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Toots and The Maytals

Jamaican ska vocal group The Maytals became a reggae band in 1971, renamed Toots and The Maytals with Toots Hibbert (Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert) as front figure. The band won a 2005 Grammy award for the album True Love. Funky Kingston in early 70s is on Rolling Stone's list The Greatest Albums of All Time. The bass line in "54-46" is one of the most covered in pop music. Songs such as "Monkey Man", "Pressure Drop", "Bam Bam", among others, made them favorites for the early skinhead movement of white working-class youth in UK. Read more on Last.fm

Track: Monkey Man

Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Pressure Drop
974209
254-46 Was My Number
829327
3Funky Kingston
688102
4Monkey Man
323017
5Louie Louie
249512
6Sweet and Dandy
240438
7Time Tough
214392
8Pomps And Pride
149094
9Reggae Got Soul
145760
10Bam Bam
138384