![]() The band had three albums in the Top One Hundred, two of which were in the Top Twenty and one in the Top Five Single. It was followed by Renaissance, one of Vanilla Fudge’s best albums, which also hit the Top Twenty. That summer, Atco reissued “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” and the second time around it climbed into the Top Ten. The group then performed “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” on The Ed Sullivan Show, and released their second album, “The Beat Goes On.” Despite its avant-garde conceptualization and execution, the LP was a hit and climbed into the Top Twenty. In 1968, Vanilla Fudge headlined the Fillmore West with Steve Miller. The Vanilla Fudge first album rose up the charts to # 4 without the aid of a big hit single. Vanilla Fudge, the album, was released on Jthe day after The Beatles’ released their Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The band toured extensively behind its covers-heavy, jam-oriented debut album, Vanilla Fudge, to expand their fan base. The band settled on Vanilla Fudge they were a white group singing and playing with the soul of the brothers. This resulted in a deal with the Atlantic subsidiary Atco, which requested a name change. ![]() Impressed by their heavy-rocking, trippy and psychedelic version of The Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” Morton offered to record the song as a single. In early 1967, The Pigeons manager, Phil Basile, convinced producer, George “Shadow” Morton (producer for The Shangri-Las and Janis Ian), to catch their live act. In late 1966, drummer, Joey Brennan, moved out to the West Coast the Pigeons immediately drafted drummer and vocalist, Carmine Appice, a disciple of the renowned Joe Morello (Dave Brubeck Band) and a seasoned veteran of the club scene. Inspired by groups such as The Rascals and The Vagrants (fronted by guitarist, Leslie West of “Mountain” fame), The Pigeons reworked many of their own existing arrangements of covers to reflect their unique interpretation of this “East Coast Sound.” The East Coast, in particular, New York, and New Jersey, created a sound all its own. In early 1966, the group recorded a set of eight demos that were released several years later as “While the World Was Eating Vanilla Fudge.” They built a following by gigging extensively up and down the East Coast, and earned extra money by providing freelance in-concert backing for hit-record girl groups. Originally, Vanilla Fudge was a blue-eyed soul cover band called The Pigeons, formed in New Jersey in 1965 with organist, Mark Stein, bassist, Tim Bogert and drummer, Joey Brennan, and guitarist, vocalist and US Navy veteran, Vince Martell. Although, at first, the band did not record original material, they were best known for their dramatic heavy, slowed-down arrangements of contemporary pop songs which they developed into works of epic proportion. If you are the copyright holder and would like them removed or credited, please get in touch.Vanilla Fudge was one of the first American groups to infuse psychedelia into a heavy rock sound to create “psychedelic symphonic rock” an eclectic genre which would, among its many offshoots, eventually morph into heavy metal. Images and photographs can be from different ranges of sources such as Pinterest, Tumblr etc. Watch a rare performance of Vanilla Fudge playing “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” at the German TV show Beat Club in 1967 He was a useful source of tricks on the Hammond.” Mark Stein turns 75 today. Lord, in a 1989 interview said “ used to listen to Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge in the late sixties. Stein himself influenced organist Jon Lord of the band Deep Purple. The band released their self-titled album “Vanilla Fudge” in 1967 that included their signature song, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” a cover of The Supremes and became one of the top Psychedelic acts during the late 1960’s, also in the band was drummer Carmine Appice. ![]() While performing with one of these early groups, he spied an “old beat-up organ on the stage and started jamming on it.” It was the keyboardist and lead singer of the Psychedelic Rock band Vanilla Fudge that Stein found success. He worked his way through various bands in his high school. He began playing piano at age four and later attempted the accordion. Mark Stein was born on March 11, 1947, in Bayonne, New Jersey. An outstanding musician and singer Vanilla Fudge’s lead singer and amazing keyboardist Mark Stein turns 75
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