Happy 65th birthday today to one of the lesser-known stalwarts of the music scene in the USA, Jackie DeShannon!
Born the humbly-named Sharon Lee Myers, Miss De Shannon was a major collaborator over the years with such diverse artists as Ry Cooder, Randy Newman and Van Morrison, supported the Beatles on their first American tour in 1964, dated Elvis Presley AND Jimmy Page, and on the way wrote songs for Marianne Faithfull, The Byrds and Irma Thomas, had some hits of her own such as Bacharach & David's What The World Needs Now Is Love, and wrote When You Walk in the Room for The Searchers... Whew!
As if that weren't exhausting enough, back in the 1980s it was with Miss DeShannon's song that Kim Carnes conquered the musical world...
Jackie DeShannon official website
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