Triaian Boyer (1964-1968) Jay Riviere (div. ca. 1970) Danny Ward (m., ca. 1972)
Musical artist
Nancy Ames (born Nancy Hamilton Alfaro on September 30, 1937) is an American folk singer and songwriter. 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.[1][2]
The daughter of a physician, she grew up in Washington. She attended Holton-Arms School and Bennett College, both of them for girls. By 1964, she was married to Romanian hypnotist Triaian Boyer. By 1968, they had divorced.[4] After the divorce, she married Jay Riviere, a golf course designer. They had one child, a daughter, Nancy, but ultimately divorced.[5]
Ames has resided in Houston, Texas since 1972.[6] She and her third husband Danny Ward are the co-founders of Ward & Ames Special Events.[7]
She broke the top 100 twice in 1966 with "He Wore the Green Beret" (by Frank Catana and Peg Barsella), side A, and "War is a Card Game" (by Pamela Polland), side B. These were her answer songs to Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets". "War Is A Card Game" hit number 89 before falling to 96. Later in the year "Cry Softly" also placed in the charts.[10][11]
Ames had occasional TV acting appearances. She played two different characters in sketches on The Red Skelton Hour in 1966 and 1967; the latter role was in a Hippie themed sketch. Also in 1968 Ames had an acting appearance as "Louise Hahn" in a first season episode of The Name of the Game, an NBC drama. She made a cameo appearance on Laugh-In in 1968, season 1, episode 5.
Ames later had her own TV show which aired on KPRC-TV Channel 2 (the Houston area NBC affiliate) from 1972-1977.
In the late 1970s, Ames moved to Houston, Texas. In 1982 she and her third husband, Danny Ward, founded Ward & Ames, an events and video-production firm.[12] Ames is also the co-founder of the Plumeria Society of America, and owned the jewelry company Alfaro, A Nancy Ames Collection.[13]
US discography
LPs
The Incredible Nancy Ames - Liberty – LRP-3276 - (1963)[14]
A Portrait of Nancy - Liberty – LRP-3299 - (1963)[14]
I Will Never Marry - Liberty – LRP-3329 - (1963)[14]
This is the Girl That is - Liberty – LRP-3369 - (1964)[14]
Versatile Nancy Ames - Sunset Records – SUS-5109 - (1966)[15] Compilation of Liberty Records years material; Sunset was a subsidiary of Liberty Records.
