The Troggs - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1967-1973

Yesterday, I posted Volume 1 of the Troggs at the BBC. Here's Volume 2, which is the last one.

The Troggs had a fairly short time at the top. They hit it big right out of the gate with "Wild Thing" in 1966. Then they had a series of successful albums through 1968. But then they dropped off the charts and out of sight for many years. After 1968, they wouldn't be able to release another studio album until 1975. Thus, their BBC sessions follow the same trajectory. Most of the BBC performances here are from 1967 or 1968. (I suspect their drastic change of fortune was mostly due to the rapidly changing musical tastes around 1969, in which their "garage rock" style was left behind.)

I looked for any sort of TV or radio appearance by the band after 1969, and I only found two. First, they did one last BBC studio session in 1971, where they played three songs. Those make up tracks 17, 18, and 19.

Second, in 1973, David Bowie had his own hour-long TV special called "The 1980 Floor Show." I've posted Bowie's portion of the show here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/03/david-bowie-1980-floor-show-marquee.html

But it turns out that Bowie had the Troggs play a couple of songs on the show as well. Bowie was a fan of the kind of music the Troggs did in the 1960s, as can be seen by Bowie's 1973 covers album "Pin-Ups." It so happens that the Troggs had a 1973 single, "Strange Movies," that was the first thing they'd done since 1968 that got a lot of notice. So I have that song here, as well as another version of "Wild Thing."

With these BBC albums, I often has to edit the songs to remove BBC DJs talking over the beginnings and ends of songs. Boy, did I have to do that here! Fifteen of the 19 BBC performances needed editing, which can be seen by the "[Edit]" in the titles.

Most of the songs the Troggs played on the BBC were from their singles and/or albums, but some were not. Note especially their versions of "Peggy Sue" and "Little Green Apples," which are outside the usual kind of "garage rock" music they were known for.

This album is 54 minutes long.

UPDATE: On May 15, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. I added three songs I'd missed, "Caught like a Fly," "Lazy Weekend," and "The Raver."

01 Night of the Long Grass (Troggs)
02 I Want You to Come into My Life [Edit] (Troggs)
03 Girl in Black [Edit] (Troggs)
04 Little Red Donkey (Troggs)
05 Love Is All Around [Edit] (Troggs)
06 When the Rain Comes [Edit] (Troggs)
07 The Kitty Kat Song [Edit] (Troggs)
08 Maybe the Madman [Edit] (Troggs)
09 Her Emotion [Edit] (Troggs)
10 Little Girl [Edit] (Troggs)
11 Hip Hip Hooray [Edit] (Troggs)
12 Say Darlin' [Edit] (Troggs)
13 Gonna Make You [Edit] (Troggs)
14 Peggy Sue (Troggs)
15 Little Green Apples (Troggs)
16 Evil Woman [Edit] (Troggs)
17 Caught like a Fly [Edit] (Troggs)
18 Lazy Weekend [Edit] (Troggs)
19 The Raver [Edit] (Troggs)
20 Strange Movies (Troggs)
21 Wild Thing (Troggs)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/g8YHf5zH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/dtx1FEtoRhIoCfm/file

I don't know where or when the cover art photo comes from, but it's probably from 1966 or 1967.

The Troggs - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1966-1967

The Troggs are a band that I feel tends to get overlooked. These days, they're mainly known for four big hit songs: "Wild Thing," "With a Girl like You," "I Can't Control Myself," and "Love Is All Around." They had a few more hits on top of those, and they wrote most of their own songs (with "Wild Thing" being a notable exception). But still, they tend to be treated, well, if not a one-hit wonder, then a four-hit wonder. But while I'm not a huge fan of theirs, I think they're more interesting than that. I checked to see what they did for the BBC, and I was pleasantly surprised to find there's enough for two albums.

In a way, the Troggs are like one of the world's most successful garage bands. Most of their songs are simple and primal. It's curious that they didn't write "Wild Thing," because it's exactly in line with the kinds of songs they did write. They can get repetitive after a while, but I think this BBC collection is just enough Troggs music without them overstaying their welcome. Between this album and the second volume, it's a de facto best of collection.

Pretty much every song here was released by them on albums and/or singles, but of course these performances are all different. I had the usual problem of BBC DJs talking over the beginnings or ends of songs, but I fixed those with my usual editing techniques. The ones I changed have "[Edit]" in their titles. 

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 From Home (Troggs)
02 Wild Thing (Troggs)
03 Jaguar and the Thunderbird (Troggs)
04 The Yella in Me (Troggs)
05 Evil [Edit} (Troggs)
06 With a Girl like You (Troggs)
07 Lost Girl [Edit] (Troggs)
08 Dimples [Edit] (Troggs)
09 You Can't Beat It [Edit] (Troggs)
10 I Can't Control Myself (Troggs)
11 I Just Sing [Edit] (Troggs)
12 Any Way that You Want Me (Troggs)
13 66-5-4-3-2-1 [Edit] [I Know What You Want] (Troggs)
14 I Can Only Give You Everything [Edit] (Troggs)
15 Give It to Me (Troggs)
16 Meet Jacqueline [Edit] (Troggs)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16049294/TTrggs_1966-1967_BBCSessionsVol1_atse.zip.html

The album cover photo dates to about 1966. I found an interesting photo of the band hamming it up, pretending trouble with getting out of an elevator.