<Tr> <Th> Labels </Th> <Td> Liberty, Imperial, Atlantic </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Associated acts </Th> <Td> Hal David, Burt Bacharach, Ry Cooder, Jimmy Page </Td> </Tr> <P> Jackie DeShannon (born August 21, 1941 / 1944) is an American singer - songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer . She was one of the first female singer - songwriters of the rock' n' roll period . She is best known as the singer of "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", and as the composer of "When You Walk in the Room" and "Bette Davis Eyes", which were hits for The Searchers and Kim Carnes, respectively . DeShannon is currently an entertainment broadcast correspondent reporting Beatles band members' news for the radio program Breakfast with the Beatles . </P> <P> DeShannon was born Sharon Lee Myers in Hazel, Kentucky, the daughter of musically inclined farming parents, Sandra Jean and James Erwin Myers . By age six, she was singing country tunes on a local radio show . By age 11, she was hosting her own radio program . When life on the farm became too difficult, the family moved to her mother's hometown, Aurora, Illinois, where her father resumed his other career as a barber . </P>

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