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The third and last day of the Hollywood Festival, Madely, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK, features Free, Mungo Jerry, Family, Ginger Baker's Airforce, Traffic, Jose Feliciano, Screaming Lord Sutch, Black Widow, Trader Horne, Shag Rat, Alice Cooper, Demon Fuzz, The James Gang, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Black Sabbath.Full article:
Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) : I didn't have a career before then really. At that particular time, my career was electronics and I'd been working in a US research laboratory. It was a hobby that became a job, but I never imagined music would become my career. It was the first show we did as Mungo Jerry, we'd been called The Good Earth before.
We'd done some successful shows before that; we blew the Moody Blues off stage once and played with Dick Abrahams' band. We travelled around London mainly, gigging at colleges and universities with what was considered quite strange music at the time. We hung out at some of pyschedelic clubs in London as well, like Middle Earth, Electric Garden and Roundhouse.
It was the most exciting time, that was when everything started taking shape. Luckily a friend of mine, Barry Murray, formed a company with a business partner of mine, Elliot Cohen, who still is a business partner of mine after 35 years.
Anyway, Barry, Elliot and another guy, Ellis launched their record company, Red Bus. They signed up a guy called Jackie McAuley and a singer, Judy Dyble, the one-time singer with Fairport Convention, and put together an album. To launch them they decided to set up the Hollywood Festival gig, in a little town in Newcastle-under-Lyne.
With a bit of backing, they managed to set-up a brilliant line-up, including the Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Traffic, Free... For some strange reason though, Judy Dyble fell out. Barry had to start looking round for another act and he'd seen an ad that I'd put in Melody Maker. I had worked with him before, and he remembered one of the tracks that I'd done. He gave me a call and I explained that I'd changed from the pyschedelic stuff to the skiffle, rockabilly style. He seemed happy with that and offered me a contract.
I played him some of my stuff and he decided In The Summertime was going to be a hit ... and of course, he was right. So we launched the single off the back of the festival and changed our name at the same time. Mungo Jerry was literally plucked out of a hat. Whoever it was that put it in there though had spelt it wrong; it should have been Mungojerrie!
(Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/artists/m/mungo_jerry/located/page1.shtml)
Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) : I came off stage on the Saturday night to be greeted by a hoard of radio and press people asking me questions, I was too hyped up to answer any of them coherently and I don’t think that the BBC managed to use anything that I said in their reporting of the event. I think that everything has already been said about the festival but one thing that sticks in my mind is that a hippy guy came straight up to me after the performance and summed it all up with the words, ‘No Bullshit’.
All the artists performing at the Festival were recorded on the Pye Mobile Studio, which I think was also the Rolling Stones’ Mobile Studio, (one inch eight track multi-track machines), the producer being Barry Murray. The record company wanted to release a compilation but nobody got clearances from the labels of the respective artists. I don’t know what happened to the masters of our performances.
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We'd done some successful shows before that; we blew the Moody Blues off stage once and played with Dick Abrahams' band. We travelled around London mainly, gigging at colleges and universities with what was considered quite strange music at the time. We hung out at some of pyschedelic clubs in London as well, like Middle Earth, Electric Garden and Roundhouse.
It was the most exciting time, that was when everything started taking shape. Luckily a friend of mine, Barry Murray, formed a company with a business partner of mine, Elliot Cohen, who still is a business partner of mine after 35 years.
Anyway, Barry, Elliot and another guy, Ellis launched their record company, Red Bus. They signed up a guy called Jackie McAuley and a singer, Judy Dyble, the one-time singer with Fairport Convention, and put together an album. To launch them they decided to set up the Hollywood Festival gig, in a little town in Newcastle-under-Lyne.
With a bit of backing, they managed to set-up a brilliant line-up, including the Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Traffic, Free... For some strange reason though, Judy Dyble fell out. Barry had to start looking round for another act and he'd seen an ad that I'd put in Melody Maker. I had worked with him before, and he remembered one of the tracks that I'd done. He gave me a call and I explained that I'd changed from the pyschedelic stuff to the skiffle, rockabilly style. He seemed happy with that and offered me a contract.
I played him some of my stuff and he decided In The Summertime was going to be a hit ... and of course, he was right. So we launched the single off the back of the festival and changed our name at the same time. Mungo Jerry was literally plucked out of a hat. Whoever it was that put it in there though had spelt it wrong; it should have been Mungojerrie!
(Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/artists/m/mungo_jerry/located/page1.shtml)
Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) : I came off stage on the Saturday night to be greeted by a hoard of radio and press people asking me questions, I was too hyped up to answer any of them coherently and I don’t think that the BBC managed to use anything that I said in their reporting of the event. I think that everything has already been said about the festival but one thing that sticks in my mind is that a hippy guy came straight up to me after the performance and summed it all up with the words, ‘No Bullshit’.
All the artists performing at the Festival were recorded on the Pye Mobile Studio, which I think was also the Rolling Stones’ Mobile Studio, (one inch eight track multi-track machines), the producer being Barry Murray. The record company wanted to release a compilation but nobody got clearances from the labels of the respective artists. I don’t know what happened to the masters of our performances.