Jackie DeShannon is best remembered today as the composer of Kim Carnes\u2019 huge 1981 Grammy winning hit \u201cBette Davis Eyes,\u201d which spent over two months at the top of the American singles charts and was ranked the number two single of the entire decade. <\/p>\n
DeShannon has released numerous albums and singles over the course of her five decade career, including the top ten hits \u201cWhat The World Needs Now Is Love\u201d and \u201cPut A Little Love In Your Heart.\u201d Her music quickly developed into slick, well produced pop, which fit her wonderful clear voice well.<\/p>\n
Her 1963 self-titled debut album has now been re-released by Collector\u2019s Choice Music. It is very different from all the other albums in her vast catalogue as it finds her trying to capitalize on the folk revival movement of the early \u201860s. Her original intent was to issue an entire album of Bob Dylan covers, but instead she settled for three of his songs plus nine other traditional and contemporary folk tunes.<\/p>\n
The best of the Dylan compositions is \u201cDon\u2019t Think Twice, It\u2019s Alright,\u201d which finds her eschewing any background vocals and gives a gritty and sincere vocal performance. \u201cWalkin\u2019 Down The Line\u201d is about as pop as she gets on this release, as she speeds up the tempo and uses a number of background singers to fill in the sound. \u201cBlowin\u2019 In The Wind\u201d has now been covered by countless artists, and while her version may have sounded fresh in 1963, today it is regulated to the average category. <\/p>\n
While The Weavers originally recorded \u201cIf I Had A Hammer,\u201d it is now associated with Peter, Paul & Mary; DeShannon\u2019s take on the song is similar to theirs. But she also adds a little pop leaning to their \u201cPuff (The Magic Dragon)\u201d as well.<\/p>\n
Two traditional folk songs fare well under her gentle touch. \u201c500 Miles\u201d and the old Celtic ballad \u201cBetsy From Pike\u201d are both delivered in a poignant and haunting manner. <\/p>\n
Jackie DeShannon <\/i>turned out to be the road less taken as far as her career was concerned. As such, it remains an interesting and still highly listenable album over a half-century after its initial release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8468],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-44580","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jackie-deshannon","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44580"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}