Ray DorsetBritishguitarist and founder of the skiffle band Mungo Jerry. Steve Howe playing lead guitar for Yes in 1977 A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... Skiffle music is a type of folk music with a jazz and blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea-chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, or a comb and paper, and so forth. ... Mungo Jerry is a band from the 1970s made up of vocal and guitarist Ray Dorset, vocal and pianist Colin Earl, vocal banjo and guitar player Paul King and bass player Mike Cole, and is famous mostly for their classic hit In the Summertime. ...
Dorset found the group's good-time blues and jug band repertoire a little restricting, and in 1972 he released a solo album "Cold Blue Excursion", with his songs backed by strings and brass and, in one instance, a jazz band.
They thus gave RayDorset, who was, in the eye of media and public 'Mr Mungo Jerry', with his outstanding voice, and talent as composer, the chance to renew the band; together with bass guitarist John Godfrey from the former line-up of the group, and new fresh musicians.
In 1983 "Mungo Jerry" RayDorset was part of the blues supergroup Katmandu, which recorded "A Case For The Blues", with guitarist Peter Green, formerly of Fleetwood Mac, and keyboard player Vincent Crane, formerly of Atomic Rooster.
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