PAT BOONE & CRYSTAL GAYLE - A SONG In Their Hearts

THESE LONGTIME HITMAKERS UNITED TO RECORD A SPECIAL DUET HONORING PAT'S LATE WIFE.

- Amanda Champagne-Meadows

Despite their decades in the music business, Pat Boone and Crystal Gayle had never met, but it didn’t take them very long to become friends. The legendary performer and the country singer recently recorded a new version of Crystal’s hit “You and I,” which appears on Pat’s latest album, Country Jubilee.

The project has been very close to Pat’s heart. Not only is the video for “You and I” dedicated to his late wife, Shirley, but it’s also been a refreshing change of pace for this Nashville-reared performer to release an all-country-music album. “I was never considered a country performer,” Pat, 89, tells Closer. “I was a rock ’n’ roller. I did big band, swing, jazz, heavy metal — almost every kind of music. But I had a dream that I had a big country hit record.”