YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON (Index)
There are two covers on the Index album: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (more the Vanilla Fudge version than the Supremes version) and the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" (speaking of great psychedelic songs). If there was ever a song that cried out for a really extended treatment, it was "Eight Miles High"; and I still remember well the first time I heard a long version of "Eight Miles High" at a party while I was in college. The artist turned out to be Golden Earring, a Dutch band that has been around about as long as the Rolling Stones; they went on to have two giant hits – both of which I still love – "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone".
(March 2011)
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YouTube has several Index songs in its database: Their version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" can be heard at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybyi8XBgjY8 (as taken from the original album, not the reissue that I own).
(March 2013)
