Ant-Man and the Wasp ( video/ soundtrack).Avengers: Infinity War ( video/ soundtrack).
Black Panther ( video/ score/ soundtrack). Spider-Man: Homecoming ( video/ soundtrack). Captain America: Civil War ( video/ soundtrack). Avengers: Age of Ultron ( video/ soundtrack). Guardians of the Galaxy ( video/ soundtrack). Captain America: The Winter Soldier ( video/ soundtrack). Thor: The Dark World ( video/ soundtrack). Not many people choose to remove the signature riff as it is as much “the song” as the lyrics and Mick Jagger’s delivery of them.Movies: The Avengers ( video/ soundtrack) And, it has been covered more times than you can shake a stick at by pretty much everyone who is anyone. I am not certain which version actually came first but I suspect it was King’s.Īs with any cover of any tune, there will always be someone who will claim “this is the best version of this song ever!” But, let’s remember a couple of things: Satisfaction is probably the greatest rock single in the history of the Universe. In the same year, another extremely similar cover of Satisfaction was released by the Italian group the Tritons (New Trolls). Mick Jagger, for his part, seems to have liked it. In this case, however, he seems to have been trying to imagine what the song would have been like had Bob Dylan written it. His hit version of the Rolling Stones (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction under the pseudonym Bubblerock is just the sort of reimagining that artists are trying to achieve today. He also recorded under such names as 100 Ton and a Feather, Bubblerock, and 53rd and 3rd. Hooked on a Feeling was a rarity, and it reached no. He also recorded plenty of cover tunes, but not usually under his own name. He hosted a television show called Entertainment U.S.A., informing British Audiences about American show business developments, and he ran for Parliament. He was the owner of UK Records and discovered such groups as Genesis, 10cc, and the Bay City rollers. King wasn’t just some nut who put weird chants in hit songs. Listen To Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede Listen to Hooked on a Feeling by BJ Thomas Thomas version and the Blue Swede version although I could do without the ooga-chaka. Still, we have to give Jonathan King some credit for his part in the evolution of the song. For myself, it’s the vocals that made it. Thomas version, but I suspect Blue Swede’s version was a smash hit for a reason. It’s weird and off the wall, and some people prefer the original B.J. What in the world possessed King to add the ooga-chaka chant in the first place, we may never know. It is hard to say, but he may have gotten the idea for this pseudo-Native American chant from “Running Bear” by Johnny Preston.īlue Swede’s version of “Hooked on a Feeling” has a more pronounced rock flavor and seems less bubblegum than Kings’s, at least on the recorded version. 
However, the ooga-chaka and the feel, in general, is owed to British singer Jonathan King, who recorded his version in 1971. They were the first Swedish group to make it to the top of the American charts.
WHO SINGS HOOKED ONA FEELING UPDATE
The album also contained a cover of the Doors’ “Light My Fire.”īlue Swede, a Swedish group, seems to have come out of left field with their update of the song in 1971, with which they scored a no. It was recorded for his album “ On My Way” from which only two singles were released. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969. Thomas, famous for “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” and “Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” both number one hits. The original artist to record Hooked on a Feeling was B.J.
Moman also wrote the song “Suspicious Minds,” which Elvis made a hit, although he had recorded it himself in 1968 (Sceptor) with no success. The song was written by Mark James, who, in the 1960s was a writer, and a very talented one at that, for producer Chips Moman.
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