Recommend me some Jackie DeShannon

etc.

she rules

she made it with jimmy page

"Don't Turn Your Back on Me" (folk-rock avant la lettre!)

hell yeah. pretty much every guitar riff peter buck ever played is somewhere in that song.

i just sold this for some stupid, stupid reason. i'll have to buy another comp. fuck.

luv u jackie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI4FA_TkCsI

so cute but what the hell that dress?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFrQKWMYZGM

adorable cornball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdS_Vuz65s

not on youtube but i adore "come and get me"

man, she and Sharon Sheeley wrote so many awesome songs together circa 1963-65 — surely the high point of her career. I'm totally entranced by some demos she recorded in 1965 for a never-released folk album. it's just her and a fingerpicked acoustic guitar, and at that point she had a lot in common with Gene Clark in terms of songwriting. it's too bad the album never came out, and a short time later, the success of "What the World Needs Now..." took her career in a direction that doesn't appeal to me as much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXFe8qyJXgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puj7uGrw8VU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJDYfN3vin8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2raM9NwK_qI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQVDwwtGMvc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuEdyEF3Mzg

"Rebel of the Town" and "Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe" aren't actually from that unreleased album, but the rest are, fyi)

the 70's stuff is good too though! but i know what you mean. been playing her a lot lately. my collection grows yearly. i think i must have ten or twelve of her records and i'm always finding more i don't have.

don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she jumped the shark as soon as she became famous. I just wish she'd recorded some more songs in the vein of "When You Walk in the Room" before she went all smooth and Bacharach-y in the mid-'60s.

what '70s records of hers would you recommend? Songs from 1971 is pleasantly low-key mix of folk-rock and Carole King-esque piano ballads, the former being a few notches better than the latter. It's similar in style to the more celebrated but weaker Laurel Canyon album, which is a loose concept album about L.A., steeped in serious-minded Americana that hasn't aged very well.

Jackie from 1972 is pretty highly regarded, but I haven't heard it yet.

i think her first three 70's releases are all worth hearing. breezy cali stuff, lite funky, some country tinges. nothing earthshattering. but most of her studio records wouldn't be described that way. i just like her voice. the choice of songs. i like her songs. first three are: *to be free*, *songs*, and *jackie*. i have the one after that *your baby is a lady*, but i've only played it once or twice. after that i dunno. think i heard one later one after the your baby album, but don't remember much about it. i might still have it.

still 60's stuff i need. i need the laurel canyon album. and i need the in the wind album. and i need to find a good cd of the really early singles. the pre-liberty stuff. and that demo stuff. and i still need a nice copy of the beatles tour album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8fLWCjwGGQ

the jimmy page years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbeeZso5b-0

search "Dream Boy", also with Page on guitar

really, all the songs she recorded with Jimmy Page ("Dream Boy", "I Remember the Boy", "Don't Turn Your Back on Me", "It's Love Baby") are gold.

I'll have to check out To Be Free and Jackie as I slowly work through her catalog -- thanks for tip.

it's funny how many pseudonyms she went through on those early singles. Sherri Lee, Jackie Dee, Jackie Shannon & The Cajuns, and finally Jackie De Shannon. it must be hell to collect all those.

i really like her version of "drift away" - bonus track on "jackie" iirc

Vote here in my poll of some interest to show your love

big props to Ace Records for compiling all of her Liberty singles (2 volumes are out with 1 more on the way) in their original mixes. hopefully they'll do the same for the early singles she released on a bunch of weird little record labels. this a-side from 1959 absolutely smokes, but afaik it's only been re-released on one obscure girl group anthology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3i_hcEP_0k

listening to "When You Walk in the Room", I have a naive question: is that her playing the main guitar riff?

Glen Campbell played the main guitar riff!

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/jangly-guitarist-on-j-deshannons-when-you-walk-in-the-room-q-for-ron-furmanek.32072/

Q: Concerning your classic song "When You Walk In The Room" did you write that on the guitar and was that guitar lick written by you as well?

A: Yes, I wrote it on the guitar and I did write that lick. Glen Campbell, however, played it on the actual session. It was really funny. I has such nerve. Glen could have played it perfectly, but I didn't want that. I wanted more raunch and funky like I played it. Glen thought people were going to think he played badly. I kept saying, 'Well never mind,' because I'm not a great musician by any means. He was very sweet to help me out. It was a very different approach in those days.

wow thanks! sounds so McGuinn

Some great stuff recorded at American in Memphis got released two years, ICYMI. I know I did.
https://jazzchill.blogspot.com/2018/04/jackie-deshannon-stone-cold-soulthe.html

I had a major "damn, who wrote this?" moment when hearing The Searchers' "Each Time" for the first time. imho it's one of the finest songs Phil Spector never produced and/or took credit for writing. Jackie's songwriter demo is pretty cool. the backing vocals don't really work, but I love Jackie's aggressive delivery and the ambitious arrangement — kinda mapping out every direction the song could possibly take in a neat 3-minute package

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07GfK610j1M

Jackie's Dylanesque 1965 Metric demo album finally surfaced on slsk a few years ago. it has some beautiful moments but it isn't really the lost classic I was hoping it would turn out to be

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/jackie-deshannon-dont-doubt-yourself.html
https://www.allmusic.com/album/metric-music-demo-may-27-1965-mw0001153124

Interesting-sounding new comp: https://www.acerecords.co.uk/nothing-can-stop-me-liberty-records-rarities-1960-1962

Had no idea she was even recording that early. God, I love "What the World Needs Now." I keep two other songs on my hard drive, both from 1968: "Me About You" and "Didn't Want to Have to Do It."

I've been on a big Jackie DeShannon dive this past week — I really didn't know much about her or by her. I knew the two big hits, but when I looked up "Bette Davis Eyes" (because of it being discussed on another thread) and saw that she'd written it, it made me curious about her. She's great! No idea how I missed her for so long. I love the early '60s stuff, and also the late '60s/early '70s Laurel Canyon era. And she knew and played with such a wide range of people. I also went back and listened to some of her teenage country radio recordings — very likable, and once you know it's there you can totally hear the country influence in her singing on her later stuff.

Love this '64 TV clip (digitally cleaned and colorized, obv)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9bLpQySnkg

I love her version of Trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZG5he--loE

Funny, I had just put her on the Not Dead thread!

"My best friend" is so good.

Love that whole Laurel Canyon album, such a good vibe. Dr. John on keys!

Great take on "Sunshine of Your Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmW1-e3FRs0