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Mungo Jerry — In The Summertime
Album: Very Best of Mungo Jerry
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Released: 1970
Length: 3:24
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In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a turn or return the twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good and really fine

We're not bad people, we're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody, but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy

Sing along with us, dee-dee dee-dee dee
Da doo da-da da, yeah, we're hap-pap-py
Da da da, dee da doo dee da doo da doo da
Da doo da-da da, dee da da dee da da

When the winter's here, yeah, it's party time
Bring your bottle, wear your bright clothes 'cause it will soon be summertime
And we'll sing again
We'll go driving or maybe we'll settle down
If she's rich, if she's nice
Bring your friends and we'll all go into town

In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
Speed along the lane
Do a turn or return the twenty-five
When the sun goes down
You can make it, make it good and really fine

We're not bad people, we're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody, but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy

Sing along with us, dee-dee dee-dee dee
Da doo da-da da, yeah, we're hap-pap-py
Da da da, dee da doo dee da doo da doo da
Da doo da-da da, dee da da dee da da
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"Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats.
As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats..."
Posted 1 week ago by kcatalina    [ Reply ]
Now that guy (on the cover) has some chops!
Posted 1 week ago by xray38    [ Reply ]
 grhorn wrote:

ARE  YOU KIDDING ME    never in a million years did i expect this here!  Huge smiles all around , thanks RP




I Agree!  Thanx RP!   
Posted 4 months ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Did Mungo wear a helmet, when he was at the barber's? Hairstyles of the 70s are real cool stuff.
Posted 1 year ago by awado    [ Reply ]
The second verse is creepy as frack, and more than a bit misogynistic. 
Posted 2 years ago by NeilBlanchard    [ Reply ]
 Mita wrote:

I'm 10 years old again....




Ah yes, and when you're ten summer never ends!  Whoo-hoo!  
Posted 2 years ago by macadavy    [ Reply ]
ARE  YOU KIDDING ME    never in a million years did i expect this here!  Huge smiles all around , thanks RP
Posted 3 years ago by grhorn    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
You say it's cliche'd - no. the cliches came later. That's like saying Shakespeare is full of cliches.
 
Posted 3 years ago by paul_g_barnett    [ Reply ]
This is bringing back memories of childhood. Goofy song but nice. Amazing mutton chops Dude!
Posted 3 years ago by mach-hog    [ Reply ]
This is a song of my childhood.  LOL  I think the lyrics are a bit dated but it has a great happy feel....
Posted 3 years ago by msjane    [ Reply ]
 VH1 wrote:
"If her Daddy's rich, take her out for a meal, if her Daddy's poor, just do what you feel"?? 

If that is not sexist in the grossest way possible, I do not know what is!!{#Ass}
"Have a drink, have a drive 
Go out and see what you can find" yep an accident waiting to happen, that is what you can find if you drive drunk!{#Skull}
 
Your right, your right, I know your right, but I liked it then and I like it now. Sorry!
Posted 4 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
Neanderthal
Posted 6 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
"If her Daddy's rich, take her out for a meal, if her Daddy's poor, just do what you feel"?? 

If that is not sexist in the grossest way possible, I do not know what is!!{#Ass} 

"Have a drink, have a drive 
Go out and see what you can find" yep an accident waiting to happen, that is what you can find if you drive drunk!{#Skull}
Posted 7 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
Random
Posted 12 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
Hey, we got gypped!  There's supposed to be the sound of a motorcycle taking off at the end of the song but it was cut off.  I guess Bill realized how much this song sucks and figured it was time to move on.
Posted 12 years ago by pinto    [ Reply ]
I'm 10 years old again....
Posted 12 years ago by Mita    [ Reply ]

Let the good times roll by ~yatou
Lina Dalin  ©2008-2010 ~yatou

In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

We're no grey, people
We're not dirty, we're not mean
We love everybody but we do as we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishin' or go swimmin' in the sea
We're always happy
Life's for livin' yeah, that's our philosophy

