"With a Girl Like You ""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. The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 4 August 1966, where it remained for two weeks. 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"
"The band's success in the US was also limited by not touring there until 1968. They also had a number of other hits, including ""With a Girl Like You"" (a UK number 1 in July 1966, US number 29), ""I Can't Control Myself"" (a UK number 2 in September 1966; their first UK single release on the Page One label, POF 001; this was also their second and final dual-label release in the US, with Fontana retaining the rights to all subsequent releases), ""Anyway That You Want Me"" (UK number 10 in December 1966), all at Olympic Studios, ""Give It"
"Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"" (soul #2, pop #8), ""Chain of Fools"" (soul #1, pop #2), ""Since You've Been Gone"" (1968, soul #1, pop #5) and ""Think"" (1968, soul #1, pop #7). The mid-1960s British Invasion led Atlantic to change its British distributor, since Decca did not give Atlantic access to its British recording artists, who mainly appeared in the US via their US subsidiary London Records. In 1966 Atlantic signed a new reciprocal licensing deal with Polydor Records. Thanks to Polydor's recent distribution deal with Robert Stigwood's Reaction label, the deal included newly formed British ""supergroup"" Cream, whose"
"They reeled off a succession of top 20 US hits, including ""A Girl Like You"" (1967), ""How Can I Be Sure"" (1967), ""It's Wonderful"" (1968), and ""A Beautiful Morning"" (1968). The band was exceptionally popular in Canada where ""A Girl Like You"", ""How Can I Be Sure?"" and ""A Beautiful Morning"" all reached #1. But they struggled in the UK, where they only twice reached the top 75, with ""Groovin'"" (#8) and ""A Girl Like You"" (#35). The band would bill themselves as the Young Rascals for the last time with the single release of ""It's Wonderful""; they were known"
"followed. Then in March 1966, The Walker Brothers hit No. 1 for the second time in six months with ""The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore."" Their popularity in the UK – particularly that of Scott – reached a new high, especially among teenage girls, and their fan club in that country was said to have been larger than The Beatles.' ""The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"" also made the US Top 20, but had less success in the US. The Walker Brothers continued to have chart hits in the UK in 1966 and 1967, with Scott taking a more prominent"
"1960s celebrity and friend of the Kinks, the Beatles and the Who, he recalled that it was also an influence on The Beatles: ""I remember it vividly and still think it's a remarkable pop song. I was with the Beatles the evening that they actually sat around listening to it on a gramophone, saying 'You know this guitar thing sounds like a sitar. We must get one of those. The song's radical departure from popular music conventions proved unpopular with the band's American following—it hit number 11 in the UK, but stalled at number 111 in the US. Recording began"
"they made their first TV appearance on 18 August 1965 on Granada TV's ""Scene at 6.30"". Their first single, a cover of the Beatles song ""Girl"", was released in early 1966 and was a success in the UK Singles Chart, where it reached #11 in February 1966. The single also had an American release on Parrot. The band were popular in the Manchester area. However, after ""Girl"", there were no more hits, despite two more singles ""Behind The Door"" and ""East Side Story"" being released. They performed ""Behind the Door"", ""Respect"" and ""Down in the Valley"" on 12 April 1966"
"a Girl Like You"". The record has since been equalled and surpassed, and ""If I Ever Fall In Love"" is now in joint ninth place with a number of more recent songs. The song was also their only Top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at number 36. ""If I Ever Fall In Love"" was covered in 1996 as a duet by British boy band East 17 and singer Gabrielle (with a backing track), and renamed ""If You Ever"". It peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, behind ""Say You'll Be There"" by the Spice Girls, and also"
