What the World Needs Now Is Love - Abraham, Martin and John
1971 · MoWest MW5002F · Los Angeles, California
- Artist
- Tom Clay
- Title
- What the World Needs Now Is Love - Abraham, Martin and John
- Release
- What the World Needs Now Is Love
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- MoWest # MW5002F
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Songwriter
- H. David, B. Bacharach, D. Holler
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Children on Record
What the World Needs Now Is Love / Abraham, Martin and John (Clay, Tom) Victor (Clay, Tom) Soul. Motown sub-label MoWest - Los Angeles, California, USA. A-side: civil right, MLK, JFK, RFK, Christmas reference, Vietnam reference. Child featured. B-side: names of people killed in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam from all sides. Also on: Vietnam War: Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs John F. Kennedy (JFK) Songs Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Songs
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Christmas Songs
What the World Needs Now Is Love / Abraham, Martin and John (Clay, Tom) Victor (Clay, Tom) Soul. Motown sub-label MoWest - Los Angeles, California, USA. A-side: civil right, MLK, JFK, RFK, Christmas reference, Vietnam reference. Child featured. B-side: names of people killed in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam from all sides.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Sublabel of Motown Records (Detroit, Michigan, USA). Tom Clay: Born 20 August 1929, Buffalo, New York, USA. Died 11 November 1995, Burbank, California, USA
Themes
Anti-War · Child · Civil Rights · Christmas · JFK · RFK · MLK · Oswald
In collections
Children on Record · Christmas Songs · Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs