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Frederick „Toots“ Hibbert (* 8. Dezember 1942 in May Pen , Clarendon Parish , Britisch-Jamaika als Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert ; † 11. September 2020 in Kingston ) war ein Ska - und Roots-Reggae -Sänger und Kopf der Band Toots & the Maytals .
Nelson released a reggae album entitled Countryman (2005) which featured Hibbert on the song "I'm a Worried Man". [25] Hibbert was also featured in the music video for the song, which was filmed in Jamaica.
In Memory of Toots Hibbert. This is his performance of "Country Roads" in "A Reggae Session." "A Reggae Session" is an all star, all-singing, all dancing out...
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12. Sept. 2020 · Toots Hibbert, frontman of the legendary reggae band Toots and the Maytals, has died at the age of 77. One of Jamaica's most influential musicians, he helped popularise reggae in the 1960s...
- “I’ll Never Grow Old”
- “Bam Bam”
- “54-46 Was My Number”
- “Sweet and Dandy”
- “Monkey Man”
- “Pressure Drop”
- “Funky Kingston”
- “Louie Louie”
- “Country Road”
- “Time Tough”
While the Maytals’ 1968 track “Do the Reggay” is credited with coining the word “reggae,” Jimmy Cliff considered the band’s Coxsone Dodd–produced 1964 LP Never Grow Oldas the actual birth of the genre. “[Toots] had such a great impact on the ska scene, and that was the beginning of the [reggae] music,” Cliff told Rolling Stonein 2019 of Never Grow ...
In 1966, the Maytals won the first Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition (which they won again in 1969 and 1972) with Toots’ breakthrough song, “Bam Bam.” The song, later reprised as a massive hit by Sister Nancy, is a thrilling statement of moral clarity and purpose, a huge step from the Motown-influenced love songs and dance-flo...
Jamaica’s reggae musicians had yet to score many major hits outside their home country when Toots and the Maytals got there with this stirring cry of outrage against the criminal justice system. Listening to it now, you can hear why it became a defining early anthem of the genre. Hibbert’s vocal presence is volcanic, channeling James Brown when he ...
Toots and the Maytals’ saccharine tale about a young couple throwing a wedding on a £1 budget became one of the group’s signature songs, a hit in Jamaica and abroad and a tune featured in 1972’s The Harder They Come, which showed Toots and the Maytals performing the track in the studio. “Everybody dressed up in white, coming in thinking it was a bi...
One of Toots’ most popular and enduring songs finds the singer falling in love with a girl and losing her to another man. “A monkey-looking man took her away from me but I thought she was in love with me,” Toots told Outlinemagazine. “The guy was ugly and not good looking like me, ha ha!” The Specials, Amy Winehouse, and countless others have cover...
Immortalized on the soundtrack of The Harder They Come, although it was cut a few years before, one of Toots’ most prominent songs may be the slyest reggae track ever. With its warm harmonies and choppy-waves rhythm section, “Pressure Drop” has a soothing island sway about it. In fact, it’s a revenge song: Toots once said that when a record company...
“Music is what I’ve got to give,” Toots roars at the beginning of “Funky Kingston,” ripping up James Brown funk and claiming it for Jamaica. The track is his ferocious anthem about reggae taking on the whole world. Like so much of his work, the song grabs hold of American music inspired by Caribbean polyrhythms in the name of the African diaspora. ...
There are several million versions of “Louie Louie” out there — but it’s safe to say that Toots makes the song his own. He seizes the garage-band rock & roll classic and brings it all back home, to the Caribbean grooves where it all started, turning it into a festive reggae chant. “Louie Louie” came out of Los Angeles — the result of professional h...
Toots’ rendition of the wistful John Denver hit “Take Me Home, Country Roads” was one of a couple of crossover-aimed covers on the U.S. version of Funky Kingston. On paper, the idea sounded like a head-scratcher, given how all-American Denver’s lyrics and whole-milk delivery were. But starting with an intro that sounds right out of church, Toots’ m...
The first track on the 1975 release of Funky Kingston, the band’s opening salvo on the worldwide stage and one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, “Time Tough” is Hibbert’s incisive examination of the everyday struggle on the streets of Trenchtown. “Here comes the landlord just a-knocking upon my door,” Hibbert sings. “I’ve got $400 month rent ...
11. Okt. 2020 · Zum Tod von Frederick „Toots“ Hibbert. Die letzte Ikone des Reggae. Reggae-Legende Toots And The Maytals genoss den Ruf eines jamaikanischen Nationalhelden und war auch mit Ende 70 immer noch...
Jamaican reggae pioneer Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert has died at the age of 77. The legendary musician fronted the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals from the early 1960s. Hibbert...
