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It is you (oh, yeah)
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I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
I say, and when it drops, oh, you gonna feel it
Know what you were doing's wrong
I say, when it drop, oh, you gonna feel it
Know what you were doing's wrong
I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
It is you (oh, yeah)
It is you, you (oh, yeah)
It is you, you (oh, yeah)
I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
I say, and when it drops, oh, you gonna feel it
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Pressure drops, oh pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure
I say, a pressure drop, oh pre-, oh-oh
Pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure
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The fantastic Toots Hibbert and The Maytals. Consistently one of my favorite songs ever. Plus an excellent cover of it by The Clash. Which is where I first heard it.
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DO THE REGGAY WITH THESE CLASSIC CUTS FROM THE HOTTEST LABEL OUTTA LONDONTOWN.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on a mid '70s record shop poster and/or print advert for the second, third, and fourth full-length albums by reggae singing group, TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS, released under the UK's then premiere reggae/ ska/ rocksteady/ dub label Trojan Records.
"Funky Kingston" LP, released 1972
"In the Dark" LP, released 1974
"From the Roots" LP, released 1973
In memoriam, Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020), another legend lost.
Source: http://xraymusic.co.uk/toots-and-the-maytals-image-picture-gallery-1.htm.
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Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, OJ (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020),[2] better known as Toots Hibbert, was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed for six decades and helped establish some of the fundamentals of reggae music.[3][4] Hibbert's 1968 song "Do the Reggay" is widely credited as the genesis of the genre name reggae.[5] His band's album True Love won a Grammy Award in 2005.[4]
Reggae historian Steve Barrow credits Clancy Eccles with altering the Jamaican patois word streggae (loose woman) into reggae.[27] However, Toots Hibbert said:
There's a word we used to use in Jamaica called "streggae". If a girl is walking and the guys look at her and say "Man, she's streggae" it means she don't dress well, she look raggedy. The girls would say that about the men too. This one morning me and my two friends were playing and I said, "OK man, let's do the reggay." It was just something that came out of my mouth. So we just start singing "Do the reggay, do the reggay" and created a beat. People tell me later that we had given the sound its name. Before that people had called it blue-beat and all kind of other things. Now it's in the Guinness World of Records.[28]
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Jimmy Cliff, Lloyd "Judge Diamond" Ferguson, and the late Frederick "Toots" Hibbert are among the Jamaican music industry luminaries to be honoured at the... ▪ Read full story | LINK IN BIO (at Kingston, Jamaica) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWufARP3fE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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TOOTS HIBBERT
“54-46 was my number, oh yeah. Right now, someone else have that number.”
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Toots Hibbert fue internado en UCI por posible COVID-19
🔔🇯🇲 El líder de Toots & the Maytals , Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, está “progresando” en una #UCI en una instalación privada en #Kingston, Jamaica, mientras espera los resultados de una prueba de Covid-19. #toots&maytals #coronavirus #últimahora #news
El líder de Toots & the Maytals , Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, está “progresando” en una unidad de cuidados intensivos en una instalación privada en Kingston, Jamaica, mientras espera los resultados de una prueba de Covid-19 (coronavirus).
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Toots Hibbert (1942-2020)
It is both incredibly sad and ironic to hear of the passing of one of my favorite Reggae artists, Frederick “Toots” Hibbert. A very gifted singer, musician and songwriter, he was one of the early pioneers of Reggae. Along with his band The Maytals, he created some wonderful music over the years. I have always wanted to see him perform live but in more recent years, I was kind of thinking it would never happen. However, after coronavirus forced Riot Fest 2020 to cancel, they made the unprecedented move of releasing the partial line up for 2021 which included Toots and The Maytals. I was elated to know that I would finally get to see Toots and The Maytals. At the same time, I thought to myself that given Hibbert’s age, I hope he is still alive and healthy for next year’s festival. As ironic fate would have it, Toots has left us on the weekend of what would have been Riot Fest 2020, reportedly having been terribly ill with coronavirus. The photo of the album Toots and The Maytals Reggae Greats is what was sitting on my turntable when I got the news today. It was the last vinyl album I listened to a couple of weeks ago. In memory of Toots, I am giving it another spin as I write this post.
