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S.A. TOP 20 HISTORY:
Entered: 19 July 1974
Highest position: 4
Weeks charted: 10

Mungo Jerry is an English folk/classic rock group whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset. They are remembered above all for their hit "In the Summertime". It remains their most successful and most instantly recognisable song. Their name was inspired by the poem Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Mungo Jerry had 5 SA Top 20 hits between 1970 and 1976.