“You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (Vanilla Fudge) #6 8/31/1968

From a group that once called themselves the Pigeons. Their label’s head, Ahmet Ertegün, asked them to PLEASE change the name. So they became Vanilla Fudge and carved out a niche by doing extended (some say tortured) versions of recent hits, like this Supremes classic. They had to edit this down quite a bit for a single. The Fudge became members of the Long Island Music Hall Of Fame in 2006, the same year as Billy Joel and Joan Jett. The drummer, Carmine Appice, goes completely off on this video.