B-side "Hurting Inside" Genre Pop rock Producer(s) Adrian Clark | Released June 1965 Label Epic 9811 | |
Writer(s) Chris Kenner Allen Toussaint | ||
"I Like It Like That" is a song by Chris Kenner and Allen Toussaint, first recorded by Kenner, whose version reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961. This version also went to No. 2 on the R&B singles chart. In the Chris Kenner version, the verses are spoken as well as the repeated line: "THE NAME OF THE PLACE IS".
The song was covered by the Dave Clark Five in 1965. Their version charted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Nashville Teens recorded the song as a B-side to their hit single "Tobacco Road" (1964). The song was also covered by the Kingsmen on their 1965 album The Kingmen on Campus, Brinsley Schwarz on their 1972 album Nervous on the Road, and Loggins and Messina on their 1975 album of cover songs, So Fine.
The narrator of the song invites the listener to come with him to a happening spot named "I Like It Like That".
The song is featured in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam war film Full Metal Jacket.
In the novelty number by Buchanan and Goodman entitled "BERLIN TOP TEN) (1961), the people's disc jockey named Boris the Spinner plays an excerpt of the song by saying that the name of the place is "YOU GOT TO LIKE IT LIKE THAT"