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      • Chip Taylor (born James Wesley Voight; March 21, 1940) is an American songwriter and singer noted for writing "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing".
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    Chip Taylor (born James Wesley Voight; March 21, 1940) is an American songwriter and singer noted for writing "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing".

  3. Feb 5, 2013 · Chip Taylor, the man who wrote hit song Wild Thing made famous by the Troggs, speaks to the BBC about the band doing his demo justice.

  4. Chip Taylor is responsible for one of the most famous songs to come out of the 1960s—The Troggs’ 1966 hit “Wild Thing,” which was famously covered in 1967 by Jimi Hendrix.

  5. Apr 2, 2023 · After spending the 1980s as a professional gambler (of which more later), Taylor experienced a late-life songwriting resurgence that is now the stuff of American legend. At an age when most ...

  6. Apr 23, 2022 · By 1965, Chip Taylor, who readily admits he was writing “sweaty kind of dumb things because I didn’t know a lot of chords”, had made a name for himself as an April Blackwood Music staff writer in the country vein, penning songs for the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Chet Atkins.

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  7. Apr 15, 2016 · CNN — On an afternoon in late 1965, Chip Taylor went to a darkened New York recording studio, sat down with his big old Kay guitar and started banging away. Out came “Wild Thing.” The song...

  8. Aug 14, 2017 · It’s a version that taps into the earthy, elemental spirit of the song, channelling those few minutes back in 1964 when Chip Taylor lost himself in the darkness of a New York studio.