{"id":3854,"date":"2016-08-23T02:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2016-08-23T02:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:56:02","slug":"happy-belated-birthday-jackie-deshannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/happy-belated-birthday-jackie-deshannon\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY JACKIE DESHANNON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ajackie.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3855\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3855\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ajackie.jpg\" alt=\"ajackie\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of music lovers remember prolific singer and songwriter Jackie DeShannon for her beloved Top 10 singles \u201cWhat the World Needs Now Is Love\u201d and \u201cPut a Little Love in Your Heart\u201d during the \u201860s.\u00a0 But what they might not know is that the pretty slender blonde embarked on an acting career for a short period of time during that swinging decade. \u00a0Her film debut was in the\u00a0beach romp <em>Surf Party<\/em> (1964) starring Bobby Vinton and Pat Morrow.\u00a0DeShannon played the doe-eyed, tomboy Junior who accompanies her friends Morrow and Lory Patrick to Malibu from Arizona to visit Morrow\u2019s brother who is the leader of an elite surfing group called The Lodge. \u00a0Morrow is romanced by Vinton the operator of a local surf shop while Jackie pairs up with Kenny Miller as a surfer who breaks his arm trying to gain entrance into an elite surfer gang.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Surf Party Trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2rUTzAiU6vE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After appearing in the low-budget drama <em>Intimacy<\/em> (1966), Jackie teamed with Bobby Vee for the youth-oriented musical <em>C\u2019mon, Let\u2019s Live a Little<\/em> (1967). It was one of those too-square-to-be-hip movies the major studios released in the late sixties trying to attract the college crowd. DeShannon soon let the acting drift and concentrated on her music career exclusively culminated with a Grammy Award for co-writing the hit song &#8220;Bette Davis Eyes&#8221; in the eighties.<\/p>\n<p>Read my interview with her in my book Drive-in Dream Girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of music lovers remember prolific singer and songwriter Jackie DeShannon for her beloved Top 10 singles \u201cWhat the World Needs Now Is Love\u201d and \u201cPut a Little Love in Your Heart\u201d during the \u201860s.\u00a0 But what they might not know is that the pretty slender blonde embarked on an acting career for a short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}