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Jack Jones Dies: ‘The Love Boat’, ‘Wives And Lovers’ Singer Was 86
Jack Jones, the Grammy-winning singer of popular music fare such as “Lollipops and Roses,” “The Impossible Dream,” “Wives and Lovers” and, perhaps most famously, the theme to TV’s The Love Boat, died Wednesday, October 23. He was 86. A resident of Coachella Valley, California, Jones, who had been diagnosed with leukemia two years ago, died […]
Jack Jones, the Grammy-winning singer of popular music fare such as “Lollipops and Roses,” “The Impossible Dream,” “Wives and Lovers” and, perhaps most famously, the theme to TV’s The Love Boat, died Wednesday, October 23. Even as rock music increasingly displaced the crooning, Great American Songbook style favored by Jones, he would continue to score hits throughout the 1960s including “The Race Is On,” “The Impossible Dream (The Quest,)” and “Lady.” While continuing to perform in Las Vegas and on nightclub stages, Jones broke through to a new and wider audience in 1977 when he sang the theme song to the immensely popular TV show The Love Boat.
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