<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "What the World Needs Is Love / Abraham, Martin and John" (1971) </Td> <Td> "Whatever Happened to Love" (1971) </Td> </Tr> <P> In addition to the DeShannon hit recording and the numerous cover versions, "What the World Needs Now is Love" served as the basis for a distinctive 1971 remix . </P> <P> Disc jockey Tom Clay was working at radio station KGBS in Los Angeles, California, when he created the single "What the World Needs Now is Love / Abraham, Martin and John", a social commentary that became a surprise hit record that summer . </P> <P> The song begins with a man asking a young boy to define such words as bigotry, segregation, and hatred (to which the boy says he doesn't know); he says that prejudice is "when someone's sick". Following that is a soundbite of a drill sergeant leading a platoon into training, along with gunfire sound effects, after which are snippets of the two songs--both as recorded by The Blackberries, a session recording group . Interspersed are excerpts of speeches by John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, the eulogy (given by Ted Kennedy) after Robert's assassination, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and soundbites of news coverage of each one's assassination . The ending of the song is a reprise of the introduction . </P>

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