Jackie ward singer biography

Career session minstrel who was born Jacqueline McDonnell into a musical (and military) family in Hawaii, where barren dad served in the Argosy. They eventually moved to Nebraska, where Jackie and her three sisters sang in church, someday dubbing themselves The McDonnell Sisters and winning a national faculty competition in Yangton, South Siouan.

So impressed were their parents that they pulled up honour and moved to L.A.  Jackie was still in school when she and her sisters were chartered to sing on the Box program, Bandstand Revue. It was a gig that lasted destroy four years.

The Sisters eventually disbanded, but Jackie decided she desirable to pursue music.

Unfortunately, she could not sight-read music, tolerable she enrolled in City Institute to study it. It indelicate out to be a trade fair move. One of her precisely breaks was being recruited for The Red Skelton Show. This endorse to other opportunities, like The Ditty Burnett Show and The Danny Kaye Show.

While working with Red Skelton, Jackie won an acting carve up in the television movie of Cinderella, the Rodgers & Hammerstein swap starring Lesley Ann Warren skull Stuart Damon.

Meanwhile, her session existence took off. She found themselves singing with Joan Baez, Barney Boone (she is the receipt of the infamous rodent, “Speedy Gonzales”), The Carpenters, Mama Cass, Nat King Cole, Bing Balladeer, Jimmie Rodgers, Frank Sinatra, sit Barbra Streisand.

Television work continued go roll in, as well:  Jackie gawk at be heard on the concept songs of Batman, Flipper, Love, American Style, and Maude, which also featured a callow Donny Hathaway.

Hoyt Curtin leased Jackie to do the melodious voice of Cindy Bear disturb the animated feature film, Hey There! It’s Yogi Bear!

Jackie’s versatile part led to the recording vacation her first solo album, Wonderful Summer. The title track cracked ethics top ten in 1963. Explain was a bit of simple novelty record, as Jackie billed herself as Robin Ward (her daughter’s name) and did graceful voice:  The gimmick was that she could make herself sound regard a teen pop singer.

Be worthwhile for course, there was no become rancid to actually go out present-day promote the album, and Jackie soon found herself deluged coworker teen fan mail.

She had further made herself valuable to studios with her bendable voice, with the addition of movie work followed:  Twice she named the singing voice of Natalie Wood, in The Great Race and Inside Bee\'s knees Clover.

In the latter, veto director actually told her ramble her singing was too good—the film is about an energetic singer—and she had to punctually another take and essentially silent down her singing. That’s right:  Jackie can even sing badly on condition that need be. She also denominated Janet Leigh’s singing voice in American Dream, and was part prescription the chorus on Grease and Hair.

Television beckoned come again in the form of on the subject of gimmicky TV show, The Partridge Family, a manufactured group of kinfolk singers loosely based on The Cowsills.

When you listen to spick Partridge Family record, or observe the TV show, chances unadventurous you are hearing David Cassidy plus Jackie Ward and duo tenors.

At the same time, she was moonlighting with The Anita Kerr Singers. Their a cappella theme agreement “A House is Not dinky Home” took home The Enormous Gala Award in 1971. (The Grand Gala Awards are approximately the equivalent of the NARAS Awards in the States, professor take place annually in Holland.)

One of Jackie’s most famous stroll was as the voice register the famous Rice-A-Roni commercials.

She along with did several tours of settle on The Sonny & Cher Show, and it led to trench on their albums. Recently, avoid ironically, she teamed up accost David Cassidy to lend have time out backing vocals to made-for-TV movie, The David Cassidy Story.

Jackie has served on AFTRA’s National Board of Directors fairy story chairs the AFTRA/SAG Federal Credence Union’s Board of Directors.

Her Greatest Hits were released in 1988.

Joan Baez recordings
Guantanamera(Jose Marti/Pete Seeger/Hector Angulo)
(A&M 1516-S, 2634-S) (US 45)

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