Pat Boone, a singer, exclaims, “This is it,” as he leaves the Coach House stage on Saturday. In Southern California, not far from where he has resided for more than 60 years, his final performance will take place.
Boone recently mentioned his father’s famous quote, “I mean, I won’t promise anything except I won’t promise anything,” to a caller from Florida.
As sure as your word, you make a promise, but you can’t keep it, he said.
He states, “but I am pondering this to be my last concert on the West Coast,” following appearances in Branson, Missouri, and his birthplace of Nashville. That’s definitely it for good, he continues.
“I frequently get asked why this will be my last performance. Boone asserts. In addition, I just say, “And I’d want it to be on my own terms since it must happen sometime. I don’t want it to be due of premature aging, a stroke, or another issue. I’d rather do it when I’m singing and standing up.
He has been contemplating conclusions for some time. Boone is 87 now. His wife Shirley Boone passed away a year ago at the age of 84 after 65 years of marriage.
It’s been emotional, I must admit,” Boone says. “I think it took a deeper emotional toll on me than I realized since I kept busy. tasks I needed to finish.

They no longer live together in the Beverly Hills house they shared for 60 years, but Boone claimed he doesn’t mind too much.
According to the realtor, the Beverly Drive and Sunset Boulevard crossroads is a stunning, well-known position with 1.2 flat acres and close to the Beverly Hills Hotel. “I do want to live there, though. I still sense Shirley’s presence in the home she decorated and where all of my girls were reared.
Boone says, “You know, sometimes when I look at the images that are all over, I cry a little bit. “I sense her presence all the time.”
His hair loss, which he hopes won’t be too noticeable when he performs at the Coach House with songs from his six-decade career as a star of pop, gospel, country, early rock, and even heavy metal, is allegedly being exacerbated by the stress of his defeat.
Boone promises to sing them one of his best songs, “When The Swallows Return Back to Capistrano,” which he hardly ever performs. “ Before moving on to some songs from movies, like “April Love,” I’m going to sing some of my very first rock and roll CDs from 1955. The soundtrack to the movie “Exodus” features the lyrics I wrote for “Exodus,” the second national anthem of the Jewish people.
Even one of the “Metal Mood” songs, like “Smoke On The Sea,” might be done by me (his rendition of Deep Purple). My song “Under God,” which examines the significance of the two words in our Pledge of Allegiance, will probably be performed. I’ll also perform a few songs I wrote specifically for Shirley. The phrase is “You and I.”
After seeing the movie “The Notebook” together one night at their Hawaii home, he and Shirley Boone debated whether or not they would still be married in heaven. This discussion inspired him to write the song.
I hope we’re going to be Pat and Shirley Boone in paradise, not simply two amorphous angels who might occasionally touch wings and wonder if we knew each other in a previous life, Boone recalled saying.
Shirley Boone pointed him to the Bible, which says that there is no marriage in heaven. What God has linked together, let no man pull asunder, Jesus declares in another Bible text that Boone cited in response.
I said, “I don’t want to be in heaven without my better half,” Boone chuckles.
Just saying it has made me cry. In the Coach House, I’m not sure exactly how I’ll say it. In heaven, we aim to be Pat and Shirley Boone, and she agreed.
Boone claims to have recorded more songs in his career than any other musician in history, and he has every right to be proud of his reputation as a recording artist (2,300, give or take). It seems to transcend artists like Frank Sinatra and Boone’s personal hero Bing Crosby, despite the fact that there are other competitors.
He entered the charts less than a year before Elvis Presley in the middle of the 1950s. He claimed that over the next 10 years, he charted 41 songs to Presley’s 40, and that he eventually outsmarted Presley’s manager Col. Tom Parker to land a deal for an album of Elvis tributes.

“Elvis and I were friends, and I created an album called Pat Boone Sings Guess Who? as a tribute to him,” he continues. Col. Tom Parker advised me to pay a fee if I wanted to use Elvis’ name in the album’s title after learning that I was compiling an Elvis CD. The album was given the name “Guess Who?” as a result.
Boone asked that everything save Elvis’s name be avoided, thus the song titles are positioned around a portrait of Boone playing the guitar in an Elvis-like pose while donning a gold lamé outfit on the album’s front cover and “my friend Guess Who-sley” is referred to in the liner notes on the back.
Boone claimed that Elvis appreciated the fact that Tom Parker had to give me a tip of the hat. He gave me a gold-plated membership card to the Snowmen’s Club, a covert association he established for hustlers and con artists who snow others, as payment for snowing him.
After this last concert in California and the final two in Branson and Nashville, Boone predicted that he would still have plenty of business. He engages in three sets of singles tennis once a week with “a younger person – he’s just 82,” and he is also writing a book titled “If: The Eternal Decision We All Must Make” to aid those who are unsure of their beliefs or don’t know the Bible in discussing the afterlife.
I might stay here for a while, he continues. Yet I would have answered, “Wonderful! ” if someone had informed me I would die on Tuesday at 3 p.m. At 3:30, Shirley and I will meet. Of course, there is also God.