ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry

[@ChesuMori]

Oh man, I love this song. Doesn't the vocalist look like a deflated Andre the Giant?

[@EgwOTheos013]

ChesuMori that!! I was trying to think who he was reminding me of.. Thanks!

[@Bendanna93]

ChesuMori Shit, I'll never look at him the same now...

[@Moonbeam143]

Andre's Mini Me.

[@DocDevious23]

Literally was just thinking that

[@mechasentai]

ChesuMori lmao yes.

[@angryspork610]

Those aren't mere chops. That's the entire mutton, on each side.

[@AllonKirtchik]

Something something flock of sheep Something something the other cheek

[@rse1113]

This song’s got nuttin’ on this mutton.

[@lonepigeon68]

Don't be sheepish, tell us how you really feel.

[@angryspork610]

@@lonepigeon68 What are ewe implying, exactly?

[@lonepigeon68]

@@angryspork610 nothing bAAAAHHHd.

[@scifikoala]

"They dont have jobs...They just drink, they screw, they go fishing" is a Hemingway novel right?

[@dustinbuckley8577]

Bri Koala Actually, yeah, "The Sun Also Rises" does have all three. Clearly the singer was a well-read person ;P

[@gregorsamsa9264]

You ignore the violence, the politics, and the fact that being a fisherman isn't a sport. It's a profession.

[@gregorsamsa9264]

But otherwise... yeah.

[@sorvian25]

Jake in the Sun Also Rises was a foreign correspondent

[@riahlexington]

Bri Koala omg yes!

[@ZannyAisling]

...i'm stuck with the impression that him saying "if her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal" isn't so much "bc you need to impress her" but more "try and get her to pay"

[@Soitisisit]

Huh.

[@ruthmeow4262]

I always took it as he is trying to keep in good with her dad.

[@NoQuarter1995]

I thought because of a capitalist system a poor person has less power so you can do what you want. If you anger the rich girl she has more power so you need to watch what you do. Critique on capitalism for me.

[@Dunkleosteusenjoyer]

@@NoQuarter1995 Bruh it's Mungo Jerry. Your friend from school who was at every party but never brought any weed or alcohol. Keep the commie shit away.

[@patrickracer43]

This song is the opposite of Chris Brown's Loyal

[@richardpreston7333]

*looks at the upload date while he rags on Cats* Oh Todd... you didn't know how good you had it.

[@Kylora2112]

I searched the comments after the theatrical release for this.

[@BrickBuster2552]

Like either keep the costumes and makeup or make it a 2D animation of actual cats.

[@Ayden_B]

I mean.... Cats is good, it’s a fun little musical, but goddamn that movie missed the fucking mark. Watch the 1998 version not...whatever the 2019 version was

[@smoothe14]

Ayden B. No. Stop. Nobody wants this.

[@Ayden_B]

Tha Plug They hated Jesus because he told the Truth

[@sam21462]

Dude I am an old guy and I am hear to tell you that drinking was ENCOURAGED when driving in the 70's. That way it didn't hurt nearly as much when your car exploded.

[@coratheneutralmilkhotelfan2131]

Thanks old guy

[@alistairmackintosh9412]

"It's a good thing he's got his car, he's way too drunk to walk."

[@vangoghsseveredear]

@@alistairmackintosh9412 BRUH 😂😂😂

[@onusgumboot5565]

I am also an old guy. And I agree. I remember getting pulled over once, and when I got out of the truck, an empty beer can fell out. The cop didn't say a thing. Then when I went to get back in, a FULL beer fell out, spilling all over the street. The cop rolled his eyes and went on his way.

[@glitchxero4687]

No, the cars back then didn't blow up when you got in an accident in them. They just popped out the dents in the fender, wiped your brains off the steering wheel, and drove it to the used car lot. "Crumple Zones" were not a thing.

[@jetfire851]

Flight of the Conchords should make a Mungo Jerry biopic with Jemaine as the lead guy and Bret as all of the rotating guitarists.

[@emmacouperus]

I wish I could like this more than once xD

[@nakenmil]

That's brilliant! XD

[@JennaLeigh]

Doug Glassman I had no idea how badly I needed this.

[@NJGuy1973]

Second best idea, next only to Funny or Die's "Weird:The Al Yankovich Story."

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the resemblance.

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

My dad literally remembers the hard snap between the pop music of the 60's and the 70's. He says there was a particular two week period in 1970, when he was at school, where it seemed like an avalanche of crap music descended.

[@rockingbirdey]

That's probably why a whole lotta 70s teens listened to a lot of hard rock/arena rock to escape the shiny sugary pop music being played on AM radio.

