Flashback Track Friday #52

Happy Friday! Let the wild rumpus begin.

It’s Friday! Time to hit the bars or better yet open up that dusty record player and put on a stack of groovy tunes. I know a favorite in my house now as well as when I was growing up was ‘Wild Thing’ performed by English garage rock band, The Troggs. While they were the first band to take the song to #1 it was covered many times, and written in 1965 by Chip Taylor. “I treat all my songs seriously,” Taylor says. “There was an honesty to the song. Sure, when you break it down there’s not a lot to it. But when I was writing it, I was treating it as the most serious thing in the universe.”

Asked to write a song for an up-and-coming rock band and given a 24-hour deadline, Taylor found the chords of the song right away but struggled to find the lyrics…

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Jeff Flesch

A classic…happy weekend, K!

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Thank you. It’s a tune that doesn’t get old, at least for me. Happy weekend! 😃
  
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  1. Jeff Flesch
    
    Indeed. Thank you! 😁
    
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anotherkatewilson

The first version of that song I ever heard was the Goodies version 🙂

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Oh, I will give it a listen. Thanks so much for sharing.
  
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Michele Marsh

Have a great weekend KK❤️

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1. K.Hartless
  
  Hope your weekend is wild and wonderful as well.
  
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  1. Michele Marsh
    
    Finally getting Cmas gifts to my brother and family and a local friend
    
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Hobbo

Good one!

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K.Hartless

Thanks, Hobbo. I can never resist this one.

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wjwingrove97

you might like Lester Bangs writing about the Troggs and garage rock 😊

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1. K.Hartless
  
  I’ll check it out; thanks.
  
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