April Stevens Biography

The same series did the same with another funny old song - “Teach Me Tiger” “Teach me, tiger”. The author of this sensual female composition, oddly enough, was a man named Nino Tempo, who composed her for his native sister - singer April Stevens. It is interesting that in the year, when Teach Me Tiger was published by a single, many radio stations refused the song in rotation, considering it too frank.

Perhaps that is why the potentially hut single was able to get to the place of the National Chart of the United States. All these aspirations and muttering cannot be heard without a smile - their “sexuality” is so nervous, ironic and hypertrophied. No wonder, due to such a manner of execution, “Teach Me Tiger” began to be attributed to Marilyn Monroe, who had nothing to do with the history of the song and never performed it.

The cover of the blue cover is not difficult to guess, the “tiger” in the text means not a striped predator, but a welcome man, whom the heroine tries to seduce with all her might. Touch me, a tiger, when I am so close ... in the same way ... Help me, tiger, I don’t know what to do ... In the same ... I know, you could love me, but first show me what to do ... This is the first love, what is given to me to know ...

What should I do so that you become only mine? In response, the singer strengthened her image with another playful song “Love Kitten” this time her heroine was built as a kitten - she asked for men's knees and murli erotically. RKN: The site violates the Law of the Russian Federation, however, the family tandem has achieved real success only two years later, when April and Nino performed a duet, performing the song “Deep Purple” “Dark-lilac” ...

Yes, you were not mistaken! The rock group of the same name is directly related to her, because she loved this song very much ... Grandma Richie Blackmore. In the year, the single “Deep Purple” took off to the top of the American top, and even received the Grammy Award as the best rock and roll. It is funny that the song was written long before this very “rock and roll” appeared.

The music was composed by Peter Derouz, and in the year it was released as a purely instrumental piano composition. Only in M ​​Mitchell Parish wrote on it a text telling about the meeting of two lovers in the evening garden, when everything around is plunged into dark purple tones. And a year later, Deep Purple first landed at the top of the hit parade performed by singer Bi Wayne and orchestra Larry Clinton.

The poetic translation of Evgeny Solovyov: when the purple thick falls into my garden, and the light of pale stars will begin to shine in the night, you come to find me through the fog of the vulgar memory, sighing the name again. You are clinging to me in night silence. Your love is alive in the rays of the moon.

Moreover - at first it was planned that the second chorus of Nino would sing himself. However, it so happened that during the demo-record the singer forgot the words and the sister began to tell him. The sound engineers liked it so much that they suggested using the “chip” on the official version - they say, let Nino sings, and April parallel pronounces the same words in the conversational manner.

The arrangement was pretty modernized, but the producer Ahmet Ertegun did not appreciate his efforts. But Nino stood in a pose and threatened that he would generally tear the contract with the studio. As we know, his foreboding did not deceive him ... April Stevens from the autobiography “Teach Me Tiger”: “Steve Allen just declared our names and called“ Deep Purple ”the best rock and roll record of the year?

My mouth was full of food that I chewed, and it seemed to me that my rumor had deceived me. But the expression on Nino said everything. His eyes glazed and looked in one place with bewilderment. He stood up and moved to the scene in a daze, and I followed him, swallowing food. The applause was so loud! The audience was so happy for us! How did this happen? How did we get here?

The version of Donnie and Mary Osmonds, published at the end of the year, reached the place of the American chart. True, in the arrangement, it was not very different from the version of Nino and April - even the echoing female recitation was preserved. RKN: The site violates the Law of the Russian Federation a song can be heard in the comedy of the year “Cheap Detective” - where the famous scene in the bar from the film “Casablanca” is parodied.

When the French are trying to drown out the patriotic song of the German fascists, the heroes Eilin Brennan and Peter Falk suddenly sing the lyrical “Deep Purple”, and the black pianist begins to play the jazz standard “Jeepers Creepers”. I managed to find on YouTube only the version of the Swedish singer Julia Westlin - even more languid than the original.