[@StellaWaldvogel]

@@rockingbirdey Yep. A lot of radios got yanked out of the dash and smashed on the pavement.

[@drpibisback7680]

​@@rockingbirdey 1970's the year of the first Black Sabbath album, that can't be a coincidence.

[@paulhilton6426]

Happened again in 1999-2000.

[@ryanjacobson2508]

​@@rockingbirdeySoft rock, R&B, and disco dominated the charts in the later 70's. It's become sort of an urban legend that hard rock was "the norm" at the time.

[@harleymitchelly5542]

I think I know why this song is so unable to annoy people. Mungo Jerry just sound like they're having so much fun and they mean absolutely no harm to anybody. Mungo Jerry pretty much sound like, yes, those hobos living out of a wrecked train car playing instruments they made for themselves, but they also sound like guys who, if they ever did get money, they'd go to the nearest bar and buy a round of beer for everyone and keep on living and loving the simple things they got. Kinda noble in that sorta way. They're just a bunch of well meaning drunks who happen to be able to play instruments and cannot be mad at anyone, kinda like those incredibly charismatic tramps in movies you see from time to time.

[@riabouchinska]

Like Mack and the boys from Cannery Row... they're just so damn lovable

[@harleymitchelly5542]

I can just picture an old timey cartoon with a bunch of hobos hanging around a can fire in the trainyards having fun with homemade instruments, and this is the tune that they're playing.

[@RatelHBadger]

Harley Mitchelly or a bunch of hillbillies in dungarees and straw hats sitting on the porch by a river playing washboards and spoons

[@TSFboi]

They're the revelers from Skyrim. They're dudes that just wander the map drunk and give the player a bottle of mead inviting you to drink with them.

[@silvertamagachi]

I have to admit, I'm probably the one person who's resistant to the charms; something about this poor man's voice makes my skin crawl. That being said, you totally have a point, because as much as I have a visceral "oh god no" reaction to the *music*, I thoroughly enjoy watching these doofuses slap their instruments around.

[@Crazelord91]

For the next April Fools day, Todd should do a completely straight faced OHW on a band like Zeppelin or The Beatles and pick one of their least popular songs as the One Hit Wonder

[@gabe_s_videos]

Ive been saying that for years!

[@knightwing5169]

Technically, Led Zeppelin had only one top 10 hit in America.

[@Bramhallthefifth]

april fools is over but he ought to have done never gonna give you up like he says he never will (as astley had several hits). on second thought, that'd be too obvious

[@miltonwhatever]

Yeah, that would be cool. Someone like Frank Zappa comes to mind

[@archer1949]

Milton Pereira Warren Zevon!

[@WA_Stokins]

That main singer looks like the fusion of Bob Ross and early career Andre the Giant

[@TimmyTickle]

He looks more like Cedric Bixler-Zavala

[@Dovah21]

I always got Laurence Fishburne vibes, personally.

[@ibetterbeinstreetsofrage4s328]

And his chops look glued on

[@ecliptik8020]

he looked like Justice Smith in "the get down" to me the most

[@isetmfriendsofire]

I see Andre, I don't see Ross even a little bit.

[@uhhhmaeve]

"I didn't expect this band to be making literary references." Well, the name of the band is a reference to T.S. Eliot. It's not too far of a stretch.

[@iwasanangryyoungman]

Mungo Jerry - Mungojerrie from Cats

[@mianhae1239]

@@iwasanangryyoungman the band came out before cats. Therefore, its a reference to the original poem by TS Eliot

[@jonisilk]

In the UK, they actually used this song in an anti-drink driving campaign around the early 90's (which was my introduction to the song). Summer sun iis shining, people are drinking, happy, the song is playing, it could be a commercial for alcohol. A car drives away, the music slows, then, they pull away from a car smashed into a tree. Very effective

[@jameschadwick8813]

The classic English psa where a kid gets electrocuted by a power plant

[@ActuallyAnanya]

Whenever I watch those lists of "Top 10 Scary PSAs" from Americans I always laugh. Even the relatively tame British ones, ie. from the 2000s on, put those to shame.

[@TheBespectacledN00b]

alexandra galici Apaches is a classic British PIF.

[@Bendanna93]

jonisilk Funny, I remember making a joke at work before about how this song could work for that specific purpose. Didn't think it would've ever happened anywhere though.

[@Spudcore]

Ah, the old bait and switch! Makes the sheer bloody horror all the more traumatising. Effective is right.

[@bluespoondillon]

"No white man has the right to have that haircut" what about Bob Ross

[@pikgears]

Ross' haircut was more fluffy looking, and the beard balanced things out, among other things

[@bcubed72]

@@pikgears Queen's guard called...they want their bearskin hat back.

