Mungo Jerry (1970) Johnny B. Badde - LOST 70s GEMS

Full of ragtime, skiffle based blues tunes and shanty like fun its a amiable listen but don't expect any of the songs to stir the soul. Johnny B. Badde is the only memorable or frankly melodic tune in this joyful but utterly flimsy singalong collection, Badde is features a clopping country rhytmm, banjos and Ray Dorset's static filtered warble and honky tonk janglyness. It sounds like T Rex largely due to the whimsy and Dorset's fanciful drawl and nonsense verses and sound effects as he fitfully makes all kinds of cowboy raquet, the country blues piano and demonic harmonica are excellent as is the slight distant recording of Dorset's vocal. Best is the raspberry blowing and bottle blowing isolated at the end before the frivolity comes to a close; shame that none of the other tunes of Mungo Jerry's 1970 album carry such a succinct snap.