In The Summertime
Just a small musical observation. After listening to David Dye‘s Drive at Five featuring songs about “summer” on the way home from work today, it occurred to me that the annual favorite In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry sounds remarkably like the early blues cantations of Marc Bolan and T. Rex. Indeed, just add a few Tolkien and/or car references, soprano up the voice just a smidgen, and you’ve got the early makings of glam rock.
Then again, it may not be such a coincidence, considering both groups had a string of hits throughout the early ’70s. But they’re all good thump along numbers nonetheless.
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