The Love Boat TV series theme singer Jack Jones has died aged 86. Double Grammy award-winning crooner Jack's passing was announced on Wednesday night to The Hollywood Reporter by his stepdaughter Nicole Whitty. The outlet said he passed away at Eisenhower Medical in Rancho Mirage, California, after a two-year battle with leukaemia.
Once billed as Frank Sinatra's heir and best known for his Love Boat theme performance, Jones was also famed for his early Sixties pop hits including Lollipops and Roses, and Wives and Lovers. As well as his singing career he was an actor, making cameos as a lounge singer in 1982's Flying High II: The Sequel and American Hustle in 2013. Born John Allan Jones in Los Angeles on 14 January, 1938, he also had a showbiz mother - Irene Hervey, whose film and television career spanned five decades.
Jones - who was married six times – told Las Vegas Magazine in 2016 about his singing career being guaranteed by the success of his famous TV theme: "Because of The Love Boat theme, everything was great on ships after that. "I did six weeks a year. They gave me the best suite on the ship, and it was the SS Norway.
"We just had a great time." Jones brought out The Love Boat Theme as a single in 1979. He got his start performing at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and in 1959, he signed with Capitol Records and released his debut album This Love Of Mine.
Lollipops And Roses came out in 1961 and landed Jones his first Grammy for Best Solo Vo.
