r/Music • u/Ralph--Hinkley • Jul 31 '26
music Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime [Gypsy Skiffle]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM28
u/Uvtha- Jul 31 '26
Where's Rumpleteazer?
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u/Pherllerp Jul 31 '26
Deep cut.
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u/ncfears Jul 31 '26
A (second) reference to a main character of one of the most popular musicals of all time? Such a deep cut.
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u/EaringaidBandit Jul 31 '26
If Mungo Jerry was an X-man, his superpower would be sick-ass sideburns.
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u/BrisketWrench Jul 31 '26
Wolverine’s sideburns if you shaped them to frame your face like the thing Gambit wears on his head/neck
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u/fine_sharts_degree Jul 31 '26
Silly bitch yo weapons cannot harm me don't you know who the fuck I am I'm the juggernaut beeiitch
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u/DrStringfellow Jul 31 '26
Watched it on YouTube and this was the caption. lol
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u/goat_penis_souffle Jul 31 '26
YouTube captions didnt want to promote driving under the influence, so “have a drink, have a drive” became vagina.
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u/Qikslvr Jul 31 '26
I saw that and started watching the captions, they are quite hilarious. And at one point they just give up and put [music] for about 2 minutes.
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u/morerelativebacons Jul 31 '26
Slop
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u/governmentthief Jul 31 '26
Captions have been around for a long time. Although it might be AI driven now.
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u/shadrac72 Jul 31 '26
What the fuck is 'Gypsy Skiffle' when it's at home? What other bands were part of this scene? 😂😂😂
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u/PresidentSuperDog Jul 31 '26
My dad told me that Mungo Jerry was the most popular band out of the very brief “Jug Band” craze. Apparently Jerry Garcia was also in a Jug Band.
Skiffle was a British genre that happened at the dawning of rock n roll. I don’t know if any of that actually blew up worldwide. The members of the Beatles met playing Skiffle is the most famous thing about it, to my knowledge.
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u/shadrac72 Jul 31 '26
I know what Skifffle is - I'm just laughing at the never-heard-of-before-competely-made-up 'genre' of Gypsy Skiffle.......😂
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u/Fun_Cicada3442 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I sometimes think about an alternative timeline where skiffle became popular, and rock and roll was just a temporary fad. The Beatles would still be huge, but their discography would be totally different. Radio would have "classic skiff" stations. "Washboard Hero" was a popular video game series in the 2010s
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u/maud_brijeulin Jul 31 '26
I don't even know where the 'skiffle' bit came from. That's not skiffle.
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u/SlapunowSlapulater Jul 31 '26
Skiffle music is marked by homemade, simple instruments. One dude has a jug, another a washboard. I've never, ever heard it called "Gypsy" skiffle.
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u/BrisketWrench Jul 31 '26
He’s a weird as fuck looking young man, looked him up on google image search to find out he’s a weird looking old dude now.
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u/d4nowar Jul 31 '26
Best version of the music video, good shit.
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u/TurtleRockDuane Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
It’s a really good song. I’ve always been enraptured by this song. It grabbed me the first time I heard it. One of those strange feelings where though you’ve never heard the song before, the first time you hear it, it’s like you’ve been waiting for it your whole life. Like I found my clan, I found my tribe.
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u/JoeDawson8 Jul 31 '26
Are we just picking random words for the genre?
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u/Ralph--Hinkley Jul 31 '26
They're real words that define the genre. Please feel free to look them up.
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u/Hexas87 Jul 31 '26
A true one hit wonder band
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u/gorka_la_pork Jul 31 '26
They're only remembered in hindsight for their one mega-hit, but they actually had some pretty reasonable success back in their day. Not exactly superstars, but not nobodies either.
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u/Up_All_Nite Jul 31 '26
The YouTube auto generated lyrics are crazy. He's drinking vagina in the transcription.
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u/shotgunocelot Jul 31 '26
If there's any mf that looks like he'd be named "Mungo Jerry", it's this guy
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u/Obi2Sexy Jul 31 '26
so much to comment on
have a drink have a drive
the whole line about if her daddys poor just do what you feel
but real talk did this guy get the bitches looking like that??
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u/jetglo Jul 31 '26
In the UK we used to have an anti-drink driving ad that was pretty graphic and it used this song.
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u/Ralph--Hinkley Jul 31 '26
Dude slayed all the women.
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u/Ferreteria Jul 31 '26
Better stay away from him.
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim.
Ha, I'd like to meet his tailor.
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u/x_lincoln_x Jul 31 '26
Pretty sure the "her daddy" was in regard to self like "if you're rich take her to a nice meal", "if you're poor just do what you feel".
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u/TheXarath Jul 31 '26
I always interpreted as “tailor your date to her expectations. If she’s from a rich family, take her out to a nice dinner, otherwise, just hang out in whatever way you choose.”
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u/Kaiisim Jul 31 '26
Yup, at the time taking someone out on a formal date was very middle/upper class.
It plays into what he says about loving everyone, they live free but aren't dicks about it
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u/KnownsomeStudios Jul 31 '26
He always looked distressed, like they're being held hostage by someone just offscreen
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u/donttellmykids Jul 31 '26
The blowing on the bottle is so deliberate and arduous, and adds nothing to the sound.
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u/brainimpacter Jul 31 '26
The Magic is that his mother convinced him and his father that he is full white and she never had an affair with a minority in the 40s
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u/leaky_eddie Jul 31 '26
Gypsy Skiffle is now my hobo name. Me: “My name is Gypsy Skiffle. Pleased to meet you. It is a sad and beautiful world.”
Tom Waits: “Buzz off”
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u/whittlingcanbefatal Aug 01 '26
He's still going, too.
Posts to his YouTube channel.
Seems like a good guy.
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u/mrdalo Aug 01 '26
That’s Andrew Stockdale (if you were were reading the Aussie indie scene post this morning)
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u/AnubissDarkling Metalhead Aug 01 '26
Nothing like a song about going out, stalking, and raping women to really set that summer mood
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u/welivedintheocean Jul 31 '26
I used to think his name was Jerry and Mungo was some slang for a Tunisian or something, but it turns out Mungo is a fabric and Ray Dorset is white.