What the World Needs Now Is Love

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Tom Clay (August 20, 1929 – November 22, 1995) was an American radio personality and disc jockey. Clay was born Thomas Clague in New York, and in the 1950s he was popular in the Detroit area on WJBK-AM both as a DJ, and for his on-air comic characterizations; he became a local celebrity. In the early 1950s Clay, using the pseudonym "Guy King," worked for WWOL-AM/FM in Buffalo, New York; on July 3, 1955, he conducted a stunt in which he played "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets repeatedly from atop a billboard in Buffalo's Shelton Square, an incident that led to his firing and arrest (Danny Neaverth would later repeat Clay's stunt but would not suffer the same consequences). In the mid-1950s he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and was equally popular.… more »


Year:
2002
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man: What is segration?
kid: I don't know what segration is.
man: What is bigotry?
kid: I don't know what bigotry is.
man: What does hatred mean?
kid: I don't know what that is.
man: What is prejudice?
kid: Mmm, I think that is when someone is sick.

[Military clip/What The World Needs Now singing in the background.]
Anybody here seen my old friend John
Can you tell me where he's gone.

[John F. Kennedy shooting documentary]
Anybody here seen my old friend Martin
Can you tell me where he's gone.
He freed lotta people 
But it seems the good they die young 

[Martin Luther King speech]
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby
Can you tell me where he's gone.

[Robert Kennedy shooting documentary]
What the world needs now
Is love sweet love
No not for some
But for everyone.

man: What is segration?
kid: I don't know what segration is.
man: What is bigotry?
kid: I don't know what bigotry is.
man: What does hatred mean?
kid: I don't know what that is.
man: What is prejudice?
kid: Mmm, I think that is when someone is sick.

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Written by: Burt F. Bacharach, Hal David, Burt Bacharach

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