Musical Youth "Pass The Dutchie" - Signature Songs That Are Actually Covers
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2023
- Musical Youth "Pass The Dutchie" - Signature Songs That Are Actually Covers
In 1982 five schoolboys from Birmingham topped the charts around the world with their song "Pass The Dutchie", but their signature song isn't just a cover of 1 song, it's actually 3 songs combined.
This mini-documentary is the story of the early days of Musical Youth and the creation of their super catchy smash hit single.
Sing along now..."Pass the dutchie pon the left-hand side"! - Розваги
One of my favorite channels
Thank you! 😊
I love his thorough research. Doesn't miss a thing .
If you grew up in Queens, NYC in the 1980s (the heart of the Caribbean community), you could hear this song from every backyard BBQ during the summer, and from every basement party jam!
You didn't even have to be in Queens, I grew up in Connecticut in the 80s and you couldn't drive anywhere without hearing this song playing from every single car out in traffic. Every single car was playing this and afrika bambaataa... That's just the way it was 💖🤗
If you grew up anywhere in the cosmos…🎼
007 was a hit in Uganda by then,
You could be put to prison by Obote regime because m7 was in the bush at that time
Each and every day now i go back to my youth days of 198x and i listen to a song from idol group Musical youth . I remember exactly where i was when i heard them for the first time .
Great video. Even as a kid I suspected Dutchie was a drug reference, so seems weird being middle-aged and only now just finding out it was a pot reference of another kind.
Yeah its ironic that it went from being about Pot to about A Pot. And as food is also a common slang term for all kinds of drugs, the meaning barely changed. Some people still think dutchie is a reference to weed being decriminalised in Holland or Dutch Masters cigars being used to roll spliffs. Perhaps they should have gone with pass the mars bar? lol...
Just weed mate! We’re the same age and I personally had many occasions where I said ‘Pass the Duchie’ 😊
My condolences to the 2 brothers that have passed away. I still love all of them and their records and songs.💗💗
They used to play this music video on the break between Blue Peter. Growing up in the early 80s in the U.K. this was the pinnacle of cool - kids from the playground on tv. And they were good !!
Believe it or not musical youth was responsible for bringing Reggae amongst youths in the USA to the mainstream so what it did was broaden our young minds to Reggae music .coz me and my loves Reggae and musical youth was responsible for ..much ❤ to the youth!
Wooooow Dude 1982??????? ... I was 5years old in Zimbabwe when Musical Youth came out on TV top of the pops ... And i cant believe at 5years old i understood English and "Jamaican" patoi (sp) ... And sang along .
And i felt like YES , i am of this Generation , and we rule the nation .WoW resonance...
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it. So they were on TV in Zimbabwe? Amazing! And you are much younger than kelvin was... definitely ur generation! Boom tings
I also will always remember the one guy, I forget which of them it was, saying how they may have been a one-hit wonder but they had that one hit and you couldn't take it away from them. I think he was commenting on how they did least be remembered for that one song. Over forty years later I still jam to it, a white girl from Suburban New Jersey despite not having anybody around from the country of Jamaica found on their own a love for reggae music. And no worries, I will always remember Musical Youth
Here in the states we just thought a dutchie was a joint lol, and even started calling them that.
I know right lol... well at least it did enough to get past the BBC censors. Wouldnt have been a hit without Radio 1 and BBC1 TV
Really enjoying your channel, especially the copyright cases.
On a side note, I saw Musical Youth in 1980 before they were famous. They were supporting my favourite band, The Beat (aka The English Beat) at a gig in Birmingham specifically for under 16s. I was 15 and was so impressed that these kids could play their instruments live at such a high standard. So I was not surprised when they made it.
Another great video. Thank you.
I still have an original 12" of the Mighty Diamond's Pass the Kouchie". Saw them live in London, Sly and Robbie in the engine room. Monster bass line. I thought Musical Youth were pretty cheeky doing their version of it at the time.
Missy said pass that dutch😂 her video was crazy. She did try to pay homage.
