Baby Jump: The Definitive Collection

by Mungo Jerry

Overview

Hmmm, "definitive," you say? Well, let's see. The need for a truly all-encompassing Mungo Jerry collection has been evident ever since the early '90s brought the first in the long line of CD compilations that simply followed the same laws as the LPs that preceded them -- here are the hits, here's the odd B-side, here are a couple of randomly selected album tracks. Mungo Jerry meant so much more than that, even if that brief does sum up most listeners' total knowledge of the band's output. With 60 tracks at its disposal, Baby Jump certainly comes close to the ideal. Concentrating on their years with the Dawn subsidiary of Pye Records, it travels from the debut chart-topper "In the Summertime" through the surprisingly peerless run of hits that were spread over the next four years, before winding up with the final gasp of glory that was "Wild Love," an insanely contagious number that really should have been a bigger hit than it was. In between times, each of the band's studio albums is cherry-picked for highlights, with the group's practice of unleashing non-LP B-sides flavored by the inclusion of numbers that are almost as well known in their own right as the hits that accompanied them -- the banned-by-the-BBC "Have a Whiff on Me," some genuinely exciting live performances, and more. Of course, it's no substitute for picking up the original albums (and singles), and a full-scale Mungo Jerry reissue campaign remains a promise for which listeners should all be hoping. In the meantime, this anthology certainly allows the collector to finally shed all those repetitive compilations, and offers a much-needed tribute to a band that really was worth a lot more than "In the Summertime." ~ Dave Thompson

Product Details

Release Date:	01/04/2005
Label:	Sanctuary
UPC:	5050749213426
Rank:	129630

Tracks

Disc 1

1. In the Summertime
2. Mighty Man
3. Dust Pneumonia Blues
4. Baby, Let's Play House
5. Johnny B Badde
6. San Francisco Bay Blues
7. Sad Eyed Joe
8. Maggie
9. Peace in the Country
10. See Me
11. Movin' On
12. My Friend
13. Mother *! *! *! Boogie
14. Tramp
15. Daddie's Brew
16. Baby Jump
17. The Man Behind the Piano
18. She Rowed
19. Somebody Stole My Wife
20. I Just Wanna Make Love to You

Disc 2

21. Lady Rose [Single Version]
22. Memoirs of a Stockbroker
23. Follow Me Down
24. You Better Leave That Whisky Alone
25. Coming Back to You When the Time Comes
26. Have a Whiff on Me
27. Milk Cow Blues
28. Little Louis
29. You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight the War
30. The Sun Is Shining
31. O'Reilly
32. We Shall Be Free
33. Ella Speed
34. Take Me Back
35. Hey Rosalyn
36. Northcote Arms
37. There's a Man Going Round Taking Names
38. Simple Things
39. Keep Your Hands off Her
40. On a Sunday
41. That Old Dust Storm

Disc 3

42. Open Up
43. Going Back Home
44. I Don't Wanna Go Back to School
45. No Girl Reaction
46. See You Again
47. Demon
48. My Girl and Me
49. Sweet Mary Jane
50. Lady Rose
51. Brand New Car
52. Summer's Gone
53. It's a Goodie Boogie Woogie
54. Say Goodnight
55. Alright, Alright, Alright
56. Little Miss Hipshake
57. Wild Love
58. Glad I'm a Rocker
59. Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black
60. Gonna Bop Till I Drop
61. Don't Stop
62. Shake Till I Break
63. Too Fast to Live and Too Young to Die
64. Burnin' Up
65. All Dressed Up and No Place to Go

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mungo Jerry   Primary Artist
Joe Rush   Double Bass
Ray Dorset   Vocals,Guitar
Colin Earl   Piano

Technical Credits

Jacques Lanzmann   Composer
Joe Strange   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Arthur Neal Gunter   Composer
Woody Guthrie   Composer
Ray Dorset   Lyricist,Composer
Jesse Fuller   Composer
Jacques Dutronc   Composer
Barry Murray   Producer,Composer
Paul King   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Patrick Roffe   Arranger
Olivier Renoir   Arranger
Mike Cole   Composer
Colin Earl   Composer