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  • this was when America was GREAT After WW2

  • I have NO patience for any stoat that comes to knock this guy. I'm here to tell ya, back in the late 1950's this entertainer ~ Pat Boone broke ALL attendance records at the world famous Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ. that's right, ALL records! Throughout, Pat has lived a good Christian life and furthermore is about as All-American as they come. Not to mention, the guy still sings great!

  • absolute shite!!

    boone "borrowed" (stole?) his music mainly from black singers and songwriters.

    so, you see, his music was not original!"

    what do others think (not that i give a shite what they think)?????????????

  • @squirell1952 In the 1950s Pat Boone was under contract to Dot Records, and sang what he was told to sing, so he stole nothing. If his songs were not original, neither were Elvis Presley's. Only Paul Anka and Roy Orbison sang their own stuff.

  • Makes me go back to my teenager days...Thanks for sharing!!!

  • Dear Jeanne,

    That song brought back sooo many memories of my Mom singing that song. She had a lovely voice and her voice just floated through the house when she sang. Thank You. LOL, Pam

    PS Tell Miss Sally hi for me.

  • warm and strong and heartful voice.

    beautiful .

    my heart broken ,

    forever . pat boone.

    great singer.

    thank you.

  • Dang!  That man can whistle!

  • "you didnt think I did it" Hilarious!

  • clásico . , muy bien . silvenla

  • thank you for posting!!!!!!!!

    

  • bella♥

  • Como é gostoso ouvir Pat Boone, Que saudade da Epoca em Que se ouvia Musica de Primeira Qualidade.

  • Beautiful song.

  • I enjoy Pat Boones music. JUDA59ful

  • @sierria64 Wow, you're an angry person.

  • pat has always been one of my favorites.....too bad the younger generation now couldn't all be like him.... no respect from some ..... may god bless you all...

  • From Love Letters in the sand to hawking reverse mortgages Pat Boone is the MAN!

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  • if you stuck a load of curly hair on him he'd look like art garfunkel :)

  • just like mr.-karoslif said, wholesomeness, i'm 54, i grew up with all music, count basie, lena horne, ray charles, buck owens, patsy cline, the beatles, crosby stills nash, burt bacarach,barry manilow,dean martin, jimmy hendricks,u-2, dexies midnight runners, i don't have enough room, but the ones that curse,play with themselves,shake it like it's goin 2 hurt,gives bad fibes to good parents, ya want a good puppy, pat it, want a bad puppy, tie it to atree with out water.

  • @WillMill33 what?

  • Good song with clever chords.

  • my late auntie and we her nieces used to argue because of this song.this is her favorite and being raised in the barrio listening to music in the radio is how we spend our sundays..we want to hear the latest while my auntie insist on listening to old music. and because mas matanda sya sya ang nananalo. ngayon favorite ko na rin to at ngayon ko lang na isip na mas maganda nga pakinggan ang mga old songs kaysa music ngayon.

  • @cukla88 why dislike him for that....he can probably sneeze into a microphone and people would still buy it because he was pretty huge those days...it makes sense that he sells better than the original on the popularity factor

  • This was played on my grandma's funeral.. She passed away not so long ago, it's a quite sad song now.

  • That proves that he can do it better chum.

  • Fernando, meu irmãozinho querido,

    lembra dele? Eo o conheci através de vc. Onde estiver saiba que lembro muito de vc, com carinho, muito carinho e saudades. Desculpe-me por não ter feito o que deveria para vc e para o Sylvio. Eu os amarei sempre.

    Sua irmãzinha Jurujuba

  • @cukla88 that def was not this guys fault just the way of the industry white middle age people (usually racist) were buying the records at the time....now tweens buy all the music and there are a bunch of prepubescent "stars" that make obscene amounts of money, its all about appealing to the market

  • @cukla88 Sorry to hear you don't like that about Pat because he's credited with exposing the "white" market to what was called "race" music in those days. In fact, if not for Pat's cover of "Tutti Fruitti," Little Richard was quoted as saying he'd "still be washing dishes in that Macon (GA) bus station."