[@mainstreetsaint36]

Man, no. But Bob Ross is no man but rather God!

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

He's Jewish not white.

[@TahtahmesDiary]

Its interesting when Jewish people are conveniently white and when they aren't. I'm still not sure I know the rules tbh.

[@MythicSuns]

Pretty sure the singer is one of the missing links in the evolution of Bob Ross

[@spewn2123]

His hair looks like a fuckin Bike helmet. No white man should have that haircut? NO ONE SHOULD HAVE IT.

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Mr Random Bob Ross rocked that whifro...

[@Amesang]

I'm honestly getting a huge Andre the Giant vibe from him; he was known for his big hair back in the day.

[@danielallen3454]

I'm associating him with the Frederic March Mr Hyde from 1931. Just with . . . that hair.

[@andrewtaylor940]

Dear Gods! He looks like a Super Villain cooked up by Jack Kirby!

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

"I remember this song having a lot more weird noises in it." You sure you're not confusing it with Neil Cicierega's "Annoyed Grunt?"

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

How do you explain Tim Allen?

[@TheMadwomen]

@@technounionrepresentative4274 P H I L C O L L I N S I S N E X T

[@tweer64]

@@TheMadwomen Oh a-a-a-a

[@fern.petrichor]

@@tweer64 all we wanna do is BARK BARK BARK

[@brayanpuma6900]

@@fern.petrichorYeah baby

[@jamesphillips92jp]

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." - Pablo Picasso.

[@charliedawson6318]

This song is so Seventies it makes me want to smoke in a Hospital waiting room.

[@bbqplatypus318]

What blows my mind about this one is that Todd will probably never cover another song that was as big a hit as "In the Summertime." This song that took 10 minutes to write sold 30 million goddamn records. Michael Jackson never recorded a single that sold that much. Neither did the Beatles. Bill Gates doesn't even make that much in 10 minutes. "In the Summertime" was seriously inescapable in 1970, in Europe especially. My dad was a foreign exchange student in Italy when this got big, and he got so thoroughly, thoroughly sick of it that he can't stand to hear it to this day. It's a shame, really - it's a solid tune. Then again, I didn't hate "Shape of You" until I heard it a million times, either.

[@qwertyTRiG]

Malinda Kathleen Reese can make you like "Shape of You" again.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

The Wikipedia article for best-selling singles used to say "In The Summertime" sold 30 million. I remember that because that number seemed suspiciously high. Sure it sold a bunch, but the 3rd best selling single of ALL TIME? No way. Its since been changed to say 10 million and that seems more realistic.

[@munjee2]

Shape of you happens to be among the 4 songs that have sold more that it

[@RudyBlackman]

Me with the wizard of oz film

[@skellez]

@@munjee2 For anyone wondering including SPS for streaming units the list iirc is 1. White Christmas 2. Shape Of You 3. Despacito 4. Light by Xiao Zhan (Biggest hit in China ever) 5. Candle In The Wind 6. In The Summer Time

[@assiqtaq]

"Back then you probably could drink and drive and nobody would say anything." Yes, yes you could. I remember when they started actually speaking out against that, and I was born in 1969. It was a huge controversy.

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

I remember seeing TV interviews on KZbin from the 80s (I think) of people saying how “muh rights” are being infringed because the government is cracking on Drinking and driving.

[@SonofMrPeanut]

"They look like they don't read anything but beer labels." Perhaps my line of the review.

[@aliendaydreamer7931]

15:22 I about had a stroke with the sudden Skibadee. I hate gen z brainrot

[@XWhoeverX]

I totally thought this song was in the public domain.

[@ThePlumAbides]

"the bleakest, least summery summer in music history" 2020: "are you SURE about that?"

[@RainbowblitzFTW]

Every year since 2016 this seems to have been the same problem over and over. I wonder if we'll finally have another happy summer for 2021

[@thrownstair]

Musically? We at least had Savage and Rain on Me (my pick would be Rain on Me because it’s more thematically appropriate).

[@rickpgriffin]

At least the music scene of 2020 had the decency to be weird and eclectic rather than uniformly bleak

[@IowanMatthew683]

Literally the Summer of Discontent.

[@Sydney-Casket-Base]

@@RainbowblitzFTW nah....

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

I always heard "If the night is rich, take her out for a meal, if the night is poor, just do what you feel." Kind of a "splurge if you've got the means, if not, hell just take a walk and watch the sunset." I also thought "Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find" was a series of OR not AND statements.

[@furlizard]

That would be nicer!

[@CatHasOpinions734]

If anyone has actually read Lolita and actually fantasizes about being Humbert... I don't know if that's more confusing or depressing. "Gee, it's super exciting to imagine falling in love with someone who will inevitably move on and want nothing more to do with me, but I guess the fact that she's literally the young child of my wife is a tiny bit ethically monstrous."

