Artist: Mungo Jerry

Title: In the Summertime: The Very Best of Mungo Jerry

Year Of Release:  2022

Label: Sanctuary Records

Genre: Rock, Pop

Quality: MP3 320kbps (m3u,cover)

Total Time: 1:49:03

Total Size: 319.16 MB



The title-track is still one of the most beguiling (if casually sexist) hits of its era, but the other 29 songs are even more interesting: Jesse Fuller-influenced jug band ("San Francisco Bay Blues," "See Me") and Tampa Red-style kazoo blues ("Maggie"), as well as the influence of Piano Red ("Mighty Man") and credible instrumental blues-rock ("Mother Fucker Boogie"). The hit "Johnny B. Badde" is here, and the band also covers rock & roll standards like "Baby Let's Play House," done in a surprisingly authentic manner for 1970. One of the CD reissue's two bonus tracks, "Tramp," busts up the mood a bit, with its fiddle accompaniment and a decidedly mournful tone, but the other, the hard-driving Howlin' Wolf-style "Mungo's Blues," which offers a tastefully lean Hubert Sumlin-influenced guitar solo, fits in perfectly with the existing album. The transfers are clean and bright, and the annotation is extensive.







01. In the Summertime

02. Lady Rose

03. Alright, Alright, Alright

04. Baby Jump

05. Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black

06. Mighty Man

07. Have a Whiff on Me

08. She Rowed

09. You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War

10. Dust Pneumonia Blues

11. San Francisco Bay Blues

12. Maggie

13. Ella Speed

14. Open Up

15. Too Fast to Live and Too Young to Die

16. We Shall Be Free

17. Cold Blue Excursion

18. Johnny B Badde

19. Somebody Stole My Wife

20. You Better Leave That Whisky Alone

21. Peace in the Country

22. Little Miss Hipshake

23. Baby Let's Play House

24. Movin' On

25. Mother Boogie

26. Little Louis

27. Sad Eyed Joe

28. Memoirs of a Stockbroker

29. The Man Behind the Piano

30. I Just Wanna Make Love to You