Career
A former professional golfer, Jones recorded four albums for Chart Records in that timespan, in addition to charting six times in the Top 40 on the Billboard country singles charts. His debut single was a Number. 22-peaking cover of "Proud Mary," originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival, which served as the title track of his first album.
Its second single was "New Orleans," originally recorded by Gary United States Bonds.
Jones" second album, Take a Letter Maria, produced his biggest hit in its Number. 8 title track, a cover of the popular hit for R. B. Greaves.
Later that year, he released Sugar in the Flowers, which produced singles in "Lead Maine Not into Temptation" and its title track. Finishing off his single releases that year was a rendition of Neil Diamond"s "Sweet Caroline," which Jones recorded on Take a Letter Maria.
Jones later moved to Epic Records, where he charted three singles in 1973, including a Number.
33 cover of Jim Croce"s "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". He recorded for Homa Records in the 1970s but did not have any chart success, and charted for the last time in 1986 with the Number. 74 "Those Eyes" on the Air label.
After retiring from the music business, Jones founded a club called Proud Mary in Shreveport, Louisiana.
He died on June 16, 1996.