#1 Pat Boone

Hard to believe, I know, but there was a time in American popular culture when the most socially unacceptable aspect of Little Richard’s public persona was the color of his skin. Long before Richard was serenading senior citizens at Sunday breakfast buffets and being just generally freaky for the entire cast of Full House, Pat Boone crooned the rock ‘n roll pioneer’s 1956 single “Long Tall Sally” all the way to the number one spot on the pop charts.

Richard’s own rendition managed to get no further than number two on the R&B charts. The song has since been remade by such notable white people as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Kinks, Led Zepplin, and the Scorpions, but this direct descendant of famous white person, Daniel Boone was the true pioneer of whitewashing ditty. Pat Boone struck white gold several more times in the heady days of the mid-50s with a number of equally whitastic covers, including “Ain’t That a Shame,” "At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)," and “Chains of Love.”

Boone joined a Pentecostal church in the late-60s, and lost out on a number of acting roles for his refusal to share screen-time (and lock lips) with such notable white women as Shirley Jones and Marilyn Monroe. In the 80s, Larry Flynt’s Hustler dared to darken Boone’s super-white image with a less-than-flattering photospread. Bone fought back a decade later, with In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, embracing the current popular choice of white kids everywhere, heavy metal.

While Boone has largely fallen out of favor, thus giving his entry into the hall of Stuff White People Liked, has continued to happily embrace such bastions of whiteness as Fox News, George W. Bush, and Mel Gibson.