Jack Jones, left, seems with former solid members of The Love Boat in 2015.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Jack Jones, a Grammy-winning crooner identified for “The Love Boat” tv present theme music, has died. He was 86.
Jones died Wednesday night time at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California, after battling leukemia for greater than two years, in response to his supervisor, Milt Suchin.
Jones started his singing profession within the Fifties and within the Nineteen Sixties gained two Grammy Awards for finest vocal efficiency, one on the music “Lollipops And Roses” and one on the music “Wives and Lovers.”
He was nominated for a number of different Grammys in later years, together with for the album “Jack Jones Paints A Tribute To Tony Bennett” in 1999.
In 1980, his “Love Boat” tv present theme music rose to No. 37 on the Billboard U.S. Grownup Up to date songs chart. Jones was additionally a frequent visitor on the favored romantic comedy present through which visitor stars, together with Gene Kelly and Janet Jackson, would come aboard for a cruise and fall in love with each other.
A social-media account for The Ed Sullivan Present, an American tv selection present that aired for many years, posted on X on Thursday that Jones lit up the present with easy vocals and unforgettable performances.
“His music will perpetually encourage us,” the put up stated. “Thanks for the reminiscences, Jack. Relaxation in peace.”
