Saturday video break: Wild Thing

Song #73 on the Popdose Top 100 Covers list is “Wild Thing”, originally by The Wild Ones and covered by The Troggs. Here’s the original:

Boy howdy was that not what I expected. I have to admit, I like it more than the Popdose writer did. It’s wrong, but I was grooving to it anyway. Here’s the version you know:

The official video is here; I embedded this one because that one cuts off the beginning of the song, and what’s the point if you don’t have the opening guitar riff? The MOB has an arrangement of this in its collection, and this reminds me that I need to pester our fearless director about dusting it off and getting it back into the rotation.

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