Hello and welcome to another edition of the podcast.

Our guest for this episode is the multi-talented singer-songwriter Jackie Deschenen.

In just a few moments we'll be welcoming Jackie to the show for a chat about her work as a

songwriter and her illustrious

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Okay so we are very excited to be able to chat with the great Jackie de Shannon.

As a singer, Jackie lent her soulful voice to two enduring anthems of the 1960s,

Bert Bacharach and Howell David's What the World Needs Now is Love, and her own classic classic composition put a little love in your heart which sold

over a million copies. As writer her songs have been performed by artists like

Brenda Lee The Birds Marianne Faithful, Al Green, Annie Lennox, the Searches,

the Carpenters, over to Youssai.

Also Kim Carnes, The Temptations, Cher, Van Morrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen and

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