Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple (1968):  This is the debut album of one of Britain’s top hard rock/heavy metal bands; I have always thought that first albums are often the best or among the best even of long-lived bands.  Shades of Deep Purple includes the hit song “Hush” (written by American country-pop musician Joe South and previously recorded by Billy Joe Royal, who had an even bigger hit with another of his compositions, “Down in the Boondocks”), and one of numerous covers of “Hey Joe” that were released in this time period.  While there has been some question about the authorship of “Hey Joe” over the years – for one thing, there is a highly similar country-music song also called “Hey Joe” – certainly no one in this country thought that Deep Purple had written the song, as the early pressings of this album proclaimed (including my copy).