As both a smouldering pop starlet and one of the first successful female
songwriters of the 1960s, Jackie DeShannon scored the timeless hits 'What the
World Needs Now Is Love' and 'Put a Little Love in Your Heart' as well as
touring with The Beatles and dating Elvis Presley.
Growing up on a farm in Kentucky, DeShannon was singing country songs on local
radio at just six-years-old, and made her first recordings at 16 under the name
Jackie Dee in the late 1950s. Early rock and roll hero Eddie Cochran helped her
form a songwriting partnership with his girlfriend Sharon Sheeley wh...