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Page first started working as a session musician in 1963 when he was 19 years old. The guitarist reportedly worked five days a week, the most one could work as a session musician. According to Led ...

Born Sharon Lee Myers in Hazel, Kentucky, she would later change her name to Jackie DeShannon for show business purposes. I've been running across DeShannon's name the past few weeks, on everything ...

You probably know Jackie DeShannon best for her song, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, a #4 Billboard hit in 1969. Or her hit rendition of Hal David and Burt Bacharach's What the World Needs Now Is ...

One track from the soundtrack of my childhood is Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s classic song, “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” It was a top-10 hit in 1965 for singer Jackie DeShannon and later was ...

One track from the soundtrack of my childhood is Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s classic song, “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” It was a top-10 hit in 1965 for singer Jackie DeShannon and later was ...

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 ...

Hit songwriter Jackie DeShannon knew something special had happened with her song "Bette Davis Eyes" when she was approached in a retail store by Jack Nicholson who complemented her on it. Not long ...