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[–] cynicaloldfart 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The style of music exemplified in this song became known as "Caveman Rock." The Troggs is short for "troglodyte" (meaning "cave dweller"), which helped bolster this image. This was written by a songwriter named Chip Taylor (brother of actor Jon Voight and the uncle of Angelina Jolie) who has made tons of money from it because it has been recorded by many artists and is constantly being used in movies and TV shows. Taylor used a lot of this money to gamble - for years he bet about $10,000 a day and was kicked out of every casino in Las Vegas for card counting. When Chip Taylor originally demoed this basic three-chord song in 1965, he didn't take it too seriously. He later told Rolling Stone magazine: "I was on the floor laughing when I was through." Taylor added in Mojo magazine September 2008: "'Wild Thing' came out in a matter of minutes. The pauses and the hesitations are a result of not knowing what I was going to do next." "I was a very simple, unschooled guitar player," he recalled. "So I started banging out these chords, and it almost sounded like a drum as well as the guitar, because you could hear the beats my thumb was doing. I was just looking out in the street and letting this thing float, and all of a sudden it just felt terrific. It was just me closing my eyes and imagining I was with some sexy girl that I wanted to talk to. She was kinda mesmerized and I was trying to mesmerize her some more."

They recorded the song using studio time booked for an orchestra session. When that session ended 45 minutes early and the musicians shuffled out, The Troggs quickly set up and blew through "Wild Thing" and what would be their next hit, "With A Girl Like You," in about 20 minutes. It was mixed live as they recorded it In four-track mono.