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Best of Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Nino Tempo & April Stevens are a brother and sister act from New York. Formed in the early 1960s when Nino Tempo and April Stevens signed as a duo with Atco Records, the group had a string of Billboard hits and earned a Grammy Award as “best rock & roll record of the year” for the single “Deep Purple”. “Deep Purple” was originally released as a “B-side” by producer Ahmet Ertegun, who was dubious of Tempo’s belief that it would be a hit, calling it “the most embarrassing thing” the duo had ever recorded. When the “A-side” song, “Paradise”, flopped, Ertegun relented, and the song achieved notability as the longest running hit B-side, a title it carried for 21 years. Music journalist Richie Unterberger has described the later song “All Strung Out” as Nino... Read on...

• Rank
• Artist
• Song
• Year
• Points

• 1
• Nino Tempo & April Stevens
• Deep Purple
• 1963
• 41

• 2
• Nino Tempo & April Stevens
• I Love How You Love Me
• 1965
• 0