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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
533707
254-46 Was My Number
388886
3Funky Kingston
358779
4Monkey Man
197234
5Louie Louie
130123
6Time Tough
118509
7Sweet and Dandy
85077
8Bam Bam
76980
9Reggae Got Soul
73715
10In The Dark
68105