With a Girl Like You

"With a Girl Like You"
Single by The Troggs
B-side "I Want You"
Released July 1966 (1966-07)
Format 7-inch single
Genre
Length 2:08
Label Fontana
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)

"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] In the U.S., it peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song is featured, uncut, in a school dance scene from the 1991 Nicole Kidman/Noah Taylor film, Flirting. It is also featured in the films and/or soundtracks to Shine, The Good Night and The Boat That Rocked.

The Osiris Shoes video "Feed the Need" featured the "With a Girl Like You" (James Brockman's section).

Part of the song was featured in a trailer for the 2013 film Warm Bodies.[6]

The song was featured at the end of the CSI: NY season 9 episode "The Real McCoy", when Adam and his girlfriend are dancing.

The song was featured on the Girls season 1 episode, "Vagina Panic".

See also

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. ↑ "Warm Bodies (2013)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2014-04-06.


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