“What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.”
- Burt Bacharach and Hal David
The song, What The World Needs Now, wasn’t meant to be a hit.
It took two years to complete the writing of the song and it was rejected by Dionne Warwick, and Gene Pitney, before Jackie DeShannon recorded it in 1965. (The song …