8th January	MUNGO JERRY	Top Rank, Bristol
9th January	MUNGO JERRY	Melody Room, Norwich
10th January	MUNGO JERRY	Roundhouse, London
14th January	MUNGO JERRY	Showboat, Swansea
15th January	MUNGO JERRY	Flamingo, Hereford
16th January	MUNGO JERRY	Glen Ballroom, Llanelli
18th January	MUNGO JERRY	Midem Festival, Cannes, France

MORE MUNGO MAGIC - "Another maxi-single and incredible value for money, when one considers some albums are currently being released with only twelve minutes music per side. This has two chart contenders - the rocking 'BABY JUMP' and jug band 'THE MAN BEHIND THE PIANO' which totals seven minutes forty and a live cut from last year's Hollywood Festival lasting nine minutes fifty. The atmosphere throughout is fun and great quantities of energy are released. It may be skiffle, but by God it makes the old thimble fingers itch. Music Press, 1971 MUNGO MORE BITING - "One might have expected MUNGO to retain its jug-cum-skiffle approach following the sensational success of 'IN THE SUMMERTIME.' But this is quite different - it's harder, heavier and much more biting. In fact, it's nothing more or less than good old rock'n roll. It bulldozes along at a fair old rate, with boogie piano pyrotechnics offsetting RAY DORSET's dynamic vocal, so that it sounds rather like JERRY LEE LEWIS accompanying LITTLE RICHARD! And above all, there's the beat - pounding, demanding and thoroughly infectious. Not such a distinctive track as 'SUMMERTIME', but still very good of its own kind. Runs over four minutes, and on the same side is the 3 1/2-minute 'THE MAN BEHIND THE PIANO.' Flip side is a ten-minute medley recorded live in Hollywood. All of which adds up to the type of value that disc collectors deserve, and I'm sure they'll go for this in a big way. Music Press, 1971.

23rd January	MUNGO JERRY	College Of Education, Bletchley
29th January	MUNGO JERRY	Y.M.C.A, Cambridge
30th January	MUNGO JERRY	Glasgow University
5th February	MUNGO JERRY	Trent Polytechnic
6th February	MUNGO JERRY	High Hall, Birmingham
12th February	MUNGO JERRY	Nottingham University
13th - 25th February	MUNGO JERRY	Italy (12 day tour)
25th - 27th February	MUNGO JERRY	San Remo Song Festival
2nd March	MUNGO JERRY	Stone Manor Hotel, Kidderminster
3rd March	MUNGO JERRY	Bumpers, London

MUNGO JERRY - "MUNGO's music is so simple you have to smile, stamp your feet and join in. "Scores of bands could play their numbers but are too concious of the simplicity to try it. "But MUNGO forge ahead with no worries. "Intellectural audiences may put them down, but Mr Average in search of a good time need look no further. "Last Wednesday London's Bumpers Club was barely half full to receive them. "There's something strange about that place, THE KINKS the previous week had failed to pack'em in, and even ELTON JOHN wasn't a sell-out. "MUNGO plodded through some Mississippi blues with RAY DORSET stamping his foot to hide the absence of drums and COLIN EARL making weird noises. "Simple 12-bars, 'IN THE SUMMERTIME' and the odd joke kept all amused. "At times, DORSET's shrieking made me cringe and more than once things seemed to come unstuck midway through a number. But, dammit, who cares when folk are enjoying themselves"? Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 1971.

5th March	MUNGO JERRY	Durham University
6th March	MUNGO JERRY	Scene Two, Scarborough
12th March	MUNGO JERRY	Mistrale, Beckenham
13th March	MUNGO JERRY	Stepmothers, Sutton Coldfield
16th March	MUNGO JERRY	Henley Palace

