Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter and radio broadcaster with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock and roll period. She is best known as the singer of "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", and as the writer of "When You Walk in the Room" and "Bette Davis Eyes", which became hits for The Searchers and Kim Carnes, respectively.

21 August 1941

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Born in the same month (August 1941): Boog Powell • Connie Smith • Dave Brock • Don Rich • Ignazio Giunti • John Marshall (drummer) • Mario Corso • Martin Jarvis (actor) • Ted Strickland