The Troggs – With A Girl Like You

“With a Girl Like You” – Single by the Troggs. B-side “I Want You”. Released 8 July 1966.

Reg Presley says of this in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: “I wrote that song while I was still a bricklayer. We recorded it at the same time as Wild Thing and either of them could have been released first. I liked the way The Beach Boys were going ‘Ba-ba-ba-Barbara Ann’ and it was lovely to do something like that in With A Girl Like You. We nearly had a trumpet playing it, but it sounded better when we sang it.”

Both songs were recorded in two takes because they only had a short amount of recording time; manager Larry Page got them into the studio at the end of a session for his orchestra.

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The Troggs - With A Girl Like You (1967)

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Reviewing for New Musical Express, Derek Johnson wrote that “With a Girl Like You” “doesn’t have the novelty spoken passages and tempo breaks of “Wild Thing” but it does have another gimmick – at the end of each line. The soloist repeats the melody in a sort of scat vocal that everyone can join in. It’s a catchy mid-tempo tune, fairly simple in construction, and therefore quickly assimilated”.

Record Mirror wrote that it “should be every bit as big as “Wild Thing”” and similarly that “the boys plunge into a steady mid-tempo, with rasping lead voice, and sturdy beat and several vocal gimmicks on a teen song if ever there was one”.

Cash Box described it as “a low-down, funky, blues-soaked romancer”

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