MUNGO JERRY - "MUNGO JERRY's new album 'ELECTRONICALLY TESTED' is such a vast progression from their first, it's unbelievable! Much more positive, much more alive, much more everything, in fact, and always that insidious beat pounding away. 'I JUST WANNA MAKE LOVE TO YOU' is a real show-stopper lasting nearly nine minutes. 'IN THE SUMMERTIME' and 'BABY JUMP' are both included, and there's a wealth of other interesting stuff besides. The lyrics of 'MEMOIRS OF A STOCKBROKER' will knock you out. RAY DORSET did all the writing except for one number, and his gravel-grinding vocals hit you right bewteen the eyes. Album has just the right amount of light and shade, and the whole thing sounds like a live show. On Dawn DNLS3020, this is exciting! Music Press, 1971 'ELECTRONICALLY TESTED' - BUT MUNGO USE THE RHYTHM METHOD - Thank heavens for bands like MUNGO JERRY - bringing good vibrations to the heavy dominated pop scene. The cover of 'ELECTRONICALLY TESTED' shows the crowd on its feet swaying to the MUNGO boogie at the Hollywood Festival (really the Rotterdam Festival - Alan), and that's where MUNGO JERRY are at. They're not out to educate, that's not their job. Their music is pure entertainment. It doesn't test the mind, but keeps the legs in trim. Their music goes back to the music hall days, a fine British institution if ever there was one, where anyone can join in. 'ELECTRONICALLY TESTED' features both their first hit, the multi-million seller 'IN THE SUMMERTIME' and their latest number one hit 'BABY JUMP', which features some of the best guitar RAY DORSET has recorded. But any of the nine tracks on this album could be a single, except for their interpretation of WILLIE DIXON's 'I JUST WANNA MAKE LOVE TO YOU'. On this they display an uncanny knack of catching the blues without the usual white rock trimmings. Apart from the latter, all the songs are RAY DORSET originals, and only the insipid 'FOLLOW ME DOWN' lets the side down. Melody Maker, March 27th, 1971. GOOD SOLID STUFF FROM MUNGO - MUNGO JERRY having successfully shrugged off the "one-hit wonder" tag, now go on to prove that they can produce a comparably commercial album. 'ELECTRONICALLY TESTED' Dawn DNLS3020, £2.40 - yes, that's the title! Shows some excellent examples of RAY DORSET's remarkably witty writing. His tunes are, granted, rather repetitive - but they're honest, down-to-earth songs, given lively, singalong treatment. Also included is a lengthy, laboured version of 'I JUST WANNA MAKE LOVE TO YOU,' the number made famous by THE ROLLING STONES, getting a LED ZEPPELIN feel. Basically, of course, it's the expected good-time music with bags of jump - although 'YOU BETTER LEAVE THAT WHISKY ALONE' is an amusing little message about someone's mum being on the ale, and 'MEMOIRS OF A STOCKBROKER' is similarly interesting. The overall impression is that at last one can actually hear RAY DORSET's lyrics through his sandpaper voice, though you'll still have to study the words of 'BABY JUMP' to find out what it's all about! Well done MUNGO! A good solid unpretentious bundle of entertainment. Quality - FIRST CLASS! Value - GOOD! Disc, 1971.

