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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Jackie DeShannon (born Sharon Lee Myers on August 21, 1944 in Hazel, Kentucky), is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first ...

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 ...