Why Isn’t Pat Boone in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

If we remove Elvis, Pat Boone would have been the King of Top 40 radio in the ’50s

Neal Umphred
Tell It Like It Was
7 min readMay 19, 2019

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(Photo courtesy of the Pat Boone website.)

ANOTHER QUESTION ON QUORA that caught my attention was “Who was the first rock & roll superstar to be discarded and forgotten to time?” I answered with Bill Haley, Pat Boone, and Connie Francis. Each singer was a BIG star in their heyday —…

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Neal Umphred
Tell It Like It Was

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