Arguably, the best-known version is by Andover’s The Troggs, but they weren’t the first band to record it. “Wild Thing” was written by Chip Taylor, brother of the actor Jon Voight ...
Weird Nightmare, the solo project of Alex Adkins of METZ, has released a cover of The Troggs’ 1966 song “Our Love Will Still Be There”. Weird Nightmare released a split with Ancient Shapes and a ...
Riley Keough wrote From Here to the Great Unknown based off of her own memories and a series of tapes Lisa Marie recorded, ...
Wet Wet Wet were approached to record a song for the Richard Curtis rom-com Four Weddings And A Funeral. They turned down ...
The broadcast showed his slow walk down from the bullpen, to the gate and onto the field -- all while The Troggs' "Wild Thing ...
In Prince’s post “Portrait of Kim Gordon,” he added in the comments: “Kool Thang You Make My Heart Sang You Make Everythang Groovy” — a sort of portmanteau referencing the 1960s garage-rock hit “Wild ...
Uncut's Review Of The Year 2024 stars Nick Cave, Alice Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, Cassandra Jenkins, Mick ...
On Nov. 13, 1940, the Walt Disney movie "Fantasia" made its world premiere at New York City's Broadway Theatre. In 1974, an impostor posing as Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore borrowed a ...
Nashville-based global music impresario Mike Curb's six decades as an American musical and pop culture staple has again intersected with a pop culture moment. In this case, Curb's longtime ...
The mid-sixties soundtrack rocked with the sounds of Liverpool and London as the Beatles were reinforced by the Rolling Stones, the Zombies, the Kinks, the Troggs, and the Dave Clark Five.
When Jimmy Fallon was two seasons into his term at Saturday Night Live, he and castmate Horatio Sanz wrote a holiday spoof late one night. Along with fellow SNL colleagues Chris Katan and Tracy Morgan ...
They turned down covers of I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor and Can't Smile Without You by Barry Manilow, opting for the Troggs hit. Pellow, now 59, remembers the first time he heard the tune.