Jack Jones, the singer best known for “The Love Boat” theme song, has died at 86 after a two-year battle with leukemia.
Jack Jones, the singer best known for his smooth rendition of “The Love Boat” theme song and the 1966 hit “The Impossible Dream,” has died at 86 after a two-year battle with leukemia.
He died Wednesday night at Eisenhower Medical in Rancho Mirage, California, his stepdaughter Nicole Whitty told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday.
Jones had already won two Grammys — for 1962’s “Lollipops and Roses” and 1964’s “Wives and Lovers”— by the time he recorded the TV theme for the 1977 Aaron Spelling hit that came to define his career. The immortal lyrics, “Love, exciting and new, come aboard/we’re expecting you,” were penned by singer/songwriter Paul Williams, with music by Charles Fox.
The singer later gamely lip-synced the song in a cameo as a lounge singer in the disaster movie spoof “Airplane II.