[@xxXXXxxx852]

you take it too /lit/erally.

[@medes5597]

I mean a lot of people miss the monstrous elements in Lolita because Humbert uses his education to attempt seduce the reader like he *thinks* he seduced Lolita. There's a reason women have a much stronger reaction to Lolita because men often empathise unconsciously with Humbert, whereas women empathise with Lolita far more strongly. It's not the fault of men, they're taken in by Humbert which was Nabokov's intention. Most men are horrified when they re read it and realise what a monster he was and how he hid it with the beauty of his language. It's a really interesting book because of that.

[@caitlinroseblaney226]

“Gentlewomen of the jury...” ugh, I adore that novel. Problematic subject matter; purely batshit amazing style. It’s just impeccable writing... as good as Gatsby, and longer / more poetic. One of the greatest novels I’ve ever read, imo.

[@JamieLeece]

It's possible that Mungo Jerry was more familiar with the Kubrick film than the novel. It's a bit less sleazy than the novel due to 60's censorship. Like he said in the video, you wouldn't really expect them to put a lot of literary references in their songs.

[@medes5597]

@Bob Bobbertson if you read Lolita because you want pre-pubescent titillation then you're going to be very, very disappointed. The books most famous sex scene is a 50 year old man forcing himself on a crying 14year old who is mourning her deceased mother and has literally no one else in the world and just let's it happen. It is dark, monstrous, uncomfortable, uncompromising and horrifying. "I've not read it, I'm not a pedo" is a ridiculous thing to say about Lolita because it depicts peadophilia as the most horrible and evil thing a person could do to another human being. Lolita ends up a broken, empty vessel with nothing in the world who is eventually disgarded by the men chasing her for being "too old" at just 19. Humbert Humbert, the narrator, writes the book as a message to the jury and he believes that his education and wealth will save him. He writes in a beautiful complex prose, and at any opportunity will try and manipulate you into agreeing with him or hide his misdeeds by claiming that "She seduced me". He's an unreliable narrator, but as time goes on you realise that his mask is slipping and that he's not the elite, rich, educated individual he's trying to present but a remorseless monster who groomed and raped a child and doesn't give a fuck about her beyond that. The reason "Lolita" as a name becomes so important is because he knows fuck all about her outside of that and often just repeats her name and when she does behave like herself, like a person, he finds her annoying and becomes angry at her for being a real person and not just a living fantasy doll for his desires. Seriously dismissing Lolita as a "peado book" as you're doing is ridiculous. A book about a man seducing a child would not be considered one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. A book about a manipulative, unreliable monster trying to convince the reader he's not that and that "she wanted it as much as me" might though. I'll put it another, far more succinct way - the way Humbert and other peadphiles groom children? That's what Humbert as the narrator is doing to the reader of the book. For the duration of the book you are experiencing the same manipulation and madness that Lolita did. You are the person he's grooming.

[@AbyssalDefect]

Its bluegrass funk Edit: Its not for people who don't have problems, its escapism.

[@Azmodeus87]

Exactly. If how you wish life where, or what part of your life you wanna focus on in the downtime.

[@ProfesserLuigi]

That ain't any bluegrass I've ever heard.

[@xSwordLilyx]

Luga Wonshu Escapism indeed.

[@SamAronow]

Escapism is for people who have problems. For people who don't have problems, there are middlebrow tearjerker melodramas.

[@hymedudesilva5376]

Kinda like the internet now!escapist narcissism

[@maztergamer1016]

Did you know that this is the third best selling song ever. Also one and two are White Christmas and Candle in the wind. So this is the best selling song that didn't get boosted by stuff like Christmas and Princess Diana's death.

[@curly_wyn]

No fucking way…there’s no fucking way.

[@cardioandfriends]

​@@curly_wyn yeah he's bullshitting. Number 3 is Silent Night. It's not in any best selling singles chart anywhere

[@TheProfessor529]

This feels like a song that would come through the radio in Fozzie Bear's Studebaker. This just SCREAMS 'backwoods road trip'.

[@TheInfiniteAmo]

Todd, do a OHW on Redbone's excellent "Come and Get Your Love"! They're a super unique band that everyone's heard at least once but never really heard about, and they deserve a lot more coverage.

[@connorjones9250]

AkridHunter they had a hit with witch queen of new Orleans in 1971 before come and get your love

[@ellenokuda7882]

That's a good suggestion! I only recently found out that the entire band was Native American after seeing a video of them. Super unique, especially for the time period.

[@christopherramos2009]

Oddly enough I just saw this guy live in Germany at a small dive bar. I gotta say that this dude was pretty much rocking out, was a great show.

