MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 – “Hush” cut from Kula Shaker)

By June 24th of 1997…

one of the oldest songs on rock radio…

was suddenly one of the newest.

“Hush” from Kula Shaker

(Music Cut #2 – “Hush” cut from Kula Shaker)

Most ’90s kids knew it

as a Kula Shaker song.

Classic-rock fans knew it

as a Deep Purple song.

But Deep Purple

didn’t write it either.

(Music Cut #3 “Hush” cut from Deep Purple)

“Hush” was written by Joe South

for Billy Joe Royal,

who recorded it first in 1967.

So Kula Shaker

were covering the famous Deep Purple version

of a song

Deep Purple had already covered.

(Music Cut #4 – “Hush” cut from Billy Joe Royal)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“They got it early in the morning
They got it late in the evening
Well, I want that, need it
Yeah I gotta gotta have it.” – Kula Shaker (covering Joe South)

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