Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of

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, such as '' Oklahoma!'' (1955), ''

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'' (1956), and '' The Music Man'' (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful

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in ''

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'' (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical

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television series '' The Partridge Family'' (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

Early life

Jones was born on March 31, 1934, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to Methodist parents Marjorie (née Williams), a homemaker, and Paul Jones, owners of the Jones Brewing Company. Jones' paternal grandfather came from Wales. She was named after child star

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. Jones says that many people have incorrectly assumed that her middle name was named after vaudeville and film legend Mae West, but Jones was actually named after her aunt. Coincidentally, the first star Jones ever met was West, who was performing at the Twin Coaches supper club in Rostraver around 1954. The family later moved to the small nearby town of

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. Jones began singing at the age of six in the Methodist Church choir and took voice lessons from Ralph Lewando. While attending South Huntingdon High School in Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania, she participated in school plays. Jones won the Miss Pittsburgh contest in 1952.

Career

Early stage career

Her first audition was for an open bi-weekly casting call held by John Fearnley, casting director for Rodgers and Hammerstein and their various musicals. At the time, Jones had never heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Fearnley was so impressed, he ran across the street to fetch

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, who was rehearsing with an orchestra for an upcoming musical. Rodgers then called

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at home. The two saw great potential in Jones. She became the first and only singer to be put under personal contract with the songwriters. They first cast her in a minor role in ''

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''. For her second Broadway show, '' Me and Juliet'', she started as a chorus girl, and then an understudy for the lead role, earning rave reviews in Chicago.

Movie actress of the 1950s and 1960s

Jones impressed Rodgers and Hammerstein with her musically trained voice, and was cast as the female lead in the film adaptation ''Oklahoma!'' in 1955. Other film musicals quickly followed, including ''

'' (1956), '' April Love'' (1957), and '' The Music Man'' (1962), in which she was often typecast as a wholesome, kind character. However, she won a 1960 Academy Award for her performance in ''

'' portraying a woman corrupted by the title character played by

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. Her character becomes a prostitute who encounters her seducer years later and reveals his true character. The director, Richard Brooks, had originally fought against her being in the movie, but after seeing her first scene, told her she would win an Oscar for her performance. She was reunited with Ron Howard (who had played her brother in ''The Music Man'') in '' The Courtship of Eddie's Father'' (1963). Jones landed the role of a lady who fell in love with the professor in '' Fluffy'' (1965). In her film career, she has worked with some of Hollywood's icons: Jimmy Stewart,

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, Henry Fonda,

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and director John Ford.

''The Partridge Family''

In 1970, after turning down the role of

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on '' The Brady Bunch'', a role that ultimately went to her best friend, Florence Henderson, Jones was the producers' first choice to audition for the lead role of Shirley Partridge in '' The Partridge Family'', an

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musical sitcom based loosely on the real-life musical family The Cowsills. The series focused on a young widowed mother whose five children form a pop-rock group after the entire family painted its signature bus to travel. She was convinced that the combination of music and comedy would be a surefire hit. Jones realized, however, that: During its first season, it became a hit and was screened in over 70 countries. Within months, Jones and her co-stars were

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television icons. Her real-life 20-year-old stepson David Cassidy, who was an unknown actor at the time, played Shirley Partridge's eldest son Keith and became a teen idol. The show also spawned a number of albums and singles by The Partridge Family, performed by David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. That same year, " I Think I Love You" reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 music chart, making Jones the second person, after

, and the first woman to win an acting Oscar and also have a number-one hit on that chart, an achievement only matched by

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and Barbra Streisand (Cher had already topped the singles chart with '' I Got You Babe'' in 1965, but did not win her Oscar until 1987). The Partridge Family won a

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award for the best-selling single of the year in 1970 for their hit "I Think I Love You". In 1971, The Partridge Family was nominated for a

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under the Best New Artist category. The Partridge Family Shirley Jones 1972

