Awesome things to know about Mungo Jerry:

• Although no one in the band has the name Mungo Jerry, the band is named after a poem named “Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer“, which is even better than the poem that earned Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase his nickname.
• The band does feature a member named Toby Hounsham, and some of its original members included two guys surnamed Conostavlos, a fella named Bizz Bissiker, and the legendary Sev Lewkowicz. That roster is so good that I believe it accounts for the first time ever that two people sharing a last name have been featured on consecutive days on this blog.
• The song has a tempo of 42 beats per minute, which every Hitchhiker’s Guide reader knows is the answer to the universe. This fact was listed in a book by someone who writes about even weirder things than we do.
• Their most famous video features a guy with a mustache blowing on a glass bottle.
• According to Joseph Murrell’s The Book of Golden Discs, “Mungomania” was “possibly the most startling and unexpected pop phenomenon to hit Britain since The Beatles.”
• Several of their top hits had long or hilarious names, such as “Baby Jump,” “You Don’t Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War,” and “Long-Legged Woman Dressed In Black.” Their most recent album was released this year… its name: Cool Jesus.
• Lead singer Ray Dorset once wrote a song for Elvis Presley (who has a very funny name that fell victim to the Sylvester Stallone treatment).
• Look at Dorset’s sideburns! If you already watched the video above, watch it again (posted below for your convenience). It’s almost enough for us to add a sideburns corollary to The Mustache Humor Summation!

* Civil War General Ambrose Burnside was the namesake of “sideburns”. We will be posting about him in the not-so-distant future.