Jack Jones (singer)
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John Allan "Jack" Jones (born January 14, 1938) is an American
jazz
and pop
singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.
, Mel Tormé
and Tony Bennett
and a major influence on Scott Walker
and Logan Bushnell{fact|date=November 2011}}. Judy Garland
called him the best jazz singer in the world, although Jones was primarily a straight pop singer (even when he recorded contemporary material) whose ventures in the direction of jazz were mostly of the big band/swing variety. Jones won two Grammy Award
s. He performs concerts around the world and remains popular in Las Vegas
. Some of his best-known recordings are "Wives and Lovers
" (1964
Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance
), "The Race Is On
", "Lollipops and Roses
" (1962
, Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance), "The Impossible Dream", "Call Me Irresponsible", "Lady", and "The Love Boat
Theme".
on the very night that his father recorded his signature song "Donkey Serenade" (a fact that once prompted talkshow host Mike Douglas to say to him: "I won't ask what your middle name is"). 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
, attracting attention from the music industry. In 1959, Jones was signed to Capitol Records
and released the 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 1970s in the UK by the label Music For Pleasure.
. In August 1961 he recorded the ballad "Lollipops and Roses" (a song by Tony Velona), which became a hit in the following year.
Jones's biggest pop hit was "Wives and Lovers
" by Burt Bacharach
and Hal David
. Today, the lyrics may seem chauvinistic to some, but this song was a kind of anthem for the urban male of the Kennedy
era, hauntingly, since it was climbing the national charts when Kennedy was assassinated. The imagery seems to come from the pages of an early 1960s Playboy Magazine, and a good-looking, smooth-sounding Jack was the perfect vocalist to deliver this classic hit, though many others, male and female, covered it as well. Singer Bobbi Martin
could be considered Jones's counterpart, echoing much the same message in "For the Love of Him
" more than six years later from an agreeing female perspective.
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, The Jack Jones Christmas Album, My Kind of Town, The Impossible Dream, The In Crowd, Jack Jones Sings
, Lady, Our Song, etc. Young, handsome, and well-groomed, Jack Jones was an anomaly in the sixties, eschewing rock and roll
trends and opting for the big band
sound, lush romantic ballads and the Great American Songbook
, although sometimes he recorded something more pop
, country or bossa nova
oriented. One of his biggest hits, for example, was "The Race Is On
", by country music
legend George Jones
(who is not related to Jack). Besides the good choice of material, Jones worked with top arrangers like Billy May
, Nelson Riddle
, Marty Paich
, Shorty Rogers
, Jack Elliott, Ralph Carmichael
, Bob Florence
, Don Costa
and Pete King.
) to RCA Records
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 roughly the same style of the classic Kapp records, but with slightly more contemporary vocal stylings. After A Jack Jones Christmas, he decided to more significantly revamp his musical direction and image, changing his appearance from the smooth club entertainer of the 1960s Las Vegas
scene to the long-haired singer of the early seventies. A Time For Us (1970) was one of the albums which marked his transition towards a middle of the road
sound. Jones started to record more contemporary material, including covers of people like Randy Newman
, Harry Nilsson
, Carole King
, Paul Williams
, Richard Carpenter
, Gordon Lightfoot
, Gilbert O'Sullivan
, etc. The album Bread Winners (1972) was a tribute to Bread
, with eight songs written by David Gates
and two by Jimmy Griffin
and Robb Royer. Two of his more acclaimed albums of that period were dedicated to two French songwriters: Jack Jones Sings Michel Legrand
(1971), and Write Me a Love Song, Charlie (1974), with songs by Charles Aznavour
. The Full Life (1977) was produced by Jones and Bruce Johnston
of the Beach Boys. On this album, Jones recorded "Disney Girls
" (Johnston's most well known song) and "God Only Knows
", 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
. In 1979, Jones moved to MGM Records
, recording the album Nobody Does it Better, which featured disco track "The Love Boat
", a theme from the TV series of the same name
, and his Grammy winner, "Wives and Lovers". His second (and last) MGM album, Don't Stop Now, featured duets with Maureen McGovern
.
, 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
, The Eagles, etc. Jones released I Am a Singer in 1987 for USA Records, and in 1992 he recorded The Gershwin Album for Sony Music , with songs written by George Gershwin
and Ira Gershwin
. In 1997 came NEW Jack Swing (Honest Entertainment), with Jones giving a big band treatment to old standards and assorted pop/rock songs. Another recent album is Jack Jones Paints a Tribute to Tony Bennett
(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
). The guests were jazz
singer Patti Austin
, songwriters Alan Bergman
and Marilyn Bergman
and singing impressionist Bob Anderson. In 2010, he recorded an album focusing on the Bergmans' work called Love Makes The Changes. He also released an album featuring new renderings of some of his original hits entitled Love Ballad.
