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Pat Boone

How Pat Boone seduced this rock critic

Pat Boone Says: You Don’t Have to Wiggle
June 1, 1934 A direct descendant of the frontiersman Daniel Boone, Charles Eugene Patrick “Pat” Boone is born, to a building contractor and a registered nurse, in Jacksonville, Florida.

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