Rumer -"What The World Needs Now"

Rumer is a British singer (nee' Sarah Joyce).

The simple beauty of her voice, and of this arrangement of the Bacharach/David classic, need little comment-though I'll mention that Rumer has been likened to Karen Carpenter. Not hard to hear some similarities, but I don't think she's aping Carpenter. You'll note that Madeleine Peyroux sounds more than a little like Billie Holiday, and that Linda Eder sounds like Barbra Streisand. Not sure it's intentional in any of these cases.