What the World Needs Now Is Love

This article is about the song. For other uses, see What the World Needs Now Is Love (disambiguation).
"What the World Needs Now Is Love"
A-side label of the 1965 US single
Single by Jackie DeShannon
from the album This Is Jackie DeShannon
B-side"I Remember the Boy"
ReleasedApril 15, 1965
RecordedMarch 23, 1965
StudioBell Sound (New York City)
GenreEasy listening
Length3:10
LabelImperial Records
SongwritersBurt Bacharach, Hal David
ProducersBurt Bacharach, Hal David
Jackie DeShannon singles chronology
"When You Walk in the Room"
(1964) 		"What the World Needs Now Is Love"
(1965) 		"A Lifetime of Loneliness"
(1965)

"What the World Needs Now Is Love" is a 1965 song with lyrics by Hal David and music composed by Burt Bacharach. First recorded and made popular by Jackie DeShannon, it was released on April 15, 1965, on the Imperial label after a release on sister label Liberty records the previous month was canceled. It peaked at number seven on the US Hot 100 in July of that year. In Canada, the song reached number one.

In 2008, the 1965 recording by DeShannon on Imperial Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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