Mungo Jerry entered the festival as semi-professional musicians and only got the billing because the band’s management Red Bus had organised the whole event. “The bonfires were burning brightly on the hills, and the assembled crowd of over 30,000 accompanied the band by banging coke tins together until the sound heard from a few hundred yards away was like a very groovy scrap yard working overtime.” Mungo, came, saw and conquered over the likes of the Grateful Dead, Free, Black Sabbath, Traffic and Ginger Baker’s Airforce.Īs the Melody Maker review of the festival stated, “Mungo Jerry were the only band who let the audience use them, rather than vice versa. It took place on the Whitsun bank holiday weekend of May 1970. The Hollywood Festival… This was proved at Hollywood Music Festival in Newcastle under Lyme. It was music to get involved with and not to be taken too seriously. Mungo played blues/rock and skiffle in a carefree manner. Ray Dorset, the singer, guitarist and songwriter with the group Mungo Jerry. How it came about is a story in itself, but first we must start with the musical pedigree of the three main players RAY DORSET Tracks: Dust My Broom/One More Night Without You/Crane’s Train Boogie/Boogie All The Way/Zulu Gone West/Blowing All My Troubles Away/Strangers Blues/Sweet Sixteen/Who’s That Knocking/The Case. That was until it’s splendid mixing, re-packaging and release by the Snapper label in 2000.

When checking it out, sadly it was by usually finding it bargain bin sales. The album A Case For The Blues is still receiving plaudits from blues fans world-wide.Īlmost forty years on from its initial recording dates (December 1983) and to it’s conclusion by mixing two months later (February 1984). THE ALBUMS 1984-90 – A CASE FOR THE BLUES Tracks: On a Night Like This/Sunshine Reggae/Knockin’ On Heavens Door/Feels Like I’m In Love/Still Waters/The Mood I’m In/Mungo Medley/Bland Affair/Boogie Up/Rhythm For Every Mood/Pulstar/You Blow My Mind. “Maybe I should give it a go? Although it does not really fit in to the kind of music genre that I am performing and recording at the moment”. “I think that I could do a better job of the recording but I never really thought about it before. “The record company in South Africa really liked it and wanted to put it out as a single. …and on On a Night Like This… “I wrote this song on stage as a little bit to put on the end of In The Summertime and it turned into a complete song that I put on the Horizon album. “With this in mind, I came up with the Horizon name to work with”. There was an embargo on at the time so I could not really go there as Mungo. “A tour was offered to me in South Africa. “So, I gathered up a few other tracks that I had recorded and put them together for the LP. “Somehow or other a deal for this track came up in South Africa and the record company wanted an album. “This I did in my studio in Grayshott with Sue Marshall doing the female vocal. “He suggested that I record it for UK release on his label. Ray Dorset on Boogie up… “Barry Collins, my agent at the time and business partner of Cyril Wayne had a backing track of the Laid Back hit, Sunshine Reggae. It featured the summer classic On a Night Like This. South African release only which originated from Ray’s involvement with one time Mungo Jerry guitarist Ken Marshall. Of course, we also had the much-loved Snakebite album in 1990. The collaboration with Vincent Crane and Peter Green on the album, A Case For The Blues was an obvious highlight. During the time of the albums 1984-90, Mungo Jerry still continued touring extensively and of course, recording.

Fleetwood mac albums 1984