6/19/2023 0 Comments Loveboat book![]() ![]() Nevertheless, in the final season of The Love Boat, Jones' recording was tossed in favor of an updated, synth-pop version by Dionne Warwick. ![]() A full-length version of the song was released as a single in 1980, and it made the top 40 of Billboard's adult contemporary chart. In a parallel to the show's penchant for casting older actors who might've been past their prime, Jack Jones, a '60s-era crooner in the vein of Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra, sang the Love Boat theme. "We thought, 'Who's going to watch a series about a cruise ship?'" "We honestly didn't think was going to last six weeks," Williams said of The Love Boat to Songfacts. The shows that have originated as novels. It should come as no surprise that Love Boat producers hired a couple of songwriting giants to compose the song – Charles Fox, who helped write Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and Paul Williams, the Oscar-winning tunesmith behind Barbra Streisand's "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star is Born)" and "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. The Love Boat is based on a book, which was based on reality Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images Relatively few television series are based on books. ![]()
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