

Roger Glover played as a session musician on this track as he had not yet officially joined Recorded at the very first Mark II session at De Lane Lea Studios in Kingsway, London on the 7 Juneġ969.

It's on Vogue records, DV 11138, 1970 and Music", suggesting that it was written by Cook/Greenaway. German 7" single, where the song is credited to Cy Payne/Reg Guest, yet the publishing credit says "Cookaway Very confusingly, I have another version by a group called People on a There's a version by the Derek Lawrence Statement on The "Derek Lawrence Sessions Take 1" CD on Line I think Greenaway wrote some of The Drifters' 1970's hits and Cook now lives in the US, writing Gotten Hold Of My Heart" at the BBC on 3rd June 1969, only the day before E6's fateful Woodford They later came up with CocaĬola's "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" and, of course, Episode Six had done their "Something's Plains] so very Tin Pan Alley rather than New York's Brill Building. Of Man, The Pipkins, Edison Lighthouse, The Fortunes, Whistling Jack Smith, The Flowerpot Men, White Written by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway [Blue Mink, David And Jonathan, the original Brotherhood That famous song-writing team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. Not really a cover as I am not aware of anyone else ever recording this track before Deep Purple,īut it appears on this list because it was not written by the group. Live recordings are available on On The Wings Of A Russian Foxbat CDįrom 1995 and Mk III: The Final Concerts from 1996. Little Richard's Lucille and Marks III and IV used Don Nix's lesser-known Going Down from 1974 until Mark III continued the Mark II tradition of using a cover version as an encore. This excellent album featured the original version of the much-covered Going Down.ĭon Nix was born 27 September 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee and was an original member of the Mar-Keys.įreddie King was born Billy Myles on 30 September 1934 in Gilmer, Texas and died on the 28 December Originally written by Don Nix and recorded by Freddie King (with Nix's help) on his 1971 album Of A Russian Foxbat CD in 1995 in 2 different versions! Many classic soul/gospel numbers Georgia On My Mind was one of them. Glenn Hughes' vocal improvisational section during Smoke On The Water on the 1975/76 tour included Composed by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stephen Gorrell (words). This classic 1930 Hoagy Carmichael song was made popular by Ray Charles who took it to #1 in the USĬharts and #24 in UK in August 1960. The video version of Come Hell Or High Water released in 1994, where it was titled simply "Beethoven The Space Truckin' medley and introduced by Ian Gillan as "a piece of music". Officially available on the Knebworth 85 CD (1991) as part of It usually evolved intoĪ keyboard solo section for Jon Lord. Not recorded in the studio by Deep Purple.ĭebuted in the set-list in 1985 and stayed there until Ritchie left in 1993. Originally appeared on Rainbow's Difficult To CureĪlbum (UK #3) in 1981 with an arrangement by Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover and Don Airey. Referred to as the Song Of Joy or Ode To Joy. To see who else have done what Deep Purple have done, go here.Īn uptempo guitar-based reworking of Beethoven's 9th Symphony ("Choral" in D minor, Opus 125), often

Songwriting confidence grew and the covers stopped, except for the occasional in-concert jam. However, once Ian Gillan and Roger Glover joined their Next album and only 2 on their 3rd (confusingly entitled "Deep Purple"). Mentioned, as snippets of songs are beyond the scope of this list.ĭeep Purple covered 4 songs on their debut album, Shades Of Deep Purple. This is a list of songs that Deep Purple have covered through the years.
