Toots and the Maytals' 15 Essential Songs: We survey late Jamaican vocal legend Toots Hibbert’s groundbreaking six-decade career, from “Bam Bam” through “Got to Be Tough”
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’swhich showed Toots and the Maytals performing the track in the studio. “Everybody dressed up in white, coming in thinking it was a big wedding,” Hibbert said in. “When they came they realized that it’s just £1.10 for the wedding cake — it’s a little thing and a few bottles of cola wine.
magazine. “The guy was ugly and not good looking like me, ha ha!” The Specials, Amy Winehouse, and countless others have covered the exuberant song. Losing a girl has never sounded more fun. , 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.
], Coxsone gave me one patty,” says Toots. “I was very hungry, and I love a patty, and that’s what I got paid for my first song.”Toots does this gorgeous version of Van Morrison’s “I Shall Sing” — an outtake from thesessions. He captures the song’s playful grace — always the side of Van Morrison that gets lost in translation.
Co-produced by Zak Starkey, the album was the result of two rum-fueled, round-the-clock recording sessions, with Toots’ soulful voice on “Got to Be Tough” gliding over mournful synths. “This is my last chance, man,” Hibbert toldIn This Article:
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