When You Walk in the Room

Sometimes stuff just don't make sense. When you consider she had a smash hit as the singer of "What the World Needs Now Is Love," and was the writer of "When You Walk in the Room," "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" and, yes, "Bette Davis Eyes," and that she was cute as a damn button—check out the way she comes in early in this clip and the embarrassed look she gets—how on earth was Jackie DeShannon not a much, much, much bigger star? It's as if Reese Witherspoon wrote great pop songs.

Such is life. As sweet solace, at least we have guitars playing lovely tunes.