With a Girl Like You

"With a Girl like You"
Single by The Troggs
B-side "I Want You"
Released 1966
Recorded 1966
Genre Pop rock[1]
Label Fontana Records TF 717[2]
Writer(s) Reg Presley[2]
Producer(s) Larry Page[2]
The Troggs singles chronology
"Wild Thing"
(1966)
"With a Girl like You"
(1966)
"I Can't Control Myself"
(1966)

"With a Girl like You" is a hit song by English band The Troggs.[2] The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 4 August 1966, where it remained for two weeks.[3][4]

Song profile

The song is featured, uncut, in a school dance scene from the 1991 Nicole Kidman/ Noah Taylor movie, Flirting. It is also in the films and/or soundtracks for the movies, Shine, The Good Night, and The Boat That Rocked.

The Osiris Shoes video "Feed the Need" featured the "With a Girl Like You" (James Brockman's section).

Part of the song was featured in a trailer for the 2013 film Warm Bodies.[5]

The song was featured at the end of CSI: NY Season 9 episode called "The Real McCoy", when Adam and his girlfriend are dancing.

The song was featured on Girls season 1 episode, "Vagina Panic".

Cover versions

In 1978, Swedish singer Harpo released a cover version as a single. Although released all over Europe, it was not a hit.

Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio recorded a cover version of "With a Girl Like You" for the 2009 Red Hot compilation album, Dark Was the Night.

In 1986, Italo disco singer Chriss recorded a cover version entitled "With a Boy Like You". Although it has a typical dance tune, this version also has guitars, making it sound more like a pop-rock song.

Alex Chilton recorded a cover version of "With a Girl Like You" which is included in the 1991 Rhino compilation 19 Years: A Collection of Alex Chilton.

Yo La Tengo / Condo Fucks recorded a cover version of "With a Girl Like You" on their covers album Fuckbook.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down covered the song on the 2013 The Feeling Kind EP.

Danzig covered the song on the 2015 album Skeletons.

See also

References

  1. Perfect Beat 7. Perfect Beat. 2004. Wild Thing was followed by two mid-tempo pop-rock songs, With A Girl Like You and / Can 't Control Myself, also hits in 1966.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 103. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  3. "Official Singles Chart UK Top 100". Theofficialcharts.com. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  4. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 194. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  5. "Warm Bodies (2013)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2014-04-06.

External links

Preceded by
"Out of Time"
by Chris Farlowe
UK number one single
"With a Girl like You"
by The Troggs

4 August 1966 for two weeks
Succeeded by
"Yellow Submarine" b/w "Eleanor Rigby"
by The Beatles


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