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Deep Purple: Singles A's & B's

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Deep Purple
Title: Singles A's & B's
Released: 1978
Label: EMI Records
Time: 76:57
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with: Ritchie Blackmoore
Category: Rock
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.08.04
Price in €: 6,99
Web address: www.deep-purple.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Hush (South/South) - 4:24
[2] One More Rainy Day (Evans/Lord) - 3:38
[3] Kentucky Woman (Diamond) - 4:04
[4] Emmaretta (Blackmore/Evans/Lord) - 3:00
[5] Bird Has Flown (Evans/Blackmore/Lord) - 2:54
[6] Hallelujah (Greenaway/Cook) - 3:44
[7] Speed King (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 4:26
[8] Black Night (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 3:28
[9] Strange Kind of Woman (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 3:49
[10] I'm Alone (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 3:06
[11] Fireball (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 3:21
[12] Demon's Eye (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 5:12
[13] Never Before (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 3:30
[14] When a Blind Man Cries (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 3:32
[15] Smoke on the Water (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 3:48
[16] Black Night [live] (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 4:59
[17] Might Just Take Your Life (Blackmore/Coverdale/Lord/Paice) -3:35
[18] Coronarias Redig (Blackmore/Lord/Paice) - 4:54
[19] You Keep on Moving (Coverdale/Hughes) - 4:29
[20] Love Child (Bolin/Coverdale) - 3:04

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


IAN GILLAN - Harmonica
RITCHIE BLACKMORE - Guitar
ROGER GLOVER - Synthesizer, Bass
JON LORD - Keyboards
IAN PAICE - Drums

ROD EVANS - Vocals
NICK SIMPER - Bass, Vocals

HARRY MOSS - Engineer 

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1978 CD Harvest 10762
1978 LP Harvest 2026
1998 CD EMI 81009

"The Deep Purple Singles A's & B's" is a compilation of tracks from the early days of the band. "Hush" and "One More Rainy Day" are from the debut album. "Emmaretta" is a rare single by the first line-up. "Wring That Neck" is from the second album "The Book Of Taliesyn" and "Hallelujah" (which was later covered by Blind Guardian) is another rare single and the first song to feature Ian Gillan and Roger Glover. "April Part I" is a shortened version of the song from the third Deep Purple album. "Black Night" is of course the classic single that launched Purple into music history. "Speed King" is represented here by the substandard piano version. "Strange King Of Woman" was a companion single to the "Fireball" album and "I'm Alone" is an out take from it. The final two tracks, "Demon's Eye" and "Fireball" are taken from the album itself. "The Deep Purple Singles A's & B's" is basically a compilation showed how much Deep Purple achieved in a short space of time early in their career. As such, it is not as good a showcase as "Deepest Purple", but it does contain tracks that, particularly at the time it was released, were hard to get



Dieser Sampler dürfte für Purple-Feinschmecker nicht uninteressant sein, denn er enthält die Single-Tracks der frühen Jahre. Hits wie "Hush", "Wring That Neck", "Strange Kind Of Woman", "Fireball" und -- natürlich -- "Smoke On The Water" kennt jeder, die eher unbekannteren Perlen verbergen sich aber auf dem B-Seiten-Sektor. Da findet man mit "Emmaretta", "Hallelujah", "I'm Alone" und "Coronarias Redig" einige echte Geheimtips, die nie auf einem Longplayer zu hören waren, und auch der legendäre Single-Hit "Black Night" schaffte es aus unerfindlichen Gründen nicht auf ein komplettes Album der britischen Hardrocker. Diese Nummer ist als Livetrack noch ein zweites Mal vertreten, und die Single-Version von "Speed King" dürfte auch nicht jeder Anhänger der Band im Schrank stehen haben. Unterm Strich eine lohnenswerte Anschaffung für all jene, die jeden Song ihrer Lieblinge besitzen müssen und keinen Bock darauf haben, den oft sündhaft teuren Uraltsingles hinterherzurennen.

