![]() He cared about the words coming out of his mouth. ![]() And he treated the material and their creators with respect. They were tepid renditions of the originals but, to Boone’s credit, earnest and sincere. ![]() ![]() In the explosion of the rock ’n’ roll era, Boone became a star by recording versions of songs by some of the Black architects of rock, songwriters and performers such as Fats Domino, Little Richard, Big Joe Turner and Ivory Joe Hunter. Cruz is among the mob that has hijacked “woke” and moved it further from its African American origins, taking its soul not unlike the way the singer Pat Boone downplayed the soulful rhythms and beats of the songs of the Black artists he covered during the 1950s. ![]()
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