Trio, Johnny Otis
& His Band and The Treniers
. Jones has acted in such minor films as cult horror The Comeback
and feature length British
TV comedy, Cruise of the Gods
. In the latter, he starred alongside comedy writers/actors Steve Coogan
, David Walliams
and Rob Brydon
. He had a humorous cameo in the film parody Airplane II: The Sequel
(1982) as Robert Hays
avoids searchlights while escaping captivity, the beams become a spotlight on Jones, performing a verse from The Love Boat
theme.
The singer was a staple in the sixties and seventies TV variety shows, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show
, The Andy Williams Show
, The Dick Cavett Show
, The Hollywood Palace
, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
, The Jerry Lewis
Show, American Bandstand
, This is Tom Jones
, The Dean Martin Show
, The Judy Garland Show
, Playboy After Dark
, The Jack Benny
Program, The Steve Allen Show
, and The Morecambe and Wise Show in Britain. He twice hosted NBC's top rated rock and roll series Hullabaloo
, and was featured in two prime-time specials, Jack Jones on the Move (1966) and The Jack Jones Special (1974). Jones provided the famous opening theme for the television series The Love Boat
from 1977 through 1985, and also made several guest appearances on the show. Prior to that, he also provided the vocals to the theme song of Funny Face
, The Kind of Girl She Is. When the show returned as The Sandy Duncan Show, he was replaced by a chorus of unknown men and women. He also guested in the 1960s series The Rat Patrol (season 2, ep. 8, "The Do-Re-Me Raid" , where he performed "That Tiny World" in a role as a POW being held by the Germans) Police Woman
, McMillan & Wife, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
, Match Game
, and Night Court
. The singer promoted the Chrysler New Yorker in the mid-1970s with the "It's the talk of the town" ad campaign. In 1990, Jones recorded Three Coins in the Fountain
, which was used in the film Coins in the Fountain
that same year. He also appeared in the Chris Elliot Fox television show "Get a Life." In the episode, Chris' parents wanted to see Jack Jones perform, but the tickets were in his pocket, under 1,000s of pounds of stuff as Chris was trying to set a world record for piling on. In these last two decades, Jones has been active in the musical theater, acting in Guys and Dolls, South Pacific
and others. He went to national tour performing Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha
and was acclaimed by the critics.
and the two were briefly married. In the early seventies, Jones married Gretchen Roberts. Next, he was linked romantically to British actress Susan George
. From 1976 to 1982, he was married to 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 to Lee Fuller. Jack Jones now lives with wife Eleonora in La Quinta, a resort city in Riverside County, California
.
"Live at the Sands" (1993 Delta Music, Inc.)
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.
Overview
He was rated highly by Frank SinatraFrank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. 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 American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
and a major influence on Scott Walker
Scott Walker (singer)
Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and the former lead singer of The Walker Brothers. Despite being American born, Walker's chart success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums...
and Logan Bushnell{fact|date=November 2011}}. Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she 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 primarily a straight pop singer (even when he recorded contemporary material) whose ventures in the direction of jazz were mostly of the big band/swing variety. Jones won two Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement 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 and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
. Some of his best-known recordings are "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. Jack Jones released a recording in 1963, earning the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, and Bacharach included it on the 1965 LP...
" (1964
Grammy Awards of 1964
The 6th Grammy Awards were held on May 12, 1964. They recognized accomplishments by musicians for the year 1963.-Award winners:*Record of the Year**Henry Mancini for "Days of Wine and Roses"*Album of the Year...
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
The Race Is On (song)
"The Race Is On" is a song co-written and recorded by country music artist George Jones. It was the first single released from his 1965 album of the same name...
", "Lollipops and Roses
Lollipops and Roses (song)
"Lollipops and Roses" is a popular song by Tony Velona, best known in a version recorded by Jack Jones in 1962. Other Covers*Ray Rope's Small Grey Band*Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass *Perry Como *Doris Day...
" (1962
Grammy Awards of 1962
The 4th Grammy Awards were held May 29, 1962. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1961.-Award winners:*Record of the Year**Henry Mancini for "Moon River"*Album of the Year...
, Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance), "The Impossible Dream", "Call Me Irresponsible", "Lady", and "The Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
Theme".
The early years and Capitol Records
His birth name is John Allan Jones, the only son of actors Allan Jones and Irene Hervey. Jack Jones was born in Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
on the very night that his father recorded his signature song "Donkey Serenade" (a fact that once prompted talkshow host Mike Douglas to say to him: "I won't ask what your middle name is"). 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, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
, attracting attention from the music industry. In 1959, Jones was signed to Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
and released the 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 1970s 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 RecordsKapp Records
Kapp Records was an independent record label started in 1954 by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp . David Kapp founded his own label after stints with Decca Records and RCA Victor Records. Kapp licensed its records to London Records for release in the UK.In 1967, David Kapp sold his label to MCA Inc...
. In August 1961 he recorded the ballad "Lollipops and Roses" (a song by Tony Velona), which became a hit in the following year.
Jones's biggest pop hit was "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. Jack Jones released a recording in 1963, earning the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, and Bacharach included it on the 1965 LP...
" by Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach
Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
and Hal David
Hal David
Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
. Today, the lyrics may seem chauvinistic to some, 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 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
era, hauntingly, since it was climbing the national charts when Kennedy was assassinated. The imagery seems to come from the pages of an early 1960s Playboy Magazine, and a good-looking, smooth-sounding Jack was the perfect vocalist to deliver this classic hit, though many others, male and female, covered it as well. Singer Bobbi Martin
Bobbi Martin
Bobbi Martin was an American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She grew up and began her singing career in Baltimore, working her way up from local venues onto the national nightclub circuit. She died at the age of 56 at the Brighton Wood Knoll medical facility in Baltimore...
could be considered Jones's counterpart, echoing much the same message in "For the Love of Him
For the Love of Him
"For the Love of Him" is the title track from the 1970 album by Bobbi Martin. The single was her most successful release on both the pop and easy listening charts in the United States...
" more than six years later from an agreeing female perspective.
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, The Jack Jones Christmas Album, My Kind of Town, The Impossible Dream, The In Crowd, Jack Jones Sings
Jack Jones Sings
Jack Jones Sings is an album by Pop vocalist Jack Jones.-Track listing:#A Day In The Life Of A Fool #Autumn Leaves #Somewhere There's Someone #Watch What Happens #People Will Say We're In Love #Love After Midnight...
, 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 genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
trends and opting for the big band
Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
sound, lush romantic ballads and the Great American Songbook
Great American Songbook
The Great American Songbook is a hypothetical construct that seeks to represent the best American songs of the 20th century principally from Broadway theatre, musical theatre, and Hollywood musicals, from the 1920s to 1960, including dozens of songs of enduring popularity...
, although sometimes he recorded something more pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, country or bossa nova
Bossa nova
Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially consisting of young musicians and college students...
oriented. One of his biggest hits, for example, was "The Race Is On
The Race Is On (song)
"The Race Is On" is a song co-written and recorded by country music artist George Jones. It was the first single released from his 1965 album of the same name...
", by country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
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....
(who is not related to Jack). Besides the good choice of material, Jones worked with top arrangers like Billy May
Billy May
William E. "Billy" May was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet , Batman , and Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven , and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among...
, Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...
, Marty Paich
Marty Paich
Martin Louis "Marty" Paich was an American pianist, composer, arranger, producer, music director and conductor....
, 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 arranger. Rogers worked first as a professional musician with Will Bradley and...
, Jack Elliott, 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.At the beginning of his career Florence worked as a pianist and arranger with...
, Don Costa
Don Costa
Don Costa was an American pop music arranger and record producer, best known for his work with Frank Sinatra.-Career:...
and Pete King.
The RCA and MGM years
Jones moved from Kapp (in the UK, London RecordsLondon Records
London Records, referred to as London Recordings in logo, is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 to 1979, 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 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
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 roughly the same style of the classic Kapp records, but with slightly more contemporary vocal stylings. After A Jack Jones Christmas, he decided to more significantly revamp his musical direction and image, changing 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 and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
scene to the long-haired singer of the early seventies. A Time For Us (1970) was one of the albums which marked his transition towards a middle of the road
Moderation
Moderation is the process of eliminating or lessening extremes. It is used to ensure normality throughout the medium on which it is being conducted...
sound. Jones started to record more contemporary material, including covers of people like Randy Newman
Randy Newman
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
, Harry Nilsson
Harry Nilsson
Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson...