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lyrics by; Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime

Model, my little sis:  link :)




Posted 13 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]


Mungo Jerry by =fluffyandblonde
Maggie Christofi  ©2006-2010 =fluffyandblonde

Mungo Jerry live on stage at Northampton 20 August 2006
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I understand how difficult it is to manipulate a library of songs with thousands of entries, the criteria and the strategy of the radio station (that an overall assessment is fantastic!), but would not be too much to ask that from time to time, be remembered that some songs belong to the imaginary of all or nearly all, and which marked an epoch. For example the song "In The Summertime" (1970). Because we are in summer. Because bring me good memories. I personally always pleased to hear this song a few times each year that passes. Because this song has withstood the ravages of time. And need not be a masterpiece...

"  "In the Summertime" remains their most successful and most instantly recognisable song. Their name was inspired by the poem Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. According to Joseph Murrell's The Book of Golden Discs (1978), 'Mungomania' was possibly the most startling and unpredicted pop phenomenon to hit Britain since The Beatles ", in wiki

Also is appropriate here to say that in recent times, the radio station has used a criterion of excessive repetition of recent songs for 2010, 2009, which unfortunately are not, definitely, the best years of the last five decades of musical creation. Do not know if that's good. Or is it a momentary lack of inspiration / imagination.
Posted 13 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
This song has always grossed me out. Now that I have seen 'Jerry' as well, I feel doubly justified.
Posted 14 years ago by kulbreez    [ Reply ]
It's late in the year for this one, but what a corker! Politically correct lyrics abound: "...have a drink, have a drive go out and see what you can find..." "...if her daddy's rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy's poor just do what you feel..."

Look what's so wrong with mixing drinking and driving? And it's true - if you're on a date, you treat a rich girl differently to a poor girl. 
Posted 14 years ago by Jungle_Jim    [ Reply ]
Wishful thinking on this cold NorCal day.{#Umbrella}
Posted 14 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
BEAUTIFUL SONG BY ARTURO FOR ITALY
Posted 14 years ago by 18artu18    [ Reply ]
Looks like Achilles' helmet in Troy. Or maybe an adaptation thereof suitable for the Buckingham Palace guard.

Posted 14 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
and for the 2nd time today — The Best Of — from one hit wonders...wild!
Posted 14 years ago by Randomax    [ Reply ]
That was the strangest segue ever:

XTC—Summer's Cauldron > Mungo Jerry—In the Summertime


Posted 14 years ago by pinklife    [ Reply ]
Wow -  I didn't know Teenage Werewolf was a one hit wonder!   Now, come on — who remembered this guys name? 
Posted 14 years ago by Randomax    [ Reply ]

Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime, Live (1984):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4A801R-Lk
Posted 14 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
 h_in_bristol wrote:
The guy's name is Ray Dorset,  but I suppose "Mungo Jerry" sounds better :-)
 
Check out the mug; the man just LOOKS like a "Mungo"!
Best hair helmet ever.

Posted 14 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
The guy's name is Ray Dorset,  but I suppose "Mungo Jerry" sounds better :-)
Posted 14 years ago by h_in_bristol    [ Reply ]
Hey there Bill easy on the burns dude
Posted 14 years ago by Sloggydog    [ Reply ]
At least he's got good teeth.
Posted 14 years ago by Pieter    [ Reply ]
 Wizzuvv_oz wrote:
I didn't know hair could do that. 
 
And now we're all gaga at the gogo.

(all)
Flow it!
Show it!
Long as God can grow it!

Don't ask what hair can do for you, ask what you can do for your hair.

Posted 14 years ago by TanteJensen    [ Reply ]
 smackiepipe wrote:
Heh. Mungo looks like Lon Chaney, Jr. about half-way through his wolfman transformation.
 
 GMTA! I was going to say he looked like a punk werewolf! 

Bill's comments on the 'silly' sideburns were cute. 
Posted 14 years ago by laozilover    [ Reply ]
Watch out with the acid, Bro.  Look what it did to that guy!


