'Love Boat' theme singer Jack Jones dead at 86

Jack Jones, who sang "The Love Boat" taxable song, has died. He was 86. 

"Jack Jones passed distant past nighttime astatine 9:17 p.m. astatine Eisenhower Hospital aft battling leukemia for good complete 2 years," Jones' rep, Milt Suchin, said successful a connection shared pinch Fox News Digital Thursday. "He passed peacefully holding hands pinch his woman Eleonora and his beloved artifact poodle, Ivy."

Born successful 1938 to movie stars Allan Jones and Irene Hervey, Jones was destined for greatness astatine a young age. 

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Jack Jones died aft a two-year conflict pinch leukemia.  (Getty Images/Everett Collection)

After years of performing pinch his father, Jones signed pinch Capitol Records successful 1959 and, later, pinch Kapp Records, wherever he recorded his infamous ballad, "Lollipops and Roses."

Some of his different memorable songs see "Wives and Lovers," "The Race Is On" and "Lady." 

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In nan mid-1960s, Frank Sinatra declared him nan "next awesome prima of show business," according to The Washington Post.

Jack Jones began performing astatine a young age.  (Getty Images)

"I was thrilled," Jones told The London Observer in 2002, according to nan Post. "There was only 1 problem: He ne'er retired. When a feline reaches that level of fame, there’s nary elbowing him out. A batch of america weren’t consenting to springiness up what Frank did to execute his mystique. I wasn’t worried astir having immoderate awesome babe connected my arm, but that’s important if you want to beryllium a star."

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The "Love Boat" taxable opus was recorded by Jones and released arsenic a deed azygous successful 1979. It was replaced for nan ninth and tenth seasons by a screen type sung by Dionne Warwick.

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The legendary vocalist recorded "The Love Boat" taxable opus successful 1979.  (Getty Images)

"His weathered sound is filled pinch seams and crevices," Stephen Holden, a New York Times euphony critic, wrote successful 2008. "His world-weary cragginess coincides pinch an impulse to return ballads astatine highly slow tempos. ... Because nan little extremity of Mr. Jones’s sound has deepened, his abrupt flights into a quasi-falsetto are much melodramatic than ever."

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Jones is survived by his woman of 15 years, Eleonara, and 3 daughters.