![]() ![]() In 1995, Jamaican-American reggae musician Shaggy covered the song, and released it as the lead single from his third studio album, Boombastic. Shaggy version "In the Summertime"įrom the album Boombastic and Flipper Soundtrack It was the biggest-selling single by an Australian artist in Australia in 1970 and number 3 overall.Īustralian Artist (Kent Music Report) The song replaced Mungo Jerry's version at number 1 on the Australian chart, where it remained at number 1 for 6 weeks. In 1970, Australian rock band The Mixtures covered and released the song. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ![]() Ray Dorset – vocals, electric guitar, 6 string acoustic, cabasa, stompĬertifications and sales Sales certifications for In the Summertime Region.And that was it." Personnel Ĭredits adapted from the single liner notes for "In the Summertime". So, he got the stereo effects from left to right or right to left, whatever. Howard Barry, the engineer had an old, well, it wasn't old then, a Triumph sports car, which he drove past the studio while Barry Marrit was holding the microphone. ![]() In an interview with Gary James, Dorset explained the origin of the "motorcycle" sound towards the false ending in the middle of the song: "I said, 'We'll just get a recording of a motorcycle, stick it on the end of the song and then re-edit the front and then put the front off to the motorcycle so it starts up again.' But I couldn't find a motorcycle. ![]() In 2012, Dorset sued his former management company Associated Music International, run by his former friend and business manager Eliot Cohen, claiming over £2 million in royalties from the song that he believed had been withheld from him. A small quantity of 45 rpm discs on the Pye record label, with "Mighty Man" on the B-side, and without a picture sleeve, were pressed for use in jukeboxes. As the record was sold in a picture sleeve, also not standard at the time, and sold at only a few pence more than the normal 45 rpm two-track single, it was considered value for money. It included an additional song also written and composed by Dorset, "Mighty Man," on the A-side, and a much longer track, the Woody Guthrie song "Dust Pneumonia Blues," on the B-side. It was unusual in that it was a maxi single, playing at 33 1⁄ 3 rpm, whereas singles generally played at 45 rpm. The initial UK release was on Dawn Records, a new label launched by Pye. Dorset has said that the song only took ten minutes to write, which he did using a second-hand Fender Stratocaster while he was taking time off from his regular job, working in a lab for Timex. ![]()
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