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Jackie DeShannon

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...