{"id":16063,"date":"2020-03-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=16063"},"modified":"2024-01-02T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T19:43:02","slug":"cover-me-wild-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/10\/cover-me-wild-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me: Wild Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Taylor (brother to Jon Voight and uncle to Angelina Jolie) wrote &#8220;Wild Thing&#8221; in the span of a few minutes, and it shows.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not particularly substantive in either lyrics or music, and Taylor himself considered it a throwaway, but The Wild Ones needed a single and were willing to pay Taylor for one, and&#8230; well, a gig&#8217;s a gig. And as for the vocals on that original recording&#8230; well, they were pretty cringeworthy, too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rxDOncgSrY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>But then six months later, The Troggs got a hold of &#8220;Wild Thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They stripped it down to nothing but its three chords, percussion, and the most famous ocarina solo in rock and roll, and the rest was history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSWInYFVksg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Wild Thing&#8221; by The Troggs became an instant classic, reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 and landing squarely in the middle of <em>Rolling Stone&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #257.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a song that any bar band worth it&#8217;s salt knows, and the E Street Band is nothing if not the world&#8217;s greatest bar band.\u00a0So in 2009 in Hartford, when a fan requested the song during the &#8220;Stump the Band&#8221; segment of the show (with a sign so small it&#8217;s amazing Bruce even saw it), Bruce couldn&#8217;t help but rise to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The result was professionally captured and streamed on Bruce&#8217;s web site (or at least part of it was).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PY9AiWv6wGw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The E Street Band was clearly up to the task, particularly Max. They reprised it in Stockholm six weeks later, this time with Max&#8217;s son Jay on the drums.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMtPgbWL2TI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>But the band&#8217;s arguably best performance was their third and last performance to date, in Cork on the Wrecking Ball Tour. It was at least the loosest, with Bruce hamming his vocal and a bit of mid-song confusion about how to handle the ocarina solo before Roy improv-ed his way through it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6xXmtUXwEw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>(Bruce was wrong about the songwriting credit, though).<\/p>\n<p>That was the most recent time &#8220;Wild Thing&#8221; surfaced on a Springsteen set list to date, but it may not be the last. Bruce has too much fun with it to resist if he ever sees a sign for it again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Thing<br \/>\nFirst performed:<\/strong> April 24, 2009 (Hartford, CT)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> July 18, 2013 (Cork, Ireland)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The E Street Band refuses to be stumped when a fan requests The Troggs&#8217; bar band classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2671,2670,757],"class_list":["post-16063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-jordan-christopher-and-the-wild-ones","tag-the-troggs","tag-wild-thing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wildthing.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-4b5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18397,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/20\/cover-me-born-to-be-wild\/","url_meta":{"origin":16063,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me: Born to Be Wild","author":"Ken","date":"May 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Twice only: Bruce and the E Street Band tackle Steppenwolf's anthem, \"Born to Be Wild.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bornwild.jpg?fit=587%2C587&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bornwild.jpg?fit=587%2C587&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bornwild.jpg?fit=587%2C587&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":56611,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/kingdom-of-days-april-24-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":16063,"position":1},"title":"April 24","author":"Ken","date":"April 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Highlights today include a Steel Mill recording from 1970, a radio broadcast from 1973, the one-and-only performance of \"Dollhouse,\" and much more.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kingdom of Days&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kingdom of Days","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/kingdom-of-days\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/26274134117_4b6d2ce116_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/26274134117_4b6d2ce116_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/26274134117_4b6d2ce116_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/26274134117_4b6d2ce116_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/26274134117_4b6d2ce116_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":59656,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/kingdom-of-days-september-15-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":16063,"position":2},"title":"Kingdom of Days: September 15","author":"Ken","date":"September 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"On this date: Bruce and Steve make a surprise guest appearance with Paul McCartney, Patti plays a solo show in Asbury Park, a judge bans Bruce from the recording studio, and k.d. lang joins Bruce, Sting, and the rest of the Human Rights Now! crew. 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