Vanilla Fudge
 This
New York group formed in 1965 as The Pigeons (originally The
Electric Pigeons), changing their name to Vanilla Fudge in 1967.
But as a group they lasted just four years.
The band specialised in their own original arrangements of
other people's songs. In 1967 they had a big hit with a
slowed-down and funked-up version of The
Supremes' You Keep Me Hanging On, notable for its
huge-scale (and tasteless) production.
The band afforded the same treatment to Eleanor Rigby,
Ticket To Ride and She's Not There but
the combination of melodramatics and psychedelic guitar soon wore
thin and the group disbanded in 1970.
Drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tim Bogert joined forces
with Jeff Beck to form the
inventively-named Beck, Bogert & Appice.
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