Pat Boone writes, "How would you like to have Michael Jordan give you some tips on basketball? That's what I feel happened with me when I asked Richard Fredricks to help me get back on track," says the pop icon. "Through years of increasingly bad vocal habits, terrible sound systems and road weariness, I was beginning to think I had 'lost' it. After just one or two sessions with this master teacher, I had regained my confidence, and have been regaining the ease and expertise I had enjoyed for years. Richard knows, he can teach it, and he cares. I can't imagine a better combination."

In addition to his many singing venues, Mr. Fredricks has enjoyed his directorial assignments having directed the Massenet, Manon, for the Honolulu Opera, The Young Lord, with  Houston Grand Opera, in which he also sang the leading role of the Secretary; The Marriage of Figaro (by proxy) and sang the role of Figaro, TRUK Opera, Pretoria, South Africa; directed two productions of La Boheme, at  The Michigan Opera, The Duluth Opera.

Last May, Mr. Fredricks was the featured soloist, at a Dorothy Chandler Pavilion presented by the L. A. Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra, singing the Academy Award winning song, Exodus, lyrics by Pat Boone, .in the  event honoring Pat's Fifty Years in Show Business. Pat joined him for the last rousing chorus.