JACK JONES is DEAD to me!

Who's that?

Married six times!

Add him to the long list of recently deceased stars that I assumed were long dead. Where the hell have Jack Jones, Mitzi Gaynor, Ron Ely, and countless others been hanging out for the last 30 years?

Jack Jones made a horror movie back in the late '70s called The Comeback. He was just hitting 40 when they shot it. He had a few shirtless scenes and he was super hairy. The movie was on cable all the time around 1980 and it very much excited a pre-pubescent me.

I will be scouring the internet for Comeback Jack Jones shirtless asap! Thank you, r4!

LOVED Jack. He appeared in my nightly fantasies.

He was exciting...and new.

In an era of mop-topped British boy bands, strapping daddy Jack stood out singing songs the entire family could enjoy.

RIP, Dear Heart

Poor mans Andy Williams.

Dad & Kitty

Setting a course for adventure in the afterlife

I sang the Love Boat theme better.

He always seemed even more boring than John Davidson. Were there ever two whiter, blander names and personalities? Both were handsome guys, though.

Jack Jones popularized that horrible "Wives and Lovers" song.

Memorable appearance on Judy Garland's 1963 Christmas special:

This is all I ever knew of him.

Scored the hit with “Impossible Dream”. Love him and his like when I feel tired of being a teenager with the 1960s. Old Jack swing. He’ll be mist.

You had your chance, you Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bastards!!!

Words to live by, gurls!

Forgive me, but I love this song.

Jack and Jill. The “it couple” for a hot minute.

Some of our eldest members might remember his (once) famous father.

Allan Jones starred as Gaylord Ravenal opposite Irene Dunne in the director James (FRANKENSTEIN) Whale's first film version of SHOW BOAT. Allan also had a huge.............

hit with the joyous ballad "The Donkey Serenade" which he sang to Jeanette MacDonald in THE FIREFLY, one of her rare non-Nelson Eddy musicals for MGM.

HIs wife was the beautiful film actress Irene Hervey who never achieved A list fame but was certainly responsible for Jack Jones' good looks.

Jones tried to stepping stone his way into movies and become a movie star like many other singers. He was a very fine lounge singer, but Jack was a very very lousy actor. Needless to say it didn’t work out.

He’ll be MIST, R17?

RIP…I’ll miss you Jack.

Has Jack's death been verified? I don't see any linked obits here.

Who?

R27.

I was watching an episode of Password from 1967 on YouTube a few weeks ago. He was one of the celebrity guests. He was only 29 years old at the time . He looked older but regardless he was so good looking then.

Jack Jones...one of the great singers in the genre of Frank Sinatra, Vic Damone, Robert Goulet, Buddy Greco and Sammy Davis, Jr. Another bygone era, Jack Jones was one of the best.

Condolences to Jill St. John.

RIP

Susan Dey is heartbroken. She will be releasing a statement soon.

So handsome in his heyday...

What a nice boy. He showed me a few tricks I didn't know about!

Good-looking in the '70s with longer hair...

Jack Jones and Jill St. John...

Jack Jones and Jill St. John were only married for two years: 1967-69.

Jill has been married to Robert Wagner since 1990.

And he hasn't drowned her yet!

I'm old as diet and I never heard that Jones and Jill St John were married at the time. They certainly were not the "it" couple, that's revisionist history.

DIRT, not diet.

Jack Jones was married six times, but at the time of his death, he was living with his wife Eleonora in Indian Wells, California.

Jones was the son of actor and singer Allan Jones and actress Irene Hervey. He was married six times. In the second half of the 1960s, Jones had a well-publicized relationship with actress Jill St. John, and the two were briefly married. In the early 1970s, Jones married Gretchen Roberts. Subsequently, he was linked romantically to 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). Jones had another daughter, Crystal Thomas, from a former marriage to Lee Fuller.

Jones died in Palm Springs, California on October 23, 2024, at the age of 86.

About the hair, all of a sudden in the early 1970s, Jack Jones grew his hair long, I mean WAY LONG. It looked kind of idiotic for such a handsome guy to ruin his looks that way. Then I read the back of this album, and it said something like "the kids love his new long hair young look." No, Jack. Kids are not going to listen to your records because of this young look. They may but it for their parents who will then throw it out because you sing young songs like "It Don't Matter to Me."