 Hannio wrote:
I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
 


Posted 14 years ago by Dior    [ Reply ]
Ah now this one goes back a few years....
Posted 14 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
 FrankMc wrote:
He looks like the offspring of a couple of those old style chimp dolls.
 
A lot of people looked like that back then; even some women.  Egads!

Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
kind of glad Bill said it was worth the trip to check this cover out or else I wouldn't have seen it.
I didn't know hair could do that. 
Posted 14 years ago by Wizzuvvoz    [ Reply ]
NASTY Third-Degree BUUUURNS!!! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Also I see why they get dental work and pretty up them one-hit-wonder boys! YIKE!

{#Cowboy}


Posted 14 years ago by tnt_thomas    [ Reply ]

Mungo Jerry, RPs favorite dirty hippie.


Posted 14 years ago by Egrey    [ Reply ]
 Hannio wrote:
I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
 
You see the album cover? DEFINITELY Bizarro World.

Dig the tune though.

Posted 14 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
OMG!  I thought I had fallen asleep and been transported back to 1971!  Reminds me of school.  RP never fails to amaze....!
Posted 14 years ago by jools    [ Reply ]
 Hannio wrote:
I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
 
I friggin LOVE this tune.

Not exactly acid music though ... I bet it was kinda jarring ...

Posted 14 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
Although this is a happy song from days past....HOW CAN YOU follow Summer's Cauldron with this?