    It's all a matter of how one looks at things.

  • @wannawatchu66 Isn't he also renowned for inventing the Hydron garden rake?

  • @dowling1981 Have no idea.

  • @wannawatchu66 Find Out. Has Patryth Boone been portained?

  • @dowling1981 Patryth Boone? portained? Uh, ya got me on that one...or those.

  • @wannawatchu66 Patryth Boone is his full name, ken?

  • @dowling1981 Actually, his full name is Charles Eugene Patrick Boone. Who's "ken?"

  • @wannawatchu66 His took on the name after a few years in the business, but his proper name is Patryth Boone. Do you enjoy him?

  • Is it me or does Pat Boone look like Paul Newman's long lost twin brother in this clip?

  • Pat Boone was a class act. Extremely good looking, clean cut. He sang love songs like they came from his heart. Sure wish we had more like him today.

  • @1tepenga :-) I had him in Germany in the early 60th when i was a teenager, then. But this good times endet with the sound of The Beatles and folks. Anyway, i have my memories. Poor Today-kids !

  • Boone was a crashing bore, but goddamn it, he could whistle!

  • @cukla88 he was getting "the message" out to the "very buried" who were to scared to confront "race music" directly.Prejdiced DJs would not play the black artists so Elvis and sam phillips brought this music forward and pat brought it into the country club/ university cliques.He is child of the Bing Crosby/Perry Como genre and at the time the only "youngster with the class to pull that off.

  • Very nice. Youtube search for VIVA EL ROCK AND ROLL MANUEL VARGAS ("At the hop", made in Chile).

    And DISCO 45 MANUEL VARGAS.

    Thanks.

  • In times of high technology, we can find declarations of love on the sand; the wind or the waves of the sea may erase but physically and spiritually remain in the memory of lovers. Romance does not have time or space.

  • Enjoyed Pat Boone's voice, unfortunate he did not live the life he espoused.

  • @Isabella8466 What life *did* he live, then?

  • He had a great talent. He'll probably never get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame simply because he stood for what is right and is a Christian.

  • @cukla88: Sometimes those who live a Christian life are rewarded in the here and now. He chose the path that is straight and narrow - the ones you talk about took the broad path that leads to an unhappy place.

  • Una canzone per sognare......

  • they said Onew's voice like PB,now i think that's so amazing!! proud of you SHINee leader :)

  • Que linda! Cartas de amor na areia.Lembra minha adolescencia<Linda música e ele, belissimo. Que saudade!

  • He was a tool for the anti-rebellious in the US, and a sort of weapon against the more "sinful" music from that time - Little Richard, Jerre Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry etc etc...

    But that doesn't change the fact that he sings really good, and there is this problem free air about this music. Simpler and happier, almost! Good show.

  • Great uncle Pat <3

  • I had never heard this version. Its so beautiful....

  • he was God sent.

  • pat boone SWAG

  • I LOVE IT

    

  • Pat Boone is the best..Emmett Overstreet came up with a bluegrass version and really surprised us..pretty good and we just jammed with him.

  • Thank you for such a wonderful song....I greet

  • there are too many negative comments about pat boone by people who are ignorant.the the 50's and early 60's had the best singers and groups ever,including pat boone.only one guy was a poor singer and that was fabian.you can't beat elvis,ricky,connie,patsy,and the platters and drifters were way better than the beatles.and i like pat boone's politics.he campaigned for the president who won the cold war,Ronald Reagan,I am an independent because i didn't leave the democratic party,they left me.

  • Love him and that geat voice!

  • Obrigada Pat Boone por vc existir e ter feito parte da nossa juventude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Maravi­lhosoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

  • now this is what i call a blast from the past

  • Fui apaixonada pelo Pat Boone. Linda voz e muito romântico.

  • Fui apaixonada pelo Pat Boone. Linda voz e muito romântico.

  • love pat boone! I got all his song!

  • Perfect pitch....what a fantastic voice.