[@ryanlind5239]

"we are in the bleakest summer in history." (looks at upload date.) ha. hahaha. hahahaha.

[@wyattcorbin1629]

The singer looks like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar crossed with Andre the giant.

[@KristofskiKabuki]

My main association with this song is the harrowing anti drink driving advert that used it in the UK

[@humandoodad]

The whole Mungo Jerry aesthetic influenced my parents FOR YEARS. Our home decorating was a wild mix of 70s/80s/Jug Band. Like there was a picture of two Very 70s People bathing in a barrel in my childhood bathroom.

[@connorharlan1187]

Funniest thing I have ever heard Todd say: “This is like the first song”

[@CaitCher]

Since its 2019, I can finally quote this: "The 2010s were also a mistake."

[@TahtahmesDiary]

Somebody had to say it out loud, lord knows the rest of us were thinking it 🤷🏾

[@david2869]

And 2020 ain't no great shakes either!

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

Speaking here in the middle of the coronavirus crisis in june 2020 I actually wish I could go back to fucking 2013 and dance some stupid Skillex dubstep thing freely instead of being stuck in my home on friday and seeing so many deaths reported on TV.

[@maztergamer1016]

@@EclecticoIconoclasta the music is good but that doesn't matter when the world is this bad.

[@AbuctingTacos]

This aged well

[@537monster]

Say what you want about it, but it's absolute simplicity makes it timeless. I guarantee people will be listening to this probably after even millennials have died off.

[@timmaximilian9286]

537monster it sold over 25 million records alone, believe me people will remember it

[@Soitisisit]

Not sure, depends on how things go. I don't know if these activities will persist much longer for people to have the context.

[@moviemaestro800]

Goodness knows, when I add it to my barroom setlist, something tells me it will be a memory awakening to every listener.

[@paulhilton6426]

You know it's a boomer generation song, right?

[@kbot4858]

Thank you for this. I got the joke from Endgame about Tony Stark's beard, and laughed really hard. "Full Mungo Jerry."

[@davidmonypeny5734]

I thank you for picking this song, Todd, I unironically love it. You should do Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" another really cool vibe song that still is around, especially in commercials.

[@DestinyKiller]

I live Spirit in the Sky!

[@IowanMatthew683]

14:41 "England, is this how you did Disco?" 14:51 "It's like we got the Star Wars of Disco and this is like old Dr. Who re-runs." Proceeds to play disco from the Bee Gees, an openly British band, to show American superiority in the genre.

[@neverclever0]

My favorite aspect of this song is the video. I love how none of them know what to do when looking at the camera. Between that and the EXTREMELY 70s fashion, it's almost endearing in a dorky way. The song itself sort of reflects this, what with the laid-back attitude undercut by casual mentions of dangerous and illegal things. It's almost trying too hard to be cool and easygoing. Good episode as usual, Todd. I always like it when you cover a song I've actually heard of haha.

[@baronvonkek8467]

Those sideburns are disturbing for some reason.

[@oliverpk4162]

Mutton chops

[@Automaticstudioss]

oliverpk Americans call them side burns on account of General Burnside of the American Civil War... who dawned some impressive sideburns. Burnside also invented a cavalry carbine in the 1850s.

[@baronvonkek8467]

@@Automaticstudioss Thanks, buddy.

[@Automaticstudioss]

Baron Von Kek Np

[@jasonblalock4429]

5:20 Oh, young Todd, so blissfully unaware of the hideous monstrosities to come...

[@VinnyMartello]

It's the ear-wormiest of ear worms. It's so painfully catchy that you can't not forget it. It's very lovable and endearing.

[@CityofButterfly]

I must admit, I was kind of hoping the outro music would be "Annoyed Grunt" by Neil Cicierega. Also, that statement about 2017 being the bleakest summer ever for music is just hilarious now.

[@cartmanrlsusall]

Mungo jerry and steelers wheel, cranked out 2 of the best hippie tunes of that era,and the videos are pure historical gold

[@_JayRamsey_]

Lmfao, "3 years ago: We're in the middle of the bleakest, least summery summer in history." 2020 would like to have a word with you, Todd.

[@elderyear]

Yeah, “It gets bleaker” might just be the legacy of the 2020s. Ffs, I hope I’m wrong.

[@ggggfan1]

This songs is eternally coupled in my head with "Du Hast" and "Oh-wa-ah-ah-ah"

[@JacobHillSBD]

What's that? Animatronic Bears? OH NO! Country Bear Hall Has Been Crushed!

[@dyldragon1]

I'm still waiting on a No Rain or Sex and Candy episode

[@skapitapita]

I had no idea Blind Melon was a one hit wonder...it makes so much sense now...

