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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: Funky Kingston

Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Pressure Drop
976651
254-46 Was My Number
831175
3Funky Kingston
689260
4Monkey Man
324137
5Louie Louie
249837
6Sweet and Dandy
240856
7Time Tough
215072
8Pomps And Pride
149248
9Reggae Got Soul
146259
10Bam Bam
138617