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I considered putting this song in one of my Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers collections, but there's more backstory to "Wild Thing" than most of those songs get, so I committed it to its own episode. And now you're spoiled in that respect: yes, The Troggs' version of "Wild Thing" wasn't the first version of the song to be recorded.

It was, however, more faithful to the rather sparsely-recorded demo recorded by Chip Taylor, and it became the template upon which the many, MANY future covers of the song are based. And this week we're going to look at a bunch of them, in brief. Most of them are very good. Some of them...not so much, but your mileage may vary in that respect.

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