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The Glenn Beck Program

Ep 20 | Pat Boone | The Glenn Beck Podcast

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.625.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Glenn sits down to have a conversation with Pat Boone, a top industry recording artist, an entertainment superstar, and a generous philanthropist. Pat recalls at the young age when Elvis Presley opened for him, his many decades in the entertainment industry while simultaneously being on 3 networks, and also shares about the current talent he sees promise in within today's music/entertainment scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Pat, I don't, I have been so excited to talk to you because you have spanned so many

0:23.3

decades. You've seen it all, you've been there. You've worked with and been around legends, your

0:33.1

whole life. You're 22 years old. It's in the 1950s. You have your own ABC television show.

0:41.7

And I think it's ever to have his own musical variety. And that's when there were only three channels.

0:46.2

Yeah, we can. Right. And here you are in 1955 and your opening act is Elvis Presley. Yeah.

0:57.4

Nobody knew him. So it's not that he was already a big star, but he was on his way. But you had more

1:05.5

number one hits in the 50s. And he did. Yeah. One more. One more. One more. One more. One more. One more. One more. You are they

1:15.7

believe the most recorded voice of all time. That is in terms of the number of records songs. I mean, the

1:25.3

most, I mean, of course, you know, many have been played more times. That's the that's the catch in it

1:31.2

is that I have recorded more songs, so over 2000 songs in many genres, like six different genres

1:38.0

at least at least. Yeah, six. You've charted on charted. I actually made had chart records and jazz,

1:44.3

pop, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, movie themes, patriotic. How many movies were you in?

1:54.1

I've lost count, but about 15, 16, I haven't been counting them. So I don't know if I might miss one or

1:58.7

two. I'm always forgetting something that I did do. You're in one of my favorite childhood movies,

2:05.0

Journey to the Center. That was I loved that was so. And you are a man of deep, deep profound faith.

2:16.5

Yeah. Yeah. So I want to try to just kind of go over as much as I can. All that stuff didn't really

2:26.6

come together logically. Does it? It doesn't. It does. I think I think it's why you

2:33.4

spanned and lasted and are as whole as you are. I mean, before we went on, we were in the dressing room.

2:42.4

And you talked about kissing Shirley and your wife and you teared up and yeah, your love affair

2:52.9

with that one woman. You're just at our 65th wedding anniversary. We've begun our 66th.

3:00.4

And she was my high school sweetheart, same old story. We were holding hands at 16, married at 19.

3:08.2

When I graduated from Columbia University, Magnum Cum Laude, we had four kids already. At 23,

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