Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple Tracks: 1. And the Address 2. Hush 3. One More Rainy Day 4. Prelude: Happiness / I'm So Glad 5. Mandrake Root 6. Help 7. Love Help Me 8. Hey Joe Line up: Ritchie Blackmore – Guitar Rod Evans – Vocals Jon Lord – Organ, Keyboards Nick Simper – Bass Ian Paice – Drums Record Label / Year of Release: Parlophone 1968 Notes: Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by Deep Purple, released in 1968 on Parlophone in the UK, Tetragrammaton in the USA, Portugal and Brazil, and Polydor in Canada and Japan. It was released without much attention in the UK, where it did not perform sales-wise. In the US on the other hand, it was a massive success, contributing largely to the attention Deep Purple would get there, and also eventually also over to the UK.