The Wild Things – “Summer’s Gone”/ “I’ll Taste Your Lips” (Blue Onion BO-101) 1967
The Wild Things are believed to have hailed from Lake County, Cleveland, Ohio. They released two singles on the short lived independent label Blue Onion. Check out the distinctive logo on the label with tears coming from the onion’s eyes . . . neat!
Other releases on Blue Onion were by The Onion Rings, Uncle Sam & The War Machine, The Road and a second 45 by The Wild Things.
“Summer’s Gone” was the first release on Blue Onion. I’m not sure why they chose this slow ballad as the ’A’ side, because the moody folk-rock of the flip “I’ll Taste Your Lips” is clearly the superior song.
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