
Here we are already, the final 25! Ranking at
#25 of
VJ Samsonite's Top 100 80's Dance Hits Countdown and straight out of
1986 and now direct to you is
You Keep Me Hangin' On by British singer/author/television presenter
Kim Wilde. Kim Wilde was born on November 18th, 1960 in Chiswick, West London, England. She burst out onto the new wave music scene in 1981 with her chart-topping hit
Kids In America (which incidentally was #85 on this countdown), but she didn't reach big success in the USA until the release of this song, which was a cover of the 1966
Supremes song
You Keep Me Hangin' On. It was the second single released off of her 5th studio album released in
1986 and titled
Another Step. After 1998 Kim Wilde continued on in music to some extent but took up an alternative career as a television gardener for 2 British TV programs called
Better Gardens and
Garden Invaders. She has also written 2 books on gardening for those who are interested. Getting back to the song,
You Keep Me Hangin' On would prove to be her biggest hit peaking at #1 on the US, Canadian, Norwegian, and Australian charts. And so there is #25, and there are only 24 more to go before we are on to some other form of 80's countdown/party lists innit!
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