LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 17, 2019- THIS SONG WAS ORIGINALLY A HIT SONG FOR COUNTRY SINGER BILLY JOE ROYAL IN 1967. A YEAR LATER DEEP PURPLE RELEASED A BALLSY, ROCK VERSION AND IT PROVED TO BE THE GROUPS FIRST TOP TEN HIT. IN 2009 DEEP PURPLE’S KEYBOARD EXTRAORDINAIRE JON LORD TOLD “MOJO” MAGAZINE:
“Initially we thought it’s a bit too disco, or whatever the word was then.
But Ritchie (Blackmore) said it would work if we toughened it up a bit.”
HERE’S THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FOR ‘HUSH’ RELEASED BY DEEP PURPLE IN 1968
