What the World Needs Now Is Love

"What the World Needs Now is Love" is an American 1965 pop song by Jackie DeShannon. It was first recorded and made popular by DeShannon. It was released on April 15, 1965. It peaked at number 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

The song is about wanting love and dealing with prejudice.

Other singers have recorded the song. They include Dionne Warwick.

Quotation

The song contains the memorable lines:

"What the world needs now is love, sweet love

It's the only thing that there's just too little of..".

Dionne Warwick
Discography
Studio albums	Presenting Dionne Warwick (1963) Anyone Who Had a Heart (1964) Make Way for Dionne Warwick (1964) The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick (1965) Here I Am (1965) Here Where There Is Love (1966) On Stage and in the Movies (1967) The Windows of the World (1967) Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls (1968) The Magic of Believing (1968) Promises, Promises (1968) Soulful (1969) I'll Never Fall in Love Again (1970) Very Dionne (1970) Dionne (1972) Just Being Myself (1973) Then Came You (1975) Track of the Cat (1975) Love at First Sight (1977) Dionne (1979) No Night So Long (1980) Friends in Love (1982) Heartbreaker (1982) How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (1983) Finder of Lost Loves (1985) Friends (1985) Reservations for Two (1987) Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter (1990) Friends Can Be Lovers (1993) Aquarela do Brasil (1994) My Favorite Time of the Year (2004) My Friends & Me (2006) Why We Sing (2008) Only Trust Your Heart (2011) Now (2012) She's Back (2019) Dionne Warwick & the Voices of Christmas (2019)
Live albums	Dionne Warwick in Paris (1966) Hot! Live and Otherwise (1981) Christmas in Vienna II (1993)
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits: 1979–1990 (1989) The Love Collection (2008)
Singles	"Don't Make Me Over" "Wishin' and Hopin'" "Anyone Who Had a Heart" "Walk On By" "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" "A House Is Not a Home" "Reach Out for Me" "Who Can I Turn To?" "Are You There (with Another Girl)" "Message to Michael" "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" "Alfie" "The Windows of the World" "I Say a Little Prayer" "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls" "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" "This Girl's in Love with You" "Odds and Ends" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" "Make It Easy on Yourself" "I'm Your Puppet" "Then Came You" "By the Time I Get to Phoenix "Only Love Can Break a Heart" "I'll Never Love This Way Again" "Déjà Vu" "After You" "No Night So Long" "Easy Love" "Now We're Starting Over Again" "Heartbreaker" "All the Love in the World" "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye" "Run to Me" "That's What Friends Are For" "Whisper in the Dark" "Love Power" "Reservations for Two" "Take Good Care of You and Me" "I Don't Need Another Love" "It's All Over" "Where My Lips Have Been" "What the World Needs Now Is Love" "The Good Life"
Other songs	"(They Long to Be) Close to You" "Do You Believe in Love at First Sight" "Solid Gold" "Never Gonna Let You Go"
Tours	Soul Divas Tour

Billie Jo Spears
Discography
Studio albums	The Voice of Billie Jo Spears (1968) Mr. Walker, It's All Over! (1969) Miss Sincerity (1969) Country Girl (1970) Just Singin' (1971) Blanket on the Ground (1975) Billie Jo (1975) What I've Got in Mind (1976) I'm Not Easy (1976) If You Want Me (1977) Lonely Hearts Club (1978) Love Ain't Gonna Wait for Us (1978) I Will Survive (1979) Standing Tall (1980) Only the Hits (1981) Country Girl (1981) Unmistakably (1991)
Compilation albums	The Billie Jo Spears Singles Album (1979)
Singles	"The Harper Valley PTA" "Mr. Walker, It's All Over" "Daddy, I Love You" "Marty Gray" "I Stayed Long Enough" "It Could 'A Been Me" "See the Funny Little Clown" "Blanket on the Ground" "Stay Away from the Apple Tree" "Silver Wings and Golden Rings" "What I've Got in Mind" "Misty Blue" "Sing Me an Old Fashioned Song" "Never Did Like Whiskey" "I'm Not Easy" "If You Want Me" "Too Much Is Not Enough" "Lonely Hearts Club" "I've Got to Go" "'57 Chevrolet" "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for Us" "Yesterday" "I Will Survive" "Livin' Our Love Together" "Rainy Days and Stormy Nights" "Standing Tall" "Natural Attraction" "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" "What the World Needs Now Is Love" "Midnight Blue"
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Ronan Keating
Discography
Studio albums	Ronan (2000) Destination (2002) Turn It On (2003) Bring You Home (2006) Fires (2012) Time of My Life (2016) Twenty Twenty (2020)
Cover albums	Songs for My Mother (2009) Winter Songs (2009) Duet (2010) When Ronan Met Burt (2011)
Compilation albums	10 Years of Hits (2004)
Singles	"When You Say Nothing at All" "These Days" "Life Is a Rollercoaster" "The Way You Make Me Feel" "In This Life" "Lovin' Each Day" "If Tomorrow Never Comes" "I Love It When We Do" "We've Got Tonite" "The Long Goodbye" "Lost for Words" "She Believes (In Me)" "Last Thing on My Mind" "I Hope You Dance" "Father and Son" "Baby Can I Hold You" "All Over Again" "Iris" "Time After Time" "This Is Your Song" "Stay" "Believe Again" "What The World Needs Now" "Fires" "Wasted Light" "Summer Wonderland" "Forever and Ever, Amen"
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