Post by Michael PendragonPat Boone and the Beatles are both hugely successful recording artists
Pat Boone stopped having hits in 1964, though, when The Beatles arrived and knocked him and others off the charts for good:
https://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.com/2013/06/awopbopaloobop.html
"Pat Boone's..... covers – although bland and sappy, stripped of sex appeal and with the lyrics bleached clean.... his whiter-than-white version of Little Richard’s blisteringly brilliant Tutti Frutti..... his vocal performances are Ned Flanders’ nice, with no energy, vigor or danger. His insipid album of Elvis covers – Pat Boone sings…Guess Who? is simply embarrassing. This is rock n’ roll for people who don’t like rock ‘n roll..... by the time he hit 30 it was all over. His cover of Rolf Harris’s Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport failed to set the charts alight and the British Invasion in 1964 all but ended Boone's career as a hit maker, thankfully. Unable to compete on the charts with the likes of The Beatles.... Little Richard co-wrote Long Tall Sally... Pat Boone cover it… .. created what must be one of the worst cover versions of all time! Hear it now in all of its toe-curling glory....."
Pat Boone seems to have sold to white teeny boppers, but respected music critics such as Dave Marsh seem to shun his music.