, Carole King
Carole King
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
, Paul Williams
Paul Williams (songwriter)
Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an Academy Award-winning American composer, musician, songwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World",...
, Richard Carpenter
Richard Carpenter (musician)
Richard Lynn Carpenter is an American pop musician, best known as one half of the brother/sister duo The Carpenters, along with his sister Karen Carpenter. He was a producer, arranger, pianist and keyboardist, and occasional lyricist, as well as joining with Karen on harmony...
, Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...
, Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish-English singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits "Alone Again ", "Clair" and "Get Down". The music magazine, Record Mirror, voted him the No...
, etc. The album Bread Winners (1972) was a tribute to Bread
Bread (band)
Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock....
, with eight songs written by David Gates
David Gates
David Gates is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame...
and two by Jimmy Griffin
Jimmy Griffin
James Arthur Griffin was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter with the 1970s rock band Bread.-Early life:An Academy Award winning songwriter, Griffin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. His musical training began when his parents signed him up for accordion lessons...
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 Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...
(1971), and Write Me a Love Song, Charlie (1974), with songs by Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-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 songwriter, remembered especially 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
Disney Girls
"Disney Girls " is a song written by Bruce Johnston for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1971 album Surf's Up. The lead vocals are by Johnston, who also plays keyboards, moog bass, and mandolin....
" (Johnston's most well known song) and "God Only Knows
God Only Knows
"God Only Knows" is a song by American rock band The Beach Boys. It is the eighth track on the group's 11th studio album, Pet Sounds , and one of their most widely recognized songs. "God Only Knows" was composed and produced by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Tony Asher and lead vocal by Carl...
", 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 American rock music musical 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, Jones 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. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...
, recording the album Nobody Does it Better, which featured disco track "The Love Boat
Love Boat (song)
"Love Boat" is a single by Jack Jones released in 1979 by MGM Records.-Song information:The song was written by Charles Fox and Paul Williams . It became the theme music of popular American television series The Love Boat, broadcast between 1977 and 1986...
", a theme from the TV series of the same name
The Love Boat
The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
, 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 American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her premier renditions of the Oscar winning songs "The Morning After" from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974.-Early life:McGovern was...
.
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 JapanJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, 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 American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...
, The Eagles, etc. Jones released I Am a Singer in 1987 for USA Records, and in 1992 he recorded The Gershwin Album for Sony Music , with songs written by George Gershwin
George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
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. Another recent album is Jack Jones Paints a Tribute to Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
(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 a desert city in CaliforniaPalm Springs may also refer to:* Palm Springs, Florida* Palm Springs, Hong Kong, a residential development in Yuen Long, Hong Kong* Coachella Valley, also known as the Palm Springs area...
). The guests were jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
singer Patti Austin
Patti Austin
-Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....
, songwriters Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...
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 at New York University...
and singing impressionist Bob Anderson. In 2010, he recorded an album focusing on the Bergmans' work called Love Makes The Changes. He also released an album featuring new renderings of some of his original hits entitled Love Ballad.
Film, television 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 GrantEarl Grant
Earl Grant was an American easy listening pianist, Hammond organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.-Career:...
Trio, Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis is an American singer, musician, talent scout, disc jockey, composer, arranger, recording artist, record producer, vibraphonist, drummer, percussionist, bandleader, and impresario.He is commonly referred to as The Godfather Of Rhythm And Blues.-Personal life:Otis, the son of Alexander...
& His Band and The Treniers
The Treniers
The Treniers were an American R&B and jump blues musical group, led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier. Their Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra 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...
. Jones has acted in such minor films as cult horror The Comeback
The Comeback (film)
The Comeback is a 1978 British horror film directed by Pete Walker.-Plot:A once successful American singer, Nick Cooper , relocates to a country manor in England, leaving L.A. and a failed marriage behind him, to begin work on his career comeback...
and feature length British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
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, David Walliams and James Corden...
. In the latter, he starred alongside comedy writers/actors Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan
Stephen John "Steve" Coogan is a British comedian, actor, writer and producer. Born in Manchester, he began his career as a standup comedian and impressionist, working as a voice artist throughout the 1980s on satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early nineties, Coogan began creating...
, David Walliams
David Walliams
David Edward Walliams is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile...
and Rob Brydon
Rob Brydon
Rob Brydon is a BAFTA-nominated Welsh actor, comedian, radio and television presenter, singer and impressionist...
. He had a humorous cameo in the film parody Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane II: The Sequel is an American comedy sequel to the 1980 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.-Plot:In the near...
