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When did Mungo Jerry start making music?
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Mungo Jerry's first song “Motherfucker Boogie” released in 1969.
Mungo Jerry are a British rock group who experienced their greatest success in the early 1970s, with a changing line-up that has always been fronted by Ray Dorset. The group’s name was inspired by the poem “Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer,” from T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. The group’s biggest hit was “In the Summertime”. It... Read More
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