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I glad I saw this cause I was going to recommend Janice as well.

Could we have some U2 Unforgettable fire.

Or could we have some Paul McCartney with wings .

That's not a "version" of this song, it's a completely different song.

LMAO

Only 3/4?

The guy is Ray Dorset. Mungo Jerry was the name of the band.

Lol

john short lighten up

Can you believe we are that age? We were the generation of not growing old. I think I still am like that.

@@dorothymcmahon9995 Can you remember what our grandparents were like when they were in their 60s? They were OLD ! I still think like my age is the same number as my shoe size.

Right with you there Crusty. Just binging on this guy's reactions to all the old greats.

I'm with you, Crusty!

I still love this song and I'm 75! In 1970 was leaving the Navy after 6 years. The group is English. There are a number of terms in there we, as Americans don't use of are unfamiliar with, such as "...maybe we can make it in LayBy" That is highway rest area or a road pull out. Still digging it after all these years.

He still does kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hsx8otyFxrDUkmg.html

Yes! Fly and totally unique.

Mother Mabelle Carter and family.

Bottles and washboards!

Oh yeah, 1920's ragtime. Americana

hillbilly rock pop the 70s something was in the air doing that time

Do you have any idea what a Hillbilly is. It's an Irish thing brought to Appalachia from the homeland. They were originally called Hill Williams (supporters of King William of England). They came to America to separate their families from English oppression.

Except this song was a revival of 20s swing and ragtime.

Kevin Gruen But the song itself is original.

@@thadoc5186 certainly. And a great song too

@Big Steve The style is called skiffle. The Beatles played skiffle when they started out.

@Big Steve no problem.

That's awesome!

He doesn't look any different.

He's on U Tube doing a live version during lockdown, from his garage. Worth a look.

@@raychambers3646 Still has the sideburns?

@@l0sts0ul89 Indeed he does. Same sideburns.

I like this view. "Do what you feel" doesn't necessarily mean taking advantage of the girl. It can mean enjoying each other's company taking a ride, going fishing, hanging with friends indoors or out. The time and sharing is what's valued.

I agree, we were like that in the 70's. We didn't need a restaurant or social function to be happy. If you were in to someone you could be happy riding around town or dirt roads. Just being together was all that was needed. Whether it was a single person or a group of friends. Somehow we always found something to do.

@@danielstewart7163 we didn't even have a phone or computer, so just enjoying the people you were with!

I agree

Always loved the spoonful, so yes great recommendation

CW Ashmore YESSSSSSS

I was thinking the exact same thing. I remember that song from my childhood but more recently from the opening of "Die Hard With a Vengeance" - great flick, by the way.

That's a good one to have an evening cocktail while watching the sun set.

Or even Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochrane ;)

Yep, great cover,But Blue Cheer wrote this song first! Who copied it!

That would be Raymond Edward Dorset (Ray Dorset)

Lead singer is Ray Dorset. Mungo Jerry is the band name. Just as there's nobody called Jethro in Jethro Tull.

Eddie Cochran 1958, The Who 1967, Blue Cheer 1968

I was it was the best 10 years EVER FOR MUSIC

You can still do it in the rural areas.

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have a drink have a drive go out and get a dui

Fantastic list!

Art Meddaugh To add to your list is “Summer” by War. I love summer songs. Some of the best do not have Summer in the title, but the lyrics are about summertime. So fun!

Also Summertime by I think Billy Stewart?

I'm coming back to this when I make my summertime playlist for 2020.

I believe he said summertime not summer.

oh the BEST!!

Janis Joplin...Summertime

Yasssss Did the same thing at same time just a different beach

Nck Gilder , Hot Child in the City . I took this single on vinyl to a sixth grade dance and the teacher rejected it because it was inappropriate.

Yes, Jamal thank you thank you for keeping us moving with the music. From another friend in lockdown. South Africa

Mark Devlin , would love to join that barbie. This guy plays some awesome stuff. Love his reactions. Stay safe , lockdown just starting to ease up here in Jersey cI . 💐

Lockdown starting to ease over here in England as well.... can finally have a barbecue with 6 people... social distancing and all that... gonna get the barbecue out, stick some cold beers in the fridge, and put some Southern Rock on ... Hope you folk in America are staying safe and well. See on the news over here that things have gone a bit crazy in some states.. terrible things going on. As if people haven't had enough to put up with lately with this horrible virus. Keep safe , look after your family and keep on going... .😘

I never knew this was a British band.

