All Topics  
Jack Jones (singer)

 
Jack Jones (singer)

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Jack Jones (singer)
 
 
  Topics Jack Jones (singer) Topic Home

Jack Jones (born January 14, 1938) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.

Overview
He was rated highly by Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
 and Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
 and a major influence on Scott Walker
Scott Walker

Scott Walker may refer to:*Scott Walker , singer*Scott Walker , county executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin*Scott Walker , boxer*Scott Walker , professional ice hockey player...
. Judy Garland
Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
 called him the best jazz singer in the world, although Jones was always a straight pop singer (even when he recorded contemporary material) and rarely ventured in the direction of jazz.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Jack Jones (singer)'
Start a new discussion about 'Jack Jones (singer)'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Jack Jones (born January 14, 1938) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.

Overview


He was rated highly by Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
 and Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
 and a major influence on Scott Walker
Scott Walker

Scott Walker may refer to:*Scott Walker , singer*Scott Walker , county executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin*Scott Walker , boxer*Scott Walker , professional ice hockey player...
. Judy Garland
Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
 called him the best jazz singer in the world, although Jones was always a straight pop singer (even when he recorded contemporary material) and rarely ventured in the direction of jazz. Jones won two Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
s. He performs concerts around the world and remains popular in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
. Some of his best-known recordings are "I Can't Believe I'm Losing You", "L.A. Break Down", "The Way That I Live", "Wives and Lovers
Wives and Lovers

Wives and Lovers is a song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It has been recorded by numerous male and female vocalists, instrumentalists and ensembles....
" (1964
Grammy Awards of 1964

The 6th Grammy Awards were held in 1964. They recognized accomplishments by musicians for the year 1963....
 Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance
Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male

The Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1959 to 1968. The award had several minor name changes:*From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Vocal Performance, Male...
)", "The Race Is On", "Lollipops and Roses
Lollipops and Roses (song)

"Lollipops and Roses" is a popular music song by Tony Velona, best known in a version recorded by Jack Jones in 1962 in music....
" (1962
Grammy Awards of 1962

The 4th Grammy Awards were held in 1962. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1961....
, Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance), "The Impossible Dream", "Lady", "What I Did for Love", and "The Love Boat
The Love Boat

The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
 Theme". He recorded "Strangers in the Night" before Sinatra did.

The early years and Capitol Records


His birth name is John Allan Jones and he was the only son of actors Allan Jones and Irene Hervey
Irene Hervey

Irene Hervey was an United Sates television and film actress....
. Jack Jones was born in Los Angeles in the very night that his father recorded his signature song "Donkey Serenade". The young Jones attended University High School in West Los Angeles and studied drama and singing. His first professional break was with his father, when Allan Jones was performing at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. He recorded a couple of demos for songwriter Don Raye
Don Raye

Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, DC, was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."...
 and started to be noticed by the music industry. In 1959, Jones was signed to Capitol Records
Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood, California and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group....
 and released an album (This Love of Mine) and a few singles. None of these records sold well and his contract was cut short. These early singles were compiled in the budget album The Romantic Voice of Jack Jones, released in the early seventies in the UK by the label Music For Pleasure.

The Kapp Years


After being dropped by Capitol, Jones was drafted and spent some time in the US Air Force. Back to civilian life, he had more luck with his next company, Kapp Records
Kapp Records

Kapp Records was a record label started in 1955 in music by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp . Kapp licensed its records to London Records for release in the UK....
. In August, 1961 he recorded the ballad "Lollipops and Roses" (a song by Tony Velona) and it was a hit in the following year. His next big hit was “Wives and Lovers”, by Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
 and Hal David
Hal David

Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
. Today, the lyrics are considered chauvinistic and predatory, but this song was a kind of anthem for the urban male of the Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
 Era. The imagery seems to have come out of the pages of a Playboy Magazine of the early sixties and good looking, slick Jack was the perfect vocalist to deliver this classic hit. In the Kapp years, Jones recorded almost twenty albums, including Shall We Dance, This Was My Love, She Loves Me, Call Me Irresponsible, I´ve Got a Lot of Living To Do!, Bewitched, Wives and Lovers, Dear Heart, Where Love Has Gone, My Kind of Town, The Impossible Dream, The In Crowd, Jack Jones Sings
Jack Jones Sings

Jack Jones Sings is an album by Pop music vocalist Jack Jones ....
, Lady, Our Song, etc... Young, handsome and well groomed, Jack Jones was an anomaly in the sixties, eschewing rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 trends and opting for the big band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
 sound, lush romantic ballads and the Great American Songbook
Great American Songbook

Great American Songbook is a term referring to the interrelated music of Broadway theatre musical theater, the Hollywood musical, and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins roughly in the 1920s and tapers off around 1960 with the emerging dominance of rock and roll....
, although sometimes he recorded something more pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
, country or bossa nova
Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music popularized by Ant?nio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Jo?o Gilberto. Bossa nova acquired a large following, initially by young musicians and college students....
 oriented. One of his biggest hits, for example, was "The Race Is On", by country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 legend George Jones
George Jones

George Glenn Jones , is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
 - no relation to Jack. Besides the good choice of material, Jones worked with top arrangers like Billy May, Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s....
, Marty Paich
Marty Paich

Martin Louis Paich, a/k/a "Marty" Paich was a pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director and conducting.In a career which spanned half a century, he worked in these capacities for such artists as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torm?, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ro...
, Shorty Rogers
Shorty Rogers

Milton ?Shorty? Rogers , born Milton Rajonsky in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played both the trumpet and flugelhorn, and was in demand for his skills as an Arrangement....
, Jack Elliott
Jack Elliott

Jack Elliott was an United States television and Film score, Conducting, Arrangement, and television producer....
, Ralph Carmichael
Ralph Carmichael

Ralph Carmichael is a composer and arranger of both secular pop music and contemporary Christian music, being regarded as one of the pioneers of the latter genre....
, Bob Florence
Bob Florence

Bob Florence was an American jazz arranger and pianist. He began taking piano lessons at five and initially intended to be a concert pianist. However, on taking classes with Bob McDonald he changed direction toward jazz....
, Don Costa
Don Costa

Don Costa was an United States pop music Arrangement and record producer best known for his work with Frank Sinatra....
 and Pete King.

The RCA and MGM years


Jones moved from Kapp (in the UK, London Records
London Records

London Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 in music through 1979 in music, then becoming a semi-independent label....
), to RCA Records
RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1983 and a partner from 1983 to 1986....
 in 1967. His first album in the new company was called Without Her. The following releases, If You Ever Leave Me, L.A. Break Down, and Where is Love were in the same style of the classic Kapp records. After A Jack Jones Christmas, he decided to renew his musical direction and image. At the time, he had changed his appearance from the smooth club entertainer of the 1960s' Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
 scene to the longhaired singer of the early seventies. A Time For Us (1970) marks the transition towards a middle of the road
Moderation

Moderation is the process of eliminating or lessening extremes. It is used to ensure Assimilation throughout the medium on which it is being conducted....
 sound in the Jack Jones career. He started to record more contemporary material, including covers of people like Randy Newman
Randy Newman

Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
, Harry Nilsson
Harry Nilsson

Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
, Carole King
Carole King

Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
, Paul Williams
Paul Williams (songwriter)

Paul Hamilton Williams is an United States musician, music composer, songwriter and actor....
, Richard Carpenter
Richard Carpenter (musician)

Richard Lynn Carpenter is an United States Pop music musician, best known as one half of the brother/sister duo the Carpenters, along with his sister Karen Carpenter....
, Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Canada singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music....
, Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan

Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish people singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hit record "Alone Again ", "Clair " and "Get Down". His unusual image - Shorts, flat cap and Bowl cut Hairstyle - helped to launch the successful international career of the performer....
, etc... The album Bread Winners (1972) was a tribute to the band Bread
Bread (band)

