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Toots & The Maytals – The Essential Collection / Union Square Music 2x Audio CD 2006 / METRDCD598
UPC 698458709820
The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music.
Frontman Toots Hibbert, who died in 2020, was considered a reggae pioneer on par with Bob Marley. His soulful vocal style was compared to Otis Redding, and led him to be named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Singers. After Hibbert's death, the Maytals indicated that they would continue as a working group.
Their 1968 single "Do the Reggay" was the first song to use the word "reggae", coining the name of the genre and introducing it to a global audience. The Oxford English Dictionary credits Toots and the Maytals in the etymology of the word "Reggae". According to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell "The Maytals were unlike anything else ... sensational, raw and dynamic."
| Label: | Union Square Music – METRDCD598 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
2 x CD, Compilation
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| Country: | UK |
| Released: |
2006 |
| Genre: | Reggae |
| Style: | Roots Reggae |
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Monkey Man | |
| 1-2 | 54-46 That's My Number | |
| 1-3 | Bam Bam | |
| 1-4 | Pressure Drop | |
| 1-5 | Peeping Tom | |
| 1-6 | Aldina | |
| 1-7 | Dr Lester | |
| 1-8 | It Must Be True Love | |
| 1-9 | Scare Him | |
| 1-10 | Louie Louie | |
| 1-11 | Johnny Coolman | |
| 1-12 | Pomp & Pride | |
| 1-13 | Monkey Girl | |
| 1-14 | Water Melon | |
| 1-15 | Do The Reggae | |
| 1-16 | Reborn | |
| 1-17 | If You Act This Way | |
| 1-18 | It Was Written Down | |
| 1-19 | Sun Moon & Star | |
| 1-20 | (Take Me Home) Country Roads | |
| 2-1 | Funky Kingston | |
| 2-2 | Pressure Drop 72 | |
| 2-3 | Redemption Song (Original Version) | |
| 2-4 | Time Tough | |
| 2-5 | Night & Day | |
| 2-6 | Don't Trouble Trouble | |
| 2-7 | Oh Yeah | |
| 2-8 | Bla Bla Bla | |
| 2-9 | 54-46 Was My Number | |
| 2-10 | I CanT Believe It | |
| 2-11 | Sweet & Dandy | |
| 2-12 | Pee Pee Cluck Cluck | |
| 2-13 | Hold On | |
| 2-14 | She's My Scorcher | |
| 2-15 | One Eye Enos | |
| 2-16 | Never You Change | |
| 2-17 | Loving Spirit | |
| 2-18 | Revival Reggae | |
| 2-19 | We Shall Overcome | |
| 2-20 | Daddy's Home |
