ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry
In the summertime, when the weather is hot, we grow a big old ‘fro, and giant muttonchops
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In the summertime, when the weather is hot, we grow a big old ‘fro, and giant muttonchops
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@eyeonthecourtroom
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Mungo Jerry actually ruled — Alright alright alright is an absolute banger.
@PeterBondeVillain
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Annoyed grunt
@JoelAdamson
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
I always thought this was just one guy. It fits in to a 70s vibe that I've been trying to put a label on for a while. There was a jug band aesthetic that was really prominent when I was a kid.
@OneSicKid
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Disco belongs to the bee gees, and they are ours
@Baphomessy
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Love this song!
@biygas
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
My favorite from them is “Alright Alright Alright”
@awrogers3013
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
The one thing about the dead is that the vocals always sucks
@trillian777
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
There is no way that man is 100% Caucasian.
@saschalevi6486
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
As a gen Z woman, I had no idea jugbands were real. My only exposure to this was cartoons and Muppets using them for jokes when I was little. I didn't know this was a real genre with real songs.
@rashbandi9835
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
I mainly know this song for its perfect use in Neil Cicierega’s legendary mashup “Annoyed Grunt”
@dartboardpicasso
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Mungo Jerry fuckin owns and I'll just do what I feel with anyone that says otherwise.
@Snardbafulator
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
It's just a major-key blues progression, but what makes the tune stick is that goofy dotted eighth-sixteenth shuffle beat in a 3+3+2 subdivision. I can't think of another song that uses that beat and in pop music, that alone is worthy of a gold star.
@davidheaven9885
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
MJ were not a one hit wonder, in GB they had 2 no 1s a number 3 and a no 4 hit's
Ray Dorset also penned another no one for Kelly Marie.
Get your facts right.
@StefanTheMongol
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
The guy playing piano at 12:24 has me crying.😂 bro is just banging it out! I love it.
@nedstarkravingmad1799
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think, Oh, by the way, which one is Mungo?
@Pirategod23
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
He definitely looks like a Mungo Jerry
@michellewallhagen2346
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
I didn’t know Andre the Giant could sing!
@insidejoke97
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
For some reason that fart noise at 6:27 always gets me. 🤣
@kevinbirge2130
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
About the 70s: men could drink beer and drive without being bothered. If you weren’t driving stupid, you weren’t bothered.
@OneHellOfASandwich
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
i love this song to death! fuck songs about problems. stop singing and fix it already! gimme songs about enjoying life no matter what happens.
@generalmccornflaxbo2547
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Fun fact in the '70s you could indeed drink and drive in America. There are no laws against it. In fact when they introduced laws in the '80s people got upset about it.
@RM47319
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
wildly waving hands like that was Julian Lennon's thing too lmao
@stuffedninja1337
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Their lead singer looks like the guys from Flight of the Conchords…
@drewfromyay
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
The piano player is the unsung hero of this band imo. Colin Earl is his name. That riff is the catchiest part of the song.
@hankhardigan1104
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
It's skiffle.
@carltomacruz9138
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Aside from the keys, is there any other actual instrument playing in the OG version?
@Kennyselman
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Oh god, rewatching this episode, and my one thought it…ya know, it really is a better summer hit song than we had for the following 3 years, wth.
@jackregz
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
My first exposure to this song was the absolutey dreadful cover by Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater) with fucking SLASH on guitar and BILLY IDIL on vocals.
@technicolordreamer
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
5:24 Perfect description of that show! 😂
@gregoryeatroff8608
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
For the record, drinking and driving was illegal in the UK in 1970. John Lennon blamed his mother's 1958 death on two separate drunk driving incidents (only one of them confirmed).
John's mom's boyfriend lost his driver's license after getting arrested for drunk driving, which cost him his job, which led Julia to go over to John's house (he lived with his aunt Mimi) to say that she and her boyfriend couldn't afford to feed him on his weekend visits anymore and he needed to cut back his time at her place… and walking back from Mimi's house she got hit by a an off-duty cop driving alone on a learner's permit. John believed the cop was drunk. That wasn't in the official report, but we don't know if John was mistaken or if he was right and the authorities suppressed that part of the story to protect a cop.
@HowardThompson-ux7kf
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
A song with a catchy, peppy hook can go a long way. What can you say, these guys did what they did.
@tegantalks9612
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
I looked it up and apparently drinking and driving became illegal in the United States in the late 70s. I’m Canadian and it’s apparently been illegal here since 1921.
@judakimberly6551
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Very much reminds me of Summer Girls by LFO
@hetmanjz
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
The idea that "I'd Like To Make It With You" is not a marvelous song is ridiculous.
@daturamoondog9905
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 pm
15:20 OH MY GOD SKIBADEE
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