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
Annotation — Civil Rights 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
Notes
MoWest MW 5002 F, sunset-over-the-sea label, "A trademark of Motown Record Corporation", © 1971; both sides "In Album MW-103L 'What the World Needs Now'" and produced by Tom Clay. "The Victors" (Tom Clay), time 4:31, Jobete Music Co., BMI (P-4260-60468-2B). Flip: medley "What the World Needs Now Is Love" (H. David/B. Bacharach), Blue Seas Mus., Inc. & Jac Music Co., Inc., ASCAP, and "Abraham, Martin and John" (D. Holler), ASCAP, time 6:10 (P-4261-60460-1B); arranged by Gene Page, vocal accompaniment The Blackberries. [From the record sleeve and labels]
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 [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs