* 1946 – Ray Dorset, English musician ( Mungo Jerry )

He recorded various sessions with a number of other musicians notably the Katmandu album A Case for the Blues with Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry, Vincent Crane from The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Len Surtees of the The Nashville Teens.

Ashford has housed many musicians and many up and coming singer / songwriters from skiffle band Mungo Jerry founder, Ray Dorset, Chart-topping pop-punk band Dum Dums founder Josh Doyle to the organists and composers Sir Sydney Nicholson, New Zealand born singer / songwriter Herbie Sherman and Sir Malcolm Sargent.

The Spa Pavilion Theatre is a 900-seat art deco-style building on the promenade, owned by the district council and managed by a private contractor ; Status Quo played there in the 1970s ; Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Showaddywaddy, Slade and Mungo Jerry all played at the old Pier Pavilion which was demolished and is now the leisure centre.

Ray Dorset, the lead singer of Mungo Jerry, had his first taste of fame when his band ' The Tramps ' won the Loughton Beat Contest in 1964.

* Mungo Jerry were there but decided not to play

Major British soft rock artists of the 1970s included 10cc, Mungo Jerry and Rod Stewart.

Mungo Jerry is a British rock group whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset.

Mungo Jerry made their first trip to the United States in September 1970.

Mungo Jerry was awarded from Melody Maker the ' best new band ' title in 1970, and as one of the five best live bands in the world in 1971.

His intention to broaden the group's appeal by recruiting a drummer led to King and Earl trying to sack him, but the management, regarding Dorset as inseparable in the public eye from Mungo Jerry, fired them both instead.

No chart hit has had more than 13 words in the title, so " You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War " gave Mungo Jerry another hit.

Mungo Jerry was the first western band who had live television gigs in all countries behind the Iron Curtain.

They remained successful with overseas hits like " On A Night Like This ", " Knockin ' on Heaven's Door " ( a reggae version of the Bob Dylan song ) and " Sunshine Reggae " ( British version by Mungo Jerry & Horizon ).

The last UK chart entry for Mungo Jerry was " Toon Army " a song for Newcastle United in 1999.

In 2003, with German musicians, Dorset recorded Adults Only album under the name Mungo Jerry Blues Band, widely acclaimed as one of the best of his career.

2005 saw him performing with three Mungo Jerry line-ups: The British Mungo Jerry Band ( pop / rock ), the German Mungo Jerry Blues Band ( blues / rock ), and Mungo Jerry & the Goodtime Gamblers ( jug / blues / skiffle ).

It was only with the 18th century visits of Mungo Park, who travelled down the Niger River and visited the great Sahelian empires of his day, that Europeans correctly identified the course of the Niger, and extending the name to its entire course.

Others who influenced the development of British Christianity include Dubricius, Cadoc, Petroc, Piran, Ia and Kentigern ( also known as Mungo ).

One of the churches in the town bears the name of The Old Church of St Kentigern ( perhaps better known as St Mungo ), who set up many medieval churches in the Scottish Lowlands, including Glasgow, and died c. 612 AD.

He was awarded the prize of 10, 000 francs offered by the Société de Géographie to the first traveller who should gain exact information of Timbuktu, to be compared with that given by Mungo Park.

Paul, who is called Mungo Fetch within the company, is strongly influenced by both Tresize and his wife, " Milady ".

The peerages were created with remainder to 1 ) Sir Mungo Murray, fourth son of John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine, failing which to 2 ) John Murray, who was created Earl of Annandale in 1625, and failing which to 3 ) Sir Andrew Murray, who was created Lord Balvaird in 1641.

He is not to be confused with the British washboard player and percussionist of the same name, who has played with Good Earth, Mungo Jerry, and the King Earl Boogie Band.

Those who did appear included The MC5, Pretty Things, Kevin Ayers, Steve Took's Shagrat, the Edgar Broughton Band, Mungo Jerry, Mighty Baby and the Pink Fairies " who were taking all their clothes off as they played ".