The series' run ended in 1974. Shirley Jones's friendship with David Cassidy had begun in the mid-to-late 1950s, when David was just six, after he learned about his father's divorce from his mother Evelyn Ward. Upon David's first meeting with Shirley before co-starring with her on ''The Partridge Family'', he said, "The day he tells me that they're divorced, he tells me, 'We're remarried, and let me introduce you to my new wife.' He was thrilled when her first film, ''Oklahoma!'' (1955), had come out; and my dad took me to see it—I just see her, and I go, uh-oh, it doesn't really quite register with me, 'cause I'm in total shock, because I wanted to hate her, but the instant that I met her, I got the essence of her. She's a very warm, open, sweet, good human being. She couldn't have thawed it for me—the coldness and the ice—any more than she did." Shirley was shocked to hear her real-life stepson was going to audition for the role of Keith Partridge. David said, "At the auditions, they introduced me to the lead actress hirley Jones'cause they had no idea, they had no idea. So I said, 'What are you doing here?' She looked at me and said, 'What are you doing here?' And I said, 'Well, I'm reading for the lead guy.' I said, 'What are you doing here?' She said, 'I'm the mother!'" Cassidy discussed his relationship with his stepmother on the show: "She wasn't my mother, and I can be very open, and we can speak, and we became very close friends. She was a very good role model for me, watching the way, you know, she dealt with people on the set, and watching people revere her." Cassidy appeared on many shows alongside his stepmother, including '' A&E Biography'', '' TV Land Confidential'', and '' The Today Show'', and he was one of the presenters of his stepmother's ''

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'' on Lifetime Television, and the reality show pilot ''In Search of the Partridge Family'', where he served as co-executive producer. The rest of the cast also celebrated the 25th, 30th, and 35th anniversaries of ''The Partridge Family'' (although Cassidy was unavailable to attend the 25th anniversary in 1995 owing to other commitments). In addition, Jack Cassidy's death in 1976 drew Jones and Cassidy closer as Shirley's three children and stepson mourned their father.

''Shirley'' and other projects

In 1979, Jones tried her hand at television for the second time, starring in the NBC show '' Shirley'', which, like ''The Partridge Family'', featured a family headed by a widowed mother, but the show failed to win ratings and was cancelled toward the middle of the season. Jones also played the "older woman" girlfriend of Drew Carey's character in several episodes of '' The Drew Carey Show'', and reprised Shirley Partridge in a cameo in a 2000 episode of '' That '70s Show.'' Shirley Jones 2010

She was also in the dramatic project ''There Were Times, Dear'', in which she played a loyal wife whose husband is dying of

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; she was nominated for an Emmy Award for this work. In February 1986, Jones unveiled her star on the

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on Vine Street just around the corner from Hollywood Boulevard. In 1983, she appeared in a rare revival of

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's operetta, '' Bitter Sweet''. In 2004, she returned to Broadway in a revival of '' 42nd Street'', portraying diva Dorothy Brock opposite Patrick Cassidy, the first time a mother and son were known to star together on Broadway. In July 2005, Jones revisited the musical ''

'' onstage in Massachusetts, portraying "Cousin Nettie". In July 2006, Jones received another Emmy Award nomination for her supporting performance in the television film ''

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''. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for the same film but lost to

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for '' Elizabeth I''. She also appeared in '' Grandma's Boy'' (2006) as a nymphomaniac senior citizen. On November 16, 2007, she took the stage at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular concert that celebrated the state's 100th birthday. Jones sang the songs " Oklahoma!" and " People Will Say We're In Love" from the musical ''Oklahoma!''. ShirleyAndPatrick

In early 2008, it was announced that Jones would play Colleen Brady on the long-running NBC soap opera ''

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''. Jones guest-starred on

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's short-lived show ''

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'' as David and Patrick's mother. In 2008, U.K. label

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released the retrospective collection ''

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'' featuring 24 songs from Jones's musical career, including songs from the films ''Oklahoma!'', ''Carousel'', and ''April Love''. The album featured new recordings of songs including " Beauty and the Beast", " Memory", and a sentimental tribute to ''The Music Man''. She had a recurring role as Burt Chance's mother in the

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comedy series '' Raising Hope''. In mid-2012, Jones played Mrs. Paroo, when her son Patrick played Harold Hill, in a California Musical Theatre revival of ''The Music Man''. In 2014, Jones guest-starred on an episode of ''

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'' as Mrs. McClain.

