Montego Bay (song)

"Montego Bay"
Single by Bobby Bloom
from the album The Bobby Bloom Album
B-side	"Try a Little Harder"
Released	September 1970
Genre	Pop, soul, calypso
Length	2:53
Label	L&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.