Breaking Boundaries 👊🏼👊🏿 in the uk 🇬🇧 thank you Jamaica 🇯🇲🙌🏿🙌🏼🙌🏾🙌🏻🙌🏾
Big up
OMG! I remember singing this song way back in preschool. Both my parents approved, I have absolutely no idea what I was singing and it represented my step-father's culture so I would hear this song at family get-togethers. In some cases, my step-father and relatives knew the true nature of the song since they're from Jamacia but as for me, it's just a fun song to sing with the kids on TV. 😅
Ahaha I always thought a dutchy was a dutch master. Thanks for the knowledge!
Great clip. I was in London when the song was released. I enjoyed it so much that I bought the single and brought it back to Canada. I gave it to the local university radio station and they started playing it. This was before the song came out in North America so they had a first. Still love the catchiness of the tune.
That's cool, so you may have had a part to play in their success in North America!
Loving those 80s songs. Pass the Dutchie is so catchy. Didn't know anything about the history of it.
The Youth Of Today album is one of my favourites to this day!!! Me mum used to play it ALL THE TIME!!!
Although i am familiar with the U-Roy chune, it still didn't register that it was the same...a fool am i...lol
Your reggae histories are fascinating, well researched and insightful. I've been obsessed with reggae for 30+ years and didn't know half the stuff you covered. Keep it going it's very appreciated 👍
Thanks so much.
Glad you liked it!
Proud Brummie (of Birmingham) these boys from an the area my Dad lived in in Birmingham.
Half my family are from Handsworth, Nechells area...i used to have a studio by Hockley bypass.
@@Traxploitation Handsworth revolution was necessary.
Wonderfully done i for one love reggae music and singers dearly
Thanks 😁
Please do check out the other reggae videos on the channel if you haven't already. I'm half Jamaican so it's a subject close to my heart...many more to come soon.
Being Dutch myself we were sure it was about smoking a joint, especially since the members of the band were so young we found that incredibly funny. NR1 hit in the Netherlands. Now to find out it wasn't about passing the joint on the left handside?! Wasn't the cookingpan reference made up later to be PC? like the Beatles did with Lucy in the sky with diamonds (nooo, has nóthing to do with lsd -yeah right lol).
Nah I remember even at the time telling kids at school what a dutchie was. My auntie had the exact one in the picture in the video, just a slighter deeper size. She never really said dutchie tho she always said Dutch pot. Cos that's what's written on it. 🤷♂️ I was 5 when it came out tho...but when i got a bit older we still made it mean what the original song meant. Songs can mean whatever u want. 😌 all the lyrics still work both ways
I was 11 years old when the song came out, and I clearly recall "dutchie" being widely explained as a cooking pot. The origin of the song as "pass the kutchie" didn't emerge until some time later.
@@dunebasher1971 The lyrics suggest otherwise though: ''As I pass the dreadlocks camp, I heard them say'' / ''It a go bun'' -means To Smoke a Joint
@@MarkGelderland ye but thats just lyrics from pass the kouchie, they just changed the words referring to smoking
Yes 😁 Hier hetzelfde
I recall Jamaicans, at the time the song was released, was hesitant to tell me what the tune really meant, except to say that it was about a Dutch oven.
This song IS about a Dutch oven but it's hard to deny the original meaning.
It's like when All Saints covered Under the Bridge and tried to say it was just a love song and not about drugs...when it was clearly a song about heroin addiction 🤷♂️🤦♂️
we all thought it was about blunts lmao Dutch masters😊
😆 lol
That's the beauty of music though, it can mean what you want it to mean 😏 now pass that dutchie!
This is a brilliant vid. Did not realize it was a mishmash of covers but separately they DO sound familiar.
The Caribbean is SUCH a rich source of musical creativity since forever and still is frfr.
Yup, I remember this song.
"Wind out me wears" just realized hearing that from Althea & Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking"!
Its "Wind up my waist" 😁
But yeah you're right uptown top ranking has the same "gimme little bass make me wind up my waist" line. Well spotted!
Stumbled across this channel, its ace! A good insight into the music biz!
Love the energy
Oh how I love UA-cam suggestions algorithm sometimes!!!
