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Pat Boone Makes Record Return to Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart With All-Star Single ‘One’
The legendary Pat Boone, 90 years young, debuts on the Adult Contemporary chart with “One: Voices for Tanzania.”
On Billboard ’s first Adult Contemporary chart, dated July 17, 1961, Pat Boone ranked alongside the likes of Brooke Benton, Connie Francis, Patti Page, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. Joining Boone on the anthem are artists including Alabama, Deborah Allen, Billy Dean, Larry Gatlin, Vince Gill, Lee Greenwood, Wendy Moten and Pam Tillis, as well as Nashville’s Legacy Mission Village Singers, comprising refugees from Tanzania and Congo, and Tanzanian gospel act Sebastian Silas & God Is Love. The set sports covers of rock classics including Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise City,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” and Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”
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