The song was subsequently recorded by British hard rock band Deep Purple for their 1968 debut album Shades of Deep Purple, group member Ritchie Blackmore having heard the Billy Joe Royal original while living in Hamburg: (Ritchie Blackmore quote:) "It was a great song would be a good song our act, if we could come up with a different arrangement.
Ī promo clip for Billy Joe Royal's release of the song was filmed at the boardwalk amusement park and outskirts of an unidentified Southern beach town. "Hush" did afford Billy Joe Royal a one-off hit on the European continent, reaching #12 on the German singles chart and becoming a Top Ten hit in Belgium (#1), the Netherlands (#5) and Switzerland (#2). The qualified success of "Hush" was sufficient to allow for the release of Royal's second album Billy Joe Royal featuring Hush.
(Billy Joe Royal quote:) "To this day I can't figure out why I didn't like that song.") Īlthough more successful than Royal's last six single releases, only two of which had ranked even low on the Billboard Hot 100, "Hush" would not afford Royal a Top 40 comeback: managing only one "top-tier" market breakout in Chicago - whose prime Top 40 station WLS would rank "Hush" as high as #5 tying the WLS hit parade peak for both Royal's 1965 career record " Down in the Boondocks" and also Deep Purple's 1968 "Hush" cover - "Hush" would rise no higher on the Hot 100 than #52, with a Canadian pop chart peak of #45. Rose Garden", an album cut on Billy Joe Royal featuring Hush, would prove to be South's most successful composition, spearheaded by the 1971 Lynn Anderson hit version. I didn't like it, so he wrote 'Hush' right there on the dashboard." (". In the mid-1980s Royal would recall how while he and his regular songwriter/producer Joe South were driving from Atlanta to Nashville for that recording session (Billy Joe Royal quote:) "Joe was writing ' I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'. Funeral arrangements are pending.Billy Joe Royal would record "Hush" in a 12 July 1967 Nashville recording session which featured Barry Bailey, future lead guitarist for the Atlanta Rhythm Section, on guitar.
Royal is survived by his ex-wife, Michelle Royal, daughter Savannah Royal, and two stepsons, Trey and Joey Riverbank. According to the Tennessean, Royal’s final live performance took place September 24th at the Gwinnett County Fair in his native Georgia. The project was produced by the legendary Chips Moman. Thomas, releasing the 2007 LP Going by Daydreams, on Thomas’s Raindrops Records label. In recent years, he toured with longtime friend and fellow crossover artist B.J. In 1988, Royal was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. That same year, he had a second Number Two country single with “Till I Can’t Take It Anymore.” His 1989 remake of the Aaron Neville hit “Tell It Like It Is” just missed the chart summit, landing at Number Two. He hit with the Top 15 single “Cherry Hill Park” in 1969, garnering a few more minor pop hits before signing with the Atlantic label and releasing a number of successful country singles, including the 1985 Top 10 “Burned Like a Rocket.” The singer’s 1987 LP, The Royal Treatment, was certified gold and featured “I’ll Pin a Note on Your Pillow,” which peaked at Number Five on the country chart. Royal, who had also performed in the house band at the Gilley’s-like Bamboo Ranch in Savannah, Georgia, toured with Dick Clark’s Caravan of Stars alongside Herman’s Hermits, Jackie DeShannon and others, with a backing band featuring future members of Chicago.
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