She regularly appeared on the American version of the television series That Was the Week That Was.

[1][2] Ames was born in Washington, D.C., the granddaughter of Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro, who served as President of Panama from 1931 to 1932 and who in 1949 was chairman of the legal committee of the Third session of the United Nations General Assembly that drew up the text of the Convention on Genocide.

[7] A folk singer with a partially Spanish language repertoire, Ames was signed to Liberty Records.

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.

Ames and Williams also co-wrote Cinderella Rockefella, an international pop hit, in 1968.

Ames later had her own TV show which aired on KPRC-TV Channel 2 (the Houston area NBC affiliate) from 1972-1977.