MUNGO'S DORSET DISCUSSES NEW LP - An attic in Soho, a few beef sandwiches and a bottle of wine might not sound like the ideal combination for reviewing an album by Britain's recent No.1 group, but when RAY DORSET is there with you to talk about the LP, the circumstances are quite acceptable. For Ray is one of pop music's better talkers and he displays a disarming honesty which makes conversations more than just interesting. He put the album - 'ELECTRONICALLY TESTED' (Dawn DNLS 3020, £2.40) - on the turntable in the sounds room above the famed Whisky A Go-Go poured two glasses of rose plonk and discussed the tracks; The album begins with 'SHE ROWED'. It first struck me that it sounded like T.REX . There's plenty of boogie piano and a squeaky guitar solo. A good bit of rock'n roll actually and you find your feet stamping. Later on there's a nice kazoo and guitar duet RAY: "We did a gig at Borough College before we were MUNGO JERRY and we got completely out of our heads and I grabbed hold of Paul's guitar outside and started playing this song. "I went home and put it down on my tape recorder and at the same time I was stamping and playing the bongos". 'I JUST WANNA MAKE LOVE TO YOU' begins in much the style of WILLIE DIXON but with the addition of a heavy bass guitar. It's not really fair to keep making comparisons but the harmonica playing remined me of the early STONES. As the track progresses it veers away from the DIXON version and becomes very much a MUNGO JERRY original. It's just under nine minutes long, most of which is good stomping music. Very intoxicating. RAY: "It was done at one of our late sessions. We did it without any over dub and did it at the first take". Next is 'IN THE SUMMERTIME' which we didn't bother to play for obvious reasons, so we went on to 'SOMEBODY STOLE MY WIFE'. This is a pub song. Grab a bottle and blow into it, spill your beer on the floor, gather round the piano and sing and you've got the idea of the song. It's a complete 'Knee's Up Mother Brown' thing. RAY: "It was written in a working man's club. We used to do odd gigs in British Legions and working mens clubs and we ran out of numbers as usual so we made this one up on stage". Side two opens with 'BABY JUMP' which we also didn't play. The second track here is 'FOLLOW ME DOWN'. It's about getting out of the polluted city with a chick and having a good time in the country and who's gonna argue with that? While this track was playing, a member of the staff came in told Ray, "You did fifty thousand in Germany in three weeks." To which Ray quite innocently replied: "Yeah! Is that good?" RAY: "We did a gig in Sheffield and I went in to get some plectrums and the shop had a lot of little gear and I bought a baby accordion. "I was sitting in the hotel trying to figure out how to play a twelve bar on it and I kept getting it wrong and somehow I wrote this melody. In America, I played it again and BARRY (MURRAY, the group's record producer) said we should record it but I didn't have a real lyric and when we came to record it I just wrote the lyrics there and then". 'MEMOIRS OF A STOCKBROKER: Reminiscenses of someone's youth. It shows that that good lyrics Ray can write - there are things about pulling little girl's hair at school, suffering a bad job, buying an outraged father a pint to calm him down because you got his daughter home late, in fact most of the things that happen to most blokes. The music jogs along with the lyrics and comes to a full stop as the singer reaches his old age. What is particularly effective is the way in which the melody remains the same but changes in tone as the tale progresses, growing old with the singer in a way. RAY: "I wrote that in the studio. I don't know why I gave it that title, it could be about anybody." 'YOU BETTER LEAVE THAT WHISKY ALONE. A de-da-da-de-da-da song with a rolling highly-strung piano, kazoo and all manner of fun sounds. An irresistable melody that ought to set a butcher's boy whistling from Land's End to John O'Groats. RAY: "That was written on stage. We used to do that on stage a lot. A lot of these numbers we used to do on stage and we'd thought we do them in the studio for old times sake and they worked out well." 'COMING BACK TO YOU WHEN THE TIME COMES'. In view of the fact that I'd just had a row with my lady when I heard this, it meant a lot - however these dreadful personal hang-ups apart, the song is rather untypical of MUNGO JERRY. It's slow and somewhat sombre but still with a beat. There are vocal harmonies, a bleeding guitar solo and sympathetic backing from various other instruments. RAY: "You travel round a lot and meet a lot of people and think you'll never meet them again and you come into the office and there are lots of letters from them. "It's a nostalgic thing in a way." When I asked Ray if he had any favourite tracks, he told me; "I like 'MEMOIRS OF A STOCKBROKER' because it's slightly different, but I enjoyed doing them all." The he had another beef sandwich, finished off his glass of wine and left for another appointment. Richard Green, NME, March 20th, 1971.

