Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)

"Hush" is a song written by American composer and musician Joe South, for recording artist Billy Joe Royal, whose single peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 28 October – 11 November 1967.^[2] The chorus begins "Hush, hush, I thought I heard her calling my name", which is a takeoff from the traditional gospel song lyrics "Hush, hush, somebody's calling my name". Kris Ife covered "Hush" in 1967. Australian performer Russell Morris recorded a version in 1967 with Somebody's Image, and a heavier version with his band The Rubes in 1980. The hook of the song "na-nana-na-nana-na-nana-na" has similarity with the bridge section of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". The Deep Purple version has a slower section also matching the timing with The Beatles song.

Deep Purple version

The song was subsequently recorded by British hard rock band Deep Purple for their 1968 debut album Shades of Deep Purple. The track became the group's first hit single peaking at number 4 on the Hot 100 on 21–28 September 1968 and number 2 in Canada while going largely unnoticed in the United Kingdom. A live, US-televised version of "Hush" appeared as a bonus track on the 2000 CD-reissue of the Shades of Deep Purple album.

In celebration of the band's 20th anniversary, Deep Purple re-recorded the song in 1988 for their album Nobody's Perfect. The track was released as a single and reached number 62 on the UK singles chart and number 44 on the US Hot Mainstream Rock chart.

"Hush" is one of four songs originally recorded with vocals sung by Rod Evans that the band have performed with Ian Gillan on vocals later on. Others are "Kentucky Woman", originally from the album The Book of Taliesyn from 1968, "Mandrake Root" from the same album that originally featured "Hush", and "Bird Has Flown" from the album Deep Purple, or Deep Purple III, released in 1969.

Other versions

Johnny Hallyday recorded a French cover, "Mal", in 1968. Love Affair recorded a cover that was included as a track on the The Everlasting Love Affair album, released in the December that year.

The Partridge Family performed a version on their TV series, with David Cassidy on vocals.

Also in 1968, American singer Merrilee Rush included her version of the song on her debut album Angel of the Morning.

Funky Junction recorded a version of "Hush" on their only album Funky Junction Play a Tribute to Deep Purple in 1973. The band featured Phil Lynott, Eric Bell and Brian Downey from Thin Lizzy.^[3]

Funk Machine (an Italo disco band) recorded a version for their 1982 album Dance on the Groove and do the Funk.

West German pop duo Milli Vanilli recorded a version in 1988.

The American noise rock band Killdozer covered "Hush" on their 1989 covers-only album, For Ladies Only.

UK psych-rock band Prime Movers covered "Hush" on their 1991 album, Earth Church.

Gotthard's self-titled debut album, released in 1992, featured a cover version of "Hush" recorded by the band themselves.

The Electric Amish recorded a parody called "Mush" on their Milkin' It album.

Kula Shaker, a British psychedelic rock band released "Hush" as a single on February 24, 1997. It reached number 2 on the UK singles chart and number 19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US, where it was included in the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack and the trailer for the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Eric Gales recorded a version on his 2006 album Crystal Vision.

In other media

The Deep Purple version was featured in films:

1995 – Apollo 13
2000 – Isn't She Great
2001 – When Strangers Appear
2004 – Beyond the Sea
2006 – Children of Men
2008 – Strange Wilderness

The song was parodied as "Push" in promos for the short-lived 1998 American soap opera Push.

The song was played in the second season of the television series Prison Break during the episode "Scan". It was also featured in the second episode of the short-lived Freaks and Geeks.

The game Battlefield: Vietnam included "Hush" as part of the in-game soundtrack.

The Xbox 360 version of the game Guitar Hero II features the Deep Purple arrangement as a playable song.

The 2008 television advertisement for the Jaguar XF features the 'monitor mix' version of Hush, from Deep Purple's The Early Years album.

The song can also be heard in the film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, in a television spot for the 2009 film Taking Woodstock, as well as played over footage of Derby County goals in the movie about Brian Clough, The Damned United.

Deep Purple's version of the song is featured in full during two shootouts early in the 2012 video game Spec Ops: The Line.

Personnel

1968 Deep Purple version

1988 Deep Purple version

References

↑ Joe Viglione. "Hush - Deep Purple | Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
↑ "Billy Joe Royal - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
↑ Alan Byrne, "Thin Lizzy: Soldiers of Fortune", Firefly, 2004

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Billy Joe Royal

Studio albums	Billy Joe Royal Down in the Boondocks Billy Joe Royal featuring Hush Cherry Hill Park Billy Joe Royal Looking Ahead The Royal Treatment Tell It Like It Is Out of the Shadows

Other albums	Greatest Hits The Very Best Of Billy Joe Royal - The Columbia Years (1965-1972)

Singles	"Down in the Boondocks" "I Knew You When" "I've Got to Be Somebody" "It's a Good Time" "Heart's Desire" "Campfire Girls" "Yo-Yo" "These Are Not My People" "The Greatest Love" "Hush" "Storybook Children" "Cherry Hill Park" "Every Night" "Tulsa" "Poor Little Pearl" "Under the Boardwalk" "Burned Like a Rocket" "Boardwalk Angel" "I Miss You Already" "Old Bridges Burn Slow" "Members Only" (with Donna Fargo) "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow" "Out of Sight and on My Mind" "It Keeps Right On Hurtin'" "Tell It Like It Is" "Love Has No Right" "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" "Searchin' for Some Kind of Clue" "A Ring Where a Ring Used to Be" "If the Jukebox Took Teardrops" "I'm Okay (And Gettin' Better)" "Hard Rock to Roll"

