Song · Ted Nugent
“Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” by Ted Nugent
From the album Cat Scratch Fever (1977)
“Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” by Ted Nugent appears on 7 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 2002. It was first released in 1977 on the album Cat Scratch Fever. Its best result is #497 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #720 hard rock song of all time.
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Subtlety was never on the menu with "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang", and the title gives the game away: a rhyming, barely coded bit of anatomy talk that Ted Nugent wrote himself and parked on Cat Scratch Fever, his 1977 album for Epic, where it also rode along as the B-side of the title single. Lew Futterman and Cliff Davies produced, with Tim Geelan and Wayne Tarnowski at the board, and Nugent plays it for pure hard-rock leer, a strutting salute to a girl called Nadine.
The song lived on well beyond the studio take. An extended live version turned up on Double Live Gonzo! in 1978, and in 2020 the heavy metal supergroup BPMD cut a cover of their own.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 497 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 730 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 587 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 747 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 800 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 855 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 730 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
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