SACRILIDGE!!!!!!! 
Posted 14 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
He looks like the offspring of a couple of those old style chimp dolls.
Posted 14 years ago by FrankMc    [ Reply ]
Someone looking for me? Oh, you said MUNGO, not MUGRO? Oops. Sorry...
Posted 16 years ago by Mugro    [ Reply ]
I was with a friend when this song came on the radio just as the acid started to come on strong. We thought for sure we had entered Bizarro world or something.
Posted 16 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
this song played on nearly all of my teenage milestones - from driving for the first time on the highway to me driving my date to the prom with my corny ass tuxedo. no matter how cliche, cheesy, dumb, stupid, old you people think this song is - Mungo Jerry has a very dear place in the cockles of my heart.
Posted 16 years ago by theGOOT    [ Reply ]
My Grandmother thought this was the greatest when it first came out (born in 1889).
Posted 16 years ago by oldsinger    [ Reply ]
Hi Kenny Brick!
Posted 16 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
They are still going. (click here) Warning: don't open this link if you are offended by seriously big hair.
Posted 16 years ago by Pazzat    [ Reply ]
Aargh! It was a fun song back in the 70s when it was released, but it's dated badly, has been seriously over-played, and is pretty damn irritating these days. It's so clichéd - it's used to symbolise summertime in the same way as Slade's Merry Krissmass is used to symbolise Xmas. I couldn't hit the mute button fast enough :(
Posted 16 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
queenjill wrote:
Look at those chops!
And even with 'em, I bet he still got some. Amazing.
Posted 16 years ago by meydele    [ Reply ]
d-mac wrote:
Best lyric ever: If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal. If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel.
Posted 16 years ago by Barman    [ Reply ]
bokey wrote:
I know the song well but I never realized he was an extra from the original "Planet Of The Apes"
Good one!
Posted 16 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
I know the song well but I never realized he was an extra from the original "Planet Of The Apes"
Posted 17 years ago by bokey    [ Reply ]
Look at those chops!
Posted 17 years ago by queenjill    [ Reply ]
My brothers and I (at elementary school age) 1st heard this song while riding in the back of the family station wagon. I remember how we were dancing and singing along... Ch-ch-ch - ah! "> I recently put it on a cd and shared it with the whole family.
Posted 17 years ago by indigosun    [ Reply ]
Not just another pretty face...
Posted 17 years ago by haljordan    [ Reply ]
Yeah, I like how he shaved his face out from his hair.
Posted 17 years ago by babyjuice    [ Reply ]
smackiepipe wrote:
Heh. Mungo looks like Lon Chaney, Jr. about half-way through his wolfman transformation.
lol
Posted 17 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
I was just looking at that cover when hearing Bill's comments about it. I can only say, oh my God.
Posted 17 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
Ch-ch-ch.
Posted 17 years ago by buddy0407    [ Reply ]
Heh. Mungo looks like Lon Chaney, Jr. about half-way through his wolfman transformation.
Posted 17 years ago by smackiepipe    [ Reply ]
OMG, it brings back memories alright. Bad, bad, bad, memories.
Posted 17 years ago by DrCyKosis    [ Reply ]
Any relation to Ben Harper? 6.
Posted 17 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
Ahh yes, 6th grade, and the first cassette tape I ever bought: In the Summertime (Repetoire)
Posted 17 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
squidish wrote:
I worked one summer at a store where the manager loved to play Air Supply's Greatest Hits incessantly over the sound system. Hell on earth. So, I know what yer sayin'...
My dad had ONE 8track in his Toyota pickup. I think it was a KTel collection even. "On the wings of a snow-white..." I can't fin...
Posted 17 years ago by tnt_thomas    [ Reply ]
Best lyric ever: If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal. If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel.
Posted 17 years ago by d-mac    [ Reply ]
I suppose I'd get sick of it too if I had to hear it daily, but it brings back a flood of memories of the summer after high school, which are pleasant nostalgie for this cat.
Posted 17 years ago by Gregorama    [ Reply ]
ListeningClose wrote:
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
I worked one summer at a store where the manager loved to play Air Supply's Greatest Hits incessantly over the sound system. Hell on earth. So, I know what yer sayin'...
Posted 17 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
My favourite summertime tune when I was in my last year of high school. Ooops! Does that give me away as being 53?
Posted 17 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
ListeningClose wrote:
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
I had a similar experience. Luckily this song was not on the tape, but there are a number of good songs that I can just never ever ever listen to again for the same reason. Musically numb people should not be allowed to run stores.
Posted 17 years ago by algrif    [ Reply ]
I can empathize. Had the same issue in the restaurant business before satellite radio. Mungo Jerry was played a lot in the summer, but at least it was seasonal. I still can't listen to the following after hearing them each day at work: * Beatles - Lady Madonna * S&G's - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover ListeningClose wrote:
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
Posted 17 years ago by burnthebridge    [ Reply ]
Pyro wrote:
Was Mungo Jerry a one hit wonder?
more like a 2 - 3 hit wonder!!
Posted 17 years ago by Pablo13    [ Reply ]
I love this song...it's a fun, lighthearted song...sometimes you just need that.
