The moment that launched Purple 50 years ago this year ...the triumphant performance of HUSH on USA TV which sent the band into the US Top5. | Deep Purple Classic

Deep Purple Mark 1 performing HUSH for UK TV in 1968. | Deep Purple Classic

"There's a Kind of Hush" is a popular song written by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens which was a hit in 1967 for Herman's Hermits and again in 1976 for The Carpenters. The song was introduced on the 1966 album Winchester Cathedral by Geoff Stephens' group the New Vaudeville Band; like that group's hit "Winchester Cathedral", "There's a Kind of Hush" was conceived as a neo-British music hall number although it is a less overt example of that style. The first single version of "There's a Kind of Hush