Pat Boone was not immune to verbal bloopers. "It seemed that my wife Shirley was always pregnant," he once remarked, "until we found out what was causing it."

[He was referring, of course, to Shirley's weight problem. "There's something about me," Boone once confessed, "that makes a lot of people want to throw up."]

[Boone once owned a Ferrari whose horn played the song "April Love" -- the title song of the 1957 movie which he made with Shirley Jones.]