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Their radical cover version of The Supremes’ hit \"\u003cem\u003eYou Keep Me Hanging On\u003c\/em\u003e\" was issued as a single in June 1967. Dominated by the hard-hitting approach of their rhythm section and the powerful Hammond organ playing of Mark Stein, it became a US top 10 hit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band’s self-titled debut album was released in August 1967 and was a psychedelic rock tour-de-force, featuring a seven-minute version of ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’. It also featured imaginative cover versions of compositions by The Beatles, The Zombies, and Curtis Mayfield among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the next two years, Vanilla Fudge would record a series of albums that would evolve from psychedelic rock to heavy rock and influence many emerging bands, among them Deep Purple, before disbanding in 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis nine CD boxed set has been remastered from the original Atco tapes and features the albums \u003cem\u003eVanilla Fudge\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Beat Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e (in both mono and stereo versions) and \u003cem\u003eRenaissance\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNear The Beginning\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRock and Roll\u003c\/em\u003e. It also features a complete concert recorded at the Fillmore West on New Year’s Eve 1968 \/ 1969 over two CDs and a host of session out-takes and singles. 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Some club owners complained that their slow, moody, stop-start, whisper-then-scream arrangements of songs like 'Ticket to Ride,' 'People Get Ready' and 'Eleanor Rigby' were emptying dancefloors. With the patronage of George Francis 'Shadow' Morton, an extremely talented but somewhat unhinged producer-about-town, the group known as Mark Stein and the Pigeons, who'd impressed Morton with their showmanship and instrumental expertise, was transformed into Vanilla Fudge and signed to Atlantic's ATCO subsidiary. 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