Australian singles charts:
Hush and Kentucky Woman were released in Australia as a double-A-side single, which entered the Kent charts on 30 November 1968 and peaked at #20.
Albums:
The singles Hush and Help are on Deep Purple’s 1968 album Shades of Deep Purple; while Kentucky Woman is on The Book of Taliesyn, also released in 1968. Neither album charted in Australia.
Songwriters:
Hush – Joe South
Kentucky Woman – Neil Diamond
Help – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Producer – both albums:
Derek Lawrence
Record label of Australian release:
Parlophone
Hush
Kentucky Woman
Help
Wikipedia:
Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by Deep Purple, released in July 1968. The band, initially called Roundabout, was the idea of former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis, who recruited Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore before leaving the project. The Mk. I line-up of the band was completed by vocalist/frontman Rod Evans, along with bassist Nick Simper and drummer Ian Paice.
Shades of Deep Purple contains four original songs and four covers, thoroughly rearranged to include classical interludes and sound more psychedelic. Stylistically, the music is close to psychedelic rock and progressive rock, two genres with an ever-growing audience in the late 1960s.
The Book of Taliesyn is the second studio album by Deep Purple, recorded only three months after Shades of Deep Purple. The name for the album was taken from the 14th-century Book of Taliesin.
The structure of the album is similar to that of their first, with four original songs and three rearranged covers; however, the tracks are longer, the arrangements more complex and the sound more polished than on Shades of Deep Purple. The music style is a mix of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and hard rock, with several inserts of classical music arranged by the band’s keyboard player Jon Lord.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_Deep_Purple and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Taliesyn
Also on Bang a Gong:
Hush by Russell Morris and The Rubes
Hush by Somebody’s Image
Kentucky Woman by Neil Diamond
Help! by The Beatles
Help! by John Farnham
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