Pat Boone Sings

• Artist: Pat Boone
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• Release Date: 1959
• Genre: Rock

Review

Pat Boone Sings is Pat Boone's second greatest-hits album, following Pat's Great Hits in 1957. It contains the music at which Boone excels: traditional pop rather than rock & roll. The lilting "April Love," "If Dreams Came True," and "I'll Remember Tonight" could easily have been made before the rock & roll era. Elsewhere, Boone's music exhibits a mild rock streak, as in the loping "Blues Stay Away From Me" guitar riff on "Sugar Moon" and the prominent drumbeats on the quasi-gospel "For My Good Fortune" and the frankly religious "A Wonderful Time Up There." Only "That's How Much I Love You" leans overtly toward rock. Pat Boone is often ridiculed for being an unconvincing rocker, but he is a pop -- not rock -- vocalist, and his forays into light rock are no more damnable than those of similar pop artists like Guy Mitchell and Connie Francis. ~ Greg Adams, Rovi

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