Lmao

hmmmm this comment look familiar. almost like it was copy and pasted from a comment in the original video lol

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I like this take. Well put.

Right?? I think Jamel missed the directly following lyrics: "Speed along the lane Do a turn or return the twenty-five."

I'm kinda grateful for that explanation. I love the tune, but found a line or two a little hard to swallow.

exactly!

rileyandmike that’s an awesome explanation, and not only do I love it, it makes sense!

I always heard it as "life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy"

@@professionaljackass Me too. lol

This is the best comment on the whole board 🤣🤣 Thank you!!

It's a great summer vibe song, but some of the lyrics do rather make difficult listening these days.

It was used as on a anti drink driving campaign advert a few years ago in the UK, everybody drinking, having fun, driving off then cuts to the car wreck.

@@Tlotoxl kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJudlMKJ253Wd4E.html

Funnily enough drunk driving wasn't considered that much a serious crime right up until the 90's.

loved the Kareem reference lol

Now I feel old I remember to listen to that a long time. But you're right in Florida it's summer all the time. I ride my motorcycle Christmas Eve

Dawn Riccardi And the inspiration for the Pearl Jam song “Sweet Lew”!

Wut

Yeah...that one’s by The Loving Spoonful.

That's my favorite. For the longest time I thought they were black. Lol. One summer night by the Danleers is great as well

Called a Demijohn, at least in the UK. Used for fermenting wine.

People have had jug bands since there have been jugs, especially poor people.

@@jivebunny3765 in Spain is called a Damajuana, coming from the french word Dame-jeanne. Same root :)

Water jugs were glass in the day. Moonshine jugs were clay.

I'll bet it was hard cider considering where the band came from.

Yeah, that was Riddle and Phelps. Back then it was called "Eefing." There was a fella had a top ten hit in the 60s with "Little Eefin' Annie."

Oh yeah, Riddle and Phelps. I remember those guys.

It's much older. Started in the mountains of the south with making music with what you had. Jugs were moonshine jugs. They'd play spoons, wash boards, even a hand saw.

Playing the spoons goes back in the UK for as long as music it'self.

@@MadisonD941 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kJ9dobpoup3VmH0.html

yea, exactly.... lol

It didn't use to be that way.

Won't ring to smoothly in our current times.

Some UK radio stations won't play the song because of that line

@@Westcountrynordic didn't the coddled goofs in the UK let the govt ban folding knives even small ones iif they click locked.unreal

cosmosdark allince Add "Lets Be Friends (Skin to Skin)" by Bruce Springsteen

With Eric Burdon from the Animals

SUMMER BY WAR AS WELL!!

Low Rider! Also All Day Music - the album or the song. That entire album lived in the 8 track deck in my car until it finally died.

He did it already.

Or the fantastic metal cover by Type O Negative

Love Seals & Crofts....Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, We May Never Pass This Way Again

Another classic!

Going back to the jazz era. Look at Ella Fitzgerald as a great example.

I was wondering how he missed that as well. The 70s, even into the late 80s it was normal here for people to just jump into their vehicles from the bar. Nobody even thought about it being dangerous.

Failed Bard until it made the mother’s MADD...

@@FailedBard I have guilt for driving impaired in the 80's. I never had a DUI, accident or hurt anyone. There were no designated drivers, friends let friends drive drunk because they were drunk, everyone was impaired on something really. The last few years I've wondered if I just missed the warnings or if there were any. I guess not. It seemed like hungover driving was worse than drunk driving. When I started bartending, I quit drinking because I couldn't stand how folks acted drunk and the smell of stale alcohol when I opened the bar. That job was a blessing.

We had lawn darts then too.

@@everlyoshea Sober people seem boring when you're drunk, and drunk people just tend to be obnoxious when you're sober. Up until there was that start of a cultural change in perception towards drunk driving, there was no reason to stay sober at a bar, since everyone else was driving themselves home anyways. "Everybody's doing it" was, and still is, the largest driving force in society.