If you have ever seen the show, Live From Daryl’s House, you know that Daryl Hall invited a featured guest musical artist to his house for each show where they included live performances of the artists’ music as well a s cooking/dining segment. My favorite episode is the one with Toots Hibbert. Although almost every episode took place in Daryl’s house, they instead went to Jamaica for the Toots Hibbert episode. The link below is an excerpt from that show where they are performing the song 54-46 That’s My Number, the title being a reference to Hibbert’s assigned prison number when he did time in Jamaica for possession of weed. Toots Hibbert, I missed you performing live and I will miss you forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffZEuZyX9s
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Today we remember the passing of Toots Hibbert who Died: September 11, 2020 in Kingston, Jamaica
Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, OJ (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020) was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed for six decades and helped establish some of the fundamentals of reggae music. Hibbert's 1968 song "Do the Reggay" is widely credited as the genesis of the genre name reggae. His band's album True Love won a Grammy Award in 2005.
Hibbert was born on 8 December 1942 in May Pen, Jamaica, the youngest of his siblings. 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. While working at a local barbershop, he met his future bandmates Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias.
Hibbert, a multi-instrumentalist, formed Toots and the Maytals in 1961. He could play every instrument used in his band and would later cite Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, and James Brown as key influences. According to Hibbert, Maytals is a reference to the Rastafari term for "do the right thing". There are also statements attributing the source of the name to Hibbert's hometown of May Pen. The band was originally a trio with Gordon and Mathias, and later added Jackie Jackson and Paul Douglas.
Much of Hibbert's early recorded output, such as "Hallelujah" (1963), reflects his Christian upbringing. He was also known to write about Rastafarian religious themes, and in an early Maytals song, "Six And Seven Books of Moses" (1963), he addressed the folk magic of obeah and its use of the occult literature of Biblical grimoires, such as the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses.
The Maytals became one of the more popular vocal groups in Jamaica in the mid-1960s, recording with producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster, Byron Lee, Ronnie Nasralla, and Leslie Kong. This success included winning Jamaica's National Popular Song Contest three times with songs Hibbert wrote: in 1966 with "Bam Bam", which won a national song competition, 1969 with "Sweet and Dandy" and 1972 with "Pomps & Pride"
The first Toots and the Maytals album released and distributed by Chris Blackwell's Island Records was Funky Kingston. Music critic Lester Bangs described the album in Stereo Review as "perfection, the most exciting and diversified set of reggae tunes by a single artist yet released." Chris Blackwell had a strong commitment to Toots and the Maytals, saying "I've known Toots longer than anybody – much longer than Bob Marley. Toots is one of the purest human beings I've met in my life, pure almost to a fault."
Hibbert also appeared in the groundbreaking Jamaican film The Harder They Come, in which his band sings "Sweet and Dandy". The film's soundtrack included the Maytals' 1969 hit song "Pressure Drop". The Harder They Come features fellow musician and actor Jimmy Cliff in the leading role as Ivan, a character whose story resembles Hibbert's.
On 1 October 1975, Toots and the Maytals were broadcast live on KMET-FM as they performed at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. This broadcast was re-mastered and released as an album entitled Sailin' On via Klondike Records.
In 2004, Hibbert was featured in Willie Nelson's Outlaws and Angels. Hibbert carried on touring the world, and his band's True Love won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2005. Nelson released a reggae album entitled Countryman (2005) which featured Hibbert on the song "I'm a Worried Man". Hibbert was also featured in the music video for the song, which was filmed in Jamaica.
In 2006, Toots and the Maytals covered Radiohead's "Let Down" for the Easy Star All-Stars album Radiodread, a reggae version of the English rock band's OK Computer. At the end of the year, Hibbert joined Gov't Mule for their New Year's Eve concert, documented in their Dub Side of the Mule release.
In 2009, Hibbert collaborated with MCPR Music and Steel Pulse's Sidney Mills, who produced Jamaican percussionist Larry McDonald's album Drumquestra. His track is called "What about the Children?" The same year he also performed vocals with Iowa reggae band Public Property on their album Work to Do.
In 2011, Hibbert was featured in the documentary Reggae Got Soul: The Story of Toots and the Maytals which was airred on BBC. Described as "The untold story of one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Jamaica", it features appearances by Marcia Griffiths, Jimmy Cliff, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, Anthony DeCurtis, Ziggy Marley, Chris Blackwell, Paolo Nutini, Paul Douglas, Sly Dunbar, and Robbie Shakespeare.
In May 2013, Hibbert received a head injury after being hit by a thrown bottle during a performance at the River Rock Festival in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. forcing him to cancel several months of live shows. The bottle was thrown by William C Lewis. Lewis was facing a charge of malicious wounding, but he pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Despite Hibbert pleading in a letter to the judge, "He is a young man, and I have heard what happens to young men in jail. My own pain and suffering would be increased substantially knowing that this young man would face that prospect," the judge gave Lewis a six-month sentence.
