Global A Go-Go presents:
Toots Hibbert, 1942-2020
Toots Hibbert, lead singer of the Jamaican vocal group Toots & The Maytals, passed away on September 11 from complications of COVID-19.
Jamaica is a country of 3 million people living on an island roughly the size of Delaware. The musicians who have made their little country so internationally prominent are Jamaica’s version of the Founding Fathers. And if there was a Mount Rushmore of reggae, the second person chiseled onto it would be Toots Hibbert, with only Bob Marley preceding him.
So Toots’ death is a major event, and I wanted to commemorate it this week (Monday September 21, 3:00-5:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site) on Global A Go-Go.
I’ve gone to the vaults for a show I hosted on WRIR on May 16, 2013. It was for the program Cause & Effect, which highlights the music of an individual artist or a genre or a time and place, putting it into context with the music of its influences, peers, those who were influenced, and so on.
On that day, I focused on Toots & The Maytals, who would be performing on Brown’s Island here in Richmond two days later. That turned out to be an ill-fated visit to say the least: someone in the audience hurled a liquor bottle at the stage and it hit Toots in the head. The concert ended, Toots was rushed to MCV Hospital with a concussion, and he didn’t perform in public for another three years.
So Richmond owes Toots big time. The least we can do is give him a 2-hour tribute. I hope you enjoy it.
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Show Archive
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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James Carr, “Dark End Of The Street”
from Southern Soul #1: True Love Travels On a Gravel Road
Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group - 1967
USA
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Percy Sledge, “True Love Travels On a Gravel Road”
Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group - 1969
USA
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Mahalia Saunders, “Piece Of My Heart”
from This Is Reggae - The Pama Collection
Spirit of 69 Records - 1971
Jamaica
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Robert Palmer, “Pressure Drop”
from Pressure Drop
Universal-Island Records Ltd. - 1975
England UK-USA
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Wilson Pickett, “Ninety-nine and One-half (Won't Do)”
from The Exciting Wilson Pickett
Rhino Atlantic - 1966
USA
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Derrick Morgan, “Tougher Than Tough”
from Storybook Revisited ((New Stereo Recordings))
Burning Sounds - 1967
Jamaica
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The Untouchables, “Tighten Up”
from The Best of Tighten Up Reggae, Vol. 1
Trojan Records - 1968
Jamaica
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Toots & The Maytals, “Do The Reggay”
from Pressure Drop - The Definitive Collection
Trojan - 1968
Jamaica
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Al Barry with the Cimarons, “Morning Sun”
from Studio One Freedom Sounds: Studio One In the 1960s
Soul Jazz Records - 1970
Jamaica
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Bob Marley & The Wailers, “Small Axe”
from The Best of the Early Years
Universal Music Group International - 1970
Jamaica
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Toots & The Maytals, “Six and Seven Books of Moses”
from Reggae Got Soul
Island Records - 1976
Jamaica
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Jimmy Cliff, “The Harder They Come”
from The Harder They Come (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) - 1972
Jamaica
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U-Roy, “Pumps and Pride (feat. Tarrus Riley)”
from Pray Fi Di People (Pray Fi Di People)
Discograph - 2012
Jamaica
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go September 21st, 2020
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