Vanilla Fudge release a “fudged up” version of The Supremes classic ‘Stop In the Name Of Love‘ and a tribute to their bandmate with ‘To The Legacy Of Tim Bogert’.
Released as singles, there’s also a video fro ‘Stop In the Name Of Love‘ that you can watch her at RAMzine – And 55 years into their careers it does beg the question why they’re not in America’s Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame!
Together for one final time, the original Vanilla Fudge line-up of Mark Stein (keyboards, vocals), Carmine Appice (drums, vocals), Vincent Martel (guitar, vocals) and Tim Bogert (bass, vocals) recorded a psychedelically-tinged version of The Supremes hit wherein they display both their virtuosity and raw talent.
Back in 2019, Stein put together an idea for Vanilla Fudge to do an arrangement for ‘Stop In The Name Of Love’. The plan was to capture the lightning in a bottle that happened with their classic arrangement of The Supremes’ ‘You Keep Me Hangin’ On’.
That track has remained current decades after its release thanks to film and television placements such as The Sopranos’ finale, and big Hollywood blockbusters like Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. While the Fudge was out on tour later that year they went into the studio and laid down tracks that would be the foundation of this new release.
“So back in mid-2019, I put together a blueprint for an arrangement for ‘Stop in the Name of Love’, while the Fudge was out there doing shows later that year. We went into the studio and recorded the track,” said Stein, further explaining: “We planned to complete it, there were delays, and then the pandemic put everything on hold.”
They planned to complete it with Tim Bogert on the track, however they ran into some unavoidable delays with the pandemic putting everything on hold. Bogert had been living with cancer for some time, and they didn’t know how much time he had. Appice took the matter into his own hands and when he went to Los Angeles’ NAMM show in January of 2020; he arranged for Bogert to record at Jorgen Carlsson’s (the bass player for Gov’t Mule) studio in LA.
“It was very cool that we were able to get Timmy on the track. I’m glad he was strong enough and gracious enough to record with us one last time,” said Martel. “He gave me a great template to build on with my guitar. I created an East Indian raga intro in the spirit of our early albums and rocked out at the end. Hold on tight everybody,’ cause here comes The Fudge.”
Upon Bogert’s passing the band recorded tributes to their brother and bandmate with producer Leslie Gold. This heartfelt recording ‘To The Legacy Of Tim Bogert’ has been described as “a must listen for fans of Vanilla Fudge”.
You can order ‘Stop In The Name of Love’ and ‘To The Legacy Of Tim Bogert’ here.
