"Kentucky Woman" is a 1967 song written and originally recorded by Neil Diamond. Diamond wrote: "We attracted teenage girls almost exclusively and the house, usually a high school auditorium, was filled to the rafters with screaming females night after night. The song was written in the back of a limo as we approached the outskirts of Paducah, Kentucky."
This well-known version is the 1968 recording by Deep Purple.
Diamond recorded "Kentucky Woman" as his last hit single for Bang Records and was mixed in monophonic, which is the common version heard on all Neil Diamond compilations featuring original Bang singles. The only known stereo mix was done in 1978 for a Frog King/Columbia House album called Early Classics, which has never been released on CD. Recorded by Deep Purple with a vastly different instrumental feel, if not vocal line, it was their second single release in 1968. Deep Purple included this song as their standard policy of putting their own spin on established, popular songs and including them in each album. The single version is an edit of the album version and is four minutes and four seconds in length. A remastered version appears on the 30th anniversary album The Very Best of Deep Purple and runs a full four minutes and forty five seconds. Deep Purple played "Kentucky Woman" live on tour in 1968 and 1969, even after Ian Gillan joined the band in the summer of 1969. It has never been on Deep Purple's setlist since.
"Kentucky Woman" is a 1967 song written and [originally recorded by Neil Diamond](https://hooktube.com/watch?v=B-YpI-eJgDc). Diamond wrote: "We attracted teenage girls almost exclusively and the house, usually a high school auditorium, was filled to the rafters with screaming females night after night. The song was written in the back of a limo as we approached the outskirts of Paducah, Kentucky."
This well-known version is the 1968 recording by Deep Purple.
Diamond recorded "Kentucky Woman" as his last hit single for Bang Records and was mixed in monophonic, which is the common version heard on all Neil Diamond compilations featuring original Bang singles. The only known stereo mix was done in 1978 for a Frog King/Columbia House album called Early Classics, which has never been released on CD. Recorded by Deep Purple with a vastly different instrumental feel, if not vocal line, it was their second single release in 1968. Deep Purple included this song as their standard policy of putting their own spin on established, popular songs and including them in each album. The single version is an edit of the album version and is four minutes and four seconds in length. A remastered version appears on the 30th anniversary album The Very Best of Deep Purple and runs a full four minutes and forty five seconds. Deep Purple played "Kentucky Woman" live on tour in 1968 and 1969, even after Ian Gillan joined the band in the summer of 1969. It has never been on Deep Purple's setlist since.
"Kentucky Woman" is a 1967 song written and originally recorded by Neil Diamond. Diamond wrote: "We attracted teenage girls almost exclusively and the house, usually a high school auditorium, was filled to the rafters with screaming females night after night. The song was written in the back of a limo as we approached the outskirts of Paducah, Kentucky." This well-known version is the 1968 recording by Deep Purple.
Diamond recorded "Kentucky Woman" as his last hit single for Bang Records and was mixed in monophonic, which is the common version heard on all Neil Diamond compilations featuring original Bang singles. The only known stereo mix was done in 1978 for a Frog King/Columbia House album called Early Classics, which has never been released on CD. Recorded by Deep Purple with a vastly different instrumental feel, if not vocal line, it was their second single release in 1968. Deep Purple included this song as their standard policy of putting their own spin on established, popular songs and including them in each album. The single version is an edit of the album version and is four minutes and four seconds in length. A remastered version appears on the 30th anniversary album The Very Best of Deep Purple and runs a full four minutes and forty five seconds. Deep Purple played "Kentucky Woman" live on tour in 1968 and 1969, even after Ian Gillan joined the band in the summer of 1969. It has never been on Deep Purple's setlist since.