If you were trying to guess the lone Grammy taken home by Nino Tempo & April Stevens’ “Deep Purple” at the 1964 awards six decades later, best rock and roll recording would probably not be the first ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… “Deep Purple” ...

For one night in October 1999, April Stevens was a star again. “It just makes you feel good to be remembered after all these years. What could be better than that?” she said in her acceptance speech ...

“I was still living at home, and Phil Spector came over for a spaghetti dinner,” recalls Nino Tempo. “We went into the piano room after dinner and he said, ‘This is a song I’m gonna record.’ He played ...

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While Nino Tempo went on to resume his career as a jazz saxophonist, April Stevens wound hers down. In 2013 she published a memoir, Teach Me Tiger, in which she admitted that she had been born in 1929 ...

The sibling duo's sweet harmonies and off-kilter arrangement made their take on the pop standard a curious jewel of the final pre-British Invasion year of '60s pop. By Andrew Unterberger Forever No. 1 ...

“Deep Purple” is one of those songs, like “Georgia On My Mind” or “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” that had been around forever before it became a #1 in the rock ‘n’ roll era. The pianist Peter DeRose wrote ...

“I was still living at home, and Phil Spector came over for a spaghetti dinner,” recalls Nino Tempo. “We went into the piano room after dinner and he said, ‘This is a song I’m gonna record.’ He played ...