(1982) as Robert Hays
Robert Hays
Robert Hays is an American actor and is arguably most well known for his role in the movie Airplane!-Life and career:...
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 American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
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 American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
, The Andy Williams Show
The Andy Williams Show
The Andy Williams Show is 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:* ABC daytime ...
, The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. It began as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months...
, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.-History:...
, The Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
Show, American Bandstand
American Bandstand
American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer...
, This is Tom Jones
This Is Tom Jones
This is Tom Jones is an ATV variety series starring Tom Jones. The series was exported to the United States by ITC Entertainment and was networked there by ABC....
, The Dean Martin Show
The Dean Martin Show
The Dean Martin Show is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by crooner Dean Martin...
, The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights 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 is an American television show hosted by Hugh Hefner. It ran in syndication through Screen Gems from 1969 to 1970 and was taped at CBS Television City in Los Angeles....
, The Jack Benny
Jack Benny
Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...
Program, The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show is an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on ABC, and in first-run syndication from 1962 to 1964....
, and The Morecambe and Wise Show in Britain. He twice hosted NBC's top rated rock and roll series Hullabaloo
Hullabaloo (TV series)
Hullabaloo is an American musical variety series that ran on NBC from January 12, 1965 through August 29, 1966. Similar to Shindig! it ran in prime time in contrast to ABC's American Bandstand.-Overview:...
, and was featured in two prime-time specials, Jack Jones on the Move (1966) and The Jack Jones Special (1974). Jones provided the famous opening theme for the television series The Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
from 1977 through 1985, and also made several guest appearances on the show. Prior to that, he also provided the vocals to the theme song of Funny Face
The Sandy Duncan Show
Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show are two sitcoms aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its 1971 and 1972 fall lineups, respectively...
, The Kind of Girl She Is. When the show returned as The Sandy Duncan Show, he was replaced by a chorus of unknown men and women. He also guested in the 1960s series The Rat Patrol (season 2, ep. 8, "The Do-Re-Me Raid" , where he performed "That Tiny World" in a role as a POW being held by the Germans) Police Woman
Police Woman (TV series)
Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.-Synopsis:...
, McMillan & Wife, 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 ABC...
, Match Game
Match Game
Match Game is an American television game show in which contestants attempted to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions...
, and Night Court
Night Court
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 20, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone...
. The singer promoted the Chrysler New Yorker in the mid-1970s with the "It's the talk of the town" ad campaign. In 1990, Jones recorded Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins in the Fountain (song)
"Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular song which received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1954.The melody was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was written for the romance film, Three Coins in the Fountain and refers to the act of throwing a coin into the Trevi...
, which was used in the film Coins in the Fountain
Coins in the Fountain
Coins in the Fountain is a television film which was released on September 28, 1990. The film is based on the novel Coins in the Fountain by John H. Secondari, which was previously filmed in 1954 as Three Coins in the Fountain. It was directed by Tony Wharmby and written by Lindsay Harrison...
that same year. He also appeared in the Chris Elliot Fox television show "Get a Life." In the episode, Chris' parents wanted to see Jack Jones perform, but the tickets were in his pocket, under 1,000s of pounds of stuff as Chris was trying to set a world record for piling on. In these last two decades, Jones has been active in the musical theater, acting in Guys and Dolls, South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)
South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
and others. He went to national tour performing Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha is a musical 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. JohnJill St. John
Jill St. John is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Tiffany Case, the lead Bond girl in Diamonds Are Forever.-Early life:...
and the two were briefly married. In the early seventies, Jones married Gretchen Roberts. Next, he was linked romantically to British actress Susan George
Susan George (actress)
Susan Melody George is an English film and television actress, and film producer.-Career:She trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four, appearing on both television and film...
. From 1976 to 1982, he was married to 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 to Lee Fuller. Jack Jones now lives with wife Eleonora in La Quinta, a resort city in Riverside County, California
Riverside County, California
Riverside County is a county in the U.S. state of California. One of 58 California counties, it covers in the southern part of the state, and stretches from Orange County to the Colorado River, which forms the state border with Arizona. The county derives its name from the city of Riverside,...
.
