Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 401st episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporter's Awards Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a legendary

singer, actor and TV personality who was one of the first teen idols and along with Elvis

Presley who once opened for him, one of the kings of top 40 radio in the 1950s and 1960s.

Indeed, he charted 54 songs between 1955 and 1962 and 1963 overall, including 35 which

cracked the US singles charts top 40, 17 which broke into the top 10, and 6 which hit number 1.

Ain't that a shame from 1955? From 1956 I almost lost my mind. From 1957 don't forbid me,

love letters in the sand, and April love, and Moody River from 1961.

And to this day he holds the record for most consecutive weeks of having at least one single on

the charts, 220, and he usually had multiple, ultimately selling some 45 million records in total.

Famous not only for his silky voice but also his dashing looks and white bucks shoes,

it's hard to describe just how popular he was and among people of a certain age remains.

When he was first exploding the media described him as America's boyfriend and his fans wore

swoon with boon pins. His fan clubs numbered 4200 in the US and 350 abroad and at one time he received

6,000 letters per week. A 1956 time magazine profile noted quote, nobody who hears him in person

ever hears the first or last few robust notes. They are always drowned out in squeals of Bobby Sox

Delight, close quote. In 1957 the year he made his big screen debut, he proved to be, according to

the Quigley poll, the third biggest box office attraction of the year. And 45 years later,

when Ozzy Osborne and his family debuted their reality show The Osborne's,

its opening theme song was not Osborne's version of Crazy Train, but this man's cover of it.

The rare singer who has worked in and enjoyed a claim in no fewer than five genres of music,

rock, R&B, country, film, and pop, and is still singing to this day, Pat Boone.

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