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What the World Needs Now Is Love

1965 song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; first recorded by Jackie deShannon
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What the World Needs Now Is Love

Summary

What the World Needs Now Is Love is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,177 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What the World Needs Now Is Love's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • What the World Needs Now Is Love's composer is recorded as Burt Bacharach[4].
  • What the World Needs Now Is Love's genre is popular music[5].
  • Among the performers on What the World Needs Now Is Love was Jackie DeShannon[6].
  • What the World Needs Now Is Love's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • What the World Needs Now Is Love was published on 1965[8].
  • What the World Needs Now Is Love's lyricist is recorded as Hal David[9].
  • What the World Needs Now Is Love's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What the World Needs Now Is Love'}[10].
  • What the World Needs Now Is Love's form of creative work is recorded as song[11].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[12]

  • Genre(s): christmas music, contemporary christian, new romantic[13]

  • Community tags: christmas music, contemporary christian, new romantic[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0d3307b4-3150-3969-bb87-3fe68413229f[15]

Body

Authorship and Creation

What the World Needs Now Is Love was performed by Jackie DeShannon[6].

Publication

What the World Needs Now Is Love was released on 1965[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. Its genre is popular music[5].

Why It Matters

What the World Needs Now Is Love ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,177 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

Related Entities

Burt Bacharach

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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