Sometimes musicians have to leave the Midwest to get better — they need more ideas than any one region can provide. That was the case with Jackie DeShannon, whose long career has included such hit recordings as the Bacharach/David composition "What the World Needs Now" and her own "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." The native of rural Hazel, Ky., cut her earliest singles at King Records in Cincinnati.
Jackie, Oh!
One of Rock's first female singer/songwriters had early local ties
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