Personal life

On August 5, 1956, Jones married actor and singer Jack Cassidy. They had three sons, Shaun,

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, and Ryan. David Cassidy was Jack's son from his first marriage, to actress Evelyn Ward, and became her stepson. Jones divorced Cassidy in 1975. She married actor and comedian Marty Ingels on November 13, 1977. Jones and Ingels wrote an autobiography based on their relationship called ''Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Love Story''. Despite being what Ingels called having an “odd-couple relationship” and separations (she filed, then withdrew, a divorce petition in 2002), they remained married until Ingels' death on October 21, 2015, from a massive

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. After his death, Jones said: "He often drove me crazy, but there's not a day I won't miss him and love him to my core." On the evening of December 11, 1976, after Jones had refused an offer of reconciliation from Jack Cassidy, she received news that her ex-husband's penthouse apartment was on fire. Apparently, the fire started from his lit cigarette when he fell asleep on the couch; the following morning, firefighters found Cassidy's body inside the gutted apartment. Jack "wanted to come back (to me) right up to the day he died", Jones said in a 1983 newspaper interview. "And as I realized later, I wanted him. That's the terrible part. Much as I love Marty and have a wonderful relationship—I'd say this with Marty sitting here—I'm not sure if Jack were alive I'd be married to Marty." Jones was 20 years old when she met Cassidy, who was eight years her senior, and she refers to him as the most influential person in and the love of her life. Jones is a supporter of

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. Jones was devastated when

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died on April 27, 2015; Crough played one of her TV daughters on ''The Partridge Family''. She had a very close relationship with the younger actress and remained close friends long after the series was cancelled, and regularly would send cards and birthday presents for Crough and her children. Jones said of Crough's death on Hollywood Life: With regard to David Cassidy's alcohol abuse and legal problems, Jones once shared her family's related concerns: David Cassidy died on November 21, 2017.France, Lisa Respers (2017)
"David Cassidy, '70s teen heartthrob, dies at age 67”
'' CNN'', November 22, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2019. The day after his death, Jones commented publicly:

Filmography

Film

Television

*1950: '' Fireside Theatre'' (acting debut) *1952: '' Gruen Guild Playhouse'' *1956: '' Ford Star Jubilee'' *1956: ''

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'' *1957: '' Lux Video Theatre'' *1957: '' The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom'' (guest) *1957: ''

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'' *1958: '' DuPont Show of the Month'' *1959: '' Make Room for Daddy'' (as herself) *1964: '' Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre'' *1969: ''

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'' *1969: ''The Carol Burnett Show'' *1969: '' The Name of the Game'' *1970–74: '' The Partridge Family'' *1971: ''Curiosity Shop'' (Episode: The Curiosity Shop Special) *1973: '' The Girls of Huntington House'' *1975: '' The Family Nobody Wanted'' *1975: ''

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'' *1975: ''Winner Take All'' *1977: '' McMillan & Wife'' *1977: ''Yesterday's Child'' *1978: '' Evening in Byzantium'' *1978: ''Who'll Save Our Children?'' *1979: ''A Last Cry for Help'' *1979–80: '' Shirley'' *1980: ''The Children of An Lac'' *1981: ''Inmates: A Love Story'' *1982: '' The Adventures of Pollyanna'' *1983/87: '' Hotel'' *1983: '' Hotel'' (pilot) *1983: '' The Love Boat'' *1988/90: ''

