- Included among the Record Descriptions of Favorite Albums (Part 1).
- In this country, the Troggs are primarily known for their #1 hit “Wild Thing” (1966); although most of their songs are more refined than “Wild Thing”.
The Troggs – Pop Diamonds (1980±): In this country, the Troggs are primarily known for their crude but seminal #1 hit “Wild Thing” (1966) that features a solo on a wind instrument called an ocarina; although most of their songs are more refined than “Wild Thing”. Besides the version by the Troggs, the Jimi Hendrix Experience closed their set at Monterey Pop with “Wild Thing”. But the Troggs (shortened from their original name the Troglodytes) were more successful in their native England and scattered a few other charting singles in America as well, notably “Love is All Around”, which made the U.S. Top Ten in 1968.
The Troggs racked up hit after hit in Great Britain in 1966 and 1967, including the U.K. #1 hit “With a Girl Like You”, “I Can’t Control Myself”, “Anyway that You Want Me”, “Give it to Me”, “Night of the Long Grass”, and “Hi Hi Hazel”. Pop Diamonds is a series of at least a dozen German compilation albums; Pop Diamonds by the Troggs collects only a minority of their big hit songs – not even “Love is All Around” is included – and offers instead mostly band originals and a few covers, such as “Lost Girl”, “I Can Only Give You Everything”, Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie”, “Cousin Jane”, “I Just Sing”, and “Jingle Jangle”.