Let me get into Lennonesque rant mode:

Upper, UMC, and middle class white trendy buffoons like to pretend to dig things like this because it's so uncool it's cool....when sane people realize it's garbage, just like the rest of Boone's career.

I've always suspected that Pat Boone, despite his squeaky clean image, regularly chowed down on magic mushrooms.

How else can you explain choices of material like this, delivered with wooden earnestness suitable to a televangelist choir.