For other uses, see In the Summertime (disambiguation).
"In the Summertime"
Single by Mungo Jerry
from the album Electronically Tested
B-side
"Mighty Man"
Released
1970
Studio
Pye, London
Genre
Skiffle[1][2]
Length
3:30
Label
Dawn
Songwriter(s)
Ray Dorset
Producer(s)
Barry Murray
Mungo Jerry singles chronology
"In the Summertime" (1970)
"Baby Jump" (1971)
Audio sample
"In the Summertime"
file
help
"In the Summertime" is the debut single by British rock band Mungo Jerry, released in 1970.[3] It reached number one in charts around the world, including seven weeks on the UK Singles Chart, two weeks on one of the Canadian charts, and number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US. It became one of the best-selling singles of all-time, eventually selling 30 million copies.[4][5][6] Written and composed by the band's lead singer, Ray Dorset, while working in a lab for Timex, the lyrics of the song celebrate the carefree days of summer. The track was included on the second album by the band, Electronically Tested, issued in March 1971.
^Holdship, Bill (17 June 2009). "That summer feeling". Metro Times. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
^McCormick, Moira (18 May 1996). "Elfin's Listening-Post Towers Bring Children's Artists to Upscale Market". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 20. p. 50. ISSN 0006-2510.
^In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry, retrieved 5 July 2022
^Harris, Craig. "Ray Dorset – Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
^"The essential summer mix". The Guardian. 29 July 2006.
^Nightingale, Laura (7 October 2015). "Mungo Jerry celebrates 45 years of In the Summertime at Camberley Theatre". Get Surrey. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
"IntheSummertime" is the debut single by British rock band Mungo Jerry, released in 1970. It reached number one in charts around the world, including...
summer-time, summer time, summertime, or summertimesin Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Summertime may refer to: Summer, one of the temperate seasons Daylight...
by Interscope Records as the fourth single of the album. Inthe spring of 2013, "Summertime Sadness" reached number one in Poland, Ukraine and Armenia...
"SummertimeSummertime" is the 1986 debut single by freestyle singer Nocera, from her 1987 debut album Over the Rainbow. Nocera co-wrote and co-produced...
Capital's Summertime Ball is a mini-festival in London, held on either first or second Saturday or Sunday of June by the radio station Capital. The first...
"Summertime Magic" is a song by the American recording artist Childish Gambino. Written and produced by Gambino and Ludwig Göransson, the song was released...
"Summertime Blues" is a song co-written and recorded by American rock artist Eddie Cochran. It was written by Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart. Originally...
"SummertimeInthe City" is a single by the English indie pop band Scouting for Girls. It was released inthe United Kingdom as a digital download on 26...
(May 31, 2022). "Thanks for the love! 📘💞 TheSummertime Rendering v1-3 softcovers enter wide-release tomorrow, June 1st, in comic and book stores and...
Inthe Good Old Summertime is a 1949 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It stars Judy Garland, Van Johnson...
TheSummertime Killer (also known as Target Removed) is a 1972 crime film directed, produced and co-written by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi and starring Christopher...
"Summertime of Our Lives" is a song by British-Norwegian boy band A1. It was released on 30 August 1999 as the second single from their debut studio album...
Somewhere InSummertime" is a song by Simple Minds released as the third single from the album New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) in 1982. Its performance inthe UK...
"Hot Fun intheSummertime" is a 1969 song recorded by Sly and the Family Stone. The single was released just prior to the band's high-profile performance...
Global Information