The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom

The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom
Boone and Pat Suzuki in 1959.
Genre	Variety
Written by	Al Cohn
Starring	Pat Boone
Composer(s)	Arthur Malvin
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	115
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	October 23, 1957 (1957-10-23) – June 23, 1960 (1960-06-23)

The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom is a half-hour variety show that aired on ABC-TV from October 3, 1957 to June 23, 1960, starring the young singer Pat Boone and a host of top-name guest stars sponsored by Chevrolet. Boone, a descendant of Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone, was, at 23, still attending Columbia University in New York City when the program began production. Upon his graduation from Columbia in 1958, TV Guide pictured him in his cap and gown on the magazine cover. Boone, the No. 10 all-time vocalist in sales, was at the time the youngest person to host his own network variety program until ABC's The Donny & Marie Show, with two hosts, broke the record in 1976.

In addition to Pat, regular performers throughout the three season-run included the Artie Malvin Chorus, the Bill Foster Dancers, the Mort Lindsey Orchestra and singer Louise O'Brien.

Among the entertainers who joined Boone were Italian actress and opera singer Anna Maria Alberghetti in the premiere episode. Shirley Jones, later the mother on ABC's The Partridge Family, guest starred in the second episode, and Janis Paige, whose own attempt at network television, It's Always Jan, a 1955-1956 CBS situation comedy had ended after twenty-six weeks, was the guest on the third episode. Many of Boone's guests were rock and roll singers, such as Bobby Rydell, Fabian, and Connie Francis, but Country and Western stars Red Foley (Boone's father-in-law), Roy Rogers, and The Sons of the Pioneers also performed.