Jackie DeShannon was born as "Sharon Lee Myers" to a music-loving farming family in Calloway County, Kentucky in 1941.
Here she is performing a song penned by Sonny Bono, Jack Nitzsche, and herself in 1963.
The song barely troubled the American charts, but reached Number 1 in Canada. "Needles and Pins" saw much greater worldwide success a year later when it was recorded by English Merseybeat band "The Searchers".
Jackie DeShannon would have more success with her self-penned hits including "When You Walk In The Room" and "Put A Little Love In Your Heart", while forming fruitful artistic partnerships with other great names from the music scene of the 60s and 70s, including Ry Cooder, Marianne Faithfull, Randy Newman, and The Byrds.
She toured and played support for The Beatles, and dated the likes of Elvis Presley, Bryan MacLean (of California band "Love"), and Jimmy Page, the latter of whom composed the Led Zeppelin song "Tangerine" as an addendum to their breakup.
She scored perhaps her greatest success as the co-writer of the 1974 song "Bette Davis Eyes", which became a mega-hit for Kim Carnes in 1981.
The Searchers' recording of "Needles and Pins" might be more slickly produced, but the raucous energy of Jackie's original is hard to resist.
This archive film footage has been combined and synced with audio material.
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