"Girl Like Me (Japan Edition) Girl Like Me is the nineteenth single by Dutch girl group Luv', released in early 1990 by the labels Toco/Beaver Records/Alfa International. It appears on the EP For You. The song was only released in Japan as a commercial single, especially for discos and clubs, where it was marketed as a Eurobeat track. During Luv's heyday (1977–1981), the female pop act failed in its attempt to get a hit record in Japan, whereas it dominated the music charts in a large part of Continental Europe, South Africa and Mexico. In 1980, the trio planned to"
"a model, with the band performing to camera. The UK version was filmed both in color as well as in black and white in a film studio. First released in Britain, the song peaked at #4 on the UK charts in August 1986. Upon its release in the United States, the previously unknown band's debut single shot to number one on 2 May 1987, and stayed there for two weeks. It also reached #4 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #24 on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and (in a remix version) #37 on the Hot Dance/Club Play"
"Just Like a Woman ""Just Like a Woman"" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1966 album, ""Blonde on Blonde"" (""see"" 1966 in music). It was also released as a single in the U.S. during August 1966 and peaked at #33 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Dylan's recording of ""Just Like a Woman"" was not issued as a single in the United Kingdom but the British beat group, Manfred Mann, did release a hit single version of the song in July 1966, which peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2011, ""Rolling Stone"""
"Chelsea Girl (album) Chelsea Girl is the debut solo album and second studio album by Nico. It was released in October 1967 by Verve Records, also home to the Velvet Underground. The name of the album is a reference to Andy Warhol's 1966 film ""Chelsea Girls"", in which Nico starred. The sixth track of the album (or first on Side B on vinyl) is titled ""Chelsea Girls"". Many of the songs on the album have instrumental work from The Velvet Underground, whom Nico had previously collaborated with the year before on ""The Velvet Underground & Nico"", as well as song-writing"
"their commercial breakthrough with the release of their version of Bobby Marchan's ""Get Down and Get with It"" in May 1971. Deciding to capture their strong reputation as a live act onto record, ""Get Down and Get with It"" was seen as the perfect choice as the band frequently played it live to a great response. Successfully breaking the band into the UK and Europe, it reached No. 16 in the UK. ""Coz I Luv You"" was soon recorded as the follow-up single. Released in October 1971, it reached No. 1 in the UK and was also a hit across"
"Hewett and Something Corporate. Just Like a Woman ""Just Like a Woman"" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1966 album, ""Blonde on Blonde"" (""see"" 1966 in music). It was also released as a single in the U.S. during August 1966 and peaked at #33 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Dylan's recording of ""Just Like a Woman"" was not issued as a single in the United Kingdom but the British beat group, Manfred Mann, did release a hit single version of the song in July 1966, which peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart."
"the Seekers and the Easybeats (the latter a band formed mostly of British emigrants) closely paralleled that of the British Invasion. The Seekers had two Hot 100 top 5 hits during the British Invasion, the #4 hit ""I'll Never Find Another You"" in May 1965 and the #2 hit ""Georgy Girl"" in February 1967. The Easybeats drew heavily on the British Invasion sound and had one hit in the United States during the British Invasion, the #16 hit ""Friday on My Mind"" in May 1967. According to Robert J. Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television"
"a popularity in the UK comparable to that of the Beatles, with a run of eleven singles in the UK top ten. One of the most prominent acts in British popular culture, they scored four UK number one hits, ""Hot Love"", ""Get It On"", ""Telegram Sam"" and ""Metal Guru"". The band's 1971 album ""Electric Warrior"" received critical acclaim as a pioneering glam rock album. It reached number 1 in the UK. The 1972 follow-up, ""The Slider"", entered the top 20 in the US. Following the release of ""20th Century Boy"" in 1973, which reached number three in the UK, T."
