Jul022025

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

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Pressure Drop
976600
254-46 Was My Number
831158
3Funky Kingston
689241
4Monkey Man
324112
5Louie Louie
249831
6Sweet and Dandy
240850
7Time Tough
215059
8Pomps And Pride
149246
9Reggae Got Soul
146253
10Bam Bam
138615