Mungo Jerry es una banda británica fundada a finales de la década de 1960, conocida por su distintivo sonido influenciado por el blues, el rock y el skiffle. El nombre del grupo se inspira en un poema de T. S. Eliot titulado "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer" de su libro "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". La alineación inicial la conformaron Ray Dorset (vocalista y guitarrista), Colin Earl (teclista), Mike Cole (bajista) y Paul King (banjoísta).
En 1970, la banda tuvo su primer gran éxito con el sencillo “In the Summertime”, una canción pegajosa y optimista que resonó en las listas de éxitos mundiales. Esta canción no solo dominó las listas británicas, sino que también alcanzó el top 10 en más de 20 países. Su ritmo animado y letra sencilla capturaron la esencia del verano, haciendo que la pista se convirtiera en un himno estacional.
El estilo de Mungo Jerry está marcado por una mezcla ecléctica de géneros. Su música combina el blues con el rock & roll, el skiffle e incluso elementos de jazz. Esta fusión de estilos les permitió destacar en la escena musical de su tiempo, atrayendo tanto a amantes del rock tradicional como a seguidores de sonidos más experimentales.
Aunque “In the Summertime” sigue siendo su
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I was sittin' at home watchin' Tv
The phone started ringing
hello it's me It was that girl I met in the rain
She'd asked for a ride
but I drove right away
I saw her again in the giant supermarkt
When she gave me her green stamps
I gave her my card
She rang me one morning when I wasn't doing much
So I grabbed some clean clothes an' I took her for lunch
Hello it's you again Hello it's you again
Her smile was real pretty just like a princess
She had jet black hair
an' she knew how to dress
Alice Pollock tops an' Fioricci jeans
Hair by Leonard perfume of Nina Ricci
She drove a yellow Lamborghini
so I knew that she had bread
But her mother had no money
and her father he was dead
She never went to work but she always traveled round
Staying at best places from Paris to Japan
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I looked at her passport Australia, Switzerland
Germany Espanola, Italy, Japan Hong Kong
New Zealand, England and Paris
She had all the stamps whatever could she be
She was not a model a movie star or singer
She said she was a carrier or more or less a bringer
I saw her with some heavy guys
one night late at the station
So I thought I'd better check around
and get some information
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The guys that she was speaking with were dealers
so it seemed of heroin, cocaine, acid and hashish
And because she looked so innocent and young
and very pretty They'd picked on her
to distribute in every major city
They paid her well and she enjoyed the glamour
and the travel
But now she thought she'd get right out
it was getting hard to handle
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I took her out to dinner introduced her to some friends
consumed much Dom Perignon
at an exclusive discotheque
I told her about my business operations with Hong Kong
and then we went to my place
and made love until dawn
Took a taxi after breakfast
and went to her house
and then she called her boss
to say that she was out
He got real mad when she said that she had quit
he said he'd send the boys out
and her throat would soon be slit
She jumped into her Lambo and tore round to my flat
I sent her off to Tel Aviv, she didn't even pack
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