If you say so R39, it must be true.

R42. Jack's music in the '70s was mild and easy listening. It was not offensive.

He was quite handsome as a young'un.

Darling, R44, I had the album. It was Jack Jones singing contemporary music, not the kind that made him famous. Record companies wanted their vocalists to record contemporary songs. Their old fans weren’t wild about that, and the young audience weren’t interested.

Which do you all prefer? Jack with his greasy kid stuff Mad Men pompadour of the early 1960s? Or Jack with his dry feathered and floppy 1970s do?

Personally, I loved the manly earlier look.

Almost everyone looked older back in the day, R30.

Find a movie still from that super hairy movie!

Wow, he didn’t keep his looks, did he?

Six marriages?! That’s … a lot.

Gaylord?

Great link, OP you idiot

Oy. My mother loved him. My two older sisters RANTED about him, mostly about him being a "male chauvinist pig" because of "Wives and Lovers"

RIP

Burt Bacharac wrote that awful song

Don’t shoot the singer. And it was Hal David who wrote the lyrics.

Wasn't the song Wives and Lovers from a movie with the same title?

Actually, if you just google "Jack Jones shirtless the comeback film" lots of photos of Jack shirtless appear. Quite hairy indeed!

RIP. Jack Jones was my absolute favorite male singer of traditional pop music.

Yeah, R51, and several were very brief. I always thought Jones must be an alcoholic or something horrible to be someone who marries so frequently and can’t maintain one for more than a few years.

Jack and Susan George did a spooky recording of "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be."

Lollipops and Roses is almost worse than Wives and Lovers (both with Hal David lyrics). It’s about how one must treat women like children, wait, like GIRLS.

New York Times obit

Jill St. John is the poor man's Arlene Dahl.

R36- So good looking there. Much better looking there than his wigged out hair several years later.

[quote]Jack Jones...one of the great singers in the genre of Frank Sinatra

Now THAT'S funny.

There were DOZENS of male singers, including Sinatra, who sang that kind of music. Sinatra didn’t invent it, he was just 5he most popular because of his movie career. Big favorites like Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin and JACK JONES didn’t translate to movies.

"I was watching an episode of Password from 1967 on YouTube a few weeks ago...

R30 Oh honey, that just sounds so sad. I need another martini now. Thanks!

Bobby Darin did pretty well in movies, r67.

How, R69?

He looks like Armie Hammer at R36.

Has his brother Quincy made a statement yet?

Bobby Darin was nominated for an Oscar and died before his movie stardom could be determined.

Perry Como was signed by MGM after WWII but hated making movies and only made a few. He insulted LB Mayer to his face how and broke his contract after starring in Words and Music.

Vic Damone starred in some big MGM musicals (Kismet was one) but studio musicals were dying by then.

I don't think Tony Bennett or DL Obit of the Day Jack Jones ever seriously considered making a career in movies.

Perry Como had a TV variety show in the 1960s and a signature cardigan sweater!

Jack's fur.

[quote]Who?

Always such a clever, funny and original response. If only there were an Internet search engine that could have answered this question for you.

R75, is that why so many women divorced him?

I remember dancing to his record "I'm in with the In Crowd" when I was 12 years old - think he was so groovy.

[quote]Jill St. John is the poor man's Arlene Dahl.

Not true at all.

[quote]Jack Jones...one of the great singers in the genre of Frank Sinatra

True.

Funny, I was listening to him last evening. YouTube. "It Only takes a Moment"

However, my favorite Jack Jones recording is "Once Upon a Time". Gorgeous.

That's an awful lot of chest hair for an otherwise not very hairy body.

If anyone has doubts about Jack Jones' singing abilities, listen to this, "All The Things You Are".

Listen to his breath control. This ain't easy, though he makes it seem so. It's flawless.

They’re leaving before Trump takes over.

He had a great voice-son of MGM’s Allen Jones of “Night at the Opera” 1935-great film-Marx Bros.

He really was a fantastic singer. In the 70s he recorded several albums for RCA where he sang contemporary-ish material, none of it was commercially successful but some of that stuff is seriously tripped out.

“Where love has gone” Bette Davis-Susan Hayward .Trashy-good film. He sang theme-great song.