B-Sides	"Oh, What a Night" "Steal Away" (A-Side) "You Make Me Feel Like A Man" "Don't Wait Up For Me Mama" (A-Side) "Deep Inside Me" "Should I Come Back" "We Tried" "Bed Of Roses" "Watching From The Bandstand" "Just Between Me And You" "Helping Hand" (A-Side) "The Lady Lives To Love" "Lonely Loving You" "Boardwalk Angel" "Another Endless Night" (A-Side) "A Place For The Heartache" "I Was Losing You" "Cross My Heart And Hope To Cry" (A-Side) "How Could You Leave Me"

Cover Songs	"Amanda" "Bring It On Home to Me" "Child of Mine" "Crying" "Funny How Time Slips Away" "I'm Sorry" "Kiss and Say Goodbye" "Making Believe" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Solitary Man" "Spanish Harlem" "Stand by Me" "To Love Somebody"

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Deep Purple

Ian Gillan Steve Morse Roger Glover Don Airey Ian Paice Jon Lord Ritchie Blackmore Rod Evans Nick Simper Glenn Hughes David Coverdale Tommy Bolin Joe Lynn Turner Joe Satriani

Studio albums	Shades of Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn Deep Purple Deep Purple in Rock Fireball Machine Head Who Do We Think We Are Burn Stormbringer Come Taste the Band Perfect Strangers The House of Blue Light Slaves and Masters The Battle Rages On... Purpendicular Abandon Bananas Rapture of the Deep Now What?!

Live albums	Concerto for Group and Orchestra Made in Japan Made in Europe Last Concert in Japan Deep Purple in Concert Live in London Nobody's Perfect Scandinavian Nights In the Absence of Pink: Knebworth '85 Gemini Suite Live Come Hell or High Water King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert California Jamming Mk III: The Final Concerts Live at The Olympia '96 Total Abandon: Australia '99 In Concert with The London Symphony Orchestra Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy This Time Around: Live in Tokyo Live in Paris 1975 Inglewood: Live in California Space Vol 1 & 2 Perks and Tit Live in Europe 1993 Live Encounters.... Live at Montreux 1996 Live in Montreux 69 Live in Denmark 1972 Live at Montreux 2006: They All Came Down to Montreux Live at Montreux 2011 Phoenix Rising Perfect Strangers Live Now What?! Live Tapes Graz 1975 Celebrating Jon Lord: The Rock Legend Live in Verona Long Beach 1971 From The Setting Sun… (In Wacken) …To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo)

Compilation albums	Purple Passages Mark I & II 24 Carat Purple Powerhouse The Deep Purple Singles A's and B's When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll The Mark II Purple Singles Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple The Anthology Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's Smoke on the Water: The Best Of 30: Very Best of Deep Purple Smoke on the Water Shades 1968–1998 The Very Best of Deep Purple Days May Come and Days May Go The Bootleg Series 1984–2000 Smoke on the Water & Other Hits The Soundboard Series Listen, Learn, Read On Winning Combinations: Deep Purple and Rainbow The Early Years New, Live & Rare 1969–71 The Platinum Collection BBC Sessions 1968–1970

Singles	"Hush" "Kentucky Woman" "River Deep – Mountain High" "Black Night" "Strange Kind of Woman" "Fireball" "Never Before" "Smoke on the Water" "Woman from Tokyo" "Burn" "Perfect Strangers" "Nobody's Home" "Knocking at Your Back Door" "Call of the Wild" "King of Dreams" "Fire in the Basement" "Love Conquers All" "The Battle Rages On" "Anya" "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" "Any Fule Kno That" "Haunted" "House of Pain" "Rapture of the Deep" "All the Time in the World" "Vincent Price" "Above and Beyond" "Out Of Hand"

Other songs	"Child in Time" "Highway Star" "Lazy" "Mandrake Root" "Maybe I'm a Leo" "Mistreated" "Soldier of Fortune" "Space Truckin'" "Speed King" "The Mule" "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic" "When a Blind Man Cries"

Video albums	Concerto for Group and Orchestra Doing Their Thing Live in Concert 72/73 Live in California 74 Deep Purple Rises Over Japan Heavy Metal Pioneers Special Edition EP Come Hell or High Water Bombay Calling Live at Montreux 1996 Total Abandon: Australia '99 In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra New, Live & Rare Perihelion Live Encounters... Classic Albums: Deep Purple – The Making of Machine Head Live at Montreux 2006 Around the World Live History, Hits & Highlights '68–'76 Phoenix Rising Live at Montreux 2011 Perfect Strangers Live Celebrating Jon Lord at the Royal Albert Hall Live in Verona

Concert tours	Deep Purple Debut Tour Shades of Deep Purple Tour The Book of Taliesyn Tour Deep Purple European Tour In Rock World Tour Fireball World Tour Machine Head World Tour Deep Purple European Tour 1974 Burn World Tour Stormbringer World Tour Rockupation '75 Come Taste the Band World Tour Perfect Strangers World Tour The House of Blue Light World Tour Slaves and Masters World Tour Deep Purple 25 Years Anniversary World Tour Deep Purple and Joe Satriani Tour Deep Purple Secret Mexican Tour Deep Purple Secret USA Tour Purpendicular World Tour A Band On World Tour Concerto World Tour Deep Purple World Tour Bananas World Tour Rapture of the Deep Tour The Songs That Built Rock Tour Now What? World Tour

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Kula Shaker

Crispian Mills Alonza Bevan Paul Winter-Hart Harry Broadbent Jay Darlington

Albums	K Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts Strangefolk Pilgrims Progress K2.0

EPs	Summer Sun E.P. Revenge of the King Freedom Lovin' People

Singles	"Tattva (Lucky 13 Mix)" "Tattva" "Hey Dude" "Govinda" "Hush" "Shower Your Love"

Compilations	Kollected Tattva: The Very Best of Kula Shaker

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