I was out with work colleagues for lunch in the restaurant of a hotel in Scunthorpe. It’s the 1990’s and we were all having fun, laughing and chatting. A group of workmen were in for their lunch. As the workmen left, one of them passed me a paper napkin that he wrote “wild thing! You make my heart sing” on. I had that napkin taped to the end of my desk for the longest time. That little note made me so happy. I was in a very dark place and Wild Thing made me smile. This song will always have a place in my heart. I wish I could thank that workman.
Really lovely documentry, hearing the origins of Wild Thing is just sooo good and I well recall it being issued all those years ago, great to see Reg talking about it and the effects it had on others. RIP Reg, we are still listening!
So many people had/have an idea that Chip Taylor wrote this. He also wrote "Angel of the Morning". Check Atkins was the one at the studio where he heard Chip's demo and knew the song would be a hit. Chip is also the brother of actor Jon Voight.
He took everything to another level, a level that no one has understood or reached yet. Perhaps drug fueled, but why didn't anyone else get there, since they were all taking the same gear??? 🤯🤯🤯🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
To have heard wild thing on the radio for first time then the kinks you really got me,the animals we gotta get out of this place.only happens once in a life time.
Was doing sound for Taming Of The Shrew set in the sixties and used a snippet of Wild Thing as a cue to introduce Kate. Kate and Bianca fought together weaving in and out of the audience while the ocarina solo played.
One of those numbers which will be forever great. Lead singer Reg Presley hails from the English County Hampshire town of Andover I believe. I was a mere twenty four when this number first appeared in that fabulous 1960s decade. That single guitar intro for me is the most distinctly memorable Rock intro in the known Universe. Those Troggs really nailed that number.
Wild Thing changed EVERYTHING! Any song before was old rock and roll...then came Wild Thing and it unleashed hard rock, metal, punk, psychedelic, new wave, stadium rock and the entirety of rock music for the next 50 years and beyond. No other so g ever had a bigger impact, period. Funny to me, being from the Seattle area, that he also wrote Angel of the Morning. It was a hit for local girl Marilee Rush.
Wild Thing will always remind me of tooling down the Garden State Parkway in the summer of '66 on the way to the Jersey Shore. The song was as hot as the sun and sand on the Seaside, NJ beach.
1st song I learned on guitar. Thanks Chip but honestly stoked the Troggs version happened cause I'm not sure if I could have listened to it as an acoustic country duo.
"Wild Thing" is a copy of "Louie Louie" but the lyrics are cool. And Jimi Hendrix played live astounding covers of this song so respect to Chip Taylor and The Troggs...
@@tomcoryell It is different but similar enough to be a possible influence. Personally I can’t think of a tune before Louie Louie w the same chord structure. But plenty after.
I don't think chip taylor ever talks about the Hendrix version. at least not that I know of. it is my favorite. and everyone remembers that guitar going up in flames...even if they don't remember what song it was playing.
@@MarkGelderland That's right. And I heard it from engineers at George Martin's Air studio back in the day. They had listened to the tape and said it was one of the funniest things ever.
Jon Voights Brothers Chip Taylor wrote Wild Thing? It a three chord Punk Garage Classic! A beginner guitarist can learn three chords and rock out on Wild Thing! It’s also got a deep sexual component to it! Brilliant really! Wild Thing You make my heart sing 🎤 You make Everything Groovy! Cmon and Hold me Tight! Wild Thing I think I love you but I wanna know for sure! You Move me! Cmon Shake it Shake it Wild Thing! A Deep Primal Rock Song about Lust and Love! One of the great Garage Classics along with Gloria by Them! Another Paean to Love with Three Chords. The best classic Rock songs only have three chords and are direct! They’re like a Punch in the Gut!
Some time when you remove time from the act of creation. When you put pressure on it. A diamond arises. One day to write a song and out comes a hit. Nowadays artists have years to come out with an album and the songs aren't memorable at all. Over produced. Lyrics are meaningless and not catchy. 5 verses. 3 are the same one repeated. Simple. Powerful. Sensual. One day to write a song and a gem is born.
Okay now who can recall seeing The Goodies play Wild Thing in one episode? Weird to consider that the BBC had The Goodies at Adult time after 9 pm and yet ABC TV Australia would play them at the children friendly time of 6.00 pm. Go figure that one out.
The question you really want is *when* they were smoking in a bar. In the 1960s and 70s smoking was allowed not only in bars but restaurants, airports, hospitals, and pretty much everywhere else as well.
@@James_Bowie - Even if you didn't smoke you came out smelling like smoke. After years of playing bars I still have a high tolerance for ambient smoke.
