Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The song was recorded using leftover studio time, and it was done in record time. Troggs guitarist Chris Britton told the Sydney ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Troggs in London, July 8, 1966. From left, Chris Britton, Ronnie Bond, Pete Staples, and lead singer Reg Presley. (Credit: ...

It just might be the most famous rock ‘n’ roll song of all time. Its title is quick and to the point, and sums up the entire point of the genre in two simple words—Wild thing. But while this song has ...

A country pop/rock musician behind two iconic hit songs of the 1960s is dead at age 86. Singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, best ...

Over a six-decade career, Taylor wrote songs for such legendary artists as Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin and Dusty Springfield. Born as James Wesley Voight in New York in 1940, Taylor is the younger ...

Chip Taylor, the Songwriters Hall of Fame member who penned tracks for artists such as Johnny Cash and Aretha Franklin, died on March 23 at the age of 86. Born James Wesley Voight (he was the brother ...

Chip Taylor, the prolific songwriter behind hits "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning," died on Monday, March 23, at the age of 86. His death was confirmed by his record label, Train Wreck. A cause ...

Singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, whose composition résumé included “Wild Thing” and “Angel of the Morning,” died on Monday. He was 86. The death of Taylor, who was the younger brother of Academy ...

In 1966, the English rock band The Troggs had a smash hit song with the single “Wild Thing.” Released in April 1966, the song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 30, 1966, and remained there ...

The year was 1965, four years before Midnight Cowboy made Voight an A-lister. And he wasn’t listening to a record or to the radio but to the song’s 25-year-old composer, who, armed with an acoustic ...

The death of Taylor, who was the younger brother of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight and uncle of actress Angelina Jolie, was reported in a social media post by his friend, Billy Vera, Variety ...