Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon is an American singersongwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singersongwriters of the rock n roll period. DeShannon is currently an entertainment broadcast correspondent reporting historical anecdotes and current Beatles band members news for Breakfast with the Beatles on Sirius XM Satellite Radio on the weekends.

DeShannon was born Sharon Lee Myers in Hazel, Kentucky, the daughter of musically inclined farming parents, Sandra Jean and James Erwin Myers. By age six, she was singing country tunes on a local radio show. By age 11, she was hosting her own radio program. When life on the farm became too difficult, the family moved to her mothers hometown, Aurora, Illinois, where her father resumed his other career as a barber.

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