  • Thnk yoy rockinkb for this beautiful moment.

  • karoslif Thank you for your ultra sensible comments

  • now this is what i call a clasic hit

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    We been rooked again? Who's Meyer Lansky & Murder Inc. anyway?

  • Are you old enough to remember when this came out. I must admit I do.

  • I had to get this song as it was one of my mother's favorites. She would either be playing the record player or singing to herself as she went about her daily housework. I'm glad I found it; I didn't realize it would exist anywhere!!! Thanks for this nostalgic post.

  • On the other side of the coin is this 1957 gem. I have the privilege of being able to listen to this song anytime I want to, because I have it on CD. I also played it for a lady who was born in 1948, and she said she didn't like Pat Boone, because, according to her, Pat's voice was too dull. I personally like Pat's voice, in all of it's un-autotuned glory. I do have to ask, does anyone know if Pat still wears a suit and tie when he's in concert? That's something we hardly ever see anymore.

  • A few years ago, I took some kind of a media relations class in college. One of the things we discussed was racism in the 1950's. I mean, we had white men like Pat Boone, and Elvis Presley covering songs that were written by black men, such as Little Richard, and Fats Domino, and having big hits with them, while their counterparts' versions were barely registering on the charts. I think Pat was trying to give these guys their big break, but we as Americans weren't accepting of it. Ignorance....

  • Replacing old code with new on our blog WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC. This song is in my book and I thank you for the historical music video! And yes, readers, I did work with Pat and he was and is a terrific human being! Wes Bryan

  • @LadODell He's a better singer than your boy/girlfreind Justin Bieber by miles

  • A variety of strange comments, some positive and some weirdly negative. When the smoke all clears, this is one of the top 20 slow songs of all time and this is a terrific video of it. Hope they don't take it off.

  • @LOCKED121 when the smoke clears lol, the smoke cleared decades ago and people know this man is a homophbis racist who like many artist of the day stole from a minority to better themselves

  • i liked him better in leather

  • I looked up this vid and some kind of jap or chinese writing was at the top of the page, are the fuckin chinks listening to him now? He was a good man who cared about his fellow christian people! Amen.

  • @aloubear what's with the 'white supremacy' stuff? wasn't there an ice age that killed you people off some time ago??

    and im not even going to comment on the religious part- it doesn't have nything to do with it.

  • All of you people have the wrong angle on Pat Boone altogether. It was Pat's

    mission to bore real music lovers to death, and he succeeded in doing it with

    a vengeance. The only interesting thing about the man was that he could whistle

    at least half as well as Bing Crosby could, and that had a penchant for lousing

    up fairly good tunes, "Love Letters In The Sand," for example. For those who care about such matters, he also claimed to be a descendant of Daniel Boone . . . aniel Boone

  • Pat Boone,a class act, i'm a mid forties black man and i can say this man stood for purity even as a young man,this man turned down movie roles because of the sinful message,if we could only have entertainers like that these days.

  • @karoslif he also tried to jack little richards songs over and over

  • @creepin93 so,and your vex about that?

  • @karoslif you say he "brings" hit after hit. i told you he coattale rides his way through, thats it buddy boy. he still sucks

  • @creepin93 ok,thats fine,you have a right to your own opinion.

  • @karoslif I saw Pat Boone yesterday live in Denton, TX. Pat studied at The Univ. of North Texas in the mid 1950s before transferring to Columbia, & yesterday he did a little singing and a lot of reminiscing. Pat proudly points out that on his 1950s TV show he forced the show's sponsor (Chevrolet) to allow black performers on his show. He created a tolerant atmosphere where white audiences could enjoy great black performers. He was anything but "bland", an unfair label critics hang on him.

  • @karoslif he is an asshole. watch?v=cYtZlNpXuho&feature=re­lmfu

  • We love historical music videos at WES-BRYAN MY LIFE IN MUSIC. We added your video to a post from 2007 about Pat and on that post we have links to his official site as well as the link to VOTE for PAT so he can be admitted into the HALL OF FAME.

