Marc Staggers [2022] - What The World Needs Now [DSG]

Following on from the post of Edwin Starr's "War" last Wednesday, when that cretin in the Kremlin invaded Ukraine, each week, for as long as it takes, I'll try to find a soul related anti-war song to post. I wonder how many weeks it will take before the crippling sanctions put an end to this tin pot dictator's deluded 'ambitions'?

A couple of positive developments are Germany, who will be impacted most as they are reliant on Russia's gas and oil, agreeing to the SWIFT boycott of Russia and FIFA, eventually, seeing sense and banning matches against Russia, or whatever name they are paraded under, only because the rest of the world will refuse to play against them anyway! You may well ask how many palms were greased with Russia hosting the last World Cup and the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, being 'rewarded' with an Order of Friendship medal personally by Putin.

"When Gianni Infantino accepted 'special treatment' by the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts Russia and Qatar, the question of a potential conflict of interest was raised".

For us in the West looking on like it's a war movie, it's not for the poor souls taking the brunt of it and our hearts goes out to them. If you believe in a God then surely with disasters caused by global warming, Covid and now this, which could easily escalate into a third world war, surely we are being given a message that we need to learn quickly from!

Anyway, enough of the politics, on to the music. Gary Van Den Bussche has been playing this song, recorded a few years ago by Marc Staggers, on his lunchtime Starpoint Radio show this week and has sent it over to me as he has decided to reissue it on DSG. It was originally a DSG website download only and is now available again at DiscoSoulGold.

You will undoubtedly know the Bacharach & David song, "What The World Needs Now", but perhaps not this beautiful rendition on which Marc sounds remarkably like the late Luther Vandross. It sounds to me like it also has elements of  Teddy Pendergrass' "Come And Go With Me"? Nigel Lowis is in the mix on this new version. 

The song has been recorded so many times that perhaps we need reminding that it was recorded first by Jackie DeShannon nearly 60 years ago in 1965, or as Gary would say 40 years + VAT as that is how he referred to his age yesterday on his birthday!

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Details

Rating:	9
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Classic Soul / Reissue
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	DSG
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/03/2022
Key/BPM:	NA
Value:	£1.50