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I was quite famous down my local club house for being this quiet little waitress who given a couple of diamond whites when my shift was over would get up on the karaoke when kareoke first came out in uk and belt this out to much laughter from all my mates lol they used to call me diamond white or wild thing lol
There is a rather famous old book by Richard Goldstein "The Poetry of Rock (1969)" in which Wild Thing is given a paragraph analysis. Chip doesn't mention anything about the lyrics, but this is pretty much what Goldstein said as I remember Wild Thing --- taken from graffiti written in the NY subway, "Wild Thing, you make my thing swing." From listening to Chip, it's seems unlikely that he would admit to getting that line from that source. So we'll probably never know for sure.
Forget it. Get that lady into the band. Sexy as all hell. However. ... Wild Thing, You Really Got Me, I can't Control Myself was punk and grunge before Punk and Grunge. Nobody reinvents the wheel.
Wild Thing is my ring tone for when my wife calls from her cell phone. After 46 years together she is still my Wild Thing. :-)
Rick Schwartz my wife has the opening to pictures of matchstick men.
I have With A Girl Like You for my partner.
Me too, but it’s because my wife is pretty hairy and lives in the woods behind the house
Mine is Beast of Burden by the Rolling Stones 😆
Rick Schwartz love to you both ❤️
I was out with work colleagues for lunch in the restaurant of a hotel in Scunthorpe. It’s the 1990’s and we were all having fun, laughing and chatting.
A group of workmen were in for their lunch. As the workmen left, one of them passed me a paper napkin that he wrote “wild thing! You make my heart sing” on.
I had that napkin taped to the end of my desk for the longest time. That little note made me so happy. I was in a very dark place and Wild Thing made me smile.
This song will always have a place in my heart. I wish I could thank that workman.
He must have could seen..that is a moment to cherish
I feel it in my fingers , i feel it in my toes , love is all around me , its everywhere i go.only now at age 72 its arthritis. Its everywhere i go.
LOL . . . funny, BUT TRUE!
Check into Leaky Gut Syndrome on UA-cam ... Also, L-Lysine for viruses, as some arthritis is caused by viruses.
Could be gout 👍
Really lovely documentry, hearing the origins of Wild Thing is just sooo good and I well recall it being issued all those years ago, great to see Reg talking about it and the effects it had on others. RIP Reg, we are still listening!
"Wild Thing" is a song you bust your strings over. You PLOW into it. You keep it loose and give it energy. Don't make it pretty or slow.
The MAGNIFICENT Chip Taylor.
I wish you rainbows Chip.
So many people had/have an idea that Chip Taylor wrote this.
He also wrote "Angel of the Morning".
Check Atkins was the one at the studio where he heard Chip's demo and knew the song would be a hit.
Chip is also the brother of actor Jon Voight.
Well that partially explains why Angel's chorus uses the same chords in Wild Thing.
So true! Wild thing and Gloria were the first songs I learned to play.
Mike From Nashville g l o r i a !!
And don’t forget “Louie Louie”!
Hendrix took this song to another level!
He took everything to another level, a level that no one has understood or reached yet.
Perhaps drug fueled, but why didn't anyone else get there, since they were all taking the same gear???
🤯🤯🤯🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
He made it groovier. But The Troggs made it sound prehistoric. Now I know why.
To have heard wild thing on the radio for first time then the kinks you really got me,the animals we gotta get out of this place.only happens once in a life time.
Thank you for the cool story behind 1 of my favorite songs.
Wild Thang! You make everythang grooooooooooovy! RIP Reg
Was doing sound for Taming Of The Shrew set in the sixties and used a snippet of Wild Thing as a cue to introduce Kate. Kate and Bianca fought together weaving in and out of the audience while the ocarina solo played.
Thank you! Always thought there was a cool story behind the creation of Wild Thing.
One of those numbers which will be forever great. Lead singer Reg Presley hails from the English County Hampshire town of Andover I believe.
I was a mere twenty four when this number first appeared in that fabulous 1960s decade. That single guitar intro for me is the most distinctly memorable Rock intro in the known Universe. Those Troggs really nailed that number.
Wild Thing changed EVERYTHING! Any song before was old rock and roll...then came Wild Thing and it unleashed hard rock, metal, punk, psychedelic, new wave, stadium rock and the entirety of rock music for the next 50 years and beyond. No other so g ever had a bigger impact, period.
Funny to me, being from the Seattle area, that he also wrote Angel of the Morning. It was a hit for local girl Marilee Rush.
ANY song before that(Wild thing) was old rock and roll?....Sure😂
The Troggs...where the wild things are.
song i get rated100% by computer in karaoke.
Wild Thing will always remind me of tooling down the Garden State Parkway in the summer of '66 on the way to the Jersey Shore. The song was as hot as the sun and sand on the Seaside, NJ beach.
1st song I learned on guitar. Thanks Chip but honestly stoked the Troggs version happened cause I'm not sure if I could have listened to it as an acoustic country duo.
Right on..it was too C & W for me.
