Single:
Wild Thing entered the Australian singles chart* on 4 June 1966 and peaked at #1. The song was #20 on the Top 100 of 1966.
Songwriter:
Chip Taylor
Producer:
Larry Page
Record label of Australian release:
Parlophone
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Wild Thing was written by a songwriter named Chip Taylor, who has made tons of money from it because it has been recorded by many artists and is constantly being used in movies and TV shows. Taylor used a lot of this money to gamble – for years he bet about $10,000 a day and was kicked out of every casino in Las Vegas for card counting. He also wrote Angel of the Morning, which was a hit for Merrilee Rush in 1968. Taylor is the brother of actor Jon Voight and the uncle of Angelina Jolie.
The style of music exemplified in Wild Thing became known as ‘Caveman Rock’. The Troggs is short for “troglodyte” (meaning “cave dweller”) which helped bolster this image. Over the next few years, The Troggs moved away from this Neanderthal sound.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-troggs/wild-thing
Lyrics:
Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing
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