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. All 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 1968, and I only found one. 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! Twelve of the 16 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.

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 Evil Woman [Edit] (Troggs)
08 Kitty Kat Song [Edit] (Troggs)
09 Maybe the Madman [Edit] (Troggs)
10 Her Emotion [Edit] (Troggs)
11 Little Girl [Edit] (Troggs)
12 Peggy Sue (Troggs)
13 Little Green Apples (Troggs)
14 Hip Hip Hooray [Edit] (Troggs)
15 Say Darlin' [Edit] (Troggs)
16 Gonna Make You [Edit] (Troggs)
17 Strange Movies (Troggs)
18 Wild Thing (Troggs)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15853139/TTrggs_1967-1973_BBCSessionsVol2_atse.zip.html

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