Background
She was born in Washington, District of Columbia. She is the granddaughter of Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro (1882–1971), who served as President of Panama from 1931 to 1932. The daughter of a physician, she grew up in Washington.
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Nancy Ames
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She attended Holton Arms College and Bennett College, both of them for girls.
Career
She regularly appeared on the American version of the television series That Was the Week That Was. The TW3 Girl, as she was known, sang the show theme and special material. A folk singer with a partially Latin repertoire, she was signed to Liberty Records.
Her first album was entitled Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu Louisiana Paloma.
She broke the top 100 twice in 1966. "He Wore the Green Beret," her answer song to Staff Sergeant
Barry Sadler"s "Ballad of the Green Berets," hit number 89, and later in the year "Cry Softly" also placed in the charts. She had a television show which aired on KPRC-television Channel 2 (the Houston area National Broadcasting Company affiliate) from 1972-1977.
She is listed as the co-writer of the theme song to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with Mason Williams per Williams" own 1969 LP entitled Music by Mason Williams.
Ames and Williams also co-wrote "Cinderella Rockefella," an international popular hit in 1968. LPs 7" 12" Mr. European Parliament.
