BILLBOARD #1 HITS: #628: ‘YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON’- KIM WILDE -JUNE 6, 1987

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Billboard #1 Hits: #628: ‘ You Keep Me Hangin’ On’- Kim Wilde. June 6, 1987. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.

  • Single :’You Keep Me Hangin’ On’- Kim Wilde
  • Record Company- MCA
  • Genre: Pop
  • Written by Holland-Dozier-Holland
  • Time: 4:15
  • B-side: ‘Loving You’
  • Album- Another Step
  • Grade: B
  • Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #2 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Australia, Canada and Norway.

First a number one with The Supremes back in 1967- and then a #6 hit for Vanilla Fudge a year later- Kim Wilde gives it a reworking a couple decades later- and takes it back to #1. Wilde had but two Top 40 hits in the US- this and 1981’s ‘Kids In America.’#25.