Toots and The Maytals

[Q3210]

Tropi, check out "Daddy" by Toots and the Maytals. Its a slow almost ballad kind of old Jamaican music.

[Tropicana]

Thanks. First I am hearing this.

Very versatile band.

[Q3210]

Remi semi nemi dya....she said toots, "you got a new name".....Daddy.

Toots has that heavy rasp of a voice....how best would you describe it?

[Tropicana]

Not sure how to describe it. It's so versatile. Some of these singers from the 1960s. They really sounded soulful like African Americans until they drop their h's which they inevitably do.... every last one of them. Funny when they sing they didn't have Jamaican accents but when they talk they do...like listen to Daddy again and you will notice.

[Tropicana]

[Tropicana]

Who does the high part of the harmony Henry "Raleigh" Gordon and Nathaniel "Jerry" Mathias?

The group's musical career was interrupted in late 1966 when Hibbert was arrested and imprisoned for 18 months.



This is what his website says

The band’s musical career was rudely interrupted in late 1966 when Hibbert was arrested and imprisoned on drugs possession charges.Following Hibbert’s release from jail towards the end of 1967, the band officially changed their name to Toots and the Maytals and began working with Chinese-Jamaican producer Leslie Kong

This was his number in jail. They really sound African American here. This is a great sound.....

Stick it up, mister!
Can you hear what I'm saying now, yeah
Get your hands in the air, sir!
And you will get no hurt, mister, no no no

I said yeah (I said yeah)
Listen what they say (listen what they say)
Can you hear me say, yeah? (yeah yeah)
Listen what they say (listen what they say)

Do you believe I would take such a thing with me
And give it to a police man?
I wouldn't do that, oh no (ooh, ooh)
I wouldn't do that (ooh, ooh)

And if I do that, I would say "Sir,
Come on and put the charge on me"
I wouldn't do that (ooh, ooh)
I wouldn't do that (ooh, ooh)

I'm not a fool to hurt myself
So I was innocent of what they done to me
They were wrong (ooh, ooh), oh yeah
They were wrong (ooh, ooh)

You give it to me one time (huh)
You give it to me two times (huh-huh)
You give it to me three times (huh-huh-huh)
You give it to me four times (huh-huh-huh-huh)

54-46 was my number, was my number, man
Right now, someone else has that number
54-46 was my number, well
Right now, someone else has that number

And I said yeah (I said yeah)
Listen what they say (listen what they say)
Can you hear me say, yeah? (yeah yeah)
Listen what they say (listen what they say)
Oh, work could not control me now
Oh, no bars could not hold me now
They hold I down and they lock-a you way
They try to keep I for a year and a day
But through the powers of the Most High God
Got to turn me lose, I say

54-46 was my number, was my number, man
Right now, someone else has that number, well
54-46 was my number, was my number, man
Right now, someone else has that number, hey

[Tropicana]

He presents much better here than when Jeannie Becker interviewed him for Canadian TV. I was not impressed.

[Tropicana]

This is from 1983. Again he presents nicely.

[Tropicana]

This is still my favourite from Toots.

[Tropicana]

Followed by

.... and

What happened to the other guys who were in the Maytals.