"the UK and number 85 in the US), the song, along with the album ""My Generation"", became anthems for the band and the Mod subculture of England in the 1960s. It later became the name of the documentary for the band in 1979. The song was edited for the U.S. single and this version has become much more common than the original full-length U.K. album version. The edit of the song features a substantially shortened instrumental break. A promotional film for the song was shot in Hyde Park in July or August 1966. In addition to appearing on ""My Generation"","
"in 1966, which made them, arguably, the only American rock or pop act that could rival The Beatles. By the end of 1962 British beat groups like The Beatles were drawing on a wide range of American influences including soul music, rhythm and blues and surf music. Initially, they reinterpreted standard American tunes, playing for dancers doing the twist, for example. These groups eventually infused their original compositions with increasingly complex musical ideas and a distinctive sound. During 1963, The Beatles and other beat groups, such as The Searchers and The Hollies, achieved popularity and commercial success in Britain. British"
"second, ""That's When Happiness Began"" b/w ""Goodbye Little Girl"", of which became a steady seller in the autumn of 1966 when it received extensive radio play. The band's breakthrough came later in the year when they became the opening act for the Walker Brothers tour across the UK, concluding in November 1966. More singles followed, and the band appeared on radio programmes like ""Easy Beat"" and ""Saturday Club"", and touring expanded to other countries including France, the Netherlands, and Germany. One single in particular, ""Ciao Baby"" b/w ""Anyone There"", was released in March 1967, and sold over 10,000 copies in"
"Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart in 1961, and he continued to release one or two per year, including covers of ""It's All in the Game"" in 1963 and ""Constantly"" in 1964, a revival of a popular Italian hit. In 1965, sessions under the direction of Billy Sherrill in Nashville, Tennessee were particularly successful, yielding ""The Minute You're Gone"", which topped the UK singles chart and ""Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)"" which made No. 2. Richard, and the Shadows in particular, however, never achieved star status in the United States. In 1960 they toured the"
"the band's recent tour, whereas the Beatles had neither a recent single nor had they toured the UK throughout 1966; the reporter added that ""The sensational success of the Beach Boys, however, is being taken as a portent that the popularity of the top British groups of the last three years is past its peak."" The Beach Boys ended the final quarter of 1966 as the strongest selling album act in the UK, dethroning the three-year reign of native bands such as the Beatles. In 1971, a writer in ""Cue"" magazine noted that, from mid 1966 to late 1967, the"
"as the No. 5 song of 1964. The single also reached #1 on the United States ""Variety"" charts on July 1. Released in June 1964 in the United Kingdom the single peaked at #7 on the ""Record Retailer"" chart and thus becoming the band's first top ten hit in the United Kingdom. According to some sources, Mick Jagger, when appearing on the UK television show ""Ready Steady Go!"", stated that he thought the song was a great record. This most likely played a part in boosting the single's success, while also helping the band become more popular in the United"
"rock musicians, particularly in the genres of heavy metal and punk rock. Built around a guitar riff played by Dave Davies, the song's lyrics were described by Dave as ""a love song for street kids."" ""You Really Got Me"" was released on 4 August 1964 as the group's third single, and reached number one on the UK singles chart the next month, remaining for two weeks. The song became the group's breakthrough hit; it established them as one of the top British Invasion acts in the United States, reaching number seven there later in the year. ""You Really Got Me"""
"in a more pop style, such as the Hollies or the Zombies or with a harder-driving, blues-based approach. On May 8, 1965, the British Commonwealth came closer than it ever had or would to a clean sweep of a weekly Hot 100's Top 10, lacking only a hit at number two instead of ""Count Me In"" by the US group Gary Lewis & the Playboys. The British Commonwealth also nearly swept the Cash Box singles chart's top ten the previous week, lacking only a hit at number six instead of ""Count Me In"". That same year, half of the 26"