Although it wasn't my first song I learned how to play on the guitar, it was the first song I could play correctly on the guitar! ;-)
Three chords was a must for my 60s garage band, in the beginning.
This is almost always a song i teach beginners usually in the first two weeks! Definitely an anthem!
One of my favorites of the 60's. I was a teen by that time.
Regardless who's version, it's an eternal great song.
"Wild Thing" is a copy of "Louie Louie" but the lyrics are cool. And Jimi Hendrix played live astounding covers of this song so respect to Chip Taylor and The Troggs...
MrLouisfine Hardly a copy of Louie Louie. Not even the same feel. Yeah it uses similar chord structure, like 5000 other songs you can name.
@@tomcoryell It is different but similar enough to be a possible influence. Personally I can’t think of a tune before Louie Louie w the same chord structure. But plenty after.
Loved the song but With A Girl Like You was my favourite.
1 of rocks greatest tunes.
Country is blues blues is rock rock is country..all family
You can't beat the version of Hendrix
I don't think chip taylor ever talks about the Hendrix version. at least not that I know of. it is my favorite. and everyone remembers that guitar going up in flames...even if they don't remember what song it was playing.
@C J Bowen I heartily agree! Love them both.
...I always thought Randy Quaid(movie Major League II) should do a cover! Ha!
Australian band Cold Chisel did a some awesome live versions as well.
The Goodies did an awesome version of this song.
Such a great song.
I'd love to hear those other W demos
Chip Taylor born James Wesley Voight brother of John Voight and the uncle of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven
You mean the dentish John Voight?
also wrote Angel of the Morning
Talented family!
goodies version is great
wow, you can really see the resemblance to jon
Awesome! Just awesome!
Reg Presley , he has a great Andover accent. RIP.
Good god. I always thought the Troggs were English.
They are.
They are. Chip Taylor is from NY.
Isn't that the lead singer talking in the bar?
@@Marsbonfire007 Yes, it is.
@charlie cheeseface Reg came from Andover and has a lovely Hampshire accent.
Can you imagine the bombshell this song was back then...
I would love to see his royalty cheques for the last 50 years...jus saying
I bet he has made mega-bucks from it. And rightly so. This is one of the best songs ever written.
What became of Jordan Christopher and the wild one's version? I believe it bombed
i saw the troggs many many years ago
I remember Oliver Reed miming to this on Irish TV in a charity gig, he was drunk as Hell, but what a performance!
you sure you’re not talking about British TV ? he was on the talk show Appel, drunk as a skunk and he actually sung it live, hilarious 😂
"Wild thing you make my **** spring..." is what we sang back then.
Killer song
No mention of Jimi.....?
no need to mention him. the troggs had the hit. the troggs had the classic. jimi just did a sloppy version.
@@johnrunion5357 Jimi made it sexier
@@kellyjackson7889 bull crap! jimi made it sloppy and boring. the troggs had sex energy!
@@johnrunion5357 sex energy 😂
@@joeloxig6872 raw and primal.
03:58 Yes! ... Indeed! ... I buy that ... a "Progenitor" of Punk ...
God the studio out takes tape that circulated the music biz in the 80s was ultra hilarious.
The song that launch a 1000 garage bands.
The quintessential house party song.
Reg was right - arguably the first punk song
I think Hendrix did avversion to show respect to the fact that this wasn't the average stuff on the radio
Yes, and All Along the Watchtower. Two of the best covers ever.
No mention of the famous Wild Thing Troggs tape where in the studio there was swearing and pandemonium as the band couldn't get it together.
Three cords and they couldn't get it together? Xd
@@MarkGelderland That's right. And I heard it from engineers at George Martin's Air studio back in the day. They had listened to the tape and said it was one of the funniest things ever.
Mike from Nashville are you from phoenix also ?
Jon Voights Brothers Chip Taylor wrote Wild Thing? It a three chord Punk Garage Classic! A beginner guitarist can learn three chords and rock out on Wild Thing! It’s also got a deep sexual component to it! Brilliant really! Wild Thing You make my heart sing 🎤 You make Everything Groovy! Cmon and Hold me Tight! Wild Thing I think I love you but I wanna know for sure! You Move me! Cmon Shake it Shake it Wild Thing!
A Deep Primal Rock Song about Lust and Love!
One of the great Garage Classics along with Gloria by Them! Another Paean to Love with Three Chords. The best classic Rock songs only have three chords and are direct! They’re like a Punch in the Gut!
Chip Taylor looks and sounds like his brother, actor Jon Voight.
He also wrote "Angel of the Morning". Can't get too much different than those two songs!
Where is the release date for this song??
Nothing about the ocarina solo
all time rock songs... Wild Thing, I can't get no Satisfaction, Green Onions, Tequila, Wipe Out, Rumble, Pipeline etc.
No mention of the Sam Kinison version?
