The song “With A Girl Like You” by The Troggs takes me right back to 1966. Reg Presley says of this in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: “I wrote that song while I was still a bricklayer. We recorded it at the same time as Wild Thing and either of them could have been released first.
He goes on to say, “I liked the way The Beach Boys were going ‘Ba-ba-ba-Barbara Ann’ and it was lovely to do something like that in With A Girl Like You. We nearly had a trumpet playing it, but it sounded better when we sang it.”
(Source songfacts.com)
Enjoy A Live Performance of Troggs’ “With A Girl Like You”
I want to spend my life with a girl like you,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
And do all the things that you want me to,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
‘Till that time has come that we might live as one
Can I dance with you,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
I can tell by the way you dress that you’re so refined,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
And by the way you talk that you’re just my kind,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
Girl why should it be that you don’t notice me
Can I dance with you,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
Baby baby, is there no chance
I can take you for the last dance
All night long, yeah, I’ve been waiting
Now there’ll be no hesitating
So before this dance has reached the end,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
To you across the floor my love I’ll send,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
I just hope and pray that I’ll find a way to say
Can I dance with you,
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba bah ba ba ba ba