


The band pushed Parlophone to release their cover of The Beatles’ Help as a debut single, but their paymasters were instead intent on issuing Hush.

The album completed, Deep Purple still weren’t convinced. It was left to Simper to hastily phone his friend Rod Freeman, who’d recently been singing Hush with a band.įreeman fetched up with his guitar and dutifully wrote down the chords and lyrics. The song had been earmarked for the final tracklist, but nobody had thought to bring along a copy of Royal’s recording as a guide. Captain Jack covered "Hush" on the Eurodance album Party Warriors, released in Europe in 2003.Recorded at London’s Pye studio in the spring of 1968, during sessions for their debut album Shades Of Deep Purple, Hush very nearly didn’t happen at all.The band featured Phil Lynott, Eric Bell, and Brian Downey from Thin Lizzy. Funky Junction recorded a version of "Hush" on their only album Funky Junction Play a Tribute to Deep Purple in 1973.Milli Vanilli recorded a version on their debut album All or Nothing in 1988.
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"Hush" is one of four songs originally recorded with vocals sung by Rod Evans that the band have performed with Ian Gillan on vocals later on.The track was released as a single and reached number 62 on the UK singles chart and number 44 on the US Hot Mainstream Rock chart. In celebration of the band's 20th anniversary, Deep Purple re-recorded the song in 1988 for their album Nobody's Perfect. After Hefner heard a ghost story from Jon Lord and had a guitar lesson from Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple performed "Hush" which is available in the Playboy After Dark -2nd Collection 2007 DVD release. In 1968, Hugh Hefner introduced Deep Purple, who performed live on the Playboy After Dark TV series. A live, US-televised version of "Hush" appeared as a bonus track on the 2000 CD-reissue of the Shades of Deep Purple album. The track became the group's first hit single peaking at number 4 on the Hot 100 on 21–28 September 1968, number 16 in Italy in late 1968, and number 2 in Canada while going largely unnoticed in the United Kingdom. The song was subsequently recorded by British hard rock band Deep Purple for their 1968 debut album Shades of Deep Purple.