Hit singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US AC Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
||
| 1962 | "Lollipops and Roses" | 66 | 12 |
| 1963 | "Call Me Irresponsible" | 75 | - |
| "Wives and Lovers" | 14 | 9 | |
| "Toys in the Attic" | 92 | - | |
| 1964 | "Love with the Proper Stranger" | 62 | 17 |
| "The First Night of the Full Moon" | 59 | 12 | |
| "Where Love Has Gone" | 62 | 12 | |
| "Dear Heart" | 30 | 6 | |
| 1965 | "The Race Is On The Race Is On (song) "The Race Is On" is a song co-written and recorded by country music artist George Jones. It was the first single released from his 1965 album of the same name... " |
15 | 1 |
| "Seein' the Right Love Go Wrong" | 46 | 9 | |
| "Travellin' On" | 132 | - | |
| "Just Yesterday" | 73 | 5 | |
| "The True Picture" | 134 | 27 | |
| "Love Bug" | 71 | 5 | |
| 1966 | "The Weekend" | 123 | 20 |
| "The Impossible Dream (The Quest) The Impossible Dream (The Quest) "The Impossible Dream " is a popular song composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics written by Joe Darion. It was written for the 1965 musical Man of La Mancha... " |
35 | 1 | |
| "A Day in the Life of a Fool" | 62 | 4 | |
| 1967 | "Lady Lady (Jack Jones song) "Lady" is a song with music by Larry Kusik and Charles Singleton and words by Bert Kaempfert and Herbert Rehbein. It was recorded by Jack Jones and released as a single in 1967. In March of that year, it spent four weeks at number one on the US Easy Listening chart, the final of three number ones... " |
39 | 1 |
| "I'm Indestructible" | 81 | - | |
| "Afterthoughts" | - | 19 | |
| "Now I Know" | 73 | 3 | |
| "Our Song" | 92 | 13 | |
| "Open for Business as Usual" | 130 | 26 | |
| "Live for Life" | 99 | 9 | |
| 1968 | "If You Ever Leave Me" | 92 | 5 |
| "Follow Me" | 117 | 20 | |
| "I Really Want to Know You" | - | 15 | |
| "The Way That I Live" | - | 33 | |
| "L.A. Break Down (and Take Me In)" | 106 | 21 | |
| 1970 | "Sweet Changes" | - | 24 |
| "I Didn't Count On Love" | - | 38 | |
| 1971 | "Let Me Be the One" | - | 18 |
| 1974 | "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" | - | 45 |
| 1975 | "What I Did for Love" | - | 25 |
| 1977 | "With One More Look at You" | - | 21 |
| 1980 | "Love Boat Theme" | - | 37 |
Discography
- This Love of Mine (1959, CapitolCapitol RecordsCapitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
) - Shall We Dance? (1961, KappKapp RecordsKapp Records was an independent record label started in 1954 by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp . David Kapp founded his own label after stints with Decca Records and RCA Victor Records. Kapp licensed its records to London Records for release in the UK.In 1967, David Kapp sold his label to MCA Inc...
) - 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)
- In Love (1964, Capitol)
- 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 SingsJack Jones SingsJack Jones Sings is an album by Pop vocalist Jack Jones.-Track listing:#A Day In The Life Of A Fool #Autumn Leaves #Somewhere There's Someone #Watch What Happens #People Will Say We're In Love #Love After Midnight...
(1966, Kapp) - Lady (1967, Kapp)
- Our Song (1967, Kapp)
- What the World Needs Now is Love! (1968, Kapp)
- Curtain TimeCurtain TimeCurtain Time is an album by Pop vocalist Jack Jones.-Track listing:#People Will Say We're in Love #I See Your Face Before Me #Luck Be a Lady #Embraceable You #I Love Paris #I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face...
(1968, Kapp) - Jack Jones in Hollywood (1968, Kapp)
- Jack Jones' Greatest Hits (1968, Kapp)
- Without Her (1968, RCARCA RecordsRCA 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 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
) - If You Ever Leave Me (1968, RCA)
- The Bliss of Mrs. BlossomThe Bliss of Mrs. BlossomThe Bliss of Mrs. Blossom is a 1968 British 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.-Plot:...
[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, MGMMGM RecordsMGM 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. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...
) - Don't Stop Now (1980, MGM)
- Jack Jones (1982, ApplauseApplause RecordsApplause Records was a short-lived record label featuring popular standards performers, nearly all of them vocalists. It was founded in Beverly Hills, California in 1981 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)
- This Could Be The Start of Something Big (197?, Sears)
- Love Makes The Changes (2010, Aspen Records, recorded at Nola Studios for jackjonesmusic.com)
- Love Ballad (2011, Aspen Records)
"Live at the Sands" (1993 Delta Music, Inc.)