Jack Owens

Singer/songwriter, pianist, and a star of the longest running network radio show, Don McNeil's Breakfast Club. (October 17, 1912, Tulsa, Oklahoma - January 26, 1982, Phoenix, Arizona) Husband of singer Helen Streiff and father of singer Mary Ann Owens. He was known as "The Cruising Crooner." His songs have been covered by numerous well-known artists, although they have not always been correctly credited to him, have lacked adequate information about him, or have been misattributed to blues singer Jack Owens (3).