The man who wrote some of the most iconic hit songs for artists including the Carpenters, the Monkees and more has died.

Roger Nichols, the composer behind some of The Carpenters' biggest hits, has died at the age of 84. His death was confirmed by his songwriting partner Paul Williams ...

Nicols and Williams' songwriting partnership produced some of The Carpenters biggest and most loved hits - We've Only Just Begun and Rainy Days and Mondays and I Won't Last a Day Without You. Their ...

It is fun to sing popular music like the three songs — Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” Jackie DeShannon’s “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” and Jason Mraz’s “Back to ...

A quick refresher on how this works: The first band will get to choose from these 10 songs, and whichever one they cover will then be crossed off the list. The second band will choose from nine ...

The list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1965 highlights ... Bolder new worlds for McCartney and the group were peeking on the horizon. 25. Jackie DeShannon, "What the World Needs Now Is Love ...

which was later included in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums ever made. 'Put a Little Love in Your Heart' (with Annie Lennox) Annie Lennox & Al Green - Put A Little Love In Your Heart ...

Netflix’s “Pulse” just landed on the streamer, and along with it comes a jammin’ soundtrack and official songs list. With songs titled after characters and others that characterize the ...

The band mostly found success in cover versions of pop hits, topping the charts with versions of Jackie DeShannon’s “Needles And Pins” and The Drifters’ “Sweets For My Sweet.” ...

Yet they formed three years before the Fab Four, in 1957, beginning as a skiffle group and going on to sell millions of records, scoring hits such as their Jackie DeShannon cover “When You Walk ...

That’s probably why so few people to this day realize it’s actually a cover of a 1974 song that was co-written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon. There’s not much resemblance between the ...

Lucia Flores-Wiseman, a 22-year-old Maple Valley, Washington, college graduate, delivered a rendition of the song La Llorona ... the World Needs Now by Jackie DeShannon. Michael Bublé added ...