R85 Oh my, that's dreadful.

He was one of the true greats singing the Standards, it's a shame he thought he needed to do stuff like that. Who would be the audience for it?

He was scheduled to sing at Trumps Inauguration.

I've never seen a hairdon't make such a difference in someone's attractiveness

[quote] He was one of the true greats singing the Standards, it's a shame he thought he needed to do stuff like that. Who would be the audience for it?

His entire cohort was singing contemporary stuff by that time -- Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Vikki Carr, Tony Bennett, Shirley Bassey, etc. Even Streisand hit a lull when her music wasn't tied in to her movies.

R75 Daddy!

Jack Jones has to sing some contemporary songs, but he did it with great style. All of the "American songbook" singers who continued into the '60s and '70s dipped into some contemporary tunes. No, they are not going to measure up to the classic American standards, but there is nothing wrong with Jack Jones singing Carole King's hit, "It's Too Late"--and he did a good job as heard above on R85.

[quote]Gaylord?

Gaylord Ravenal in the 1936 movie version of "Show Boat," played by Jack's father, Alan Jones. In the movie, Irene Dunne refers to his character as "Gay."

Well, I disagree about the number at R85. It's pretty bad. Listen to how his voice is strained. And the orchestration was trying way, way too hard to be "with it".

Outside of the old guard of male crooners, Perry Como was the only one to hit the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1970s with "It's Impossible". "And I Love You So" reached #29. Not even Sinatra could beat that. But the songs were right for his voice and they didn't try to be trendy.

^ I have to add Andy Williams with "Love Story" and speak "Softly Love".(But hey, Perry had been around since the 1940s.)

And those songs too, were performed in the classic mold.

OMG I though you said Jack Cassidy, phew.

OMG did the National Enquirer get that pic of Jack Cassidy?

Like they did to Elvis and River Phoenix :(

That’s not a hairy chest, that’s a pelt!

Jack Jones sings the theme..40 minutes of "Love Boat" all seasons guest stars...

R99. And while Jack is singing the Love Boat theme, all the guests are shown in alphabetical order!

R99. Sing along with Jack Jones.

Here are the lyrics to Love Boat...

Jack Jones' biggest hit, "Wives and Lovers," by Burt Bacharach and Hall David is a great song but also the cringiest considering the lyrics all these years later.

[quote] DIRT, not diet.

Close enough.

Sometimes I feel like I can’t wait to die so I can stop worrying and wondering how it’s gonna happen.

Thank you, R15.

Imagine...people getting dressed up for a holiday!

Who was that lovely, young man who joined, Jack, Judy, Liza, Lorna, and Joey?

I would have married him, but he was straight.

Tracy Everitt, R105.

R96, isn’t that the one Lisa Marie saved in the back room for three months?

Tracy accompanying Liza to the Met in 1986.

Oops.

[quote]Jill St. John is the poor man's Arlene Dahl.

And Arlene was the poor man's Rhonda Fleming.

Great performance on Letterman:

What must it have been to have as his biggest hit a song he couldn't sing in polite society for much of the last 60 years?

I saw him in the grocery store once about 10 years ago. He had some ice cream in his cart and apparently changed his mind. He just took the ice cream out and left it in the cereal aisle and didn't walk it back to the freezer. That doesn't speak too highly of him that he would make such a mess for someone to clean up

^ I HATE people who do things like that,

[quote] He just took the ice cream out and left it in the cereal aisle and didn't walk it back to the freezer. That doesn't speak too highly of him that he would make such a mess for someone to clean up

Hey! Little Girl.

Sounds like early dementia

But, I thought he was indestructible.

Love that video R118, I bet it cost all of seven bucks to make-- gas, bullets and cigarettes.

He was tall and well-proportioned and had a head of thick hair, which gave him the guise of being handsome.

He looks pretty hot in R118's video walking down the center of a New York street.

^ Except that's not a New York street.

When I think of Jack Jones - I also think of the theme song “Love With A Proper Stranger” - the scene where Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen are waiting to go to meet the guys taking her for her abortion. Steve McQueen turns on the radio and it Jack Jones singing “I could fall in love with a Proper Stranger and I can hear the Bells and the Banjoes ring!” Natalie Wood snaps the radio off after that

Was I married to him?