Jack Jones, the Grammy-award winning singer of the Love Boat theme song, has died at age 86.
Jones' step-daughter, Nicole Whitty, told The Hollywood Reporter that he passed away on Wednesday night at Eisenhower Medical in Rancho Mirage, California following a two-year battle with Leukemia.
The singer and actor was known for being the voice behind the Love Boat theme song for more than 200 episodes beginning in 1977, but Jones had already had a long and successful career by then.
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Singer and actor Jack Jones has passed away age 86. (Getty)He scored his first recording contract with Capitol Records in 1959, releasing his debut album This Love of Mine.
Soon after he was dropped by Capitol, who had tried to turn the crooner into a rockabilly singer, and was picked up by Kapp Records.
There, he shot to fame with his 1965 release, Lollipops and Roses, which he recorded while on leave from the U.S. Air Force Reserve.
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The single hit number 12 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart, and even earned him a Grammy in 1962 for Best Male Solo Vocal Performance, which Jones said was a huge surprise.
"I hadn't been in the music business that long really so it came as a bit of a shock to me," he told the Independent in 2008. "I didn't expect it at all."
He went on to have several more hits, even winning another Grammy in 1964 for Wives and Lovers.
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Jones released more than 50 albums throughout his career, winning to Grammys. (Getty)Jones released more than 50 albums throughout his career, appeared on movie soundtracks such as Goodfellas, Good Morning, Vietnam and American Hustle, and even performed into his '80s.
He also considered himself an actor, appearing in 1978's The Comeback and 1982's Airplane II, The Sequel.
"I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor," he told the Independent. "Most people know me as a singer but I am also an actor."
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