Mungo Jerry

"In the Summertime" is a song recorded in 1970 by the British pop-blues band Mungo Jerry. Written by the group's leader Ray Dorset, it celebrates the carefree days of summer. It reached Number 1 in charts around the world (including seven weeks in the UK, two weeks in Canada) and Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US. It is considered one of the highest selling singles of all time with an estimated 30 million copies sold.^[1] It was also the year-end top seller of 1970 in the UK singles chart. The song took Dorset only ten minutes to compose on a second-hand Fender Stratocaster while he was taking time off work from his regular job and has been used in a campaign against drunk driving in the UK due to its lyric of "have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find".^{[1] [2]}

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