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Max Romeo - Wet Dream (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2014
- Official audio for Max Romeo's risqué reggae UK chart hit from 1969.
After making his recording debut fronting a vocal group, the Emotions, Maxwell Livingston Smith, aka Max Romeo, launched his solo career in 1968 with the widely banned, yet hugely popular ‘Wet Dream’. The nature of his work immediately following this surprise UK hit (the record peaked at number ten in the Spring of ‘69) either echoed its sentiments or focused upon matters of a more romantic nature, but by 1971 he diversified further, cutting a series of popular Rasta-flavoured sides that marked him as one of Jamaica’s leading roots singers.
Throughout the remainder of the Seventies, he remained a leading figure in Jamaican music despite the great variance of the his output - his music ranging from blatant slackness to social commentary - and while he has long since eased off from his recorded and live work, he remains a hugely respected elder statesman on the reggae scene.
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My old man's going out song ....should have seen the faces in the crematorium 🤣
Good for him. Top Man
Omg 🤣🤣🤣
🙏🙏🙏
love it
I just physically clapped reading that. Legend
i used to go to a local disco in 1970 .great track to dance with the girls to :)
As a 10yr old I loved listening to my 18yr old sister's Ska. Didn't understand this, but l knew it was a bit naughty.
I know our Dad wasn't listening to the words: he'd sit there, whistling along.....oblivious😊
I'm 64 now, and still have all her ska on vinyl that she gave me. To this day l still play Tighten Up Vol 2. Absolutely love it.
Makes me feel like a teenager again during the TwoTone era all over again
he knew 🤣
It was definitely a blessing in disguise for Max Romeo when the BBC banned it as it became number one elsewhere.
Being a skinhead had its ups and down’s ….classic skinhead ! I’m in 2024 x
I could play this in my bedroom at 16, my mum didn't understand the lyrics!😊 1969, a great year.
😁 hehehe
I was in 5th form - the boys and girls played this loud from the 6th form room, drove the teachers mad, they couldn't stop it. Kids in the playground shouting out the lyrics ... what an epic sound for my last year at school.
@@DannyThompson54 where in the world was this ??
@@AndreiTheVampire This was at Sir Hugh Middleton school, in Clerkenwell, London, UK.
@@DannyThompson54 awesome. I was born in 84, can’t imagine what growing up w this music like this would be like.. so much has changed since those days eh? This was when music didn’t sound like computers.
My mum plays this record in the garden so all the neighbours can hear. She's totally oblivious.
You go that girl John moss side Manchester boy 1950s.John Rooney
Classes
Love your mum. Would have done the same, except that I was only about 16 when this record came out. Oh what an uproar - banned everywhere in the stuffy 60's!! Didn't stop all the illegal imports though. Great beginning for Trojan Music ...
LMAO love man
ha ha ha !!! Love that thought! Id do it purposley so see the neighbours reactions lol
My girlfriend who became my Wife loved this song but thought it was naughty, 50 years later I play it to my daughter's they love it but didn't realise in those days we had a life. Many times we made love listening to this song, enough said I think. I love the guy who played it as his dad was being put to rest, bless you. Those were the days oh to be young again and have a sense of fun and laughter.
Wet Dream by Wet Leg
Richard Saldler: You -- really -- do have a life, a family life where you can share the naughtiness.
You can gain this type of joy with your family: where I lose my freakiness, being abashed near relatives and loved ones.
It is rather rude, even by today’s standards lol
A completely different song. @@markpetersen8135
My dad was a reggae lover, so always heard this in the car, I had zero idea of what the lyrics meant until I was in my 20’s and realised what I’d been singing along to 😂
You have a nery nice dad
Its about the Jamaican roofing industry - I swear!!
@@Moneytane1976 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Yeah, course it is. Been round for 64 years, I KNOW what this was about? In fact, still got this record safe and sound until I buy new record player.
Dear Kate Lily X: This was just Jamaican jibberish in its more understandable form -- I glossed over the lyrics and focused on the rhythms.
Ка Авагс 1:02 а шип п п п ш😊. 😊р
I remember playing this in the 70's at the school disco I ran as a school pupil. Inevitably the disco was banned. I also played je'taime
Best record to dance to in the Marisco nightclub, Woolacombe, 1969. What a summer!
When that came out I was in my early teens. My cousin played this at our house and my mum slapped him and banned him from our house. I'm 60 now.
Is he allowed back now? 😆
@@auntyb6313 My mum and cousin are sadly no longer with us. He didn't ever try again.
Mum, Dad and family (including me) were in a seaside cafe when this came on the juke box. I can remember Mum's disgust, but the rest of us loved it! Happy days!