"A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins song) ""A Girl Like You"" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins from his third solo studio album, ""Gorgeous George"" (1994). The song samples the drums track of Len Barry's single ""1-2-3"" (1965). There are two different music videos for this song. The video in the United States was an avant-garde tribute to its lyrics (e.g. when Collins sings the lyrics ""you made me acknowledge the devil in me"", a child's painting of the devil overlays his face). The international video shows Collins singing over videos and silhouettes of dancers. The Sex Pistols"
"Waiting for a Girl Like You ""Waiting for a Girl Like You"" is a 1981 power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner. The distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-little-known Thomas Dolby, and this song also marked a major departure from their earlier singles because their previous singles were mid to upper tempo rock songs while this song was a softer love song with the energy of a power ballad. It was the second single released from the album ""4"" (1981) and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. It has become one of the band's most"
"had hits in the UK in the 1960s with songs such as ""So Much in Love"", a US chart topper and million-seller in 1963, ""Wonderful! Wonderful!"", a remake of the Johnny Mathis classic hit from 1957, ""Somewhere"", then in 1970s with ""You Little Trustmaker"" and ""Ms Grace"". The last of these became the group's biggest UK hit, reaching Number One in the UK Singles Chart in 1975, but barely dented the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, long after the success of ""So Much in Love"". ""Ms Grace"", while only charting modestly in the US, was and remains a regional hit with the"
"Girls Like You ""Girls Like You"" is a song recorded by American band Maroon 5, from their sixth studio album ""Red Pill Blues"" (2017). A second version featuring American rapper Cardi B was released by 222 and Interscope Records as the album's third single on May 30, 2018. This version was written by Adam Levine, Cirkut, Cardi B, Starrah, Jason Evigan, and Gian Stone and was produced by Cirkut and Evigan. The single reached number one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, making it Maroon 5's fourth and Cardi B's third chart-topper, who extended her record for most number-ones"
"5 March 1965. ""For Your Love"" became their first Top 10 hit in both the UK and the US. To replace Clapton, the group needed a lead guitarist who was experienced with blues and R&B, but also willing to explore more progressive and experimental material. They approached Jimmy Page, but he was unwilling to give up his steady employment as one of London's most popular studio guitarists. Page recommended Jeff Beck, who was invited to an informal audition. Drummer McCarty recalled the tryout: ""Not only could he play all the Eric stuff, but also a lot more ... There was"
"2004, including tracks by Precious Little and The Retros. With only one single making the UK Singles Chart (No. 36 in December 1977 for ""Little Girl""), the Banned join the list of one-hit wonders; a list that includes other UK punk or new wave acts such as John Cooper Clarke, Jilted John, 999, the Radio Stars, the Rich Kids and The Vibrators. The Banned The Banned were an English punk/new wave outfit in the late 1970s. The Banned had a minor UK hit in 1977 with ""Little Girl"", a cover version of a 1966 U.S. hit song by the Syndicate"
"A Girl Like You (The Smithereens song) ""A Girl Like You"" is a song by the American alternative rock group The Smithereens. It is the first single released in support of their third album ""11"". The song was to be used in the film Say Anything..., but it was ultimately cut from the film because the producers believed the song revealed too much of the story. Pat DiNizio stated that he wrote the lyrics with having a separate meaning from the movie in mind. On May 18, 2010, the song was made available as a downloadable song in the Rock"
"with lead guitarist Jim Sawyers, they wrote and recorded the LP in three weeks. They then began a national tour appearing with other hit acts such as: Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Young Rascals, and the Yardbirds. ""Little Girl"" peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 9–16 July 1966 and #5 on ""Cashbox"". The follow-up ""Rumors"" also hit the Hot 100 and peaked at #55 on 1 October 1966. In an attempt to sustain their success, the band released two more singles, ""Keep It Up"" and ""Mary"", but none of them charted. By this time John Duckworth"
"first period of British success in the late 1960s started with ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" and the band added drummer Colin Petersen and guitarist Vince Melouney to their line up. They toured Europe in 1967 and 1968 as well as the US in August 1968. The band's first UK No. 1 was ""Massachusetts"" which features Gibb on lead vocal. On the day it reached number one, 5 November 1967, Robin Gibb recalled to ""The Mail on Sunday"" on 1 November 2009: On 13 June 1968, Gibb recorded demos for seven songs, accompanying himself on guitar. The tape listed Robin"