Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On

I do not own the copyright to this recording. If you like this song, please buy the album for the full experience. Founding Members : Mark Stein - Organ, Vocals Tim Bogert - Bass, Vocals Vince Martell - Lead guitar, Vocals Carmine Appice - Drums, Vocals Original Artist - The Supremes Album - Vanilla Fudge Song - You Keep Me Hangin' On Released - 1967 Stein and Bogert had played in a local band called Rick Martin & The Showmen. The pair were so impressed by the swinging, organ-heavy sound of The Rascals they decided to form their own band in 1965 with Martell and Rick Martin's drummer, Mark Dolfen, who was quickly replaced by Joey Brennan who left and was replaced with a young drummer named Carmine Appice. Originally they called themselves The Electric Pigeons, they soon shortened the name to The Pigeons. 'A girl named Dee Dee at the Page 2 club on Long Island where we were performing told us how her grandfather used to call her Vanilla Fudge', then she looked at us and added, 'Maybe you guys should call yourselves that—you're like white soul music, so Vanilla Fudge it was'. Vanilla Fudge was managed by the reputed Lucchese crime family member Phillip Basile, who operated several popular clubs in New York. Their first three albums (Vanilla Fudge, The Beat Goes On, and Renaissance) were produced by Shadow Morton, whom the band met through The Rascals. When Led Zeppelin first toured the United States in early 1969, they opened for Vanilla Fudge on some shows.