[@rileyk5228]

They weren't a one hit wonder. Their singer died

[@benliss1591]

Here are some suggestions from some unknown bands Beatles- hey Jude Led Zepellin- stairway to heaven Metallica- enter sandman The who- baba O' reily Rolling Stones- satisfaction I doubt you even know these songs too be honest

[@riahlexington]

Some Guy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheDreamingJune]

You can also add Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb The Kinks - You Really Got Me Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

[@ecliptik8020]

ikr underground artists deserve recognition too

[@knowyourroleboulevard7119]

Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit Pearl Jam- Jeremy Guns N' Roses- Sweet Child O'Mine Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun Jimi- Hendrix- All Along The Watchtower Michael Jackson: Smooth Criminal Phil Colins- In The Air Tonight

[@brendanmccabe8373]

Know Your Role Boulevard shame Hendrix stole the song from Bob Dylan who only had “like a rolling stone” as a success

[@happyMOO5]

I'm pretty disappointed to find out this song isn't from a bunch of Cajun black dudes in new Orleans but just some British guys.... This is a good song though and it will be stuck in my head all day

[@xSwordLilyx]

happyMOO5 It sounds like that because the British have always seemed to have a love for black music like blues, jazz, and rock, and it comes out in their sound. Even more than it would come out in a less pop-aspiring 50s or 60s act, which could be a lot. Think Eddie Cochran, The Everly Brothers, Benny Goodman, Wild Cherry. I guess that brit rock bands I haven't seen are black a lot, and I'm usually wrong. And the accents are suprisingly similar. At least between the UK and New Orleans. And at least for the 'lower-class' accents. There's something that brings their differentness together that I can't put my finger on.

[@SamAronow]

You can thank World War II for that.

[@TheMaximus997]

We can also thank it for curry, Asian migration afterwards birthed basically all curry cuisine in the UK and it's delicious.

[@TahtahmesDiary]

Well you saw the pictures of the original of these bands...they consisted of Black people. This music and style comes from somewhere, you werent wrong on that instinct.

[@galesito1733]

"We're no threat people We're not dirty, we're not mean We love everybody, but we do as we please When the weather's fine We go fishing or go swimming in the sea We're always happy Life's for living, yeah, that's our philosophy" Great song!

[@mustlyrash425]

i only know this song because of neil cicierega's "annoyed grunt"

[@sillysurgeon]

mustlyrash425 same

[@lilyofthevalley2048]

My father drank and drive in the late 70s/early 80s. He was arrested once, spent the night in jail, and was released the next morning with no charges and probably just a “Don’t do that again, son” from the sergeant.

[@JC42023]

"The 80s were a mistake" As someone who has spent years analyzing the sudden shakeup in culture during the Reagan/Thatcher years, I can honestly say that no truer words have ever been spoken

[@SpyHunter89]

As much as I adore lots of stuff that was made in the '80s... you've got a point.

[@soulfuzz368]

J 13 the 80s was the punishment for the 60s

[@Buzzcook]

That's why is called the Reagan Error.

[@Njbear7453]

Regan made this country what it is TODAY

[@JC42023]

@@Njbear7453 That might be true, but it's not necessarily a good thing

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Jimmy Page played skiffle too. He was just a little kid but there's footage of him playing skiffle.

[@cameronkoontz6393]

"there were quite a few 60s bands with that kind of skiffle/jugband sound" *doesn't mention 13th Floor Elevators, the band with a literal jug player in it*

[@Soitisisit]

Not just a jug player, but an *electric* jug player.

[@TSFboi]

As much as I love Because I Got High comparisons, there's nothing hedonistic about it. That man's life is being destroyed by pot. He loses his job, kids, wife, fails class and can't even sing his own song right because he's so high. It's a cautionary tale through and through. It should be played in schools.

[@Marcosatsu]

I woke up for this. Just kidding, I never sleep.

[@speedbreaker0234]

Marcosatsu I never thought I would you see you in the comments for a video like this lol

[@Amateur0Visionary]

What a shame. Sleep is the best. I'm just trying to smoke away the parts of the days that i can not sleep away. (With apologies to Isaac Brock.)

[@DannyBeans]

I love it that there was an English jug band named after a T.S. Eliot character at all. The fact that they had a MAJOR INTERNATIONAL HIT is just gravy. (Also: you didn't expect a literary reference from a band that - I reiterate - named itself after a T.S. Eliot poem?)

[@Nakia11798]

Every year, the music gets more and more depressing... maybe it's a sign of the times.

[@EpicB]

It's telling when the suicide hotline was one of the biggest hit songs of 2017.

[@wintermute8315]

This is just patently untrue.

