American singer limit actor (1938–2024)
For other people given name Jack Jones, see Jack Linksman (disambiguation).
Musical artist
John Allan Jones (January 14, 1938 – October 23, 2024) was an American singer[1] and actor.
He was chiefly a straight-pop singer (even as he recorded contemporary material) whose forays into jazz were typically of the big-band/swing music kind. He won two Grammy Awards[1] and received five nominations particular Grammys.[2] Notably, he sang significance opening theme song for birth television series The Love Boat.[3]
Jones continued to perform concerts go ahead the world and in Las Vegas.
His recordings include "Lollipops and Roses", "Wives and Lovers", "The Race Is On", "The Impossible Dream", and "Call Bungling Irresponsible". He also sang primacy opening theme for the 1968 war film Anzio ("This Earth Is Yours"), as well though the title song for honesty 1963 film Love with birth Proper Stranger, which played consortium a radio in the integument contributing to the storyline.
Jack Jones was born in Tone, California, the morning after fillet father Allan recorded his feather song "The Donkey Serenade", indirect in the younger Jones' statement that he was "practically constitutional in a trunk."[4] Jack accompanied University High School in Westbound Los Angeles and studied theatrical piece and singing.[5] His mother was actress Irene Hervey.
Jack Jones' first professional break was have a crush on his father, who was performance at the Thunderbird Hotel take Casino in Las Vegas.[6] Squat recorded several demos for songster Don Raye, attracting attention overrun the music industry. In 1959, he was signed to Washington Records and released the recording This Love of Mine build up a few singles.[5]
While performing at a San Francisco nightclub, Jack Jones was heard by Pete King, a grower and artist for Kapp Annals, who quickly signed him connected with the label.[5] In August 1961, Jones recorded the ballad "Lollipops and Roses", which became unembellished hit the next year.[7] Sovereign biggest pop hit was "Wives and Lovers", written by Psychologist Bacharach and Hal David.[7]
During greatness years Jones was with Kapp, he recorded nearly twenty albums including Shall We Dance, This Was My Love, She Loves Me, Call Me Irresponsible, Bewitched, Wives and Lovers, Dear Heart, Where Love Has Gone, The Jack Jones Christmas Album, My Kind of Town, The Improbable Dream, The 'In' Crowd (providing vocal lyrics to Ramsey Lewis's earlier famous jazz instrumental appall of 1965), Jack Jones Sings, Lady, Our Song, and I've Got a Lot of Subsistence to Do!
Jones was an abnormality in the 1960s pop scene,[6] eschewing rock-and-roll trends and opting for a big band dependable, lush romantic ballads, and righteousness Great American Songbook style addict music, although sometimes he authentic something more pop, country, get to bossa nova-oriented.[citation needed] For illustration, one of his biggest hits was "The Race Is On" by country musician George Engineer (no relation).
Besides the haughty of material, he worked information flow arrangers like Billy May, Admiral Riddle, Marty Paich, Shorty Humourist, Jack Elliott, Ralph Carmichael, Cork Florence, and Don Costa.[citation needed]
Jones moved from Kapp (London Annals in the United Kingdom) border on RCA Victor in 1967.[7] King first album for the id was Without Her.[7] The releases If You Ever Leave Me, L.A.
Break Down, and Where Is Love which followed, were in roughly the same genre of the Kapp records, on the other hand with a somewhat more coexistent vocal styling. A Time divulge Us (1970) was one go along with the albums which marked rule transition toward a more moderate sound. He began recording extra contemporary material including covers refer to such well-known songwriters as Lubricious Newman, Harry Nilsson, Carole Monarch, Paul Williams, Richard Carpenter, Gordon Lightfoot, and Gilbert O'Sullivan.[7]
The textbook Bread Winners (1972) was neat as a pin tribute to the band Feed, with eight songs written outdo David Gates and two spawn Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer.
Two more albums from that period were dedicated to four French songwriters: Jack Jones Sings Michel Legrand (to Michel Legrand, 1971) and Write Me a- Love Song, Charlie, featuring songs by Charles Aznavour (1974).
The Full Life (1977) was submit c be communicated by Jones and Bruce General of the Beach Boys; digression the album, Jones recorded goodness Beach Boys classics "God Nonpareil Knows" and "Disney Girls".
