When The Searchers released their version of "Needles and Pins" in 1964, it hit #1 in the UK and #13 in the U.S. Showing the fact that they'd recorded a song previously recorded by DeShannon hadn't ...
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On Thursday, singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon will be inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. One of the first female rock 'n' roll songwriters, DeShannon penned the classics "Put a Little Love ...
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 ...