Bread was a 1970s Rock music/Pop music band from Los Angeles, California, California. They were one of the most popular rock groups of the early 1970s, a primary example of what later was labeled "soft rock", releasing a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles....
, with eight songs written by David Gates
David Gates

David Gates is an United States of America singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the band Bread , which during the 1970s peaked the music charts with numerous well known songs....
 and two by Jimmy Griffin
Jimmy Griffin

James Arthur Griffin was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter with the 1970s rock band Bread ....
 and Robb Royer. Two of his more acclaimed albums of that period were dedicated to two French songwriters: Jack Jones Sings Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
 (1971), and Write Me a Love Song, Charlie (1974), with songs by Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
. The Full Life (1977) was produced by Jones and Bruce Johnston
Bruce Johnston

Bruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a Grammy Award-winning songwriter for composing "I Write the Songs." Johnston was not one of the original members of the band....
 of the Beach Boys. On this album, Jones recorded "Disney Girls (1957)" (Johnston's most well known song) and "God Only Knows
God Only Knows

"God Only Knows" is the eighth track on the Pet Sounds album and one of the most widely recognized songs performed by United States pop music band The Beach Boys....
", a Beach Boys classic. His last LP for RCA was With One More Look At You (1977) - the title song is a Paul Williams composition from the picture A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born (1976 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline....
. In 1979, he moved to MGM Records
MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films....
, recording the album Nobody Does it Better, which featured disco tracks of The Love Boat theme and his Grammy winner, "Wives and Lovers". His second (and last) MGM album, Don't Stop Now, featured duets with Maureen McGovern
Maureen McGovern

Maureen Therese McGovern is an United States singer and Broadway theatre actor, widely known for her premier rendition of the 1973 hit, "The Morning After"....
.

Recent work


Since 1980, he has recorded only a handful of albums, and now performs in various concert arenas and occasionally appears on the supper-club circuit. He has performed all over the world and has a large following in England, a place he visits almost every year. He even recorded an album there: Live at the London Palladium, that was released in 1995 by the label Emporio. Jones is also well regarded in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, where a lot of his old records were released on CD. Although Jones records only sporadically, his new work is always well received. In 1982 he recorded an album for Applause Records, with covers of songs by the Beatles, Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
, The Eagles, etc... I Am a Singer (1987, USA Records) is considered by Jack Jones enthusiasts a minor classic. In 1992 he recorded for Sony Music The Gershwin Album, with songs written by George Gershwin
George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
 and Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
. In 1997 came NEW Jack Swing (Honest Entertainment), with Jones giving a big band treatment to old standards and assorted pop/rock songs. His most recent album is Jack Jones Paints a Tribute to Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
 (Honest Entertainment, released in 1999), that was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year. In March 2008, Jack Jones celebrated his 70 years of age and 50 years in show business with a concert at the McCallum Theatre (Palm Springs
Palm Springs

Palm Springs is the name of two places in the United States of America:* Palm Springs, California* Palm Springs, Florida* Coachella Valley, also known as the Palm Springs area...
). The guests were jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 singer Patti Austin
Patti Austin

Patti Austin, born August 10 1950, in Harlem, New York, to Edna and Gordon Austin, is a Grammy award-winning R&B and jazz music singer....
, songwriters Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman

Alan Bergman is a prolific United States lyricist and songwriter.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA....
 and Marilyn Bergman
Marilyn Bergman

Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English studies at New York University....
 and singing impressionist Bob Anderson.