Artists who had hits on Janus included Mungo Jerry, The Whispers, Cymande, Charlie, Al Stewart, Ian Thomas, and Ray Stevens.

During its existence, Octopus had several members who later joined famous groups: Drummer Brian Glascock, John Cook and Tim Reeves of Mungo Jerry, and brother Nigel Griggs and Malcolm Green, both later of New Zealand group, Split Enz.

The Mungo who speak a dialect of Duala.

A daughter, Isabella Renton MacCallum, and two sons: Mungo Lorenz MacCallum, ( 1884 – 1934 ), Rhodes scholar in 1906, who would go on to lecture in Roman Law at the University of Sydney ; and Walter Paton MacCallum, who became a brigadeer general in the army.

The show was created by Barry Murray, who had formerly been Mungo Jerry's record producer, with assistance from conjuror Paul Daniels.

The show featured the adventures of a girl called Mary, her dog Mungo, and her pet mouse Midge, who lived in a tower block in a busy town.

Mary, Mungo and Midge was a production of John Ryan Studios, who also produced the earlier Captain Pugwash and the later Sir Prancelot cartoons, both with a similar drawing style.

The Willandra region is inhabited by the Barkindji, Nyiampaa and Mutthi Mutthi peoples, who have now entered Joint Management Agreements with the Government of New South Wales to manage the lake and the Mungo National Park.

Clinton had a minor league baseball team in the Tobacco State League from 1946-50, which was the last stop in the colorful career of Brooklyn Dodgers All-star pitcher Van Lingle Mungo.

In 1798, Brown heard that Mungo Park had withdrawn from a proposed expedition into the interior of New Holland ( now Australia ), leaving a vacancy for a naturalist.

She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat ; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf ; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern ( Saint Mungo ).

She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat ; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf ; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern or Mungo ( d. 612 ).

Also in June 2005, Ray Dorset had a gig again as a duo with Mike Cole-the original double bass player from the early Mungo days-as a highlight of the " 35 Years Of Mungo Jerry " event in both Newcastle and Stoke.

In March 2006 Mungo Jerry released the single " Mr Midnight " from Phantom of the Opera on Ice ; produced by Roberto Danova-who had mixed in the past the old continental Mungo Jerry hits " Lana " and " It's a Secret "-and is well known for his work with rock and pop music, in combination with big orchestras.

One by one the other great mysteries had been investigated: the coasts by Prince Henry the Navigator's Portuguese sailors in the 15th century ; the Blue Nile by James Bruce in 1773 ; the remote upper Niger by Mungo Park in 1796 ; the vast Sahara by competitors Laing, Callié, and Clapperton in the 1820s ; the fever-ridden mangroves of the lower Niger by the Lander Brothers in 1830 ; southern Africa and the Zambezi by Livingstone and John Clafton in the 1850s ; the upper Nile by Burton, Speke, and Baker in a succession of expeditions between 1857 and 1868.

After a month, Conley had a record of five wins and only one loss and was praised by observers in the league, saying that he had the best fastball since former pitcher Van Lingle Mungo played in the league in.

Mungo Park, the first European traveller to visit the country, passed through Bondu in 1795, and had to submit to many exactions from the reigning prince.

543: The 12th century Bishop Jocelyn will later claim Glasgow's monastic church was founded by Saint Kentigern, also known as Saint Mungo, in this year ; he also claimed that Kentigern found at Glasgow a cemetery which Saint Ninian had hallowed

Clapperton continued his journey, and, passing through the Yoruba country, in January 1826 he crossed the Niger at Bussa, the spot where Mungo Park had died twenty years before.

He had previously played the part of Mungo in Chelmsford 123 ( 1988 – 90 ) and, during the same period he was appearing in Between the Lines, also had the regular role of Dave Charnley in Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1990 – 98 ).

It is still possible that Chrétien in turn had a Welsh source, evidence of which can be found in certain episodes in the Life of St. Mungo ( also called St. Kentigern ), where the saint's father Owain tries to woo his mother, Lot of Lothian's daughter, which exhibit parallels to the narrative of Yvain.