Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chip Taylor, the songwriter behind "Wild Thing," "Angel of the Morning" and "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)," died March 23 at 86, ...

Angelina Jolie's uncle Chip Taylor - who wrote the 1966 song Wild Thing - has died at the age of 86. The sad news was announced by Taylor's friend Billy Vera, who took to Instagram on Tuesday with the ...

Chip Taylor, who was Yonkers-born James Wesley Voight and the songwriter of “Wild Thing," which was performed by the Troggs and then in an incendiary version by Jimi Hendrix, has died. He was 86.

Singer and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Chip Taylor is photographed at his home in Hartsdale, New York, on Jan. 27, 2019. (Tania Savayan/The Journal News) Taylor, youngest of three sons, was born ...