“Love, exciting and new… Come aboard we’re expecting you! (…) The love boat soon will be making another run, (…) It’s an open smile on a friendly shore. It’s love! Welcome aboard, it’s love!“. These words, which resonate in the minds of several generations, will no longer sound the same. Its interpreter, Jack Jones, died this Wednesday, October 23 in California at the age of 86. He had suffered from leukemia for two years, announced his entourage to the Hollywood Reporter.
From the Grammy Awards to The cruise has fun
Jack Jones had a sixty-six-year career, and five nominations and two trophies at the prestigious Grammy Awards between 1961 and 1998. Known for singing traditional pop and jazz with his warm tone of voice, the Los Angeles-born artist was considered the heir of Frank Sinatra. He held residencies in Las Vegas from the very beginning of his career until the end of his life. Son of singer Allan Jones and actress Irene Hervey, Jack Jones himself became a star with his hits Lollipops and Roses, The Impossible Dream, Call Me Irresponsible and of course The Love Boatthe credits signed by Charles Fox and Paul Williams for the first eight seasons of the series The Fun Cruise (before the version performed by Dionne Warwick replaced it during the last two seasons) which enjoyed international success in from 1977 on the American channel ABC. In France, TF1 broadcast the 249 episodes between 1980 and 1989 before France 3 rebroadcast them from 1992 to 2006.
Jack Jones: from television to cinema
His version of the song The Love Boat has spanned the ages, and can be heard in films Is there finally a pilot on the plane? in 1982 or even in Demolition Man in 1993. This is why the cinema has called on him many times to provide voice on the soundtracks of feature films such as Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Goodfellas (1990), Reckless (1995), A duplex for three (2003), Bobby (2006) and American Bluff (2013), where he even makes an appearance on screen. He also performed the theme songs for two feature films in the 1960s before his career took off. Jack Jones is survived by his sixth wife Eleonara, whom he married in 2009, his two daughters, two daughters-in-law, three grandchildren and his dog.
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