    Wes Bryan

  • I hate Pat Boone, and Americans back then were the most racist people ever. Anyone who likes this guy, go to hell. he took advantage of the black people being uneducated and stole their songs. I'm not American, I'm Croatian. But boy am I happy that black people nowadays get so much more money than us because almost all of the athletes are black, and singers too. I've got to say, I'm proud of the African-Americans and of all of those discriminated black singers in the past.

  • @brothachiken023 you're definitely a maladjusted person, and Pat Boone could outsing any of the so called black singers of today, who are rappers...which is not singing. And no one deserves the kind of money that athletes and entertainers, regardless of race, are getting today, for the contributions they make to the world. You are carrying too much bitterness and it warps your viewpoint, Pat Boone didn't steal anything and wasn't racist...sounds like you are, though....get better soon

  • @brothachiken023 Yeah, I hate him for helping the black man get his music noticed and getting them money because he made covers, which gave them money. Little Richard said it himself, "I did not understand at the time, but Pat Bone helped me become more famous."

  • @brothachiken023 When did Pat Boone steal anybody's songs? I'd like to see some proof before you makes accusations like that.

    It should be the lack of racism and not how many black celebrities or athletes, since race shouldn't matter - and I don't think you being Croation really matters either. Although I am proud about how some black people stood up to discrimination held against them, I don't think people should hold grudges, like you seem to, about things that happened years ago.

  • What a song ! brings back lots of memories way back during my teenage time in

    Sri Lanka. ' love letters in the sand ' is a fantastic number. Many thanks to this great singer.

    Azharhuzair537

  • In the Billboard Book of #1 hits, it's listed as the 22nd of the rock era. The picture of Pat shows him on the phone, with a cigarette in his hand. I'm quite sure that he's long since quit by now, Amen? God bless ya, brother Pat!

  • Why is Pat Boone not in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

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  • @GoedhartbrosBecause Pat Boone neither Rocked, nor Rolled. He sucked the sexuality and rhythm out of the original versions of songs he covered, for the white teenagers whose parents were afraid of the "Negro" influence on their children. Pat Boone, and artists like Georgia Gibbs were the record companies answer on how to cash in on the new teenage craze for RnB or "Rock and Roll"- without having to promote the black artist who originally had the hit song on the RnB chart.

  • @rbound827 Why all the negativity about Pat? Fats Domino liked Pat. He is very famous and had a good friendship with Elvis Presley. Like Elvis, Alan Freed and Little Richard, he helped making black music more populair, you could respect him for that.

  • @Goedhartbros Unlike Presley,Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent etc Pat Boone was part of the establishment to sanitize rock and roll, and clean it up. Which really meant take out the "black" feel so that it all sounded like Perry Como or Doris Day. Thats fine if you like that style- but it's not Rock and Roll, which is why his recordings are forgotten about and Little Richard and Fats Domino prevailed. As a Pop singer Boone is fine-but he's not Rock and Roll.

  • @rbound827 yep and Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles are definitely NOT rock and roll either

  • @ITILII No they aren't

  • @rbound827 stop all that hatin....Pat is a great singer and didn't steal things, just made his version of them, which is great singing too, by the way. Sounds like you're kinda racist yourself, hopefully you'll improve your misinformed view of things, good luck with that pal :-)

  • @ITILII Take a look at my channel before labeling someone a racist. I've forgotten more about the history of rock and Roll then you'll ever learn, so it is you who is misinformed. My argument concerning Boone is the fact that he had no right singing, or being called a "Rock and Roll" singer. I never said Boone stole anything- anyone can cover a song, but Boone sanitized the music, taking all the sexuality and wildness out of it, which was the whole core of RnR in the first place.

  • A classic tune. Thank you for sharing your music.

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  • 5 stars - my mother liked Pat Boone

  • OOPS !!!! I should have said "Check out LEE MORSE version. She includes the verse.

  • A great sing from 1931, and sung superbly by Pat Boone.

