YOU KEEP ME HANGING ON (Vanilla Fudge)
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a 1966 song written and composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland. It first became a popular Billboard Hot 100 number one hit for the American Motown group The Supremes in late 1966. The rock band Vanilla Fudge covered the song a year later and had a Top Ten hit (and a UK Top 20 hit single) with their version. British pop singer Kim Wilde covered "You Keep Me Hangin' On" in 1986, bumping it back to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1987. The single reached number one by two different musical acts in America. In the first 32 years of the Billboard Hot 100 rock era, “You Keep Me Hangin' On” became one of only six songs to achieve this feat. (More from Wikipedia)
Vanilla Fudge had a well developed formula of covering a variety of hit songs in a slowed down, psychedelicized manner; their debut album, Vanilla Fudge (1967) was filled with them: the Supremes hit "You Keep Me Hanging On" (which is what got them signed in the first place to the Atlantic Records affiliate, Atco Records); two Beatles songs, "Ticket to Ride" and "Eleanor Rigby"; an Impressions classic "People Get Ready"; the Zombies song "She's Not There"; and Sonny and Cher's "Bang Bang".
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