[@somniloquist12]

"They sound like they don't read anything but beer labels. Also, does he know what Lolita was about?" - I think one of these sentences kind of answers the other.

[@yanstein8464]

there's a film and if im not mistaken it was already a thing when this song came out

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

"No white man has the right to have that haircut." If that's so, no one had the balls to say no to Bob Ross.

[@mariaquiet6211]

Cause Bob Ross was a drill instructor before his career as a painter.

[@jeffbrehove2614]

I think he means haircut AND mutton chops

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@@jeffbrehove2614 I mean, either way it's not a statement with which I share the sentiment.

[@leaffinite2001]

​@@SaltpeterTaffy its also a joke, so

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

​@@leaffinite2001 His jokes about whitey are tiresome. He wasn't always like this.

[@stefan1024]

It's a mystery Shaggy never covered this song. Seems to be right up his lazy alley.

[@davidjames579]

He did.

[@stefan1024]

@@davidjames579 You are right! :D

[@davidjames579]

@@stefan1024 Thanks, I remember buying it.

[@hexedsupernova]

I got so excited to see you reference Sugar Sugar by The Archies because that is legit my favorite song of all time, and I've been hoping you'd cover it on One Hit Wonderland since the show started. You know, I think this is the first time I've ever posted a comment on a KZbin video. You do good work Todd, rock on.

[@andressotil4671]

bar2d2s I want to see him do Sugar Sugar too. someone should get on patreon for that

[@searchingformyself5319]

The Archies do not count as a one-hit wonder group.

[@davidmonypeny5734]

First 45 I ever owned. IIRC, it was given to me by an aunt, it was this red plastic 45 that I was able to play on my Fisher Price record player. I drove my parents batty playing that thing incessantly. From what I remember, the disc mysteriously "disappeared". I have really fond memories of that song, thanks for bringing it up!

[@richacello339]

The Monkees were happy to cash in on a raft of bubble gum hits, but Sugar Sugar was even too much for them. But their musical supervisor, Don Kirschner, believed in the song, and created the non existent Archies to sing it. The rift over Sugar Sugar hastened the Monkees breakup with Kirschner and that was the end of the Monkees.

[@frnz1943]

@@richacello339 Michael Nesmith reportedly punched a hole through the wall because he hated that song so much and refused to sing it!

[@rubberwoody]

the modern equivalent would be that "is the tide gonna reach my chair" or "toes in the water ass in the sand" song

[@connorjones9250]

Thank you so much todd you don't know how long I waited for this one

[@LauraGrrrr5370]

There was a British anti-drinking and driving PIF that used this song. "Have a drink have a drive"- song cuts off and cut to car upside down in a ditch with very dead passengers still hanging in their seats.

[@marshymarshy2812]

Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground

[@nicobambino191]

Marshmellow Vibes I agree

[@SmellsLikeEMinor]

Marshmellow Vibes Third.

[@marshymarshy2812]

youraverageevilpoet didn't he close down requests for now?

[@marshymarshy2812]

youraverageevilpoet I mean, he probably would do a popular request so people can stop telling him to do it, he's done it before.

[@natpeterson5278]

surprised he hasn't done it yet

[@doclank3d6]

Please do Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling.

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

Doclank 3D They say there’s a curse on bands whose first hit is a cover. How about bands whose first hit is a fanfic sequel

[@2574mcu]

The lead singer looks like the mid point when a man turns into the wolfman.

[@sam21462]

Fun Fact: Ray Dorset wears a size 27 sneaker!

[@TheJorgieVerse]

Damn😳🤯

[@kaspers.2498]

"We're in the middle of the bleakest, least summery summer in music history"... Oh boy can't wait to see what 2020 has in store at this point

[@kaspers.2498]

@Void Spam Crap...

[@TheDavidtk240]

Cool old song....Yea, the 70's "have a drink have a drive", pretty common then. True story, we got pulled over by a pretty hammered cop in New Hope, Pa. 1971 or so. Quite common then.

[@onusgumboot5565]

in the 70's you could get pulled over, drunk, with empty beer cans filling the back seat from the floor to the top of the seat, a beer falls out when you open the door and spills on the street, and get told "just be careful, don't let me see you out again tonight". And yes that is the voice of experience talking

[@ZeetZoot]

Wait, the man, who for a good part of his life rocked the Afro muttonchops hybrid, has a hair salon? Who would trust this man with their hair?

[@Meskarune]

aaaaand now this song is stuck in my head.

[@TransistorBased]

that motorcycle bit is 100% them being excited to show off panning capabilities on their track-- as shown by all the awful hard splits people did when panning was first used

[@ROL4NDpkmnguide]

I remember fondly watching a video of yours where you talked about this song like in 2013. It might have been weird dream, but now it is reality

[@Xondar11223344]

"have a drink, have a drive" Oh dear. Please don't do this.