Michael Rensen, Amazon.de



Schon einmal, vor 15 Jahren, gab's eine Compilation gleichen Namens der von Pop-Psychedelikern zu Hardrockern mutierten Briten. Die deckte indes nur die Jahre 1968 bis 1971 in zwölf Songs ab; in der neuen Version geht's bis 1975 weiter, bei auf 20 Titel erweitertem Spektrum. Schmerzlich zu vermissen ist allenfalls April Part I, für das eine Rarität wie die instrumentale Single-B-Seite Coronarias Redig nur bedingt, die US-Version von Smoke On The Water oder Black Night live dann doch entschädigen. ** Klang: 02-03

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HUSH

I got a certan little girl she's on my mind
No doubt about it she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I ever had
Sometimes she's gonna make me feel so bad

Hush, hush
I thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
She broke my heart but I love her just the same now
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
I need her loving and I'm not to blame now

(Love, love)
They got it early in the morning
(Love, love)
They got it late in the evening
(Love, love)
Well, I want that, need it
(Love, love)
Oh, I gotta gotta have it

She's got loving like quicksand
Only took one touch of her hand
To blow my mind and I'm in so deep
That I can't eat and I can't sleep

Listen
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
She broke my heart but I love her just the same now
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
I need her loving and I'm not to blame now

(Love, love)
They got it early in the morning
(Love, love)
They got it late in the evening
(Love, love)
Well, I want that, need it
(Love, love)
Oh, I gotta gotta have it


ONE MORE RAINY DAY

Changes, visible changes
Sky looking so forlorn
It looks like the world's been born
On one more rainy day

Trying to see the sunlight
My heart's crying out loud
I try to see through the clouds
On one more rainy day

One more rainy day
Once again my mind is grey
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day

Sun starts shining on through
New day a day with you
It's strange what sun can do
On one more rainy day

One more rainy day
Once again my mind is grey
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day


KENTUCKY WOMAN

Em - ma - ret - ta
Did you get my letter
I sent it to you
Oh Em - ma - ret - ta
Do you still feel
When night is falling
Something's calling
Oh Em - ma - ret - ta
Be - hind my thoughts
Oh Em - ma - ret - ta
I can get to you
To feel better
Oh Em - ma - ret - ta
I must go now
Oh Em - ma - ret - ta
Full  moon's ri - sing
Oh Em - ma - ret - ta

Oh, it's a thousand miles
Oh, and I need you child
Oh, they can drive me wild
What I feel, make it real


BIRD HAS FLOWN

For the beggar on his cornerstone
Catches pity in his wrinkled hand
But the robber whose bird has flown
Catches nothing only grains of sand

All the children in the distant house
They have feelings only children know
But the robber whose bird has flown
Catches nothing only flakes of snow

The sensation's not new to you
It's something we all have known
You get it - it goes right through you
Yes it's something we all have known

And the bird it has flown
To a place on it's own
Somewhere all alone

Now the hermit in his lonely cave
Has himself to keep him company
But the robber whose bird has flown
He has heartaches same as you and me

The sensation's not new to you
It's something we all have known
You get it - it goes right through you
Yes it's something we all have known

And the bird it has flown

Now the hermit in his lonely cave
Has himself to keep him company
But the robber whose bird has flown
He has heartaches same as you and me


HALLELUJAH

Hallelujah

I am a preacher with a message for my people
Over the world, scratching on the ground
Looking for the peace that nobody has found

I am a spokesman for a better way of living
Love is the word and it can be heard
If you are young the message can be sung

Let me hear you sing, Hallelujah

Oh tell it to the man who's power is the sermon on the wall
Tell it to the man who says you can misjudge them all
Tell it 'till it can be heard above the wailing of the crowd
Tell it on the field of war and hope you'll soon be justified

There is a better way of life and it's not so hard to find
If you live and let the people in your world speak its mind

