One of the most infectious summer songs ever from a one-hit wonder, though Mungo Jerry had a few more hits back in the UK. They were essentially a skiffle group (known over here as jug band music), a pre-rock and roll thing in England. Their name was based on a character in a T.S. Eliot poem. Front man Ray Dorset said he wanted a motorcycle sound to use as a false ending but couldn’t find one. So they went to the parking lot and recorded the studio engineer’s Triumph sports car going though the gears, then re-used the intro. In the video, the band has bigger sideburns than Elvis.
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