Movie, TV and theater


Jack Jones made his movie debut in Juke Box Rhythm (1959), a rock and roll exploitation production. He is Riff Manton, a young singer who is involved romantically with a princess (Jo Morrow). Jack sings three songs. Others performers featured were The Earl Grant
Earl Grant

Earl Grant was an United States easy listening pianist, Hammond organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 60'sBorn in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Grant was gifted with Keyboard instrument skills and a fine singing voice....
 Trio, Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis

Johnny Otis is an United States blues and rhythm and blues pianist, vibraphonist, drummer, singer, bandleader, and impresario. Otis was one of the most prominent white figures in the history of Rhythm and Blues....
 & His Band and The Treniers
The Treniers

The Treniers were an United States musical group led by identical twins Cliff Trenier and Claude Trenier, with The Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra which included Don Hill on Saxophone, Shifty Henry and later James Johnson on bass, Henry Green on drums and Gene Gilbeaux on piano, with the Treniers Twins and later additional Treniers brothers joining...
. Jones has acted in such minor films as cult horror The Comeback
The Comeback (film)

The Comeback is a 1978 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom horror film directed by Pete Walker. It stars Jack Jones as a troubled pop singer Nick Cooper who returns to England to resume his career, only to be tormented by the ghost of his murdered wife....
 and feature length British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 TV comedy, Cruise of the Gods
Cruise of the Gods

Cruise of the Gods was a one-off comedy/drama produced by Baby Cow Productions for the BBC. It starred Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan and David Walliams....
. In the latter, he starred alongside comedy writers/actors Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan

'Stephen John "Steve" Coogan' is an English comedian, actor, writer, and Television producer. His best known character in the United Kingdom is Alan Partridge, the grotesque sports reporter-turned-television chat show host-turned-regional radio presenter who featured in several television series, such as The Day Today, Knowing Me, Knowin...
, David Walliams
David Walliams

David Walliams is an England comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile....
 and Rob Brydon
Rob Brydon

Rob Brydon is a Wales actor, comedian and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show, as well as the host of panel quiz Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive....
. He had a humorous cameo in the film parody Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane II: The Sequel

Airplane II: The Sequel is an United States comedy film sequel to the 1980 in film film Airplane! First released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono....
 (1982) : as Robert Hays
Robert Hays

Robert Hays is an United States actor, well known for his role in Airplane!...
 avoids searchlights while escaping captivity, the beams become a spotlight on Jones, performing a verse from The Love Boat
The Love Boat

The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
 theme.

The singer was a staple in the sixties and seventies TV variety shows, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an United States television program variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
, The Andy Williams Show
The Andy Williams Show

The Andy Williams Show was a television variety show which ran from 1959 to 1971 , and a short-lived run in syndication, beginning in the fall of 1976....
, The Dick Cavett Show
The Dick Cavett Show

'The Dick Cavett Show' has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks, including:* American Broadcasting Company daytime ...
, The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace

The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television variety show that was broadcast weekly on American Broadcasting Company from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970....
, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
 Show, American Bandstand
American Bandstand

American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
, This is Tom Jones
This Is Tom Jones

This is Tom Jones was an Associated TeleVision variety series starring Tom Jones . The series was exported to the United States by ITC Entertainment and was networked there by American Broadcasting Company....
, The Dean Martin Show
The Dean Martin Show

The Dean Martin Show is a TV Variety show-Television comedy that ran from 1965 in television to 1974 in television, for 245 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by legendary crooner Dean Martin....
, The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show

The Judy Garland Show is an American Variety show television series. The show aired on CBS during the 1963-1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star....
, Playboy After Dark
Playboy After Dark

Playboy After Dark was an United States television show hosted by Hugh Hefner. It ran in syndication from 1969 - 1970.It followed much the same style as its preceding show, Playboy's Penthouse, in that it portrayed a "typical" party at Hefner's place, complete with Playboy Playmates and celebrities, who would then chat with Hefner and...
, The Jack Benny
Jack Benny

Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio programming, television, and film.Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "...
 Program, The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show

The Steve Allen Show was an award-winning Television in the United States variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, and from September 1961 to December 1961 on American Broadcasting Company.....
 , etc... He twice hosted NBC's top rated rock and roll series Hullabaloo
Hullabaloo (TV series)