17th - 31st March	MUNGO JERRY	Germany/Holland/Yugoslavia
2nd April	MUNGO JERRY	Borough Polytechnic, London
3rd April	MUNGO JERRY	Imperial, Nelson
6th April	MUNGO JERRY	Marquee, London
8th April	MUNGO JERRY	Music Hall, Aberdeen
9th April	MUNGO JERRY	Memorial Hall, Kilbernie
10th April	MUNGO JERRY	Kilmardinny Riding Stable, Bearsden
11th April	MUNGO JERRY	Electric Garden, Glasgow
12th April	MUNGO JERRY	Caird Hall, Dundee
16th April	MUNGO JERRY	Rebecca's, Birmingham
24th April	MUNGO JERRY	Assembly Hall, Melksham
28th - 30th April	MUNGO JERRY	Israel

MUNGO PLAYING AT SUEZ WAR ZONE! - "The MUNGO JERRY group is to entertain Israeli troups stationed along the front line on the Suez Canal at the end of this month. The outfit flies to Israel to take part in that country's Independence Eve celebrations on April 28, and the following day undertakes two more concerts there. Then on April 30, an Army helicopter flies the boys from Tel Aviv to the Suez Canal! "Prior to this, MUNGO is to headline and Easter festival of pop and folk music on Saturday, April 10, to be staged at Kilmardinny Riding Stable, Bearsden, near Glasgow. Other acts in the event include BEGGAR's OPERA, WARHORSE, MERLIN, MOLL's MYRE and the JSD BAND. "More artists will be booked next week". NME, April 3rd, 1971.

5th May	MUNGO JERRY	ABC Cinema, Cambridge
6th May	MUNGO JERRY	ABC Cinema, Plymouth
7th May	MUNGO JERRY	ABC Cinema, Exeter
8th May	MUNGO JERRY	Melody Rooms, Norwich
12th May	MUNGO JERRY	Country Club, Hampstead, London
13th May	MUNGO JERRY	Temple, London
14th May	MUNGO JERRY	Top Rank, Hanley
15th May	MUNGO JERRY	Glen Ballroom, Llanelli
16th May	MUNGO JERRY	King's Club, Bligh's Hotel, Sevenoaks
19th May - 25th May	MUNGO JERRY	Sweden

MAXI MUNGO JUMP BACK WITH A HIT - "Having proved beyond any shadows of doubt they were no one-hit wonders by returning a full 12-months after 'SUMMERTIME' to 'BABY JUMP' back to the top, MUNGO JERRY are now in top gear and rolling fast! Which is slick jargon for saying they haven't left it quite so long this time between singles. Single is surely the wrong word, though, for here they give over 17 minutes of jumpy sound for your 50p (compare that with under two minutes from ELVIS.P and tell me which is the better value!) The main song is a jolly folksy thing with harmonica and piano - really quite a straight number but nevertheless very catchy. 'LITTLE LOUIS' is the other original, by PAUL KING, and features one STUART COWELL in place of RAY DORSET. The other two are Jerry revamps - of 'HAVE A WHIFF ON ME' (or 'HAVE A DRINK ON ME' as LONNIE DONEGAN had it) and the old ELVIS favourite 'MILK COW BLUES'. This may not be as large a hit but is as deserving. Music Press, 1971 TIPPED FOR THE CHARTS - After its sensational success with the jug music style of 'IN THE SUMMERTIME,' MUNGO went to the other extreme with its follow-up 'BABY JUMP.' So what happens next? Well, this latest track is something of a compromise bewteen the last two. And if anything, it reverts more to the skiffle-like style of 'SUMMERTIME' than the out-and-out rock of its successor. Strumming acoustic guitars provide an irresistable bounce beat, and there are electric 12-string guitar and bongos for good measure. The other titles are 'HAVE A WHIFF ON ME,' 'MILK COW BLUES' and 'LITTLE LOUIS.' Total running time is 16 1/2 minutes. NME, 1971.

16th July	MUNGO JERRY	City Hall, Newcastle
also 16th July	MUNGO JERRY	Top Hat, Spennymoor
17th July	MUNGO JERRY	Viking, Seahouses
18th July	MUNGO JERRY	Pavillion, Westcliff
24th July	MUNGO JERRY	Public Hall, Wimbledon
26th July	MUNGO JERRY	Chelsea Village, Bournemouth
27th July	MUNGO JERRY	Town Hall, Truro
28th - 30th July	MUNGO JERRY	Barbarellas, Birmingham
31st July	MUNGO JERRY	Community Centre, Slough
28th August	MUNGO JERRY	Weeley Festival

