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about|the singer|the Dallas character|April Stevens Ewing|the Young and the Restless character|April Stevens (The Young and the Restless)Refimprove|date=June 2008 April Stevens (born Carol LoTempio , April 29, 1936, Niagara Falls, New York ) is an United States|American singing|singer .
She has recorded since she was 15 years old. Her most popular solo recording was her RCA Victor recording of " I'm in Love Again (Cole Porter)|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.cite web | author= | year= | title= Nino & April: The Fifties . . . | url= http://www.ninoandapril.com/fifties.html | accessdate=2008-06-22
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 (radio)|airplay on many radio station s. The song peaked at No. 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Stevens' recording of this song is often erroneously accredited to MarilynMonroe .
She is perhaps best known for her 1963 Atco Records recording of " Deep Purple (song)|Deep Purple " (music by Peter DeRose and lyrics by Mitchell Parish ) with her brother Antonino LoTempio (singing under the stage name Nino Tempo ). A traditional pop music|standard song that Larry Clinton and His Orchestra and band vocalist Bea Wain had popularized in 1939, the Stevens and Tempo version reached Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1963 (USA)|No.1 on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard chart in November 1963. The song won the 1964 Grammy Awards of 1964|Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song|Best Rock and Roll Recording . It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a music recording sales certification|gold disc .cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | page= 167 | isbn= 0-214-20512-6
They also enjoyed a 1964 follow-up hit in the U.S. with the standard song " Whispering (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.
http://www.ninoandapril.com/ Nino & April Official website
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