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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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??? 🤯🤯🤯🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 TH-cam ... Also, L-Lysine for viruses, as some arthritis is caused by viruses.
Could be gout 👍
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
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
The Troggs...where the wild things are.
song i get rated100% by computer in karaoke.
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
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! ;-)
Nothing about the ocarina solo
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!
Regardless who's version, it's an eternal great 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.
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”!
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.
Wild Thang! You make everythang grooooooooooovy! RIP Reg
The Goodies did an awesome version of this song.
Oh Look....Angelina's Uncle!
She's hot.
Loved the song but With A Girl Like You was my favourite.
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!
I'd love to hear those other W demos
Who else played an ocarina solo on a pop record ?
NOBODY.........genius
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.
Possibly 1st "Punk" 3 chord song record!? 🤔
Three chords was a must for my 60s garage band, in the beginning.
Reg was right - arguably the first punk song
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!
"Wild thing you make my **** spring..." is what we sang back then.
The MAGNIFICENT Chip Taylor.
I wish you rainbows Chip.
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
The quintessential house party song.
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.
The original guy who wrote it sounds like a character from Squidbillies when he sings~
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.
The song that launch a 1000 garage bands.
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.
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.
God the studio out takes tape that circulated the music biz in the 80s was ultra hilarious.
Thank you! Always thought there was a cool story behind the creation of Wild Thing.
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.
No mention of the Sam Kinison version?
He did a great version of Wild Thing, and Mississippi Queen too. RIP Sam gone too soon.
Can you imagine the bombshell this song was back then...
Charlie Sheen :D
Nothing about Jimi Hendrix?
1 of rocks greatest tunes.
Look up the history between Chip Taylor and the teenage James Taylor in New York. Not a good guy.
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😂
What became of Jordan Christopher and the wild one's version? I believe it bombed
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.
The goodies did a good, fun version
i saw the troggs many many years ago
Killer song
Jon Voight's brother.
Clearly influenced by Louie Louie. Also, the Wild One’s version was terrible
Its time for him to retire his voice. Its over sir
Reg Presley has been dead for 7 years so yeah it is over
who is chips brother
That song might sound good.....played PUNK STYLE......try it.
Just a bit outside
No mention of Chip Taylor's "Senator Bobby" version?????
Major League
all time rock songs... Wild Thing, I can't get no Satisfaction, Green Onions, Tequila, Wipe Out, Rumble, Pipeline etc.
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.
Country is blues blues is rock rock is country..all family
03:58 Yes! ... Indeed! ... I buy that ... a "Progenitor" of Punk ...
I own an immaculate almost unplayed 45 of this, framed with hey Joe and hey Jude.
The drummer never hits the cymbals in the song? I wonder if that was intentional?
What's up with that busted guitar in the background?
Interesting how inspired and that the song epitomizes what Rock n Roll is. Proof is, how well it wore. See the Sam Kinison video.
Mike from Nashville are you from phoenix also ?
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.
Thank you for the cool story behind 1 of my favorite songs.
Reg Presley , he has a great Andover accent. RIP.
This is almost always a song i teach beginners usually in the first two weeks! Definitely an anthem!
I think i was about 15 when i learned Bill Oddie didn't write it
He gave birth to a classic and then killed it. 😑
I would have been the one that took that gal home sitting at the bar..
I don't know who that chick is at 4:48 but she's badass.
One of my favorites of the 60's. I was a teen by that time.
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.
Where is the release date for this song??
The Troggs coined this song
The Troggs still look cool.
A great song to do for Karaoke too
Such a great song.
Fancy did it best.
Awesome! Just awesome!
A country song.
I hope he's rich!
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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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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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 😂
I know this song because of Jimi....
X did it better
Oh. He did that creepy move with his neck, back then too.
Janet Jackson stole that move.