Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part III of a three part pancocojams series about Toots And The Maytals, an iconic Jamaican Ska & Rocksteady music group.
Part III showcases a YouTube sound of file of Toots And The Maytals' "Funky Kingston" and documents selected comments from the discussion thread of that sound file.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/information-about-iconic-jamaican-ska.html for Part I of this series. Part I presents information about Toots And The Maytals and showcases a YouTube video of the group's song "54-46 That's My Number." Information about that song is included in this post along with a link to that song's lyrics.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/toots-and-maytals-song-funky-kingston.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. Part II presents information about the Toots And The Maytals' song "Funky Kingston". This post also showcases a YouTube video of Toots And The Maytals performing "Funky Kingston", and includes the lyrics to that song.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Toots And The Maytals for their musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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SHOWCASE SOUND FILE: Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston
Alvaro Sánchez, Published on Nov 5, 2009
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Statistics: as of April 16, 2019 3:32 PM ET
total views - 2,717,446
total likes - 15,000
total dislikes - 275
total comments - 464
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Information about Kingston, Jamaica
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Jamaica
"Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island....
In the Americas, Kingston is the largest predominantly English-speaking city south of the United States."...
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS SOUND FILE'S DISCUSSION THREAD
This compilation presents selected comments from a sound file for the song "Funky Kingston" by Toots and the Maytals. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
Disclaimer: I didn't read all of the comments in that discussion thread, but I did read A LOT of them. I believe that these selected comments are representative of the comments in that entire discussion thread.
1. Thefog666, 2010
"funny how most people only know this from GTA, i known this song since i was little, probably cause my mom and dad used to play this stuff all the time. back in the day. Ruddy Brilliant!
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004 for PlayStation 2, and on 7 June 2005 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. A high definition remastered version received a physical release for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on 30 June 2015 and 1 December 2015, respectively.
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Considered one of the sixth generation of video gaming's most significant titles, and by many reviewers to be one of the greatest video games ever made, San Andreas received rave reviews by many critics who praised the music, story and gameplay. It became the best-selling video game of 2004, and has sold over 27.5 million copies worldwide as of 2011;[3] it remains the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time."...
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2. Omer, 2011
"haha it's the miami ink theme song :P"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Ink
"“Miami Ink is an American reality show on TLC that follows the events that took place at a tattoo parlour in Miami Beach, Florida. The show premiered in July 2005 and finished broadcasting its sixth and final season in 2008.[1] The show led to several spin-offs, including the shows LA Ink, London Ink, NY Ink, and Madrid Ink, some of which are also broadcast on TLC.[1]”
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3. A2Z11tree, 2012
"Yeeee, I live in Funky Kingston... Ontario"
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Ontario, Canada
Comment #36 below is another example of prefacing the name of your city with the place name "Kingston". This probably implies that your city is also "funky" ("cool", "hip").
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4. Bruno Prestat, 2012
"trop superbe pour mettre des commentaires. from nowher in France"
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Google translate from French to English
"Too superb to put comments"
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5. Xamuri Rimura, 2012
"brasil e jamaica punks e skins unit! lindo som"
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Google translate from Portuguese to English
"brazil and jamaica punks and skins unit[e]! Beautiful sound"
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6. fizzska, 2012
"love this tuuune reggae for ever"
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7. Bullzown, 2012
"Alot of us now this song because of the PLEBS :) Itv2 comedy :)"
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs_(TV_series)
"Plebs is a British television series broadcast on ITV2"...
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8. Justin Tyme, 2013
"London calling In the Groove!"
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This is one example in this compilation of what I refer to as a "nation signing comment". "Nation signing in" comments serve as "shout outs" (brief public acknowledgements/greetings and/or praises) for a particular song and/or singer/s. These comments document the global reach of a particular song, singer/s, and particular musical genres by serving as a "roll-call" of the nations (and sometimes also from ethnic groups, language groups, cities/states etc.) that know this song/singer and are enthusiastic about this song/singer. I'm not sure if the comment given below (#9) was written in response to this "nation signing in" custom, but, either way, it nicely sums up one of the main purposes for that custom.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/examples-of-nation-signing-in-comments.html for more information about and examples of "nation signing comments" from the discussion thread of a Nigerian Afrobeat record by Wizkid.
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9. Jent Borgstijn, 2013
"so, It's a sort of a tribute and the song is awesome haha"
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10. Chris topher, 2013
"If it weren't for the old school masters like Toots all these modern so called Pop artists could and would not exist..who would they copy from? Great piece of music!"
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11. Vocal viv, 2014
"wicked.... lovin it.."
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12. Mario Gomez, 2014
"You can't beat the classics,...Woooooooooooooooo! 1"
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13. LIFE LIBERTY RADNESS, 2015
"One of the greatest jams ever."