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'' *1989: ''Charlie'' (unsold pilot) *1997: ''

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'' *1998: ''

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'' *1998: '' The Drew Carey Show'' *1999: '' Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' *2000: '' That '70s Show'' (cameo) *2003: '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' *2006: ''

'' *2006: '' Monarch Cove'' *2008: ''

'' *2009: ''

'' *2011/14: '' Raising Hope'' (3 episodes) *2012: '' Good Luck Charlie'' (Episodes: " Welcome Home", "A Duncan Christmas") *2012: '' Victorious'' (Episode: " Car, Rain, and Fire") *2013: '' Cougar Town'' *2013: '' Hot in Cleveland'' *2014: ''

'' *2014: ''

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'' (voice) *2016: '' Childrens Hospital'' (cameo as herself)

Stage

*1953: ''

'' (Broadway) *1954: '' Me and Juliet'' (Chicago) *1956: '' Oklahoma!'' (European tour with Jack Cassidy) *1957: '' The Beggar's Opera'' (with Cassidy) *1959: '' Wish You Were Here!'' (Dallas State Fair Theater, with Cassidy) *1966: '' The Sound of Music'' ( Westbury Music Fair) *1967: '' Wait Until Dark'' (with Cassidy) *1968: ''

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'' (Broadway, with Cassidy) *1972: ''The Marriage Band'' (with Cassidy) *1974: '' On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'' *1976: '' Show Boat'' *1977: '' The Sound of Music'' *1982: '' Bitter Sweet'' *1994: '' Love Letters'' (with Marty Ingels) *1994: '' The King and I'' *1994: ''

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'' *1995: '' Love Letters'' (with Marty Ingels) *2004: '' 42nd Street'' (Broadway, with Patrick Cassidy) *2005: ''

'' *2012: '' The Music Man'' (Sacramento Music Circus, with Patrick Cassidy)

Discography

Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy albums

* ''Speaking of Love'' (1957) (

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) * '' Brigadoon'' (1957) (Columbia Records) * ''With Love from Hollywood'' (1958) (Columbia Records) * ''Marriage Type Love'' (1959) ( RCA Records, unreleased) * ''

'' (1968) (RCA Records) * ''Show Tunes'' (1995) ( Sony Music) * ''Essential Masters'' (2011) (Master Classics Records) * ''Marriage Type Love'' (2014) ( Columbia Masterworks)

The Partridge Family albums

* ''

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'' (1970) (

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) * '' Up To Date'' (1971) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1971) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1971) (Bell Records) * '' Shopping Bag'' (1972) (Bell Records) * '' At Home With Their Greatest Hits'' (1972) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1972) (Bell Records) * '' Crossword Puzzle'' (1973) (Bell Records) * ''

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'' (1973) (Bell Records) * '' The World of the Partridge Family'' (1974) (Bell Records) * '' Greatest Hits'' (1989) (

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) * '' The Definitive Collection'' (2001) (Arista Records) * '' Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of The Partridge Family'' (2005) (Arista Records)

The Partridge Family singles

* " I Think I Love You" (1970) (Bell Records) * "

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" (1971) (Bell Records) * "

I'll Meet You Halfway "I'll Meet You Halfway" is a song written by Wes Farrell and Gerry Goffin and recorded by The Partridge Family for their 1971 album, '' Up to Date''. It went to No.4 on the Adult Contemporary chart and reached No.9 on The Billboard Hot 100 in 197 ...

" (1971) (Bell Records) * "

I Woke Up In Love This Morning "I Woke Up in Love This Morning" is a song written by L. Russell Brown and Irwin Levine and recorded by The Partridge Family for their 1971 album, ''Sound Magazine''. It went to number 13 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1971; it hit number 4 in ...

