Career
He recorded for Everest Records in the 1960s and later moved to the New Orleans label Minit Records. Holiday"s best-known composition is "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", co-written with Jackie DeShannon and Randy Myers. In the United States of America, it was DeShannon"s highest-charting hit, reaching #4 on the Hot 100 in August 1969 and #2 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
In late 1969, the song reached number one on South Africa"s hit parade.
Holiday died in 1987 in Iowa City of heart failure. "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (Jackie DeShannon, 1969)
"All I Ever Need Is You" (Ray Charles, 1971).