Holy shit im on it

I learned how to play the guitar part from that video last year. It's great

Here is the link to the tutorial video. I subscribed too! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9Ndq89qqrzVpqc.html

He’s a true legend

Ray Dorset. Mungo Jerry is the name of the band, not the guy.

@@gotham61 have a look at his Mungo Jerry Easter lockdown video. He's going solo as Mungo Jerry. Not that it matters but it's more like that's his nom de plume as it were!

Where did he post the video?

@@MissToxica. oh, here on KZfaq. Type in Mungo Jerry- Easter lockdown. Enjoy!

Oscar Zavala 🤣🤣🤣

@@laz820 Hahaha

LOL

He had a banjo as well

Blue Cheer’s Summertime Blues. Best in my opinion

Don't forget the epic version The Who did Live at Leeds 1970

@ItsMyLife Tx The Who did it also.

Rebel9668 bluegrass is only about 75 years old being invented by Bill Monroe in 1945. Now using a jug for bass goes back much further.

@@Falstaff-mr8fk making it widely known and inventing it are way different. Bluegrass is the Appalachian evolution of Irish folk music and has been played in one form or another throughout that area for as long as they have been there.

@@Falstaff-mr8fk Bluegrass goes back a lot further then that but back then it simply wasn't called bluegrass, instead it was "Hillbilly Music" Heck, the style of music goes clear back to old Irish tunes...Listen to "Hear The Wind Blow" some time and then listen to an Irish tune called The Connemara Cradle Song. Granted they dropped a few instruments and gained a few other over the years, but it's all pretty much the same style.

If you bin blowin in a jug for 100 years you sure got some puff!

There is also the term/genre Jug Band

Glad to know that I am not the only one who thought for all these years that the lead singer's name was Mungo Jerry. I just discovered, using wikipedia, that Mungo Jerry was the name of the band. A name that came from one of a pair of cats in a T. S. Eliot poem about Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer. The musical "Cats "was based on the poem. For some reason the band didn't go with Rumple Teazer for the band's name. Ray Dorset is the proud owner of the chops. Funny story, a couple of the band members tried to get Dorset fired from Mungo Jerry at one point, but management decided to let them go instead. Chops ruled the day.

unVet Tx good info. Have a great uncle that still rocks the muttons

rocknroller 77 I still do as well

Hell yes!!!

Kinks rule !

Big time.

I've seen the kinks live 4 times GOOD TIMES!

Kinks are one of my favorite bands. The beauty is that almost none of their songs sound the same. They are all over the place, and every song is awesome. Always had a soft spot for 'Come Dancing', personally, but I haven't heard a song by them that I DIDN'T like.

That is because they were HIGH!!!!!!!!! lol

And the cover by type o negative

SO... you ain't rich huh.

Hoping a rich father who actually loves his daughter would feel the same way; what father in his right mind wants his daughter to be with a person who thinks "rich = valuable", "poor = not so much" ?

..YOU SHAKE IT ALL UP!

love this song

YES 👍👍👍

My grandson loves lime in coconut hes six yrs old lol

Nillson. Schmillson!

He should listen to "Don't Drive Drunk" by Stevie Wonder to counter the message.

I remember when laws against drink driving were brought in...and my friends father commented to me at the time, that the reason they were introduced was because young people like us couldn't hold our drink! I also remember the crash he had soon after, full to the gills!....hahahahaha!

It was used for an anti drink drive Champaign in the uk when I was a nipper...!!!! The advert was pretty gnarley

It wouldn't fly back then either if you got caught, the UK had drink driving laws on the statute books since 1925-30.

My grandfather was a police man and actually arrested him for drink driving

Seriously, yes!

Yes! Such a great song!

yes!!!!

Mungo looks like he's got a helmet on, with the chin strap unbuckled.

OMG. i can't believe he hasn't done that one yet!

@ted ritola Lonesome Loser is a great song.

Right on. I was waiting for it too.

first name yassssssss Hot Fun in the Summertime!!! Purely LOVE Sly & The Family Stone!

My all time Summer song is Peter Frampton - Baby I love your way. When I lkisten to that on a warm evening with the fire flies out and frogs singing - I live forever.

Janis Joplin did a powerful version of Summertime as well

It wasn’t me!!! LOL

The Shondells were with HIM... 🤣