She should have heard boom fatty boom boom
If she was disgusted then she must have been listening to the words, which was unusual for an adult, my music didn't even figure on my parents radar !! 😊
My eldest sister used to play this tune
I remember the boys at school back in 1970 singing this.
I was one.
Maxie’s reputation as a ladies man must have been on Bunny’s mind when he tried to persuade Max to record ‘Wet Dream’. Max had written the song but did not want to sing it and none of Bunny’s Agro stable of established artists, including Slim Smith, Roy Shirley and John Holt would touch it. Even Derrick Morgan whose ‘Hold You Jack‘ rhythm was to be used for the song did not want to know.
Bunny, a man never short of ideas, (one of his album sleeves even featured a cartoon of a man’s head with a glowing light bulb above it) realised that the song had definite possibilities. He would later gain the soubriquet ‘Striker’ because of his almost innate ability to make hit records. Maxie was not over-keen, but Bunny allegedly told him if he didn’t do it he was ‘out of here’, and so they arrived one night at Studio One on Brentford Road to find Coxsone himself in charge of the session. When he heard Max sing the opening bars of ‘Wet Dream’ he was so disgusted that he refused to go any further and told his apprentice engineer, Errol ‘ET’ Thompson, to take over on the board. Rude or ‘slack’ records were nothing new and, under the influence of American artists such as Blowfly, were currently undergoing something of a revival, but the format usually tended towards boasts of sexual prowess rather than a concern with ‘erotic dreams causing involuntary ejaculations’. Bunny promptly took ‘Wet Dream’ to the Palmer brothers in London who promptly released it on their Unity label.
It was an exciting time for Jamaican music in the U.K. as it bathed in its first real run of international success largely due to its adoption by London’s ‘skinhead‘ cult. Oh how we laughed when we first heard the record, acknowledging that it was a version of an already established hit record on a popular rhythm and expecting that, like most ‘novelty’ records, it would disappear in a week or two as soon as something new came along.
However this one refused to go away and it proved to be instrumental in introducing reggae to the British public as it continued to sell and sell and sell. It made and stayed on the U.K. National Charts for an unprecedented twenty-five weeks where it reached the dizzy heights of number ten without the benefit of any radio play at all. The record was deemed so offensive that Alan Freeman was not permitted to even say the title on his Sunday afternoon ‘Pick Of The Pops’ show and it was only ever referred to as ‘a record by Max Romeo’. The potent blend of humour and sexual ‘suggestiveness’ ensured its popularity with the U.K. audience who had never heard anything quite so blatant before.
It certainly proved to be a rude awakening for young Max who was really thrown in at the deep end and when he arrived in the U.K. to promote the record he steadfastly stuck to his story that his song was nothing whatsoever to do with sex at all. Oh no. In fact it was an everyday story of poverty in Jamaica where the roof of Maxie’s shack was constantly leaking - and we all know just how much it pours with rain in Jamaica.
The chorus of ‘lie down gal let me push it up, push it up’ actually alluded to the ever polite Max requesting that his young lady move out of the way so that he push a broom up into the hole in the roof to stop said leak. So now we knew that ‘Wet Dream’ was not rude and was all about Maxie’s good night’s sleep being disturbed by a leaking roof. So that’s all right then. Of course everyone believed him even though no-one thought to ask him what the lines about ‘give the crumpet to Big Foot Joe, give the fanny to me’ meant and Alan Freeman persisted in calling it ‘a record by Max Romeo’.
Just in case anyone had really believed him, Maxie went on to promptly record a number of innuendo filled records which, strangely enough, also failed to garner any air play and, to this day, ‘Wet Dream’ remains his sole U.K. chart entry. Surprisingly ‘Wet Dream’ was not a particularly big seller in Jamaica, but even if he found it hard to live down the stigma attached to the record in the U.K., Maxie had no such problems at home and he enjoyed hit after hit on the Jamaican charts. Reference: trojanrecords.com/artist/max-romeo/
Dear Natty Good: When you have the golden goose formula -- go with it. Just reading this would make an excited musician languish in ennui.
Yessss. Love this tune...Rude but classic..😂
Bless up Trojan, studio one etc, for bringing all these righteous tunes to the white man😎🌈
Ah David, I’m a 75 year old Grandfather who has come through Blue Beat and all from there, I’m a white man
Dear David Finding, The white man gave these songsters his sacred soil and streets of smooth paving, airplay of opportunities, dredging Marley from the pit to play for the British masses.
It’s for everyone
I cannot believe that at 41 I'd be listening to this song for the first time since i was a kid and that the lyrics are what they are. I used to watch my mum dance around to this and thought nothing of it. Thank goodness I didn't sing this in school. But it is really catchy tune.
I'm 68 and still like it!!
