![]() (1)Īfter all the successes in Europe it's no surprise that I'm thinking about America. With Ricki's backing track making it sound like a new song anyway, I was in the position of being completely fresh to it, and that's why it's worked so well. I made it a point of not listening to the old version. They love the original so much that they just basically do a pretty faithful cover. Kim about 'You Keep Me Hangin' On'Ī lot of times when people do covers, there's a lot of reverence attached. Kim's version of the song was sampled in Lemar's song You Don't Love Me. The song was subsequently also covered by Colourbox, Madness, Reba McEntire, Wilson Pickett, Melanie Safka, Lynn Sweet and Tata Vega. 'You keep me hangin' on' was performed live on the Another Step Tour and every live concert after that. Both versions were directed by Greg Masuak. It was released in two versions: the regular version (based on the 7" version) and an extended version (based on the WCH mix). Music videoĪ music video was filmed to promote the single. ![]() Kim's track was released as a 7" single and 12" single. In 2019, a live version recorded in Vienna was released on the album Aliens live. In 2006, Kim included a new version called You Keep Me Hangin' On (2006) on her album Never Say Never. In 1986, there were three versions of 'You Keep Me Hangin' On': the album version, the WCH mix, remixed by Ian Levine and the WCH Club mix, remixed by Ricky Wilde.Ī remix by Kurt Katzan was released by Hot Tracks. In 1997, the track was included on the soundtrack album for the movie Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. It also became Wilde's only major hit in the US, spending a week at number one in the summer of 1987. It became the biggest hit of Wilde's career, reaching number 2 in the UK as hitting the top spot in Australia, Canada and Norway. The song was not a track they knew well, so they treated it as a new song, even slightly changing the original lyrics. She and her brother had not heard 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' for several years when they decided to record it. Her version was a total re-working of the original, completely transforming the Supremes' Motown sound into an Eighties power pop song. It was the first track of the album Another step. In 1986, Kim Wilde recorded her version of 'You Keep Me Hangin' On'. It was similar in that it was slowed-down, but the whole middle section was a piano and orchestra thing.' Kim Wilde version He comments: 'When I was with Rod, he always said to me, 'I wish I had done that song, it's such a great song the way you guys did it.' I said to Rod, 'Why don't you do it? I'm in the band, it will give you an excuse to do it.' So we put together an arrangement a little different than Vanilla Fudge's. Carmine Appice was the drummer in Stewart's band at the time. Rod Stewart recorded this in 1977 on his album 'Foot Loose and Fancy Free'. The recording, done in one take, was Vanilla Fudge's first single and reached number 6 in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. While the version released as a single was under three minutes long, the album version was extended to six minutes and 45 seconds. We tried to slow down the song and put the emotion the song should have into it with the hurtin' kind of feeling the song should have.' 'You keep me hangin' on' lyrically was a hurtin' kind of song, and when The Supremes did it, it was like a happy song. We were all looking for songs that were hits and could be slowed down with emotion put into them. (.) It all started from The Rascals, I think. Vanilla Fudge recorded a successful cover version of the song in 1968.įudge drummer Carmine Appice explains: 'In 1966, when I joined the band, there was a thing going around the New York area and Long Island that was basically slowing songs down, making production numbers out of them and putting emotion into them. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeksin November 1966. 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' was the first single from the Supremes' 1967 album 'The Supremes sing Holland-Dozier-Holland'. The song was recorded nine different times with the Supremes and session band The Funk Brothers before the producers got the version they were finally satisfied with. This was done to create a fuller sound than the previous Supremes records. Many elements of the recording, including the guitars, the drums, and Diana Ross's lead vocal, were multitracked (the parts were recorded multiple times and the takes layered over one another). The song was originally recorded by The Supremes in 1966. Songwriter Lamont Dozier got most of his inspiration for the song's Morse code-like guitar line from listening to the 'news flash' signal over the radio, and he and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland integrated the idea into a song. Song written by the songwriting team of Holland, Dozier, Holland.
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