Electronically Tested

Mungo Jerry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Breathless
• ASIN: B00082MXC8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,608 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. She Rowed

2. I Just Wanna Make Love to You

3. In the Summertime

4. Somebody Stole My Wife

5. Baby Jump

6. Follow Me Down

7. Memoirs of a Stockbroker

8. You Better Leave That Whiskey Alone

9. Coming Back to You

Editorial Reviews

Japanese remastered reissue of 1971 album, that's unavailable domestically, packaged in a miniature gatefold LP sleeve. 9 tracks. Victor Ent. 2003. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Tags At All!, January 6, 2007

By 

Abey Grey "The Gris Gris Man" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electronically Tested (Audio CD)

Before purchasing this album I was only familiar with this band through their "In the Summertime" pukefest (in my opinion) which literally makes me furious everytime I hear it; however, once I read an article in a magazine stating that this band is one of the great (jugbands?) of the early seventies who really know how to rock from now and then; so I figured why not? maybe I should give this a chance and I am so glad that I did.....believe me these guys are no one hit wonders who were stimulated with happy joy buttons when they recorded this album.These guys are great musicians who skiffle,countrify and rock your socks off from time to time (especially in I just want to make love to you).

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to make you feel happy, January 3, 2010

By 

Golovanov Alexey (Limassol, Cyprus) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electronically Tested (Audio CD)

"Mungo Jerry" was an exceptional band to emerge in 1969 from the ashes of "Good Earth" and "Mungoes" - within one year they've god recruited by "Dawn" and gave a breakthrough performance at Newcastle Festival. No wonder, that their debut single and debut album - "In the Summertime" (May 1970) broke into the international charts and was almost flogged to death by FM, AM etc, etc. I suppose that people were scared to plug in the toaster or the washing machine as there was a risk to hear the same catchy chords of "Summertime"... Not surprisingly, as the majority is attracted by simplicity and stupidity, "Summertime" outshone other - more powerful - songs: "Tramp", "san Francisco Bay Blues", "Peace In the Country"...

However the new names got to the top of international music scenery and took an unbeatable position, confirmed by the second album - "Electronically tested" (April 1971).The band was (as you can see them on the inside photos from Japanese mini-LP): Ray Dorset - excentric front-man with Afro-hairdo, sideburns, gravel voice, who turned out a prolific and talented composer plus superb multi-instrumentalist: 6 and 12 string guitars, kazoo, stomp, tambourine, harp... Colin Earl: piano. John Godfrey: Bass. Paul King: banjo, acoustic guitars, harp.

"Mungo Jerry" is sometimes called "glam" - I don't know why. Yes, Ray Dorset's voice was similar to the voice of Marc Bolan, but the roots of their music were growing from jug/skiffle bands, they played rough, aggresive, energetic rock. They never sang about dragons, demons, rabbit fighters. That was buddy-music - unpolished, spontaneous, based on very simple riffs - but the melodies were outstanding. "Mungo Jerry" was a living testimony that in order to write and perform powerful music one don't need high-tech gadgets and tons of equipment. The band could easily wake up the nearby cemetry. I suppose that "Creedence" were their only soulmates and competitors. Ray Dorset (many people didn't even know his name - for far too many HE was Mungo Jerry) easily drifted from cheerful bar-rock ("Somebody Stole My Wife") to menacing tribal chanting in "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" - it was about primal sex without any flower power. "Mungo Jerry" felt at ease in the hard-rock ("Baby Jump" - another hit from "Electronically Tested" which reached its fans even behind the Iron Curtain - on Bulgarian bootleg compilation). This is definitely one their best albums - next to "You don't have to be in the army" (1971) and "Boot Power" (1972). Generally speaking, whatever "Mungo Jerry" did, they did exceptionally good - except, maybe, indistinguished "Impala Saga" (1976). But even later incarnations - like "Adults Only", released in 2003, are bloody good to miss