Jackie DeShannon

Prolific songwriter Jackie DeShannon co-wrote songs with the varied likes of Randy Newman, Jimmy Page, and Sharon Sheeley—with whom she wrote Brenda Lee’s 1961 hit “Dum Dum.” With Page, she wrote Marianne Faithfull’s Top 10 U.S. and U.K. hit “Come and Stay With Me.” As a performing artist, DeShannon toured with The Beatles in 1964; she scored with her biggest hit in 1969 when she reached No. 4 with her own “Put A Little Love In Your Heart.” Among the first female singer-songwriters of the rock era, Shannon’s songs have also been covered by The Searchers, Irma Thomas and Kim Carnes, whose cover of DeShannon’s “Bette Davis Eyes” topped the charts in 1981.

Key songs in the DeShannon catalog include “Bette Davis Eyes,” “Breakaway,” “Dum Dum,” “Everytime You Walk In The Room” and “Put a Little Love In Your Heart.”

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