[@graysonelliott6115]

The one song I want you to cover on one hit wonderland is no rain by blind melon. And I will wait every day until that happens. Or I'll just wait until requests come back around

[@LingTinaTV]

They play this song every year on the radio here in Alabama. They use it in commercials and everything. It's still fairly popular here on the oldies and easy listening stations.

[@grfrjiglstan]

The afro guy looks like Sacha Baron Cohen

[@leinad0504]

If Sacha Baron Cohen and Bob Ross had a kid

[@thePageShowNTell]

Fun fact this is one of the best-selling singles of all-time, selling more than 30 million copies

[@ROL4NDpkmnguide]

I love this song because i love having a good time

[@wipplerlaboratories3480]

yo , in retrospect you can goof on this. but I was there and this tune was massive. we drove from vienna to spain in the summer of 1970 and this was all over and yes, it was groovy, baby.

[@megano2000]

Every time hear this, I automatically think of Neil Cicierega's 'Annoyed Grunt.'

[@theeggmancometh]

I think perhaps that was what Todd was thinking of when he mentioned remembering it being filled with burp noises.

[@leftysheppey]

This is a song that wants you to feel good. There's no bad vibes. It's excellent in that regard. It embodies the feeling of relaxing on a summer's day with some bevs on the grass. If there were a song I had to listen to for the rest of my life, it could well be this one.

[@someguy7424]

This song makes me want to chase down the ice cream truck.

[@Robert-iu2ou]

15:19 skibadee jumpscare

[@Musicradio77Network]

This is still a great song for the summertime, along with many of the summer song like any of the Beach Boys songs like "Surfin' USA", "Surfin' Safari", "California Girls", "All Summer Long", "Fun Fun Fun" and more, as well as "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Sly & the Family Stone", "Summer" by War, "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" by Brian Hyland, and many more summer songs. This one takes the cake, and I remember this song was from a compilation LP "KILT's 30 Double Gold" from the early 1970's. This album was put out by Post Records (not the cereal company) who put those compilation albums in the late 1960's and early 1970's where it was presented by many Top 40 radio stations like WOR-FM, WRKO, KHJ, KFRC and CKLW are all Top 40 stations made by Bill Drake where they put out a series of compilation albums of oldies and rock & roll. WABC played this back in 1970 when it was a Top 40 station in NYC, and so does WOR-FM, its chief competitor. And speaking of "In the Summertime", this song was used in the Publix commercial back in the 1990's which is in Florida. I remember visiting in Florida when I remember this song in a Publix commercial, and later used in many commercials as well.

[@otaking3582]

Personally I prefer listening to such songs as "Say Yes!", "Snowstorm", "Walking in a Winter Wonderland", "Sleigh Bells", and "Let it Go!" during the summer. Can you tell that I'm not a fan of warm weather?

[@rachelmarieLMT]

I love this song, its on all of my summer music mixes. I cant gelp but smile when i hear the beginning of it, just like bobby mcferrin "don't worry be happy"

[@MastaSquidGT5]

The cut at 12:33 is on the same cinematic plane as 2001: a Space Odyssey

[@MRoyClark]

As far as looking for a context for Mungo Jerry, one of the main places I find them referenced in Rock scholarship is in the role of a proto-Glam, Folk act - like Medicine Head, Tyrannosaurus Rex, John Kongos or even some pre-Ziggy-era Bowie. This bears itself out in their playful rhythms (Jubgband specifics be damned), "back to the basics" sound, and self-aware image. They had a number of hits in the UK besides "In the Summertime", that also appear on Glam Rock compilations. Their cover of "Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi" by Jacques Dutronc (rechristened "Alright Alright Alright") is a personal favorite.

[@jimdorset6610]

Hey Todd, the car was a TR6, it belonged to Pye Studio chief engineer Howard Barrow who incidentally built the studio in Saga Records owner Marcel Rodd's house, the place where Ray recorded the Good Earth album tracks. The song is the third biggest selling physical single of all time* en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

[@yokokuramaful]

Drunk Driving was only made illegal in the UK in 1966, making it not legal at the time of the song but probably something people were still casual about.

[@Zice033]

I think that the first place I heard this song was it being sampled in Neil Cicierega's "Annoyed Grunt" from his 2017 album Mouth Moods.

[@theeggmancometh]

Probably how Todd seems to remember it with burps and farts.

[@PhantomPhoenix]

I was thinking to myself, I know this name from somewhere. It’s the musical Cats. There’s a song about two cats named Mungo Jerry and Rumbleteaser