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Single by Nino Tempo & April Stevens; from the album Deep Purple ; B-side "I've Been Carrying a Torch for You So Long That It Burned a Great Big Hole in My Heart" Released: September 1963: Genre: Pop [5] rockabilly [5] Length: 2: 40: Label: Atco: Songwriter(s) Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish: Nino Tempo & April Stevens singles chronology
Nino Tempo & April Stevens (Antonino and Carol Vincinette LoTempio) were a brother and sister singing act from Niagara Falls, New York.Formed in the early 1960s when Nino Tempo and April Stevens signed as a duo with Atco Records, they had a string of Billboard hits and earned a Grammy Award as "best rock & roll record of the year" for the single "Deep Purple".
Via a Bobby Darin recording session, Tempo made connections with Atlantic Records and contracted with its subsidiary Atco Records. However, Nino Tempo is known best for his 1963 duet "Deep Purple" on Atco with his sister Caroline (singing under the stage name April Stevens), which scored No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
April Stevens (born Caroline Vincinette LoTempio; April 29, 1929 – April 17, 2023) was an American Grammy award-winning singer of traditional pop, best known for her collaborations with her younger brother, Nino Tempo, as Nino Tempo & April Stevens. Stevens was an inductee in the Niagara Falls Music Hall of Fame [2]
In 1964, after recording their hit "Deep Purple", American brother-and-sister vocal duo Nino Tempo & April Stevens had a new hit with "Whispering". This version went to number eleven on the Hot 100, number four on the Easy Listening chart, [7] and number 17 in Canada. [8]
Rhino re-issued the album with a revised track lineup in 1993. Two tracks on the original 1988 release—"Fingertips" by "Little" Stevie Wonder and "Walk Like a Man" by The 4 Seasons—were replaced on the re-issue with "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul and "Deep Purple" by Nino Tempo & April Stevens. Both of the replacement songs reached ...
When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll is a compilation album by Deep Purple featuring some of their most popular songs from 1968 to 1974.. The LP was released in October 1978 by Warner Bros. Records in North America and Japan only, as counterpart to The Deep Purple Singles A's and B's, which was simultaneously released in other markets.
"Deep Purple" – Nino Tempo & April Stevens "Denise" – Randy and The Rainbows "Diamonds" – Jet Harris and Tony Meehan "Dominique" – Soeur Sourire (The Singing Nun) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" – Peter, Paul and Mary "Donna the Prima Donna" – Dion "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" – Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas "Drip Drop ...