Oh my god who remember s this
we used to play this at the youth club our copy also got snapped in half am now 59 and still love it
Reminds me of my school days and discos, just LOVE this song. ❤
First record I bought as a 10 year old, 2 pence off a stall in chapel market Islington, still got it in the loft with rest of oldies ❤
Max's public explanation was that the song was really about trying to fix a leaky roof. hahaha
YEAH RIGHT THERE GOES THAT FLYING PIG AGAIN TELL THAT TO ME UNCLE
I first heard this live at the Brookfield Hall (now a co…op store) in Ashford Kent, sang live by Mood Reaction. My dad used to be the bouncer there (& I didn’t have to pay to get in), when my dad heard this song he made me go outside! You should have seen his face when he heard the same song blasting out of my bedroom, needless to say I got grounded & the record confiscated! 😂 happy days.
I absolutely believe him. And I believed John Lennon when he said that he and 4-year-old Julian were innocently drawing pictures at the kitchen table one day, and John asked his son what the picture of the lady flying through the air wearing gems was, and Julian said, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds." The song had absolutely NOTHING to do with anything else.
What a load of bollocks! How does he explain lie down gal let me push it up?
@@stingray4real oook
The original... Me and Wellie rocked this.. Xxxxx
The Elms college disco, Stoke, every Tuesday night 1969, such happy memories !
One of the best never to be played on R1. Old Max had it cracked!
OMG I have the 45 record of this somewhere. Growing up in London, listened to this a lot.
Good grief, would they allow this today,damn fine times
Do we give a toss, absolutely brilliant tune 🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😉
when i bought this they only sold it to me on the understanding it had to go over the counter in a brown paper bag ha hahahahhaha
That is how record shops sold records, in paper bags.🙄
Levi's boots+braces.. good times
Only just found this song via an Alexa pressie this Christmas. Asked for reggae music and found this gem that I've never heard of before. Puts my original Prince Buster, Big 5 single that I still play on my dancette in the shade somewhat!! Happy Days!😊🤣
So did I great music still got the single
Remember this one at the fairground in Salford, they played while we were on the caterpillar. I must have been about 14.
We loved it, great lyrics!
Greens Caterpillar i remember it well
Brilliant stuff!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏
6 months in the UK top 50 ... not bad for a record never played on the radio in 1969.
Unity Reaords B side She's but a little girl.
She's probably a bit bigger now,
unerstated groove, keyboard so sweet, remember dancing to this at george and dragon pub in tonbridge, golden times!
Danced to this a few times.. Back in the day.. With the girlfriend ... ..45 years ago....now my Mrs..Good times.. :)
Me and my older brother in the early 70's shared a bedroom, This was a regular on his old Sharp music centre back then! rattled some good memories, Great track and now added to my favourites
I have to tell this as I saw it in 1969 iwas born 1964 Kennington Street, bradford, England. my garden looked over the back garden in the other garden I saw one young born Jamaican one born Pakistani one born polish two born English dancing to this singing to the words I joined in singing and dancing like them mum called me in for dinner I'm walking in singing my father stared laughing then started singing my mum looked at father then started to dance 💃 saying glad he doesn't know what it meant. my mother was English my father was Egyptian thank you Jamaica for bringing the world together with your ska music 🎶
Remember it well from my youth! Brilliant those were the days
Was playing this to my friend at his place when I was 13, his mum took it off the player and threw it on the fire.
I really laughed out loud at this...sorry!
@@kukol and problably threw you out on the fire too :D
mine kept throwing mine away and I kept buying.
@@ivyatoppin5682 And so it went up the charts. Great stories!
my old man bent my copy into 4 and used it to jam the shed door open.
Always evokes so many great memories ......wish I could do back
This old 45 wss in our record collection at home in my youth 👍 good tune though but a bit out there at the time blushing now 😂
This is pure Classic
This is like the
Carry on of the reggae world
Very naughty !
But nice!
@@annesemper4451: In what way?
Absolutely CLASS RECORD
Omg I remember this when I was 14 nearly sixty still know the words🤣
Ah, innocent me 😇 14 in 1969, loved the song, hadn't a clue what it was about but man, it was catchy! Got some funny looks when I professed to like the tune....
I am pleased to say that i replaced all my old singles ( which were knackered by then) with trojan cds, so i can still play them. This just proves that great music is timeless.🤣👍👍👍
Bought this album when I was a kid, had to hide it from my dad! Paid £1 for it sold it for £30 twenty years later. Wish I still had it, I wonder how much its worth now.
You don’t wanna know
@@Anykindahandle oh dear is it worth a lot or nothing?
It's priceless.....
@@gavinwtroy Oh dear!
@@chechegarcia1344 are you being serious, if you are nooooooooo!
I'm 33 and I've just found this lol. I think my dad had the lp but there's no way I would have been allowed to hear it!