After a three-year hiatus following the incident at the River Rock Festival, in 2016 Toots and the Maytals returned to the stage and began touring again. Hibbert's vocals appear in the Major Lazer and Bad Royale 2016 collaboration, "My Number", which samples his band's earlier song "54-46 That's My Number".
On 25 July 2018, Hibbert performed on the U.S. television show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with Toots and the Maytals where they debuted an original song entitled "Marley" as well as performing their classic hit song "Funky Kingston" in a live performance.
Toots and the Maytals have been cited as inspiration for other music artists as per career longevity. Jamaican artist Sean Paul explained this in saying, "I've seen some great people in my industry, you know, people like Toots…Toots and the Maytals. Toots, he's a great reggae artist and he's still doing it…He's up there in years and he's doing it. Those kind of artists inspire me. I know I'm just going to keep on doing music as long as I can."
In 2010, Hibbert ranked No. 71 in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In August 2012, it was announced that he would receive the Order of Jamaica, the country's fifth highest honour
In August 2020, it was reported that Hibbert was in hospital "fighting for his life" in a medically induced coma. On September 12, 2020, a statement on the band's Facebook page announced that he had died, at the age of 77. The Gleaner and Rolling Stone later confirmed the announcement, reporting that Hibbert had died at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, in a medically induced coma. It was later confirmed that COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica was the underlying cause of his death.
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Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, O.J.
(8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020) was a Grammy Award winning Jamaican singer and songwriter, known as the leader for the reggae and ska band "Toots & the Maytals".
Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert was born in the rural town of May Pen, Jamaica, to parents who were Seventh-day Adventist preachers and owned local businesses, including a bakery. The youngest of several children, Frederick — who was given the nickname Little Toots by a brother.
Our sincere condolences to the family & friends of Toots! He will certainly be missed and we thank him for his voice, his indelible contribution to Jamaica & Jamaican music/reggae music. May the country road take you home, in peace. R.I.P.
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R.I.P. Frederick "Toots" Hibbert
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Tomorrow's show is a tribute to Frederick „Toots“ Hibbert on what would have been his 79th birthday. Let's celebrate together... tune in! https://fb.me/e/eePyZMc4G
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“Toots” Hibbert Dies at 77
“Toots” Hibbert, the Maytals band leader and first musician to use the word reggae in song, died Sept. 11, his family said in a statement.
No cause was given, though Hibbert, 77, had been hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms.
“It is with the heaviest of hearts to announce that Frederick Nathaniel ‘Toots’ Hibbert passed away peacefully tonight, surrounded by his family at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica,” the family said, while thanking Hibbert’s medical team “for their care and diligence.”
“Sail on, Toots,” the Tedeschi Trucks Band said on Facebook.
A contemporary of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff, Hibbert and the Maytals gave name to their music with 1968’s “Do the Reggay.” The group released its 24th album, Got to be Tough, on Who drummer Zak Starkey’s Trojan Jamaica label in August.
Hibbert’s association with the Who goes back to 1975, when the Maytals opened shows on the By Numbers tour.
“Our thoughts go out to the Hibbert family and friends,” the band wrote on Facebook.
Hibbert’s loss is “devastating,” the Specials’ Neville Staple said in a Facebook post.
“This great man of music led the way for so many,” Staple wrote. “May he rest easy and his music continue to light up the world.”
Also writing on Facebook, UB40 said it was an “honor and privilege” to tour with “this father of reggae” and thanked him for inspiring the group.
“R.I.Power, Toots,” Steel Pulse wrote on Facebook.
9/12/20
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The man who gave reggae its name and helped make it an international movement, Toots Hibbert, born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, has died at age 77.
Hibbert, one of the genre's founders and most beloved stars, was known for classics including “Pressure Drop,” “Monkey Man” and "Funky Kingston." He claimed to have named reggae on his song "Do The Reggay," which was released in 1968, according to the BBC.
The frontman of Toots & the Maytals, whose nickname "Toots" came from childhood, had been in a medically-induced coma at a hospital in Kingston since earlier this month. He was admitted in intensive care after complaints of having breathing difficulties according to his publicist. It was revealed in local media that the singer was awaiting results from a COVID-19 test after showing symptoms.
The Maytals started out as a trio made up of Hibbert, Henry “Raleigh” Gordon and Nathaniel “Jerry” Mathias. Later on, they added instrumentalists including bassist Jackie Jackson and drummer Paul Douglas. They broke up in the early 1980s, but the following decade Hibbert began working with a new lineup of Maytals.
The group posted a statement on Instagram and Twitter announcing his death.
