Deep Purple

Album

Single

Label

MGM Records

Genre

Soft Rock

Media Type

45s

Duration

2:47

Composer(s)

Peter DeRose;Mitchell Parish

Entered Chart

Dec 13, 1975

Peak Date

Mar 27, 1976

Released

December 1975

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

MGM 14840

B-Side

Take Me Back Again

Original Artist

Paul Whiteman

Another brother-and-sister team, Donny and Marie Osmond, revived "Deep Purple" with a note-for-note cover version of Tempo and Stevens's recording in 1975 and took it into the Top 20 on the U.S. and Canadian pop charts. It peaked at number 14 in March 1976 on the Billboard Hot 100, with Marie Osmond speaking the lyrics as Stevens had done in the version with Tempo. The song that succeeded the Tempo/Stevens version of "Deep Purple" at number one on the Billboard chart, "I'm Leaving It Up to You" by Dale & Grace, had also been a hit over a decade later in a cover version by Donny & Marie in 1974. Donny and Marie Osmond's "Deep Purple" was an even greater Adult Contemporary hit. It peaked at number eight on both the U.S. and Canadian charts. The song spent 23 weeks on the pop chart, far longer than did any other song by the Osmond family. "Deep Purple" is ranked as the 42nd-biggest U.S. hit of 1976. Donny and Marie performed "Deep Purple" on Bob Hope's Christmas Party on December 14, 1975.

When the deep purple falls
Over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin
To twinkle in the night

In the mist of the memory
You wander on back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh

In the still of the night
Once again, I hold you tight
Though you're gone
Your love lives on
When moonlight beams

And as long as my heart will beat
Sweet lover we'll always meet
Here in my deep purple dreams

When the deep purple falls
(When the deep purple falls)
Over sleepy garden walls
(Over sleepy garden walls)
And the stars begin to twinkle
(And the stars begin to twinkle)
In the night (in the night)

In the mist of the memory
(In the mist of the memory)
You wander back to me
(You wander on back to me)
Breathing my name
(Breathing my name)
With a sigh (with a sigh)

In the still of the night
Once again, I hold you tight
Though you're gone
Your love lives on
When moonlight beams

And as long as my heart will beat
Sweet lover we'll always meet
Here in my deep purple dreams

And as long as my heart will beat
Sweet lover we'll always meet
Here in my deep purple dreams
Here in my deep purple dreams
Here in my deep purple dreams