“This is it,” sings vocalist Pat Boone as he steps off the Coach House stage on Saturday. His farewell performance will take place in Southern California, not far from the region where he has resided for more than 60 years.

After playing in Nashville, Tennessee, and Branson, Missouri, he says, “I am considering this being my last concert on the West Coast.” He continues, “That’s the end of it forever.”

People usually ask why this is Boone’s final outing. “And I’d prefer it to be on my terms since it has to come someday,” he continued. I don’t want my advanced age, a stroke, or another illness to be the reason. I’d rather do it while I’m still standing and singing.

He has been contemplating conclusions for some time. Boone is currently 87 years old. Shirley Boone passed suddenly a year ago at the age of 84, ending their 65-year marriage.

Boone acknowledges, “I’ll be honest, it’s been painful. Because I kept working, I believe it had a more profound emotional impact on me than I realized.

After 60 years, Boone complains that he doesn’t mind being alone at their joint Beverly Hills home.

The broker touts the fantastic, well-known position with 1.2 flat acres at the intersection of Beverly Drive and Sunset Boulevard, which is near the Beverly Hills Hotel. “I want to live there, though. Shirley may always be felt in the house she decorated and where all of my girls were raised.

You know, sometimes I cry a little bit when I look at the images that are all throughout, says Boone, “I feel her presence all the time.”

He hopes that his hair loss, which he believes was caused by the stress of his loss, won’t be too noticeable when he performs at the Coach House with songs from his six-decade career as a pop, gospel, country, early rock, and even heavy metal icon.

He mentioned that Boone rarely played “When the Swallows Return to Capistrano,” one of the classic songs. “I’m going to sing some of my earlier rock and roll records from 1955 before switching to songs from movies, including ‘April Love. The second national anthem of the Jewish people, “Exodus,” which is featured on the “Exodus” soundtrack, was written by me.

“I’m thinking about writing one of the ‘Metal Mood’ songs, like his version of ‘Smoke On The Water’ by Deep Purple. I’ll perform “Under God,” a song I wrote about the significance of the two words in our Pledge of Allegiance. I’ll sing at least one song I wrote for Shirley as well. The sentence reads, “You and I.”

He and Shirley Boone talked about whether they would still be married in heaven after watching “The Notebook” together one night at their Hawaii home, and they ultimately created that song.

“I hope we’re going to be Pat and Shirley Boone in paradise, not just two amorphous angels who might brush wings once in a great while and wonder if we knew each other in a previous life,” Boone recalls.

Shirley Boone pointed him to the Bible, which says that there is no marriage in heaven. In his reply, Boone cited a passage from the Bible where Jesus is attributed with stating, “What God has joined together, let no man break apart.”

I replied, ‘I don’t want to be in heaven without my better half,'” Boone chuckles.

Just writing that makes me cry. I’m not sure what I’ll say at the Coach House. We both decided that our ultimate wish would be to join Pat and Shirley Boone in heaven.

Boone, who estimates that he has recorded 2,300 songs—plus or minus—more than any other musician in music history, is justifiably proud of the legacy his recording career has left him. Despite the fact that there are rivals, it seems to go beyond musicians like Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, who is a personal hero of Boone’s.

He made his chart debut in the 1950s, less than a year before Elvis Presley. He claimed that in the ten years that followed, he charted 41 songs to Presley’s 40 and that in the following years, he outsmarted Presley’s manager Col. Tom Parker to land a deal for an album of Elvis tributes.

Elvis and I were friends, so I wrote an album called Pat Boone Sings Guess Who? in his honor, the singer reveals. I told Col. Tom Parker that I was making an Elvis CD, and he replied, “Well if you’re going to include his name in the title, you’ve got to pay a royalty for that.” The album was given the name “Guess Who?” as a result.

On the album’s front cover, a photo shows Boone playing the guitar while posturing like Elvis Presley and wearing gold lamé clothes is surrounded by the names of the songs. The liner notes on the back refer to “my friend Guess Who-sley”.

Boone claims that Elvis appreciated the fact that Tom Parker supposedly had to tip his hat to me. He awarded me a gold-plated membership card to the Snowmen’s Club, a secret society he founded for hustlers and con artists who prey on others, because I snowed him.

After this final performance in California and the following two in Branson and Nashville, Boone predicted that he would still have plenty of business. With “a younger guy – he’s just 82,” he plays three sets of singles tennis three times per week. He is also working on a book titled “If: The Everlasting Choice We Must All Make” that will help those who don’t know the Bible or are unsure of their beliefs handle the afterlife.

He adds, “I might stay here for a while.” However, I would have answered, “Great! ” if you had told me I would die on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Shirley and I will meet at 3:30. There is also the Lord, of course.