I am the pupil who sells his life for freedom
All over the world and it can be heard
If you are young the message can be sung

Hallelujah


SPEED KING

Just a few roots, replanted.
Good Golly, said little Miss Molly
When she was rockin' in the house of blue light
Tutti Frutti was oh so rooty
When she was rockin' to the east and west
Lucille was oh so real
When she didn't do her daddies will
Come on baby, drive me crazy--do it, do it

     I'm a speed king you go to hear me sing
     I'm a speed king see me fly

Saturday night and I just got paid
Gonna fool about ain't gonna save
Some people gonna rock some people gonna roll
Gonna have a party to save my soul
Hard headed woman and a soft hearted man
They been causing trouble since it all began
Take a little rice take a little beans
Gonna rock and roll down to New Orleans

[repeat first two stanzas in inverse order]


BLACK NIGHT

Black night is not right,
I don't feel so bright,
I don't care to sit tight.
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me.
Black night is a long way from home.
I don't need a dark tree,
I don't want a rough sea,
I can't feel, I can't see.
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me.
Black night is a long way from home.

Black night, black night,
I don't need black night,
I can't see dark night.
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me.
Black night is a long way from home.


STRANGE KIND OF WOMAN

There once was a woman
A strange kind of woman
The kind that gets written down in history
Her name was Nancy
Her face was nothing fancy
She left a trail of happiness and misery

I loved her
Everybody loved her
She loved everyone and gave them good return
I tried to take her
I even tried to break her
She said I ain't for takin' won't you ever learn

I want you I need you I gotta be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you I need you I gotta be near you
Ooh I got a strange kind of woman

She looked like a raver
But I could never please her
On Wednesday mornings boy you can't go far
I couldn't get her
But things got better--she said
Saturday nights from now on baby you're my star

She finally said she loved me
I wed her in a hurry
No more callers and I glowed with pride
I'm dreaming
I feel like screaming
I won my woman just before she died

I want you I need you I gotta be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you I need you I gotta be near you
Ooh I had a strange kind of woman


I'M ALONE

On the lonely road I'm travelling on
The road that leads nowhere
As the ground and the sky wondering why
I'm alone so alone

I kept rolling on from tears for years
Sun is my only friend
With the wind on the bend and my pack in my hand
I'm alone so alone

I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
And I feel like going home

With my money spent, my clothes all torn
My spirit can't grow
I ain't got no friend where the power ends
I'm alone so alone

I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
And I feel like going home


FIREBALL

The golden light above you shows me where you're from
The magic in your eye bewitches all you gaze upon
You stand up on your hill and be bop all around you
They wonder where you're from oh yeah
They wonder where I found you
Oh my love it's a long way
Where you're from it's a long way

I tried to understand you, I tried to love you right
The way you smile and touch me always sets my heart alight
Your lips are like a fire burning thru' my soul
And people ask me where you're from
They really wanna know
Oh my soul it's a long way
Where you're from it's a long way

Magic woman wreckin' up my soul
Things you tell me have never been told
Magic woman I don't know
Electric before me I love you so I love you so

You're racing like a fireball dancing like a ghost
You're gemini and I don't know which one I like the most
My head is getting broken and my mind is getting bust
But now I'm coming with you down the road of golden dust
Oh my love it's a long way
Where you're from it's a long way


DEMON'S EYE

I don't mind just what you say.
I never heard you, baby, never heard you anyway.
I don't care what you do
just so long as it ain't me and you.
Sly, sly, like a demon's eye.

Everything's good, I said, everything's fine.
You don't know, don't know it's the end of your time.
How does it feel to be turned away?
I've known it, baby, almost every day.
Sly, sly, like a demon's eye.

I don't need you anymore,
I don't want you, baby, hanging round my door.
You slip and slide round my brain.
You think you're so clever, yeah, but you know you're insane.
Sly, sly, like a demon's eye.

