Montego Bay (song)

"Montego Bay"
Single by Bobby Bloom
from the album The Bobby Bloom Album
B-side"Try a Little Harder"
ReleasedSeptember 1970
GenrePop, soul, calypso
Length2:53
LabelL&R Records
Songwriter(s)Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom
Producer(s)Jeff Barry
Bobby Bloom singles chronology
"Sign of the V"
(1969)
"Montego Bay"
(1970)
"Make Me Happy"
(1970)
Music video
Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay • TopPop on YouTube

"Montego Bay" is a song co-written and performed by Bobby Bloom about the city in Jamaica of the same name. The song was a top ten hit for Bloom in the Fall of 1970 on both sides of the Atlantic. It reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart,[1] No. 5 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles Chart,[2] No. 7 on the Australian Go-Set Singles Chart and No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was co-written and produced by Jeff Barry. In the master tape of the song, Bloom breaks into a chorus of "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" at the end of the recording. The song features a whistler, as well as Jamaican instruments in a calypso style.

  1. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1970-08-29. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  2. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-03.