. Well, 222 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 3: it's hard to make that sound R and B, and 223 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 3: it really didn't. But when he finished, and the kids 224 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 3: didn't know who he was, he went ahead of me. 225 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 3: He was the opening act, and they liked the way 226 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 3: he looked, but they didn't care for that song. But 227 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 3: then they applauded him, I think mainly because of the 228 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 3: way he looked, you know, and two of his musicians, 229 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 3: and he said, thank you very much. Gradually that's the 230 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 3: other side of the record. I hope you like it. 231 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 3: And he's saying, that's all right, mama, that's all right 232 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,439 Speaker 3: with me. And that was R and B. And they 233 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 3: loved that, and so did I. I was backstage and 234 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 3: I realize that's why RCA had just signed him. But 235 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 3: when he finished that song and left, they were wanting more, 236 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 3: but that's all he had. And so then I followed 237 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 3: and I was the headliner that night. Elvis was my 238 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 3: opening act. But after that we got to be good friends. 239 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: Grinning homes close to each other in bell Air and 240 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 3: doing films at twenty century Fox. Both of us had 241 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 3: long term contracts seven years deal. Mine was I don't 242 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 3: know how many years. This was at least one movie 243 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 3: a year. I did sometimes three movies in the year, 244 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 3: so did he. And we visited each other back and 245 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 3: forth in the movie sets that were adjacent, but then 246 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 3: we also visit each other in our homes in bel Air. 247 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 3: And one Sunday he came in on a Sunday afternoon 248 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 3: and we were all in the pool of my wife, Shirley, 249 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,479 Speaker 3: on four of the girls, and he just walked nonchalantly 250 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 3: into the backyard. And the girls didn't know who he 251 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 3: was as a big entertainer, but he was a friend 252 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 3: of ours, so they held jumped out of the pool, 253 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 3: went over started jumping up on him to hug him. 254 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 3: And I said, girl, stopped at you getting them all ready? 255 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 3: He said, leave a little bit. I like it, and 256 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 3: he did because and I realized later he was wanting 257 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 3: in his own life at that point when I had 258 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 3: already a wife and kids and a home, you know, 259 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 3: a family home, but she didn't. He had his buddies 260 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 3: with him, and even when he after he married and 261 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 3: moved to Palm Springs and with Priscilla, he told us 262 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 3: later that it was like living in a boy's dorm, 263 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 3: you know, because he had his boys with him all 264 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 3: the time. When she got up in the morning, came 265 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 3: out yawning that they were playing pool, and that was him. 266 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 3: He just kept his boys around him, and of course 267 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 3: he was happy to add his wife to the mix, 268 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 3: but that didn't make for a real happy marriage. 269 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: Pat Boone, you are a treasure. 270 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 2: Congratulations on seventy years. Seventy years in show business. I'm 271 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 2: sure it seems like yesterday. Thank you for being on. 272 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 2: Taking a walk sir, well, thank you and keep buzzing. 273 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: Thank you. 274 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: Taking a Walk with Buzznight is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, 275 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 2: or wherever you get your podcasts.