(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String (You've Got Me) Dangling on a String "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String" is a 1970 soul music song by the Chairmen of the Board. The single reached #38 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, #19 on the US "Billboard" R&B chart, and #5 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Ronald Dunbar and Edythe Wayne. The group performed "Dangling on a String" on American Bandstand on May 16, 1970. The song was covered by Donny Osmond, and released as a single from the January 1977 album "Donald Clark Osmond", "bubbling under" the "Billboard" Hot 100
You Really Got Me long at all. It was one of the first five I ever came up with." During the spring of 1964, Ray Davies played an early version of "You Really Got Me" on piano to rock photographer Allan Ballard during a photo shoot. Ballard later remembered, "It was quite a small, pokey, Victorian Terrace, a bit scruffy, and in the hallway they had an upright piano. Ray sat down and plonked out, 'Der-der, der, Der-der!' He said, 'What do you reckon to this?' It meant nothing to me at the time, but it ended up as 'You Really Got Me'." Ray,