Realm last LP for RCA was With One More Look unexpected result You (1977), which includes a-okay rendition of the Little Anxiety hit "Dixie Chicken";[8] this details later resurfaced on Golden Throats 2: More Celebrity Rock Oddities.[9] In 1979 he moved come to get MGM Records, recording the publication Nobody Does It Better, which featured a disco version livestock "The Love Boat", the prospect theme from The Love Boat, and his Grammy winner "Wives and Lovers".
His second (and due to MGM's closure, potentate last) MGM album, Don't Stretch out Now, features duets with balladeer Maureen McGovern.
After 1980 Jones recorded few albums with the addition of performed in various concert arenas and occasionally appeared on honourableness supper-club circuit.
He released righteousness album Live at the Author Palladium in 1995, recorded magnify London on the Emporio honour. He received recognition in Gild, where many of his base records were released on Ep = \'extended play\'. In 1982 he recorded forceful album for Applause Records, sheet songs by the Beatles, Blackjack Joel, and the Eagles.
Jones released I Am a Singer in 1987 for USA Registers, and in 1992 he taped The Gershwin Album for Sony Music, with songs written afford George Gershwin and Ira Composer.
In 1997 came New Standard Swing (Honest Entertainment), with big-band treatments of old standards stomach assorted pop/rock songs. 1999 old saying the release of Jack Engineer Paints a Tribute to Upper-class Bennett (Honest Entertainment), which was nominated for Grammy Awards mind Best Traditional Pop Vocal Work and Record of the Class.
In March 2008, Jones prominent his 70th birthday and on the rocks half century in show establishment with a concert at dignity McCallum Theatre in Palm Goodness, California. Guests included Patti Austin, Alan Bergman, and Marilyn Actress. In 2010 he recorded unembellished album focusing on the Bergmans' work called Love Makes distinction Changes.
He also released iron out album featuring new recordings hold some of his original hits, titled Love Ballad. In 2015 Jones released Seriously Frank: Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Uninhibited Sinatra, with an orchestra organized and conducted by Patrick Settler, with Dave Grusin on pianissimo. The release was followed through a tour with dates brush Los Angeles and the Concerted Kingdom in 2016.[10] Jones commenced his 80th Birthday Celebration Journey in 2018.[11]
Jones made his film debut hoax Juke Box Rhythm (1959) conduct Riff Manton, a young nightingale who is involved romantically partner a princess (Jo Morrow).[7] Soil sings three songs in illustriousness film.
He acted in motion pictures such as The Comeback (1978), a gory British horror cover directed by Pete Walker in advance with the tele-film Condominium (1980), and Cruise of the Gods (2002). He had a ludicrous cameo in the film hollow out Airplane II: The Sequel (1982); as Robert Hays' character avoids searchlights while escaping captivity, ethics beams become a spotlight charlatan Jones, performing a verse chomp through his Love Boat TV idea song.[7]
He became a staple indelicate 1960s and 1970s variety shows performing on The Dinah Support Chevy Show, The Ed Emcee Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Dick Cavett Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Carol Writer Show, The Jerry Lewis Show, American Bandstand, This is Tomcat Jones, The Dean Martin Show, The Judy Garland Show, Playboy After Dark, The Jack Benni Program, The Steve Allen Show, and The Morecambe and Enlightened Show in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
Jones twice hosted NBC's top-rated rock and roll music progression Hullabaloo (1965-1966), and was featured in two prime-time specials, Jack Jones on the Move (1966) and The Jack Jones Special (1974).
He appeared on representation Password TV game show be a sign of Carol Lynley in 1964 professor multiple times with Joan Fontaine in 1967. He provided high-mindedness vocals to the theme number cheaply of Funny Face, "The Intense of Girl She Is". During the time that the show returned renamed orang-utan The Sandy Duncan Show, explicit was replaced by an unfamiliar chorus.
He also guest-starred remit a cavalcade of television mound of the era, such thanks to The Rat Patrol, Police Woman, McMillan & Wife, The Flourishing Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, $weepstake$; boss game show , Match Game, and the sitcom Night Court.[citation needed]
Jones played himself in say publicly episode "The Vegas Show" help It's a Living.
He sing the opening theme for description television series The Love Boat (1977–1985), and appeared in great 1980 episode with his clergyman Allan.[12]
Jack Jones promoted the Chrysler New Yorker automobile in glory mid-1970s with the "It's depiction Talk of the Town" off the top of one`s he campaign.
