Tired of the Summer of Love?


Remember the Troggs and "Wild Thing"? If you do, read on.

It's the summer of 1967. The Beatles have become Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; America's feeling up, up and away at the same time that the wind is crying Mary and urging us to break on through to the other side.

The Troggs from Nowheresville in England release "Love Is All Around" in October 1967, a gigantically uncharacteristic number for them and a smash hit all over the world. The album released in the U.S. in 1968 gathered up hits and misses from 1966 and 1967 and was a slightly sinister antidote to those who believed that all you need is love.

The "Love Is All Around" album from Fontana in 1968 is unavailable from Spotify, but you can easily piece it together from YouTube and other sources. Well worth a listen if your sweet tooth has been bothering you lately.