Wild Thing

Album: Wild Thing (1966)
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  • Wild thing
    You make my heart sing
    You make everything groovy
    Wild thing
    Wild thing, I think I love you
    But I wanna know for sure
    Come on, hold me tight
    I love you

    Wild thing
    You make my heart sing
    You make everything groovy
    Wild thing

    Wild thing
    I think you move me
    But I wanna know for sure
    So come on and hold me tight
    You move me

    Wild thing
    You make my heart sing
    You make everything groovy
    Wild thing
    Come on, come on wild thing
    Shake it, shake it, wild thing Writer/s: Chip Taylor
    Publisher: Kanjian Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 25

  • Elmer Fudd from Barnstead Nhwhat key is this song in?
  • Michael from Vienna (austria)One of my favourite covers is the reggae version by Sister Carol, that is played at the end of the film "Something wild" by Jonathan Demme.
  • Joe Cantello from GeorgiaThe version of Wild Thing by 'Senator Bobby' is available as a download from either Amazon or itunes. You can also listen to it on youtube.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 9th 1974, Fancy's covered version of "Wild Thing" entered Billboard’s Hot Top 100 chart at position #99; twelve weeks later on September 1st, 1974 it would peaked at #14 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 17 weeks...
    And on September 7th, 1974 it peaked at #9 {for 1 week} on the Canadian RPM Singles chart...
    The quartet had one other Top 100 record, "Touch Me"; it peaked at #19 in 1974.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 19th 1966, "Wild Thing" by the Troggs entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #75; and on July 24th it peaked at #1 (for 2 weeks) and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100 (and for amazing 8 of those 11 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    Its three weeks outside the Top 10 were; 1st week at #75, 2nd week at #47 then jumped to #6, and its 11th & final week it was at #31 and then fell completely off the chart...
    As already stated because of a label dispute it was released on the 'Atco' and 'Fontana' record label in the U.S.A.
    The B-side of the 'Atco' release was "A Girl Like You" and it also make the Top 100, it reached #29...
    The quartet had two other Top 100 records; "I Can't Control Myself" (peaked at #43 in 1966) and "Love Is All Around" (reached #7 in 1968)...
    R.I.P. lead singer Reg Presley, born Reginald Maurice Ball, 1941 - 2013.
  • Jaimz from Vancouver, BcIt's mentioned on the site here that the song was mastered in mono only but I have a stereo version that completely gives the song a new lease on life. One notice is the use of acoustic guitars and with the solo made me realize that the track has a lot of punch without being "plugged in". I also noticed the double tracking of the drums; why? who knows, but it adds to the punch! It really sounds great! Their song "Lost Girl" is really a great track too - too bad it didn't see the light of day at the time.
  • Matthew from Toronto, OnI always thought this was a dreadful song. Couldn't believe it when it soared to Number One. Amateurish, pseudo-macho delivery of the sophomoric lyrics. Had it bombed, it would have been cited as How Not To Make A Record. Laughable.
  • Ryan from Anahola, HiThe Jimi Hendrix Experience played this song at the Monterey Pop Festeval, 1967.
  • Bob from Owen Sound, OnThis was the first full song I learned on bass guitar! It's so simple yet so awesome! The song really good!
  • Alan from City, MiAnybody tried to play along with this song (Troggs version), supposedly in the key of A, and it just doesn't sound right? And neither does Bb! Basically, I assume, the guitars were not tuned exactly right (no keyboard in this, so no need to tune to the keyboard). The guitars were probably tuned to each other (in this day before electric guitar tuners) so they don't sound out of tune with each other. Just not tuned to traditional middle C. The ocarina in the solo sounds just a tad off also, the out-of-tune guitars would explain this. The other possibility is that this was slowed down or speeded up, which would also cause a slight exaggeration in the tuning.
