Songfacts®:

• Reg Presley says of this in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: "I wrote that song while I was still a bricklayer. We recorded it at the same time as Wild Thing and either of them could have been released first. I liked the way The Beach Boys were going 'Ba-ba-ba-Barbara Ann' and it was lovely to do something like that in With A Girl Like You. We nearly had a trumpet playing it, but it sounded better when we sang it."
• Though many people think "Wild Thing" was The Troggs' sole chart topper in the UK, in fact this now less well-known song made its way to the very top while "Wild Thing" stalled at #2. In the US however "Wild Thing" topped the charts while this only made #29.
• This appears in the film Shine in a scene set in London in which David Helfgott has a night out on the town. >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for all above
• This song was used in the film Flirting in which it was played by the students at a boys' school as a way of welcoming students from a girls' school (who included characters played by Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts and Thandie Newton) to a dance. >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Dennis - North Hollywood, CA