He did a great version of Wild Thing, and Mississippi Queen too. RIP Sam gone too soon.
Who else played an ocarina solo on a pop record ?
NOBODY.........genius
Possibly 1st "Punk" 3 chord song record!? 🤔
Some time when you remove time from the act of creation. When you put pressure on it. A diamond arises. One day to write a song and out comes a hit. Nowadays artists have years to come out with an album and the songs aren't memorable at all. Over produced. Lyrics are meaningless and not catchy. 5 verses. 3 are the same one repeated. Simple. Powerful. Sensual. One day to write a song and a gem is born.
She's hot.
A great song to do for Karaoke too
Interesting how inspired and that the song epitomizes what Rock n Roll is. Proof is, how well it wore. See the Sam Kinison video.
No mention of Chip Taylor's "Senator Bobby" version?????
The drummer never hits the cymbals in the song? I wonder if that was intentional?
I don't know who that chick is at 4:48 but she's badass.
who is chips brother
The Troggs still look cool.
Just a bit outside
The goodies did a good, fun version
Okay now who can recall seeing The Goodies play Wild Thing in one episode?
Weird to consider that the BBC had The Goodies at Adult time after 9 pm and yet ABC TV Australia would play them at the children friendly time of 6.00 pm. Go figure that one out.
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Where are they smoking in a bar?
It was probably shot in the early nineties...
The question you really want is *when* they were smoking in a bar. In the 1960s and 70s smoking was allowed not only in bars but restaurants, airports, hospitals, and pretty much everywhere else as well.
Isn't that funny! It used to be common place to smoke every where. Now it is a shocking event to smoke anywhere.
Smoking in bars was compulsory.
@@James_Bowie - Even if you didn't smoke you came out smelling like smoke. After years of playing bars I still have a high tolerance for ambient smoke.
The original guy who wrote it sounds like a character from Squidbillies when he sings~
Chip is a great songwriter, he’s song ”Anyway that you want me” is genius.
Angel Of The Morning
Great song for a wedding methinks
I know this song because of Jimi....
I always thought that Reg Presley wrote Wild Thing so I've been proved wrong.
He did, however, write Love Is All Around, which is arguably just as enduring.
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they should have had JH in there. Hi Mark,
Good to hear from you again. Regarding the gold content of your samples, we did an analysis of just the SIM cards last year, and we came up with around 1500 ppm gold for them (1.5 kg Au/tone SIM cards). Hope it can give you a better idea of what you can expect
Wow. I’ve heard this on the radio before but shocked to learn the band is British. The singing sounds American.
Pretty sure that's Bean and Monty from Herman's Hermits at the bar.
The Troggs coined this song
I always preferred Sam Kinison’s version of this song. A little less hectic and a lot more love. If you need a good love song, give a good listen.
Nothing about Hendrix's version??
no need to mention him. the troggs had the hit. the troggs had the classic. jimi just did a sloppy version.
He gave birth to a classic and then killed it. 😑
When Chip performs this song he gives free advice to keep the shrink away lock yourself up in a pitchdark room and yell Wild Thing as loud as you can.
Oh Look....Angelina's Uncle!
I own an immaculate almost unplayed 45 of this, framed with hey Joe and hey Jude.
Charlie Sheen :D
Nothing about Jimi Hendrix?
I was quite famous down my local club house for being this quiet little waitress who given a couple of diamond whites when my shift was over would get up on the karaoke when kareoke first came out in uk and belt this out to much laughter from all my mates lol they used to call me diamond white or wild thing lol
I think the lead singer is giving it a little too much credit for being "edgy" in comparison to music of its time, it came out in '66 not '52
What's up with that busted guitar in the background?
i never knew that was written by someone else. my least favorite troggs song. "with a girl like you" and "i cant control myself" are my favorites.
A country song.
Oh. He did that creepy move with his neck, back then too.
Janet Jackson stole that move.
I also liked the Hendrix version
There is a rather famous old book by Richard Goldstein "The Poetry of Rock (1969)" in which Wild Thing is given a paragraph analysis. Chip doesn't mention anything about the lyrics, but this is pretty much what Goldstein said as I remember
Wild Thing --- taken from graffiti written in the NY subway, "Wild Thing, you make my thing swing."
From listening to Chip, it's seems unlikely that he would admit to getting that line from that source. So we'll probably never know for sure.
Jon Voight's brother.
Sell a song that is easy for the new guitar owners to learn in their first week. Trite simple lyrics. Easy to play.
When you're a hormonal teenager in the sixties, those lyrics are not quite so trite. They are crazy sexy.
I hope he's rich!
Forget it. Get that lady into the band. Sexy as all hell.
However. ... Wild Thing, You Really Got Me, I can't Control Myself was punk and grunge before Punk and Grunge. Nobody reinvents the wheel.