With a Girl Like You

"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]

"With a Girl Like You"
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)

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), Siluete ("Noć za ljubav") (Dona, 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][8]

See also

References
  1. Stiernberg, Bonnie. "The 50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time". Paste. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. Perfect Beat. Vol. 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.
  8. Janjatović, Petar (2007). EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960–2006. Belgrade: self-released. p. 207.


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