It rocketed all the way to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. I would learn only this week that Jackie DeShannon cowrote the song with another female writer, Sharon Sheeley, then the girlfriend ...

With such genteel ‘60s classics as Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love” on her hit list, Jackie DeShannon ... the better songs evoked the plain-spoken twang ...

Singer/songwriter Jackie DeShannon. JD: "When you hear Mahalia Jackson sing it ... it takes on something else. But isn't that the testament of a great song that through different arrangements and ...

While best known for the pop hit “Put a Little Love in Your Heart,” Jackie DeShannon should be regarded today as an innovator and a musical game-changer, rather than simply a singer/songwriter.

Jackie DeShannon lent innocence, beauty and depth to the lyrics of the poignant song, revealing the poetry and the precious truth within the song's timeless themes.

Last year’s anthology album release of singer-songwriter Jackie ... 1982, DeShannon wrote (with Donna Weiss) the blockbuster hit “Bette Davis Eyes,” which earned Grammys for both Song ...

Kentuckian Jackie DeShannon's career is as vital to teenage Americans' acceptance of rock 'n' roll as it is to the mainstreaming of torch songs into pop music in an era after the standards in the ...

On Thursday, singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon will be inducted ... John Bettis and Donna Weiss. Weiss and DeShannon were awarded the 1982 Grammy for Song of the Year for their song "Bette ...

Jackie DeShannon's recording ... Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. DeShannon had to go back, put her headphones on and sing the song again, knowing it wouldn't be as good ...

Jackie DeShannon's recording ... Your vocal was erased." DeShannon had to go back, put her headphones on and sing the song again, knowing it wouldn't be as good as the first one.