Single:
You Keep Me Hanging On entered the Australian singles chart* on 7 October 1967 and peaked at 8. It was #51 on the Top 100 of 1968.
Album:
The song is on Vanilla Fudge which entered the Australian albums chart* on 11 May 1968 and peaked at #2.
Songwriters:
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland
Producer:
Shadow Morton
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Vanilla Fudge perform You Keep Me Hangin’ On on The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, January 1968:
Wikipedia:
You Keep Me Hangin’ On was first recorded in 1966 by American girl group the Supremes. American rock band Vanilla Fudge released a cover version in June of the following year.
Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice talked about the band’s decision to cover the song in a 2014 interview:
“That was Mark and Timmy. We used to slow songs down and listen to the lyrics and try to emulate what the lyrics were dictating. That one was a hurtin’ song; it had a lot of emotion in it. People Get Ready was like a Gospel thing. Eleanor Rigby was sort of eerie and church-like … like a horror movie kind of thing. If you listen to Hangin’ On fast … by the Supremes, it sounds very happy, but the lyrics aren’t happy at all. If you lived through that situation, the lyrics are definitely not happy.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Keep_Me_Hangin’_On
Lyrics:
Set me free, why don’t you babe?
Get out my life, why don’t you babe?
You really don’t want me, you just keep me hanging on
You really don’t need me, you just keep me hanging on
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