Chip Taylor is a class act

incredibly he wrote both "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning" but I discovered him through his late career album “F*** All The Perfect People” which is really good, highlights include title track but also "Norrtalje Prison" and "Me and Rohilio", "Passport Blues" and the hilarious "Phoned in Dead" and "Too Dynamic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBo4EpG5dSQ

really seems like a great guy all round (though maybe you didn't wanna hang with him those days when he made a living at the racetrack)

very good profile here https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/chip-taylor-interview-b2310768.html

Taylor reaches creakily out of shot, grabs a guitar and begins slamming vigorously into the song’s riff to show me how “that upstrum, there? You wouldn’t play that if you were properly schooled. I did it because I didn’t know any better. I ended up with this innocent energy. It came out of me looser that way, the feeling just flew out of me.” Taylor had a demo session booked an hour later and admits that “the pauses, the spaces around the words and chords” that give “Wild Thing” its tension were a consequence of him working up lyrics on the fly. “I wasn’t quite sure what to sing next!”

oh yeah and he's brother of Jon Voight!