Jack Jones, the 86-year-old crooner known for singing TV’s The Love Boat theme, died Oct. 23, spokesman Milton B. Suchin confirmed to Entertainment Weekly. “Jack Jones passed away last night at 9:17 pm at Eisenhower Hospital [in Rancho Mirage, Calif.] after battling Leukemia for well over 2 years,” Suchin said in a statement. “He passed peacefully holding hands with his wife Eleonora and his beloved toy poodle – Ivy.” The two-time Grammy winner sang in the style of his inspiration, Frank Sinatra, whose daughter Nancy attended Jones’ Los Angeles high school. Singing songs such as “Lollipops and Roses” and “Wives and Lovers,” he recorded more than 50 albums, according to his website. In 1989, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which still notes that Judy Garland once called him “the best jazz singer in the world
