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Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Nino Tempo & April Stevens has been played on NTS shows including Getting Warmer w/ Jen Monroe, with You'll Be Needing Me Baby first played on 27 November 2019.

Nino Tempo & April Stevens was an American brother and sister act from New York. Formed in the early 1960s when Nino Tempo (born Antonino LoTempio) (died 2025) and April Stevens (born Carol Vincinette LoTempio) (died 2023) signed as a duo with Atco, the group had a string of Billboard hits and earned a Grammy Award as "best rock & roll record of the year" for the single "Deep Purple". "Deep Purple" was originally released as a "B-side" by producer Ahmet Ertegun, who was dubious of Tempo's belief that it would be a hit, calling it "the most embarrassing thing" the duo had ever recorded. When the "A-side" song, "Paradise", flopped, Ertegun relented, and the song achieved notability as the longest running hit B-side, a title it carried for 21 years.

Music journalist Richie Unterberger has described the later song "All Strung Out" as Nino Tempo & April Stevens' "greatest triumph", declaring it "one of the greatest Phil Spector-inspired productions of all time". For years following their charting singles, the duo continued recording, but failed to achieve continued sales success.

In February 1973 the duo did score a number 5 hit in the Netherlands with "Love Story" on A&M Records, two years after Andy Williams took that same song to number 13 in what was then the Veronica Top 40.

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Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Nino Tempo & April Stevens has been played on NTS shows including Getting Warmer w/ Jen Monroe, with You'll Be Needing Me Baby first played on 27 November 2019.

Nino Tempo & April Stevens was an American brother and sister act from New York. Formed in the early 1960s when Nino Tempo (born Antonino LoTempio) (died 2025) and April Stevens (born Carol Vincinette LoTempio) (died 2023) signed as a duo with Atco, the group had a string of Billboard hits and earned a Grammy Award as "best rock & roll record of the year" for the single "Deep Purple". "Deep Purple" was originally released as a "B-side" by producer Ahmet Ertegun, who was dubious of Tempo's belief that it would be a hit, calling it "the most embarrassing thing" the duo had ever recorded. When the "A-side" song, "Paradise", flopped, Ertegun relented, and the song achieved notability as the longest running hit B-side, a title it carried for 21 years.

Music journalist Richie Unterberger has described the later song "All Strung Out" as Nino Tempo & April Stevens' "greatest triumph", declaring it "one of the greatest Phil Spector-inspired productions of all time". For years following their charting singles, the duo continued recording, but failed to achieve continued sales success.

In February 1973 the duo did score a number 5 hit in the Netherlands with "Love Story" on A&M Records, two years after Andy Williams took that same song to number 13 in what was then the Veronica Top 40.

Original source: Last.fm

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