What the World Needs Now is Love

This hit for Jackie O-Shannon was an early harbinger of the flower power movement, with its overt theme of universal love, and subtext of anti-war sentiment. The arrangement introduces the main theme in a thoughtful, conversational style before moving into the pulsing waltz tempo of the original. A few light chord substitutions bring this into the realm of suitability for BHS-system barbershop contests (though maybe not Sweet Adelines).

Here it is at its contest premiere: