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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".
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
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. The song won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Rock And Roll Recording , selling more than one million copies and earning a gold disc .
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]
April 27 "I Will Follow Him" Little Peggy March [17] May 4 ... "Deep Purple" Nino Tempo & April Stevens [48] 101 November 23 "I'm Leaving It Up to You" Dale & Grace
Nino Tempo and April Stevens "Deep Purple" Atco. 1 [1] 101: November 23, 1963: Dale & Grace "I'm Leaving It Up to You" Montel. 2 [1] 102: December 7, 1963: The ...
The group soon changed their name to Deep Purple, after the song of the same name by Nino Tempo & April Stevens. [3] Deep Purple quickly recorded their first album Shades of Deep Purple , which was issued in July 1968. [ 4 ]
"Deep Purple" Nino Tempo & April Stevens: 1 November 16 7 "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" Peter, Paul and Mary 9 October 26 2 October 26 "Washington Square"