David cassidy and shirley jones relationship

Shirley Mae Jones was born in the small town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the only child of Paul and Marjorie Jones on March 31, 1934. At the age of three, the Jones family moved a few miles away to Smithton, another small town of less than 500 along the Allegheny River where her grandfather, William B. Jones, owned both the Jones Brewery and the Jones Hotel. Her talents as a singer manifested themselves early, as Shirley became the youngest member of her town's Methodist choir at the age of six. During the summer, Jones went to a camp on Lake Erie where she eagerly participated in the camp's musical productions. It was there, at age 11, that a camp counselor recognized Jones's potential for success and urged her parents to sign her up for piano and voice lessons. By the next year, her father was driving her to Pittsburgh twice a week to study voice under the music critic for the Pittsburgh Press, Ralph Lewando.

In 1952, Jones graduated from South Huntingdon High. That same year, she was spotted sunbathing by a scout photographer for the Miss Pittsburgh pageant. Jones went on to

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