She has recorded since she was 16 years old. Her most popular solo recording was her RCA Victor recording of "I'm in Love Again" (music and lyrics by Cole Porter). Accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Henri René, Stevens' recording peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1951.
Stevens returned to the U.S. chart in 1959 with the song "Teach Me Tiger", which caused a minor uproar for its sexual suggestiveness and consequently did not receive airplay on many radio stations. The song peaked at No. 86 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stevens' recording of this song often erroneously accredited to Marilyn Monroe.
She is perhaps best known for her 1963 Atco Records recording of "Deep Purple" (music by Peter DeRose and lyrics by Mitchell Parish) with her brother Antonino LoTempio (singing under the stage name Nino Tempo). A standard song that Larry Clinton and His Orchestra and band vocalist Bea Wain had popularized in 1939, the Stevens and Tempo version reached No.1 on the Billboard chart in November 1963. The song won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Recording. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
They also enjoyed a 1964 follow-up hit in the U.S. with the standard song "Whispering" (music by Vincent Rose and lyrics by Richard Coburn and John Schonberger). The recording, which had an arrangement similar to their recording of "Deep Purple", reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. They also had chart success with "All Strung Out", which reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. by Jason Ankeny
Tracklist
A1 Do It Again 2:36
DeSylva, Gershwin
A2 Teach Me Tiger 2:25
Tempo
A3 I Want A Lip 2:30
Written-By – Tempo
A4 In Other Words 2:24
Howard
A5 I Get Ideas 2:29
Cochran, Sanders
A6 Talk To Me 2:15
Snyder, Vallee, Kahan
B1 I'm In Love Again 2:17
Porter
B2 That's My Name 1:59
Lampert, Loring
B3 I'm Making Believe 2:14
Monaco, Gordon
B4 I'll Wait For Your Love 2:36
Hooven, Hooven, Hooven
B5 It Can't Be Wrong 2:07
Gannon, Steiner
B6 When My Baby Smiles At Me 2:14
Sterling, Munro, Von Tilzer, Lewis
April Stevens - Teach Me Tiger [1959]
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