With a Girl Like You

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"With a Girl Like You"
The Troggs - With a Girl Like You.jpg
Single by The Troggs
from the album Wild Thing
A-side"Wild Thing (US)"
B-side"I Want You (UK)"
ReleasedJuly 1966 (1966-07)
Genre
Length2:08
LabelFontana
Songwriter(s)Reg Presley
Producer(s)Larry Page
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 song released by the English rock band the Troggs, written by Reg Presley and produced by Larry Page.[3]

The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 4 August 1966, where it remained for two weeks.[4][5] Outside the United Kingdom, it peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, in the United States.[6]

"With a Girl Like You" has been remade by Johnny Hallyday ("Le jeu que tu joues" French) (La génération perdue, 1966), Don & the Goodtimes (So Good, 1967), Sandy Edmonds ("With a Boy Like You") (The Sound of Sandy, 1967), Teddy Robin & the Playmates (Not All Lies!, 1967), Harpo (single, 1978), Alex Chilton (Play New Rose For Me, 1986), Just 4 Fun (Ren 60, 1990), Sabrina ("With a Boy Like You") (Over the Pop, 1991), Brødrene Olsen (Songs, 2002), Laurent Voulzy (Recollection, 2008), David Sitek (multi-artist album Dark Was the Night, 2009), and Danzig (Skeletons, 2015).[7]

See also[]

  • List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)

References[]

  1. ^ Stiernberg, Bonnie. "The 50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time". Paste. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Jo Rice (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1 ed.). Guinness Superlatives. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-85112-250-2.
  4. ^ "Official Singles Chart UK Top 100". Theofficialcharts.com. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  5. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 194. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 644.
  7. ^ "Cover versions of With a Girl Like You by The Troggs". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 18 June 2021.

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