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14. lasarousi, 2014
"i hate that pitbull sampled this song which is a classic by its own and perfect roots."
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15. felix, 2014
"Actually TJR sampled.."
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16. i2Shea, 2015
"+lasarousi Sampled? Lmfao he pretty much stole the song word for word. He's a pathetic excuse for an "artist". More than half of his songs are just stolen from music made years and years ago."
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17. Giuseppe LoGiurato, 2015
"I'm so glad that I don't know who this pitbull person is/was... he sounds like he might be a lame person who needs to steal other's good ideas..."
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18. tam 1445, 2016
"lasarousi omg I just heard this on the radio and I thought "wow, this sounds like that pit bull song". Sad"
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17. igotasweetass, 2018
"^this. i wouldn't mind if he sampled a bit. No he straight up took the whole song. I hope toot's got his."
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18. Jagoff PhD, 2019
"TJR sampled and then sold it to pitbull so this song got double raped"
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19. Rootslove, 2015
"Toots is Roots ..."
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20. caleb basile, 2017
"Root toot ska-boot"
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21. MrViperVip, 2017
"doot doot"
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22. yeye, 2017
"Ye but "do the raggay" of the same band give his name to that new style betwin the Roots, the ska, the rock and thé soul ;)"
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23. GoodIceMaster, 2015
"I actually came here from a video game, shark tales."
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24. Master Of Disaster, 2017
"Gta San Andreas! 😂😂"
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25. Chance Vought, 2016
"And Scarface The World Is Yours :D"
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26. Tracy Turner, 2017
"Plebs brought me here. Salve Grumio!"
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27. Marron Giant, 2017
"This song is similar to the plebs closing theme"
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28. Ping Pong, 2016
"Just hearing this on the UK movie 'County Kilburn'!"
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29. T-Zay, 2016
"Kingston native here!"
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30. Abraham Palmer, 2016
"Legit song. Reggae use to be awesome back then 70s/80s."
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31. Abraham Palmer, 2016
"Is true I notice that too even the production of reggae nowadays is so artificial"
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32. Fat Max, 2017
"I agree, some is, but check out Chronixx. He is the next big thing in reggae, true legend."
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33. ArchosR14, 2017
"who's here because they were looking for the end credits song from plebs..."
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29. chasmanian remakas, 2017
"Been jamming to this for quite some time and it still moves me every time I listen too it. Always keep it rolling!"
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30. paul elliott, 2017
"Toots, and the mighty Maytals rocking it out in the best way
Cool groove"
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31. David Washburn, 2017
"Such a great song from an amazing man / group. I've been lucky to see Toots and the Maytalls 5 or 6 times and loved every show. The last time, a few years ago he was close to 70yrs old and hadn't slowed down a bit. He never phones in a show, he works every one. At one show he was wearing a light purple shirt and a dark leather vest. He was working the crowd and having fun with the band and giving it everything. He took off his vest, obviously hot from the effort, and he had sweat so completely under the vest, it looked like he still had it on as the light purple shirt and turned dark and wet matching the vest outline. See him while you can!"
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32. Jaibi Tico, 2017
"Que piezotaa....!!! Calidad de reggae..!!!! Buenas vibras desde Costa Rica 🤙🏻🇨🇷"
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Google translate from Spanish to English
"What piezotaa .... !!! Reggae quality .. !!!! Good vibes from Costa Rica 🤙🏻🇨🇷"
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33. Pigmeat Martin, 2017
"A favorite since I was a young boy. It spawned a ton of knockoffs like "Funky Nassau" and "Funky Lagos" to name a few. Anywhere this was played someone would cut a knock off, it was too damned good of a groove to waste."
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34. ruiz Lomas Cajun Trujillo, 2017
"this is the maytals but recorded as "The Flames" cause they didn´t had their own "rights" at the moment..."
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35. Crypto Steve, 2018
"Toots and the Maytals have so many classic hits that everyone knows...and many don't realize how active and groundbreaking the group was. Much love and respect to Toots and the Maytals!"
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36. Rianna Ricco, 2018
"❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ from Kingston, London"
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37. Gehan Dileepa, 2019
"Narcos Mexico!!!11"
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38. Pynner, 2019
"Man, I didn't discover this original until like 5 years after I heard Funky Vodka!
They didn't change much, probably should have called it a "remix"."
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39. SANDIEGOROOTS™, 2019
"Just this "Toots and the Maytals " Funky Kingston" Lp OG press out diggin' for vinyl today! Love this track as well as " Pressure Drop" on this record !"
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This concludes Part III of this three part series on Toots And The Maytals.
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