Hullabaloo is a Variety show that ran on National Broadcasting Company from January 12, 1965 through August 29, 1966. In contrast to American Broadcasting Company's American Bandstand, it ran during prime-time....
. Jones provided the famous opening theme for the television series The Love Boat
The Love Boat

The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
 from 1977 through 1985, and also made several guest appearances on the show. He also guested in the series The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol was an United States TV program that aired on American Broadcasting Company during the 1966-1968 seasons. The show followed the exploits of four Allies of World War II soldiers who were part of a long range desert patrol group in the North African Campaign during World War II....
, Police Woman
Police Woman (TV series)

Police Woman was an United States television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from September 13, 1974 to March 29, 1978 on National Broadcasting Company....
, McMillan and Wife
McMillan and Wife

McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted United States Police procedural that aired on National Broadcasting Company from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977....
, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on American Broadcasting Company. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy , respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew....
, Match Game
Match Game

Match Game was an United States television game show featuring contestants attempting to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions....
, and Night Court
Night Court

Night Court was an United States television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 1984 until May 1992. The setting was the graveyard shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T....
. The singer promoted the Chrysler New Yorker in the mid-70's with the "Its the talk of the town" ad campaign. Previous to that, he sang the theme song of the series Funny Face
The Sandy Duncan Show

Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show were two short-lived situation comedy aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its 1971-72 United States network television schedule and 1972-73 United States network television schedule, respectively....
. In 1990, Jones recorded Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins in the Fountain (song)

"Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular music song which received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1954.The melody was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn....
, which was used in the film Coins in the Fountain
Coins in the Fountain

Coins in the Fountain is a television movie which was released on September 28, 1990. The film is considered an updated remake of the classic 1954 film, Three Coins in the Fountain , though the story has been changed extensively....
 that same year. In these last two decades, Jones has been active in the musical theater, acting in Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls is a musical theater, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon....
, South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)

South Pacific is a 1949 in music#Musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan....
 and others. He went to national tour performing Don Quixote
Don Quixote

, fully titled is an early novel written by Spain author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moors historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli....
 in Man Of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha is a musical theater with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote....
 and was acclaimed by the critics.

Personal life

In the second half of the sixties, Jones had a well-publicized relationship with actress Jill St. John
Jill St. John

Jill St. John is an United States film and television Actor.St. John was born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Betty Lou Oppenheim....
 and the two were briefly married. In the early seventies, Jones dated Gretchen Roberts. Next, he was linked romantically to British actress Susan George
Susan George

Susan George may refer to:* Susan George * Susan George * Elizabeth George, author* Susan Elizabeth George , American Science Advisor at United States Department of Homeland Security, 2007 Distinguished Senior Professional...
. After that, he was involved with Kathy Simmons. From 1982 to 2005 he was married to British-born Kim Ely and they had a daughter, Nicole (born in 1991). The singer has another daughter, Crystal Thomas, from a former marriage. Jack Jones now lives in La Quinta, a resort city in Riverside County, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
.

Billboard Hit Singles (U.S.)

  • "Lollipops and Roses", 1962, US #66
  • "Call Me Irresponsible", 1963, US #75
  • "Wives and Lovers" / "Toys in the Attic", 1963, US #14 / #92
  • "Love With the Proper Stranger", 1964, US #62
  • "The First Night of the Full Moon", 1964, US #59
  • "Where Love Has Gone", 1964, US #62
  • "Dear Heart", 1964, US #30
  • "The Race Is On", 1965, US #15 (Adult Contemporary #1)
  • "Seein' the Right Love Go Wrong", 1965, US #46
  • "Just Yesterday", 1965, US #73
  • "Love Bug", 1965, US #71
  • "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)", 1966, US #35 (Adult Contemporary #1)
  • "A Day In the Life of a Fool", 1966, US #62
  • "Lady", 1967, US #39 (Adult Contemporary #1)
  • "I'm Indestructible", 1967, US #81
  • "Now I Know", 1967, US #73
  • "Our Song", 1967, US #92
  • "Live for Life", 1967, US #99


