# RIP Singer Jack Jones, Love Boat Theme **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [October 24, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178 "2024-10-24T23:55:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178/41 "2024-10-28T02:01:55Z")
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**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178/42 "2024-10-28T02:40:35Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Can’t believe no one has mentioned yet what was my most indelible memory of Jack Jones: > > [What a beautiful New Yorker. It’s the talk of the town!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVewnkzULE) > > Seriously? No one? Am I gonna have to larn you all on fine Corinthian leather, and the Serta perfect sleeper next? The hand gestures have convinced me. I must have this car. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178/43 "2024-10-28T11:12:51Z")
I was referring to Phil Leah and Jack Jones, musicians two generations apart in style, dying only two days apart. It would be a curious meeting in an afterlife. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178/44 "2024-10-28T13:57:37Z")
Correction: Phil _Lesh_, bassist for the Grateful Dead. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178/45 "2024-10-28T14:12:15Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > I was referring to Phil Leah and Jack Jones, musicians two generations apart in style, dying only two days apart. It would be a curious meeting in an afterlife. After Lemmy Kilmister and David Bowie had died within a week, this cartoon made the rounds in Germany: [![](https://www.titanic-magazin.de/fileadmin/content/Postkarten/160111_Lemmy_Bowie.jpg) ](https://www.titanic-magazin.de/fileadmin/content/Postkarten/160111_Lemmy_Bowie.jpg) Caption: “After some speed and whisky, Lemmy and Bowie had to note that they hadn’t very much to tell each other.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178/46 "2024-11-03T06:32:44Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > Hell, they were pretty squiffy at the time. At least I thought so, at the ripe age of 14. My mother worked full-time and did all the cooking, laundry, and most of the other housework. If anyone had said those words to her, I think she would have slugged them. > > Agreed. “Roses and Lollipops” is certainly infantalizing to a grown-ass wife (_one day she’ll smile, next day she’ll cry, minute by minute, you’ll never know why_). > > “Wives and Lovers” is much worse, blaming a husband’s infidelity on his wife’s not having makeup on 24/7. _Red Roses For a Blue Lady_ was a lot less skeevy that way. Fun fact: He did a Christmas album where he sang _My Favorite Things_ with jingle bells being jingled as part of the accompaniment. And his was the first record that happened on. So today, when I claim that “The Sound of Music” is a Christmas movie, well, that’s his fault. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-singer-jack-jones-love-boat-theme/1009178.md?page=2)