" (1971) (Bell Records) * "

It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love) "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)" is a song written by Tony Romeo and was recorded by The Partridge Family for their 1972 album, ''Shopping Bag''. The song went to number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart and reached number 20 on The Billboard ...

" (1972) (Bell Records) * "Am I Losing You" (1972) (Bell Records) * " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1972) (Bell Records) * " Looking Through the Eyes of Love" (1972) (Bell Records) * "Friend and a Lover" (1973) (Bell Records) * " Walking in the Rain" (1973) Bell Records * "Looking For a Good Time" (1973) (Bell Records)

Shirley Jones albums

* '' Silent Strength'' (1989) (Diadem Records) * ''Shirley'' (1992)

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* ''Shirley Jones'' (2000) (Ingels Ent. Records) * ''

'' (2008) (

) * '' A Touch of Christmas'' (2009) (Encore Music Presents Records) * '' A Tribute to Richard Rodgers'' (2010) (Encore Music Presents Records)

Shirley Jones singles

* "Clover in the Meadow" b/w "Give me a Gentle Girl" (1957) ( Dot Records) from ''April Love'' movie soundtrack * " Pepe" b/w "Lovely Day" (1960) (

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) from ''Pepe'' movie soundtrack (This record hit the top 5 in Spain, 1961, on the Discophon label) * "I've Still Got My Heart Joe" b/w "Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone" (1971) (

119) * "Ain't Love Easy" b/w "Roses in the Snow" (1972) (Bell Records 253) * "Walk in Silence" b/w "The World is a Circle" (1973) (Bell Records 350)

Soundtracks

* '' Oklahoma!'' (1955) (

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) (songs: "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top", "Many a New Day", "People Will Say We're in Love", "Out of My Dreams", "Oklahoma") * ''

'' (1956) (Capitol Records) (songs: "You're A Queer One, Julie Jordan", "If I Loved You", "What's The Use Of Wond'rin", "You'll Never Walk Alone") * ''April Love'' (1957) (Dot Records) (songs: "Give Me A Gentle Girl", "April Love" with Pat Boone, "Do It Yourself" with Pat Boone, "The Bentonville Fair" with Pat Boone, "Finale" with Pat Boone) * ''

Never Steal Anything Small ''Never Steal Anything Small'' is a 1959 American CinemaScope comedy-drama musical film directed by Charles Lederer and starring James Cagney and Shirley Jones. It is based on the play ''The Devil's Hornpipe'' by Maxwell Anderson and Rouben Mamoul ...

'' (1959) (song: "I Haven't Got a Thing to Wear") * '' Pepe'' (1960) Colpix Records (songs: "Pepe", "Lovely Day") * '' The Music Man'' (1962) ( Warner Bros. Records) (songs: "Piano Lesson / If You Don't Mind My Saying So", "Goodnight, My Someone", "Being in Love", "Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You", "Till There Was You") * '' Endless Night'' (1972) (song: "Endless Night") * ''

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'' (2002) (song: "Just the Way You Look Tonight") * ''

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'' (2007) (songs: "Easy To Dream", "All Because of Me") * ''

'' (2014) (song: "One Is a Bird")

Album appearances

* '' Free to Be... You and Me'' (1972) (Bell Records) (song: "Girl Land" with Jack Cassidy) * ''The Christmas Album.....A Gift of Hope'' (1991) Children's Hospital Benefit Album (song: " Silver Bells" with Shaun Cassidy) * ''An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein, The Sullivan Years'' (1993) TVT Records * ''Embraceable You – Broadway In Love'' (1993) ( Sony Music) * ''George & Ira Gershwin, A Musical Celebration'' (1994) ( MCA Records) (song: " Someone to watch over Me") * ''Lerner, Loewe, Lane & Friends'' (1998) Varèse Sarabande Records (song: "Before I Gaze at You Again")

References

External links

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Shirley Jones interview
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Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels discuss their 9/11 memorial park, September, 2015
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''The Partridge Family''

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Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy albums

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