Kim Wilde version "You Keep Me Hangin' On" If you lived through that situation, the lyrics are definitely not happy.” Chart history (Vanilla Fudge version) Chart (1967-1968) If you listen to “Hangin’ On” fast… by The Supremes, it sounds very happy, but the lyrics aren’t happy at all. “Eleanor Rigby” was sort of eerie and church-like …like a horror movie kind of thing. “People Get Ready” was like a Gospel thing. That one was a hurtin’ song it had a lot of emotion in it. We used to slow songs down and listen to the lyrics and try to emulate what the lyrics were dictating. Carmine, in Vanilla Fudge, whose idea was it to cover The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin’ On? Carmine Appice says. In an interview with Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice and classic rock music journalist Ray Shasho in on ,Carmine Appice talks about the band's inception of "You Keep Me Hangin' On." Ray Shasho asks. The recording, done in one take, was Vanilla Fudge's first single. While the edited version released on the 45 RPM single was under three minutes long, the album version was six minutes and forty-five seconds long. Vanilla Fudge's 1967 psychedelic/hard rock remake of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" reached #6 on the Hot 100 chart two years after the release of the Supremes' recording. Vanilla Fudge version "You Keep Me Hangin' On" " (I Know) I'm Losing You" by The Temptations " Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Bandīillboard Hot R&B Singles number-one single (The Supremes version) Backing vocals by Florence Ballard and Mary WilsonĬhart history Chart (1966-1967)īillboard Hot 100 number-one single (Supremes version).The original version was #339 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. "You Keep Me Hangin' On" was the first single from the Supremes' 1967 album The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland. They performed the song on the ABC variety program The Hollywood Palace on Saturday, October 29, 1966. The track is one of the more oft-covered songs in the Supremes canon. H-D-H recorded the song in eight sessions with The Supremes and session band The Funk Brothers before settling on a version deemed suitable for the final release. Many elements of the recording, including the guitars, the drums, and Diana Ross and Florence Ballard's vocals, were multitracked, a production technique which was established and popularized concurrently by H-D-H and other premier producers of the 1960s such as Phil Spector (see Wall of Sound) and George Martin. The song's signature guitar part is said to have originated from a Morse code-like radio signal heard by Lamont Dozier, who collaborated with Brian and Eddie Holland to integrate the idea into a single. The single is rooted in proto- funk and rhythm and blues, compared to the Supremes' previous single, " You Can't Hurry Love," which uses the call and response elements akin to gospel. 2.1 Chart history (Vanilla Fudge version).3.1 Chart history (Vanilla Fudge version).
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