Deep Purple - Hush (studio track + live on TV, 1968, Playboy After Dark)

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Description from the Deep Purple Official YouTube channel for the video below:

Deep Purple Mark 1 performing their US top 5 single Hush live on US TV (Playboy After Dark) in 1968. Highly stylised and an exceptionally beautiful audience with all the trademark 60's flamboyance - this looks like a scene from Austin Powers!

The haunted house keyboardist Jon Lord was referring to was Deeves Hall. From bass player Nick Simper's website:

https://www.nicksimper.net/nicks-story/chapters-18-25/chapter-18-getting-it-together-in-deeves-hall/

By now Jon was living at my parents’ house in Hayes, but it wasn’t long before we learned that HEC Enterprises had found a suitable house for us, and we set off to view our new home in the countryside. Situated near a tiny Hertfordshire village called Ridge, Deeves Hall was an old Georgian farmhouse, standing in several acres of ground. Well secluded and with no immediate neighbours, this was the perfect place for a rock group to ‘get it together’ without disturbing anybody’s peace. The nearest house stood high up at least half a mile away, apparently occupied by champion racing driver Graham Hill. At Deeves Hall I was introduced to Bobby Woodman, who was re-locating from Paris with his girlfriend. A quiet, laid-back type of bloke, Bobby and I hit it off immediately. Together, the four of us toured the many rooms of the house, agreeing on which rooms would be used for which purpose. Before leaving it was agreed that Ritchie and his girlfriend Babs would move in first as they were homeless. But first, the current tenant had to move out. A pleasant young lady who had lived there with her boyfriend for some time, she solemnly informed us that the place was haunted, and we were not to be worried by what we might see or hear!