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Written by: Chip Taylor
Produced by: Larry Page
Released: June '66 on Atco/Fontana
Charts: 11 weeks
Top spot: No. 1
When songwriter Taylor demo'd this three-chord monster in 1965, he didn't take it too seriously: "I was on the floor laughing when I was through." But after a new U.K. band called the Troggs got hold of it, "Wild Thing" became a bar-band standard. As Taylor said, "It's still inspired, even in its own dumbness." Famously, Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire playing this song at Monterey Pop.
Appears on: Greatest Hits (Prime Cuts)