#Toots & The Maytals

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The Maytals - Christmas Season (1964)

Turns out that Jamaica has a long tradition of Christmas tunes, here are the incomparable Maytals with some seasonal ska.

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Toots of Toots and The Maytals enjoys a spliff backstage at The Bottom Line in New York City, 1976.

Photo: Allen Tannenbaum

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Step back to the '60s and catch a glimpse of ska's roots in this BBC documentary, featuring most of the ska pioneers!

A little gem for all fans of ska.

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Toots Hibbert

December 8, 1942 – September 11, 2020

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Toots & The Maytals - 54-46 Was My Number

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Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop

[harrycosmo]

This is a very nice little documentary, especially if you’re a ska-rocksteady-reggae nerd like me.

There are interviews with lots of old reggae gods, several of whom are no longer with us five years later (Toots, Lee Perry, Bunny Lee).

Dandy Livingstone, aged 74, features throughout because he's so good to listen to. He has a beautiful speaking voice, is very composed and happy to share memories. At one point, he sits down at his keyboard and sings a bit of 'A Message to You, Rudy', and it's just wonderful.

There are dramatizations of Jamaicans in London in the 60s and 70s that are low key and not jarring or cringey like you might expect.

'If that shuffle not in the music, it's not reggae' - Bunny Lee

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We Salute Producer Leslie Kong In Our Latest Playlist

Today (July 1) is recognized as “International Reggae Day“, and we salute the pioneers, the movers and shakers, and the talent who took this genre to every part of the world, influencing generations. One of people who made Reggae an emerging force in the beginning was the late Producer Leslie Kong. Through Kong, the career of Jimmy Cliff took off, the launch of Beverley’s Records from a small…

[alexr-fightgames]

I've loved ska and reggae for a lotta years but now I'm going and really listening to Toots and the Maytals and they're just amazing. Toots sadly passed at the beginning of the pandemic for pandemic reasons.

But like. Listen to this song.

This rules so hard.

And there are cover versions by The Specials (UK two-tone ska) and The Clash and I'm excited to listen to them.

Also, they did a big collaboration album with lots of famous musicians in the mid-2000s, where they re-recorded a bunch of their hits. The album has The Skatalites and Shaggy and Willie Nelson and Reba McEntire, among others!! ... and Eric Clapton for some reason. He was on this song!

I wanna cover it too. I wonder if we can get a good Hammond organ sound out of the keyboard.

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Country rose, take me home

To a place where I belong

[viddybiblio]

Toots & The Maytals - Sweet and Dandy

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Toots Hibbert *December 8, 1942

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I'm not a fool to hurt myself

2350. 54-46 Was My Number, Toots and the Maytals (Toots and the Maytals, In the Dark, 1973) (Dragon Records, Trojan, Island, 1974)

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Hibbert was born on 8 December 1942 in May Pen, Jamaica, the youngest of his siblings.[6] Hibbert's parents were both strict Seventh-day Adventist preachers so he grew up singing gospel music in a church choir. Both parents died young and, by the age of 11, Hibbert was an orphan who went to live with his brother John in the Trenchtown neighborhood of Kingston.[3] While working at a local barbershop, he met his future bandmates Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias.[