    Check out Lee Wyllie's version. she includes the verse.

    Thanks for sharing.

  • He was an idiot then, he's an idiot now.

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  • Lovely, lovely. I lust love that song.

  • @wovokanarchy Ozzy Osbourne would beg to differ with you. (Google it if you don't believe me.)

  • Go Pat Boone...dad and his cousin used to sing this song after way to many gins

  • This was my moms favorite song. Every time I hear it I think of her

  • memories and good feelings are made from this

    pat was in our dreems

  • Un verdadero galán, un hombre que de facto tenía belleza y además, talento. Soy hombre, pero no hay problema en decir esto.

    Cuando yo casar-me, si yo estuvier escuchando una radio que esté ejecutando canciones americanas de los 50´s, voy a telefonar para la radio y dedicar una canción de Pat Boone a mi mujer. Hasta sé cual será: April Love.

    Vuelvan-se espantados, sólo tiengo 20 años y me gusta este tipo de música.

  • 194617laci

    Pat is one of the greatest singer among the 50's beside Elvis, Roy Orbison, Jerry lee Lewis etc. But for me Pat has the most beautiful human voice, so Pat is for me the "GREATEST". In every Pat's song I enjoy his voice!

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  • Pa Boone encantou o mundo na decada de 50 com sua lindas cançoes e como ator tambem .Sucesso absoluto.Eu tinha 08 quando ele fascinava o Brasil dizia-se que a pessoa que fazia o par romantico com Pat nas filmagens pagaria uma pequena fortuna para receber um beijo dele mas ele nuca beijava em cena romantica ja era uma marca dele devido fato religioso.PAT Boone o Brasil vai te-lo sempre na memoria .fantastico.

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  • Wunderschön!!! Ich war auch mal jung...

  • คุ้นกับเพลงนี้เหมือนกัน ตอนเป็นเด็กๆ แพทเสียงคุณนุ่มมีเสน่ห์มาก ดูเหมือนเขาช่วยทำให้โลกมีปัญหา­น้อยลง ขอบคุณที่เอามาให้ฟังกัน

    I also used to listen and feel happy with this tune. Beloved Pat you have such

    a mellow and velvet voice. He always helps make this world less problematic. Thanks for posting.

  • This is the only song that my father sings ever since until now, lol.

  • DID ANYONE EVER NOTICE AT THE :45 SECOND MARK PAT MAKE A COLOSSAL BLUNDER - HE SINGS "you made a vow that you would NEVER be true" Has no one ever noticed this for 54 years? lol

    Love you Pat. Brother, You are one of my heros, but I thought that was funny when I heard it!

  • @MahanAl

    Not a mistake. He said "ever". You can even tell by his mouth positioning.

  • Brings back priceless high school memories.

  • This song was released in May of 1957 and was his first million seller, although he had two hits that proceeded it; "Ain't that a shame and Friendly Persuasion." The latter record was the theme song for a popular movie of the same name. Pat was truely and all American Guy. He played Baseball, Basketball and track in school and attended a Christian Academy. His fans considered him the Good side of the force while his competion--Elvis was Darth Vader! Both had many Hits but Elvis prevailed!

  • 1957?i was born in that beatifulll year.

  • My dad's favorite!

  • 1957 #1 tune for seven weeks though first a hit in 1931,

    I was 8 yrs old and I can remember it so well.

  • i remember my grandfather ....

  • good song for dance!!

    "I'm 17 years''

  • I wish there was still this kind of music now a day...all these songs about sex and drugs and swear words.....nothing beats pat boone =)

  • @kjbullion Hahaha, you're funny .

  • @kjbullion u mean the kind of music that was written by the black segregated sommunity only to be stolen by men like him. He's a homophobic anti evolution nasty man

  • @noreexic I really scares me if you are any example of the kind of people that are going to be running this country or just plain populating it. I don't know what you did when you were supposed to be learning, but it's obvious that you

    were busy doing something else. Like pulling the wings off of flies. You are sad.

