ABSTRACT
A comparison of The Supremes version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" with the Vanilla Fudge cover of it will provide a sense of how the prototypical psychedelic-symphonic cover works. The fundamental idea of the psychedelic-symphonic cover is to take a familiar song and expand it into an epic. The fundamental idea of the psychedelic-symphonic cover is to take a familiar song and expand it into an epic. A key feature of the Vanilla Fudge cover is the way it focuses in on some important features of the original and develops them. Perhaps the clearest echo of the psychedelic symphonic cover in the second half of the 1970s is Manfred Mann's 1976 cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light." The Beatles recorded "Every Little Thing" in September 1964; it is a Paul McCartney song that he hoped would be the band's next single.