Posted 17 years ago by Mpogota    [ Reply ]
If this song doesn't make you giggle, then you have no silly gene.
Posted 17 years ago by cattgirl813    [ Reply ]
If they're singing de da da da de da....they have to be happy about something!
Posted 17 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
I think I heard Trekkie on the velcro.
Posted 17 years ago by FamilyMan    [ Reply ]
Interestingly, this song came up on my "summertime" CD on a long car trip recently. Two of my "very musically sophisticated" (or so they believe) teen-aged occupants (age 14 and 15) found themselves laughing and getting into this song. They requested a replay, and wondered if it was available to download to their iPODs. It left me smiling and thinking that some things are timeless, like summer fun and the songs that go with.
Posted 17 years ago by kephra    [ Reply ]
Was Mungo Jerry a one hit wonder?
Posted 17 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
The first time I heard this song I was at a swim meet. I was asking everyone who it was. no one knew! but i so loved it! :happy tune:
Posted 17 years ago by mem_313    [ Reply ]
When I was in college I worked a crappy retail job where we had to listen to a tape play the same songs over and over... and over. This song was on the "summer" tape, so I now have a deep loathing for it.
Posted 17 years ago by ListeningClose    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by Honeybee    [ Reply ]
CCinSB wrote:
who is Mungo Jerry anyway? good song though.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer were characters in one of the poems from T.S. Elliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (The book Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" is based on).
Posted 17 years ago by Abulafia    [ Reply ]
CCinSB wrote:
who is Mungo Jerry anyway?
Rumpleteazer's best buddy.
Posted 17 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
who is Mungo Jerry anyway? good song though.
Posted 17 years ago by CCinSB    [ Reply ]
Great summertime memories. My favorite drinking and driving song.
Posted 17 years ago by the_jake    [ Reply ]
I know that it is not quite summer yet, but a warm, hot and sunny day is made complete whenever I hear this song.
Posted 17 years ago by novacura    [ Reply ]
Needs more bananas
Posted 17 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
I LOVE this song! It's a perfect, crusin' around, summer song and ALWAYS brightens things up. When I was in junior high, I actually saw Mungo Jerry on Dick Clark's American Bandstand when they premiered this song. Ain't that wild? Everything was faked and lip-synched, so the lead singer used a jug to imitate the sound of the car that occurs about 2/3 of the way through.
Posted 17 years ago by eastwesterner    [ Reply ]
Kurt_from_La_Qui wrote:
my friend (an old hippie ) told me the worst song was pink floyd's "careful with that axe eugune". The first time I heard "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" I was about 10 years old and listening to my brother's records when he wasn't home. When the screaming started I FLEW out of his room and down the stairs three at a pop, convinced the record had somehow come to life. I didn't go in my brother's room for a long time after that...(;
Posted 17 years ago by liser    [ Reply ]
always a cheery, fun song - perfect for a Florida afternoon!
Posted 17 years ago by liser    [ Reply ]
I love this song! Always makes me smile... if only it were sunny here. No such luck however. At least the song can make me pretend like it's nice outside.
Posted 17 years ago by Jacksonstat    [ Reply ]
Maybe someone slipped ME some acid at some unremembered moment, but the lead singer always sounded like an earlier-day Steve Tyler(of Aerosmith) to me. Odd.
Posted 20 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
Can\'t hear this without incredibly detailed flashbacks to Top of the Pops. BTW, as a Brit in California who has lots track of some important cultural stuff... did Top of the Pops ever die? I lost interest after Pams People.
Posted 20 years ago by stubbsz    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by Shimmer: Not much of a shock there. Every song is really, really strange on acid.
my friend (an old hippie ) told me the worst song was pink floyd's "careful with that axe eugune". of course, that song along with leon russell's "acid acidophilus" sound weird without the use of hallucinogens.
Posted 20 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Not much of a shock there. Every song is really, really strange on acid.
Originally Posted by Hannio: This song is really, really strange on acid. Don't ask me how I know. (Ah, I was so much younger then, I'm older than that now... )
Posted 20 years ago by Shimmer    [ Reply ]
Favorite all-time summer song!
Posted 20 years ago by Ames    [ Reply ]
Chair dancing!!!!!!!
Posted 20 years ago by musicfreak    [ Reply ]
This song is really, really strange on acid. Don\'t ask me how I know. (Ah, I was so much younger then, I\'m older than that now... )
Posted 20 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
One of my first 45\'s. Spent hours as a kid listening to this until it was totally wore out. Thanks RP!
Posted 20 years ago by Skeletor    [ Reply ]
Hate the lyrics, but what a classic! That beat, the wavery vocals and the catchy hook are so great. I think this song qualifies for the only jug band hit ever, but it gets my vote for laid back, hot weather groovin\'.
Posted 20 years ago by Joyfulchristine    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by billowhead: Man that hurt going from the Eels to this.
Yeah, that was kinda abrupt. Cute song, though! :D
Posted 20 years ago by indigo_xia    [ Reply ]
Man that hurt going from the Eels to this.
Posted 20 years ago by billowhead    [ Reply ]
shades of 1970 am radio!!! hey, i\'ve even got this on a 45. holy cow!?!?!! please don\'t hold that against me.
Posted 21 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]