  • Oldpink from New Castle, InWhooh! Talk about primitive. Caveman rock, indeed. No work on instrumentality or production is anywhere to be found here, and yet it rocks, and it rocks BECAUSE of those flaws, not despite them. Anyone who has ever seen the footage of Jimi first humping, then lighting up, then smashing his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival will know why that performance was what broke him through here in his homeland of the U.S. Simply fantastic bit of showmanship, right through the dying hum of his guitar through his overcharted amp. I also got a big kick out of the parody verion done with Sam Kinison. Of COURSE this song was always intended to be a bit under the arm, so a joke version is not a stretch at all.
  • Mark from Byrdstown, TnI love the rough garage sound this song has.Most everything recorded today is too polished and artificial.For an instant the Troggs captured IT.IT being a sublime moment of great joy in 2 minute song.
  • Ian from Lethbridge, CanadaI love the orcarina solo in the middle!
  • Dan from Winthrop, MaAlso covered in the seventies by a british band called Fancy it reached #14 on U.S.chart.Fancy was lead by a former penthouse pet Helen Court her version was very erotic pre dating Donna Summer's vocal delivery on Love to Love You.
  • Nooxara from Albany, AkJimi Hendrix did a version of this....
  • Linus from Hamilton, On, CanadaIt has the great 70's tune that seems to be missing in music these days.
  • Big Bob from Lagrange, OhActually, the cover version in Major League was from a group called "X", who consisted of John Doe: vocals/bass; Exene Cervenka: vocals; D.J. Bonebrake: drum/vocals; Billy Zoom: guitar/vocals. http://www.xtheband.com/wildthing.html
  • Rick Sobotka from Sedona, AzWas recorded using left over minutes in a studio reserved for someone else.
  • Ross from Independence, MoThis is #257 in Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest songs.
  • Alan from City, MiThe solo on this is recorded on ocarina! Maybe the oddest solo instrument on a Top 10 hit except for the solo to Johnny Get Angry which was recorded on tissue paper and comb.
    The former Beatles/Stones manager mentioned above is Allen Klein.
  • Jade from Chippewa Falls, WiThe lead singer of the Troggs, Reg Presley had just arrived in Hollywood and met with actress Mary Badham at a bar. This song was inspired by her attude and her wildness that she seemed to have.
  • Alejandro from Mexico D.f., Mexicodoes everyone hnows if the kinks ever covered this one?
  • Joe from Adelaide, AustraliaThe Goodies did their own version of Wild Thing in one of their episodes, adding a few extra vocals.
  • Jeff from Gaithersburg, MdThe song writer, Chip Taylor, was raised in Yonkers, New York, born James Welsey Voight, and formed the high school band, "Town and Country Brothers". He started out as a professional golfer, then switched to music. Besides having other hit songs by top performers, including Anne Murray's version of "Son Of A Rotten Gambler" (written for his son), Taylor and his producing partner Al Gorgoni discovered and produced James Taylor and Evie Sands. As a recording artist in his own right, Taylor's album "Last Chance" was called by Rolling Stone magazine one of the best country albums of 1973, and was one of the forerunners of "outlaw" country music.

    As a professional gambler, he was one of the foremost thoroughbred horse race handicappers on the East Coast. When Chip turned his sights on the gaming tables, he quickly gained notoriety with his black jack prowess; finishing third in the World Black Jack Championship in Las Vegas. Taylor became one of the most feared card counters in the land (the reason he was ulimately banned from every casino in Atlantic City). In the late 80's, along with friend, partner, and renowned handicapper, Ernest Dahlman, he garnered enormous winnings through his horse racing exploits, specifically in the form of massive pick six scores.

  • Frank De Wit from 's?hertogenbosch, NetherlandsI've always thought that the song in the movie Major League was sung by Joan Jett, who first recorded it (in 1977) as part of the Runaways. I'm certainly not shure if this is the version they used in the movie (i'm almost certainly sure thats it is not) and that it is probably a new version by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
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