D-E-F LINKS CHECKED and TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD

Just completed checking all our side bar links under the D - E - F group and they are all working fine!

REVISITED! 

Bobby Denton in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame...

Jackie DeShannon in the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame...
      

And to celebrate : TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD!


USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDEBAR TO BRING UP OUR POSTS ON Bobby Denton, Jackie De Shannon, or TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD!

NEEDLES AND PINS : DO YOU LIKE THE TURTLES, JACKIE DESHANNON or THE RAMONES' VERSION BEST?

Written by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono!  NEEDLES AND PINS is a cover tune classic that's been covered by a great many, including Jackie DeShannon, The Turtles, The Ramones...

Jackie DeShannon :

The Ramones:

The Turtles:

Want to read about Jackie DeShannon, The Turtles, or the Ramones at WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC?  Use the Google Search feature to bring up past posts!

(440) JACKIE DESHANNON : WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW

JACKIE DESHANNON OFFICIAL SITE link here



When you get to Jackie's site you'll learn that this singer-songwriter is now an activist.  Here is her new song she wrote about her cause, clean water in Africa.



FROM HER SITE: "Singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon is the soulful voice behind two enduring 1960’s anthems -- Burt Bacharach & Hal David's "What The World Needs Now Is Love" and DeShannon's own "Put A Little Love In Your Heart." Beyond those standards is an artist who has created a body of work covering a diverse range of genres including rock, folk, R&B, country, gospel, reggae and jazz.

Her songs have been performed by Brenda Lee, The Byrds, Marianne Faithfull, Al Green, Annie Lennox, The Searchers, Pam Tillis, The Carpenters, Kim Carnes, The Temptations, Rick Nelson, Cher, Van Morrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Dolly Parton, Irma Thomas..."

(439) HOLLYWOOD A GO GO : LOCAL MUSIC TELEVISION IN THE MID 1960's

Hollywood - A Go Go was a local television show - local as in Los Angeles - that featured artists who were appearing on the Sunset Strip Go Go  music club scene (girls in boots dancing in cages which started at the Whiskey were called Go Go Girls) and in its 40 some episodes which aired in 1965 and 1966 many of those we blog about appeared... Jackie DeShannon, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Bobby Fuller Four, Chuck Berry...  It was hosted by KHJ radio am disk jockey Sam Riddle, and featured the Gazzari Dancers.  Thanks to YouTube contributors of historical music television footage, here is Rick Nelson and, on another show, Jackie De Shannon.

AMERICAN SONGWRITER MAGAZINE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME - NOMINEE LIST FOR 2010

Kevin Richards reporting for AMERICAN SONGWRITER MAGAZINE: You can go to the article linked above but this is the list as it applies to those we have or will be blogging about here at WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC!

Non-Performer Songwriters
Jackie DeShannon – * Bette Davis Eyes * Breakaway * Dum Dum * Everytime You Walk In The Room * Put A Little Love In Your Heart" (Jackie was a performer but these hits that she wrote were recorded by other artists.)

Performer/Songwriters
Dion DiMucci – * Born to Cry * Donna The Prima Donna * King Of The New York Streets * Love Came To Me * Runaround Sue."

David Gates (Bread) - * Baby I’m-a Want You * Diary * Everything I Own * If * Make It With You

Leon Russell - * A Song For You * Delta Lady * Superstar * This Masquerade * Tight Rope