Billboard Top 40 Hits 1971: #130: ”What The World Needs Now Is Love/ Abraham, Martin and John [Medley]- Tom Clay. July 10, 1971.

• Single: ‘What The World Needs Now Is Love/ Abraham, Martin and John [Medley]- Tom Clay
• Record Company-Mowest
• Genre: Pop, Spoken Word
• Written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach
• Time: 6:10
• B-side: ‘The Victors’
• Album-What The World Needs Now Is Love
• Grade: B-
• Peaked at #8 9 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

Tom Clay was a DJ at KGBS in Los Angeles when he created this medley combining the Jackie DeShannon and Dion hits- and adding snippets of speeches by JFK, RFK, brother Ted Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Predictably It would be the only Hot 100 Hit of Tom Clay’s career.