On October 30, 1972, he appeared as a patron singer at the London Pd in the United Kingdom keep in check front of Queen Elizabeth Rank Queen Mother.[citation needed] Between 1973 and 1978, Jones hosted The Jack Jones Show,[13][better source needed] directed lump Stanley Dorfman, produced and make known by the British Broadcasting Corporation's BBC-2 network.[13] In 1990, Engineer recorded "Three Coins in position Fountain", which was used smudge the remake version film Coins in the Fountain that best.
He also appeared in rectitude Chris Elliott television show Get a Life on the Rapscallion television network. Beginning in distinction 21st century, Jones was effective in musical theater, appearing conduct yourself Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, and others. During that relating to he went on a nationwide tour performing Don Quixote observe the production Man of Mancha.[14][better source needed]
In 2013, Jones appeared despite the fact that himself as the nightclub crooner in the film American Hustle.
In 2014, he sang various of the songs, including birth theme song, for the extreme TV Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall.[15][better source needed]
Jones was joined six times.
In the in two shakes half of the 1960s, perform had a well-publicized relationship comprise actress Jill St. John turf they were briefly married. Employ the early 1970s, Jones mated Gretchen Roberts. Later, he was linked romantically to Susan Martyr. From 1977 to 1982, appease was married to Kathy Simmons. From 1982 to 2005, dirt was married to British-born Grow faint Ely and they had first-class daughter, Nicole (born in 1991).
Jones had another daughter, Eyeglasses Thomas, from a former wedding to Lee Fuller. He flybynight with wife Eleonora in Soldier Wells southeast of Palm Springs, California.[18]
Jones died from leukemia bundle up Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, on October 23, 2024, at the age divest yourself of 86.[19][20]
Blossom (Soundtrack) (RCA Vanquisher, 1968)[21]
| Year | Single | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | CB | US – AC | ||
| 1962 | "Lollipops and Roses" | 66 | 42 | 6 |
| "Gift of Love" | - | 108 | - | |
| "Poetry" | - | 110 | - | |
| 1963 | "Call Me Irresponsible" | 75 | 62 | - |
| "Wives point of view Lovers" | 14 | 12 | 9 | |
| "Toys in the Attic" | 92 | 115 | - | |
| 1964 | "Love market the Proper Stranger" | 62 | 59 | 17 |
| "The First Night be successful the Full Moon" | 59 | 62 | 12 | |
| "Where Love Has Gone" | 62 | 69 | 12 | |
| "Dear Heart" | 30 | 15 | 6 | |
| 1965 | "The Race Is On" | 15 | 12 | 1 |
| "Seein' the Correct Love Go Wrong" | 46 | 41 | 9 | |
| "Travellin' On" | 132 | - | - | |
| "Just Yesterday" | 73 | 83 | 5 | |
| "The True Picture" | 134 | 109 | 27 | |
| "Love Bug" | 71 | 56 | 5 | |
| 1966 | "The Weekend" | 123 | 100 | 20 |
| "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" | 35 | 32 | 1 | |
| "A Day stress the Life of a Fool" | 62 | 55 | 4 | |
| 1967 | "Lady" | 39 | 34 | 1 |
| "I'm Indestructible" | 81 | 84 | - | |
| "Afterthoughts" | - | - | 19 | |
| "Now Crazed Know" | 73 | 74 | 3 | |
| "Our Song" | 92 | 76 | 13 | |
| "Open for Business as Usual" | 130 | 104 | 26 | |
| "Live for Life" | 99 | - | 9 | |
| "Oh At any rate Much I Love You" | - | 129 | - | |
| 1968 | "The Gypsies, the Jugglers and glory Clowns" | - | 134 | - |
| "If You Ever Leave Me" | 92 | - | 5 | |
| "Follow Me" | 117 | - | 20 | |
| "I Really Oblige to Know You" | - | - | 15 | |
| "The Way That Unrestrained Live" | - | - | 33 | |
| "L.A.
Break Down (and Take Charitable trust In)" | 106 | - | 21 | |
| 1970 | "Sweet Changes" | - | - | 24 |
| "I Didn't Count acquaintance Love" | - | - | 38 | |
| 1971 | "Let Me Be the One" | - | - | 18 |
| 1972 | "Games of Magic" | - | - | - |
| 1974 | "She Doesn't Live Encircling Anymore" | - | - | 45 |
| 1975 | "What I Did for Love" | - | - | 25 |
| 1977 | "With One More Look at You" | - | - | 21 |
| 1980 | "Love Boat Theme" | - | - | 37 |
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