I d-d-don't mind just what you say.
I never heard you, baby, I never heard you anyway, no I didn't.
Everything's good, everything's fine.
You don't know it's the end of your time.
Sly, sly, like the demon's eye,
like the demon's eye.


NEVER BEFORE

Somebody Somebody
Come to my side
I'm tired I'm crying
I'm sick inside
My woman that woman
Just wasn't right

     CHORUS

     Help me now please my friend
     I never felt so bad before
     Never never before

So funny so funny
Just like a show
One name two people
All in a row
Somebody Somebody
Someone must go

     Chorus

     I was hurt when I was younger
     By a woman who was cold
     She took my name
     She took my body
     And she threw away my soul

Can't hide I can't hide my misery
I know my sorrow won't set me free
She did it d'you see she did it to me

     Help me now please my friend
     I never felt so bad before
     Never never before


WHEN A BLIND MAN CRIES

If you're leaving close the door.
I'm not expecting people anymore.
Hear me grieving, I'm lying on the floor.
Whether I'm drunk or dead I really ain't too sure.

I'm a blind man, I'm a blind man and my world is pale.
When a blind man cries, Lord, you know there ain't no sadder tale.

Had a friend once in a room,
had a good time but it ended much too soon.
In a cold month in that room
we found a reason for the things we had to do.

I'm a blind man, I'm a blind man, now my room is cold.
When a blind man cries, Lord, you know he feels it from his soul.


SMOKE ON THE WATER

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
Pulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We make a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know we'll never forget
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky


BLACK NIGHT [live]

Black night is not right,
I don't feel so bright,
I don't care to sit tight.
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me.
Black night is a long way from home.
I don't need a dark tree,
I don't want a rough sea,
I can't feel, I can't see.
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me.
Black night is a long way from home.

Black night, black night,
I don't need black night,
I can't see dark night.
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me.
Black night is a long way from home.


MIGHT JUST TAKE YOUR LIFE

I got more than I asked for,
there ain't nothin' I need.
I took all till I had more,
I'm always takin' the lead.

Old man shakin' dice down on the street,
try'n to make a livin' somehow
but I'm really sure about gettin' things sorted out
and I'm gettin' ready right now.

You can't hold me,
I have told you.
Might just take your life,
might just take your life.

I've been called by many names
and all of them are bad.
I can take it all the same,
it's all I've ever had.

I've got somethin' that you can't get
but one thing you can see:
gettin' there ain't easy
but it sure was hard for me.

You can't hold me,
I have told you.
Might just take your life,
might just take your life.

Every time I take a look
there's someone close behind.
They never used to make a pass,
the things that crossed their minds.

Now they tell me that it's all right
and they want to be my friend.
They're ridin' on my back.
When is it goin' to end?

You can't hold me,
I have told you.
Might just take your life,
might just take your life,
might just take your life.

Got more than I asked for,
got more than I need.
Got more than I asked for,
got more than I need.
Got more than I asked for,
got more than I need.


CORONARIAS REDIG

(Instrumental)


YOU KEEP ON MOVING

You keep on moving
Far away,   far away
You keep on moving
Far away,   far away
Everyday, wheels are turning
And the cry.....still returning
Dawn will soon be breaking
The day has just begun
You put your arms around me
Like a circle 'round the sun
Dance across the seasons
To a place that no one knows
Where angels fear to tread

You keep on moving
Far away,   far away
You keep on moving
Far away,   far away
Everyday, wheels are turning
And the cry.....still returning


LOVE CHILD

Verse:
You can walk through fire - Make the north wind blow
Squeeze 'n tease me honey - When you shake your body

You move my soul

(verse)

Let me be your lover - Won't you let me be your child
Take me through your universe - Y'know that when you smile

You drive me wild

Love child - Drivin' me wild
Love child - Always teasin' me


(verse)

You can ride your pony - Day dream in fairy tales
All I know is I need you - When I see you dance the

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