Jones had 32 hits on the US Adult Contemporary
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks

The Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary music and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States....
 chart from "Lollipops and Roses" (#12) in 1962 to "The Love Boat Theme" (#37) in 1980; twelve of those singles made the top ten. He also "Bubbled Under" the Hot 100 with singles such as "Follow Me" (#117) and "L.A. Break Down" (#106).

Discography

  • This Love of Mine (1959, Capitol
    Capitol Records

    Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood, California and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group....
    )
  • Shall We Dance? (1961, Kapp
    Kapp Records

    Kapp Records was a record label started in 1955 in music by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp . Kapp licensed its records to London Records for release in the UK....
    )
  • This Was My Love (1961, Kapp)
  • I've Got a Lot of Livin' To Do (1961, Kapp)
  • Gift of Love (1962, Kapp)
  • Call Me Irresponsible (1963, Kapp)
  • She Loves Me (1963, Kapp)
  • Wives and Lovers (1963, Kapp)
  • Bewitched (1964, Kapp)
  • Where Love Has Gone (1964, Kapp)
  • The Jack Jones Christmas Album (1964, Kapp)
  • Dear Heart (1965, Kapp)
  • My Kind of Town (1965, Kapp)
  • There's Love & There's Love & There's Love (1965, Kapp)
  • For the 'In' Crowd (1966, Kapp)
  • The Impossible Dream (1966, Kapp)
  • Jack Jones Sings
    Jack Jones Sings

    Jack Jones Sings is an album by Pop music vocalist Jack Jones ....
     (1966, Kapp)
  • Lady (1967, Kapp)
  • Our Song (1967, Kapp)
  • What the World Needs Now is Love! (1968, Kapp)
  • Curtain Time
    Curtain Time

    Curtain Time is an album by Pop music vocalist Jack Jones ....
     (1968, Kapp)
  • Jack Jones in Hollywood (1968, Kapp)
  • Without Her (1968, RCA
    RCA Records

    RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1983 and a partner from 1983 to 1986....
    )
  • If You Ever Leave Me (1968, RCA)
  • The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom is a 1968 in film United Kingdom comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath . The screenplay by Alec Coppel and Denis Norden was adapted from a play by Coppel that was based on a short story by Josef Shaftel, who served as the film's producer....
     [Soundtrack] (1968, RCA)
  • L.A. Break Down (1969, RCA)
  • Where is Love? (1969, RCA)
  • A Jack Jones Christmas (1969, RCA)
  • A Time for Us (1970, RCA)
  • In Person at The Sands (1970, RCA)
  • Jack Jones Sings Michel Legrand (1971, RCA)
  • A Song for You (1972, RCA)
  • Bread Winners (1972, RCA)
  • Together (1973, RCA)
  • Harbour (1974, RCA)
  • Write Me a Love Song, Charlie (1974, RCA)
  • What I Did for Love (1975, RCA)
  • The Full Life (1977, RCA)
  • With One More Look at You (1977, RCA)
  • Nobody Does It Better (1979, MGM
    MGM Records

    MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films....
    )
  • Don't Stop Now (1980, MGM)
  • Jack Jones (1982, Applause
    Applause Records

    Applause Records was a short-lived record label featuring Pop standards performers, nearly all of them vocalists. It was founded in Beverly Hills, California in 1981 in music by record company executive and music publisher Arthur Mogull....
    )
  • I Am a Singer (1987, USA Music Group)
  • The Gershwin Album (1992, Sony)
  • Live at the London Palladium (1995, Emporio)
  • New Jack Swing (1997, Honest)
  • Paints a Tribute to Tony Bennett (1998, Honest)


External links