Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge (1967)

I first heard the music sometime in the Summer of Love, but then I heard so much music back then that it was just one more American rock group.  But something must have stuck, maybe the name, but I came across this album with it’s psychedelic cover in a record shop in the early Seventies.  First thing I did, which we all did back then, was to turn the sleeve over and read the back cover.  And I saw these song titles which I knew, including two Beatles songs and a memory came back of a song, maybe ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’ that I had heard a few years earlier – but it was slower and dreamy.  They slowed down rock but kept it pretty heavy….and so I bought the record and, as they say, was blown away.  It was a favourite for quite a time.