"It is with the heaviest of hearts to announce that Frederick Nathaniel 'Toots' Hibbert passed away peacefully tonight, surrounded by his family at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica," Toots & the Maytals wrote. "The family and his management team would like to thank the medical teams and professionals for their care and diligence, and ask that you respect their privacy during their time of grief."
They shared that Hibbert is survived by seven of his eight children and his wife, "Miss D," named Doreen, to whom he was married for nearly 40 years. Two of his children, Junior Hibebrt and Leba Hibbert, are also reggae performers.
The five-time Grammy nominee fell ill following his last known performance in August which was performed on a live-stream during Jamaica's Emancipation and Independence celebrations.
Hibbert was born the youngest of seven children in May Pen, which is situated about 30 miles from Jamaica's capital, according to the BBC.
He was the son of Seventh-day Adventist ministers and would remember miles-long walks along dirt roads to schools, hours of singing in church and private moments listening to such American stars on the radio as Ray Charles and Elvis Presley.
An ex-boxer, Hibbert was a bandleader, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and showman whose concerts sometimes ended with dozens of audience members dancing with him on stage.
He was also, in the opinion of many, reggae's greatest singer, so deeply spiritual he could transform “Do re mi fa so la ti do" into a hymn. His raspy tenor, uncommonly warm and rough, was likened to the voice of Otis Redding and made him more accessible to American listeners than many reggae artists. Hibbert also recorded an album of hits, “Toots In Memphis,” which featured tracks such as "Hard to Handle" and "Knock on Wood" came out in 1988.
While he was not as involved politically as his friend, the late Bob Marley, he did preach justice, peace and righteousness in some songs, including "Pressure Drop," "Revolution" and "Bam Bam." He also reflected on his personal life in some of his music including on "54-46 That’s My Number" which was about his drug arrest and imprisonment that nearly derailed his career in the 1960s, according to the Independent.
Hibbert worked with musicians including Keith Richards, John Lennon, Eric Clapton and other rock stars who had become reggae fans in the 1970s. A tribute album from 2004, the Grammy winning “True Love,” included cameos by Richards, Bonnie Raitt, Ryan Adams and Jeff Beck. Hibbert also was the subject of a 2011 BBC documentary, “Reggae Got Soul,” with Clapton, Richards and Willie Nelson among the commentators.
A guest appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in 2004 brought Hibbert an unexpected admirer, the show's guest host, Donald Trump, who in his book “Think Like a Billionaire” recalled hearing the Maytals rehearse: "My daughter Ivanka had told me how great they were, and she was right. The music relaxed me, and surprisingly, I was not nervous.”
Hibbert's career was halted in 2013 after he sustained a head injury from a vodka bottle thrown during a concert in Richmond, Virginia, and suffered from headaches and depression. But by the end of the decade he was performing again and in 2020 he released another album, “Got To Be Tough,” which included contributions from Ziggy Marley and Ringo Starr, whose son, Zak Starkey, served as co-producer. The album illustrated the musician's "indomitable spirit" according to Pitchfork's review.
Loved ones, fans and colleagues took to social media to pay their respects.
Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley, tweeted about Hibbert's death noting he spoke with Hibbert recently.
"i told him how much i loved him we laughed & shared our mutual respect," Marley wrote. “He was a father figure to me his spirit is w/us his music fills us w/his energy i will never forget him."
Trojan Records, which released some of Toots and the Maytals' earlier work, also took to Twitter to share their reflections.
"Trojan mourns the passing of legendary reggae icon Toots Hibbert, frontman of the groundbreaking reggae and ska group Toots & The Maytals," the company wrote. "Our condolences to all his family, friends, and loved ones."
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness tweeted out a photo of Hibbert and himself.
"Today I mourn with all Jamaicans as we woke to news of the passing of our very own legendary Reggae singer Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert from the iconic band, 'Toots and the Maytals,'" he wrote.
British artist Cat Stevens tweeted too writing he was sad about the musician's passing, with an image of Hibbert. "God bless his soul."
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R.I.P. Frederick “Toots” Hibbert
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Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dies at 77 - Los Angeles Times
If his name is unfamiliar, this obituary does a lovely job of describing the career and influence of this absolute legend of music.
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What shitty news. Toots was a living legend, and helped popularise (and name!!!) reggae. So sad about this today.
We saw Toots & the Maytals twice, and one of them was perhaps one of the best vibes I’ve ever experienced at a gig. It was on a gorgeous beach, during a sunset, and everyone was so chill. An older dude gave us some weed, it was great.
Anyway, RIP to Toots x
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