With his broad smile, clean-cut appearance and trademark white buck shoes, Pat Boone was the alternative rock star to the sexually dangerous Elvis Presley during the 1950s, the boy-next-door who made the music acceptable to nervous parents and the Number One recording artist in 1955. Yet, for his all efforts, Boone has been derided in some circles for merely doing "covers" of black artists' tunes and making a fortune at it, while the originators starved. Boone's wholesomeness was real, as is his Christian commitment, and he has endured not only among his core audience, but has remained one of