MUNGO JERRY - 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN THE ARMY TO FIGHT IN THE WAR' - "From out of the blue come this new MUNGO maxi-single. I say out of the blue because I had no advance knowledge of its release - it just turned up on my desk! The odd title is really a dig at present-day society and its attitude to the long-hairs, the drop-outs and the downtrodden. But it's treated in very carefree roundelay style, with RAY DORSET joined by the other lads in the rousing chorus. All the usual Jerry skiffle trappings are in evidence, including kazoo, washboard, 6-string and 12-string guitar, banjo and accordion. And between them, they churn out an extremely happy sound and an irresistable stomp beat. Maybe not quite so catchy as one or two of MUNGO's earlier discs, but with four tracks totalling just 14 1/2 minutes on this disc, it's bound to prove yet another massive seller for the boys. Music Press, 1971. UNKNOWN CELEBRITY REVIEWER - "That's MUNGO JERRY. They are very heavily influenced by Memphis jug bands. I like it. I heard 'IN THE SUMMERTIME' and thought it was a knockout. Did they do 'I HEAR YOU KNOCKING?' No they didn't. I have always liked good time music. It's the happy end of the blues. Music Press, 1971.

12th September	MUNGO JERRY	Longleat Home Festival
8th October	MUNGO JERRY	Royal Holloway College, Egham
15th - 17th October	MUNGO JERRY	Spain
19th October	MUNGO JERRY	Pavillion, Bournemouth

MUNGO JERRY - 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN THE ARMY (Dawn)- The time is fast approaching one suspects, when the good-time heroes of Newcastle Under-Lyme will have to decide how rigidly they wish to conform to jug band style. For the sound which had people on their feet and dancing to 'IN THE SUMMERTIME' is beginning to wear thin on record. The material on this album is all great foot-tapping stuff but at least on the heavier rock'n roll of 'NORTHCOTE ARMS' and 'GIVE ME LOVE' (both RAY DORSET songs) the absence of strong bass lines and the scanty attention given to RAY DORSET's singing detracts from the quality and impact. Instrumentally, MUNGO are halfway to stronger music, with DORSET playing some attractive vintage electric guitar. He's also written the majority of the songs, and quite effectively too. In expressing himself simply he has said quite a bit more than those songwriters who tackle abstract concepts inadequately. The title track - 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN THE ARMY TO FIGHT IN THE WAR' - informs you that anything from being ejected from your girl's house for having long hair to being kicked by Her Majesty's Constabulary is part of your own little backdoor war. PAUL KING has written a good song in 'HEY ROSALYN,' and GUTHRIE's 'THAT OLD DUST STORM' is included. NME, 16th October, 1971 MISJUDGED - MUNGO JERRY - 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN THE ARMY' (DAWN DLNS3028) - An extremely satisfying album from MUNGO JERRY which makes an excellent follow-up to 'ELECTRONICALLY TESTED.' The band have really been misjudged in the past as their latest album has far more to recommend it than simply the spirit in which it was recorded. It opens with the now familiar title track and then rips into the old LEADBELLY classic 'ELLA SPEED.' In another old number, 'TAKE ME BACK' they achieve a superb Cajun feel whilst the "tradies" are complemented by some fine RAY DORSET compositions and PAUL KING's excellent 'HEY ROSALYN'. MUNGO run the whole gamut from blues through to rock'n roll, 'NORTHCOTE ARMS' being a superb example of the latter. They also include several other tracks which will be familiar to blues enthusiasts such as LEADBELLY's 'KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF HER' and 'THERE'S A MAN GOING ROUND TAKING NAMES' as well as WOODY GUTHRIE's 'THAT OLD DUST STORM'. It's a really good stomping album! Music Press, 1971.

25th November	MUNGO JERRY	Top Rank, Kinetic Circus, Birmingham
26th November	MUNGO JERRY	Lancaster University
27th November	MUNGO JERRY	Technical College, Cambridge
28th November	MUNGO JERRY	Victoria Hall, Hanley
29th November	MUNGO JERRY	Guildhall, Portsmouth
30th - 14th December	MUNGO JERRY	France