To John Strelley: At 33: I think your dad would let you decide.
Wow...this is a great tune, man.❤❤
Still have a copy played it forever at 13 didn’t have a clue what it was about just loved the sound. Innocent days.
bass is awesome.
You just can’t beat this.lie down girl,let me push it up.
Another song from my youth marvellous
My fav reggae track.❤
At the crematorium; brilliant 👏
I was 14 in 1970, borrowed it off my friend who was 13!!!!
Couldn't understand why the BBC banned it from Radio One!
Remember the BBC banning the Judge Dread songs too😂
Good old days😂
This is the first time I've heard this; it's unknown in the USA. If I played it in front of a room of people, I doubt they'd have any idea what the lyrics were, unless maybe they had seen the title first.
To PC No: You recently heard this one year ago in the USA?
They'd think you're in church -- compared to the norm issued to our ears today.
I bet the lyrics ‘Give your Fanny to me’ would totally confuse you yanks.
69, A VERY APT YEAR.
I still like this song..
👍👏👏
Reminds me of the Locarno 1969 Streatham Hill SW London
I haven't heard this one for a long time, used to have this one on vinyl played it alot then.🤩😊😎🤗
Great music!
first time ive heard this record it was banned back in 1969 when l was 11
Wow memories that they haven,t banned yet.reggae on.
Brilliant record, would never be allowed now. So glad there was no pc in the day,
That's bloody fantastic, what a way to go 😂❤
one of the best reggae tunes ever recorded
such gorgeous organ playin there
Solo organ!
I have the original, it's my mums. Fabulous track 👌🏿
So that song was released in 69, it makes legit sense now 😂😂😂😂
It may have been the tail end of 1968. It just became a mainstream hit the following year due to good word of mouth.
My eldest sister used to play this
Remember this from youth club discos
Some of the older girls who lived in Moss Side used to sing
this in the dinner queue. When l was pupil at Manchester Central Grammar /HightSchool for Girls re 1968.
Fond Memories
Girls
We all thought these girls..You know who you are!
Were incredbly sophisicated and knowing about Caribbean Music Culture re Ska, Blue Beat and Reggae, They all had gorgeous looking half caste (mixed race} boyfiends. Really sharp dressers.
Fond Memories Girls
Virtutem et Musas
Xxx
Wow first time am hearing this song...I can only imagine how Christians in 1968 were upset at rag songs like this
Uuuuh hace cuanto que no es escuchaba esta canción...!!! 😀😀😀👍👍👍
FAB tune MATEY!
Yeah Great times!
love this song
Love it love it 😂❤
Wow you can't beat the Jamaican reggae artist
💕 Love this man he don't mess with his words gets 😂 straight to the point ☝️❤
Amun RASTAFARI AMUN ❤❤❤😅
Hee! Hee! Remember this song from when I used to go to a Youth Club loosely associated with the Church of England back in the day. Some Jamaican lads asked if they could bring records and the powers that be, long before diversity, said "yes, of course". Happily, they couldn't understand the lyrics 😂
Great record!
I live in California, but originally from Birmingham. My best friend's parents had the record and he was allowed to play with the system.
One day, he heard the song and kept singing the chorus over and over and over again. He caught hell/heck/hades, etc, etc... with a wooden hair brush(he was 7)!
Nottingham goose fair circa 1970 , sheepskins , crombies, denim jackets everywhere !
Classic🇯🇲💯❤️🔥
Souvenirs... #698K ❤
Bad man ting
remember moving to this very sexy ,and close to the bone for the year.
The "official" explanation for the lyrics was that it was about a man whose wife is woken up in the middle of the night by him fixing a leak in the ceiling, and he tells her to go back to sleep while he carries on fixing the leak!
I remember being a skin at grendon club....my Dad went mad at the song...
I have this, but on the Ocean Label. Had it since 1970.
The Ocean reissue was from 1975.
a know it sounds rude but a used to have the 12 inch version very rare, everything was great those days back to the dark ages
say what you want about this song it sure makes your feet move in all directions ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lol
Jane: Just keep them straight with 5-inch heels.
When I was at school, all the boys used to sing this.
Fertility clinic music. Bim!
Only reached no 10 English charts may 1969
It was actually Pama Records (on the Unity label) that brought this classic to the world
True. I can still see that Unity label spinning on our radiogram as I played my sister's copy of the single. Good job my parents never understood the lyrics, I don't think they'd have been too happy knowing what I was listening to as a nipper! Not that I understood them either at that age. 😁
this certainly takes me back to fun times
Só quem curte aki 5:00 da manha brisadao... salve Guarulhos, salve Brasil um Salvi a todos Reggeiro...Leo.S
Great Reggae
Banned by the BBC and played everywhere else!!