Greatest Hits

Pat Boone (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1993)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002OPH
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,497 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Two Hearts

2. Ain't That a Shame

3. I'll Be Home

4. I Almost Lost My Mind

5. Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)

6. Chains of Love

7. Don't Forbid Me

8. Why Baby Why

9. Love Letters in the Sand

10. Bernadine

11. Remember You're Mine

12. April Love

13. A Wonderful Time Up There

14. It's Too Soon to Know

15. Sugar Moon

16. If Dreams Came True

17. Moody River

18. Speedy Gonzales

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars These Are The Originals, July 25, 2000

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T. Everett (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

As I was involved in putting the Pat Boone album on this page together (interviewing Pat for the liner notes), I should reiterate that these are the original Dot label recordings, which MCA now owns; that the reviews saying they are not refer to the Curb Record collection, which also has fewer tracks. How this got messed up, I don't know, but the MCA collection (and Volume 2, on Varese Sarabande) are the originals, both compiled with Pat's approval.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the Real McCoy!! Buy the MCA version!!, June 9, 1999

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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Want to clarify an earlier review....The bogus recordings appear on the CURB label's version of "Greatest Hits". The MCA label's "Greatest Hits" are authentic and original DOT Records recordings! Review for the CURB lable Cd was erroneously placed under the MCA Cd.....are you confused yet??

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unintentional Pioneer, October 22, 2002

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Henry R. Kujawa ("The Forbidden Zone" (Camden, NJ)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Along with Rick Nelson, Pat Boone was an artist in the 50's who helped make what had been called "race" music popular to non-black audiences-- outselling the originals while no doubt leading many to seek out what the originals really sounded like. (The Beatles' early recordings had the same effect on me, introducing me to earlier artists I might not have found otherwise.) For someone like me, who doesn't rank Boone as highly as dozens or even hundereds of other artists (call it personal taste) this is an EXCELLENT collection that features his early R&B covers, and a nice selection of his later "shmaltzy" stuff. Sure, I don't play it much-- but I can't argue with the quality & beauty of the stuff here!

However, my favorite song here is the one Pat says his manager urged him NOT to record, as by then he'd put rock & roll behind him: "Speedy Gonzales"! I find it hard to believe the story that Pat's manager somehow invited his friend Mel Blanc to contribute to the recording without realizing Blanc was ALREADY the voice of the cartoon mouse! (Talk about too silly for words.) That it became Pat's BIGGEST-selling single only proves to me that Boone, if anything, had better instincts that his manager. GO, PAT! I only wish they'd have included the MONO 45 mix, as it has more "punch" than the stereo version here. This is a common problem with repackages; if they're giving us the "hits", they should make sure it's really the "hit" versions! The same thing plagued The Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday" for over 2 decades' worth of reissues...