  • @LadODell  he compared the LGBT community to terrorists nd is a complete biggot

  • @noreexic Before you end up looking like a bigger idiot than you already do, you might want to do a little what we that

    actually paid attention in school as research before you go blowing your mouth about something you know nothing about. All of Pat's recordings were songs either written expressly for him or were songs that had been recorded

    by other artists and he had the right to give them a chance himself.

  • @kjbullion There´s music like this today. I play this kind of music. It´s my life. You should go to my channel and view some of the music videos I made. I have recorded some oldies and I have recorded some Pat Boone songs too, and made a little video while I´m playing and singing.

  • Nice sentimental song. Today, people no longer write love letters in the sand. They prefer to text.

  • @Samaritan8 Who is this silly little man?

  • this song was on the jute box at NORTHAG germany...aaahhh memories...good one....

  • PAT BOONE IS NOT ONE OF MY FAV. BUT I LOVED THIS ONE.....

  • Pat Boone is a devout Christian but he once admitted to Geraldo Rivera that he has had gay sexual relationships in the closet in Hollywood on and off for sixty years.

  • This tune was ripped off by ABBA in their song "I do, I do, I do, I do". I admit that the ABBA song is very nice, and perhaps even superior as a tune to Pat Boone's tune, but it's a rip-of.

  • Now he's selling bath tubs for old geezers just like Ed McMahon did. oh wait, he's gone...I give Pat 3 more years tops

  • Eifach ur klasse ich mag Pat Boone gerne hören und dazu träumen

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  • Back then - Well we know he was an artist. Neatly combed hair, wering a suit.

    If he would've been an artist now - He'd be singing some sort of hip-hop with a tight shirt on and some skinny jeans with a faux hawk. AMERICA IS A DISASTER!

  • Pat Boone has sung "Ten Lonely Guys' back in 1960 0r 1961. Does anyone have this record please? Hope can hear this song in this Tube.

  • My 8th grade teacher was Laury Boone Browning!

    Great Lady.

  • I love this song and nobody could do it like Pat Boone.

    He is so young and gorgeous.

    Thanks Pat.

    My friend Marilyn used to sing this too.

  • Man, Elvis really makes this guy look like a pussy.

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  • Isn't he one of those gay-hating "Christians?"

  • @billyboylb hate the sin not the person thats what i always say

  • @Thromnabular Being gay isn't a sin anymore than a man cutting his hair. The bible also says men are not to shave or cut their hair. Or get divorced or touch the skin of a pig, etc. But I guess I hate the sin of Christianity, but not Christians.

  • @billyboylb Anyone who says being gay isn't a sin hasn't read the Bible or hasn't read the Bible in a long time. There are many verses in the Bible that specifically mention being gay as a terrible sin. Oh fyi Sodom and Gamorah was SMITED because all the people there were gay. I don't think there were any people smited for cutting their hair. Besides the Bible never said not to cut your hair it was just a law for the JEWS to follow, not the Gentiles.

  • @Thromnabular I guess you are un-American and don't understand the concept of religious freedom as guaranteed in our US Constitution. I don't believe in the bible and as an American that is my right. Also Jesus himself NEVER said anything against homosexuality. However, in several passages (Gospel of Mark, Chapter 10, vs 11) he is adamantly against divorce. Would you therefore support a ban on heterosexual divorce? That is what truly has ruined the American family. Hypocrit.

  • @billyboylb I never said I supported divorce and I don't. Divorce is also technically a sin if you follow the Bible. And how am I "un-American"? I never said there was a law in the US against homosexuality, I said it was a sin. Which it is, if you believe in the Bible, unless you're telling me you believe in Jesus but not the Bible, the only proof of Jesus's existance.

  • My dog sings better than this clown.

  • @luvmegan if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all

  • @sixtasep I'll say something nice about Pat......I'm glad that phony piece of shit Christian is not related to me.

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  • 1:17 whistle

  • 1.17 :)

  • paaa boon

  • I can still hear you singing this to me today and forever.......

  • lovely and talented stud! :)