![]() ![]() "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).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. The qualified success of "Hush" was sufficient to allow for the release of Royal's second album Billy Joe Royal featuring Hush. 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: (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. 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'. His keyboard talents and songwriting skills were an essential element in the sound of the Zombies in the 1960s and again with the re-formed band today.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. And each of the following musicians displays his own distinctive feel and touches across the range of rock music styles.ġ3) Rod Argent – “Hold Your Head Up” (with Argent)įellow organist Rick Wakeman (see below) is said to have praised Argent‘s organ solo on the 1972 #5 hit by the band that bore his last name as the greatest ever in rock. The numbering of this list is largely arbitrary – and could just as easily have included such other top organists as Felix Cavaliere of the Rascals and Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge – as every one of the players here is an acknowledged master organist that helped etch the instrument into the rock music legacy. Whatever the classic rock subgenre, the organ expanded the sonic palette of rock music in numerous appealing ways. In early 1970s prog-rock it helped enable the style’s instrumental prowess. The introduction of such portable organs as the Vox Continental and Farfisa brought its sound to countless mid-1960s garage rock bands, where it enjoyed widespread prominence. The Hammond B-3 (as well as C-3 and M-3 models) and Leslie speaker cabinet (with its spinning speaker horns providing vibrato) that were already popular in jazz became part of the rock instrumental mix. Rock ‘n’ roll may largely be guitar music, but it became richly colored by the organ as the music grew into the 1960s. Steve Winwood in 2014 (via his Facebook page) ![]()
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