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Jackie DeShannon

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Ignorance is kind of bliss.


— Jackie DeShannon


#ignorance #kind

No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.


— Jackie DeShannon


#believe #compilation #falling #floor #going

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.


— Jackie DeShannon


#exposure #fair #full #gives #great

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.


— Jackie DeShannon


#charts #does #dominate #good #good songs

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.


— Jackie DeShannon


#couples #great #i #impossible #lot

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.


— Jackie DeShannon


#always #artist #elvis #generosity #highly






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In 1974 Jackie DeShannon co-wrote "Queen of the Rodeo" and "Bette Davis Eyes" with Donna Weiss for her album New Arrangement. ) She appeared in the 1967 film C'mon Let's Live a Little with Bobby Vee as a folk singer. Armed with her new name Jackie DeShannon made the WLS Chicago radio survey with the single "Lonely Girl" in late 1960.

Jackie DeShannon (born August 21 1944—or more likely 1941) is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period.

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