Thank you so very much for this gem.
I'm loving it too!
Welcome 🙏 🤗
I didn't know what I was doing when I made this one? I didn't know one riddim could a last so long. I never made much money on this one, but I still feel good. Each time a soundboy string up Leroy Sibbles in your neighborhood. I'm the original full up full up full up!
You forget to mention that in 2000 a french electronic dance music group Superfunk sampled intro line of this song in "The Young MC" whitch was a big hit in Europe's dance music scene at that time and charted in various countries 👍
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
There's lots of uses I didn't mention its been sampled around 100 times, I didn't forget tho. I just made a choice as to what was important for the story...reading a long list of songs that sampled it is kind of dull. 🤷♂️
I’ve just stumbled across your channel today and really enjoying your videos. The way you boil down the issues or concepts and explain them clearly while keeping the content engaging and interesting is superb. You’ve a new subscriber!
Hi, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, I really appreciate it. 😊
It takes a fair bit of time to research and produce these episodes so it's always nice to hear positive feedback, it gives me the motivation to keep going. 😀
So thanks again...and welcome 🙏
Great video, it was real interesting to see where the different parts of the song came from. The guy being interviewed who said he just wanted to play football and eat - yeah, so accurate I feel it!
I was dreading that this would be another of those band exploited by the manager or label videos so was glad to see it wasn't. And the idea of the deal with the club where they played for free and if the audience didn't like it they wouldn't pay but if they did they'd pay is just brilliant.
Glad you liked it.
However, their story is unfortunately one of exploitation and tragedy. 😕 I left it out of this one as I just wanted to focus on the one signature song. I'm going to the story of what happened after, next.
@@Traxploitation Thanks for your channel & content! Pls do the Musical Youth story, looking forward to it, as sad as it was, more of those stories need telling!
That was excellent. Great watch an I look forward to more!
Lone Ranger “Three Mile Skank” used the “Full Up” rhythm too.
What a class vid. I'm about to binge watch your channel! Thanks.
I have just found your channel.
I love Musical Youth and still play their music.
A friend at school told us it was a cover and what the song was really about, lol.
Keep up the great work, I'm doing a binge watch now. :)
Thanks! 😎
Enjoy 😉
Nice narration style on your videos.
I was living it , when I was a kid they were on local news, tiwas, top of the pops everything and it was explained to us “white” kids a dutchie was a stew pot ! but we use to say pass the dutchie when someone held on to a joint too long , awesome x
Cute tribute by the actual writer of the song. He made no money :-)
Not knowing much, i've learned more.
These guys were from my city. When I was a kid I did athletics for my junior school, I won a medal, I came home and my mom said we were going to her friends, it was Patrick & Junior’s house, we went in and they offered me some pineapple rock sweets haha
As a kid, I remember constantly getting Musical Youth and Sonic Youth mixed up...
Lol. That's worlds apart 🤣😁
You just gained another sub. Great video, concise but the inclusion of actual interviews really helps a lot. Great to hear the story of this band - I had both albums as a kid and loved them!
Thanks and Welcome aboard!
Love this. All the way here in Jamaica. Respect
Thank you sir!
Which part of JA you deya?
My mother is from Morant Bay, St Thomas...
Can't wait for your follow up video man.
so cool - thank you!
You are so welcome!
Great material as always. Well researched, well presented. Keep it up! (and let me know if you ever run dry on ideas, so many tracks and bands have fascinating back stories!)
I don't think I'll ever run dry, but I'm open to suggestions and if it's a good one it'll jump the list!
Any in particular u had in mind?
I saw Musical Youth as an opening act for King Sunny Adé and his African Beats at the Montreux Jazz Festival. As the crowd entered, each patron was given a sampler pack containing 5 Marlborough cigarettes. Leroy Sibbles lived in Toronto when this version was big. My friend, Joey Sponga, a red--headed Italian from Friuli played bass in his band.
King Sunny Adé is great! I have one of his records.
@@abraxasjinx5207 I saw him and his band two other times in Toronto and was at another awesome show that they were supposed to headline but it was cancelled part way through due to thunderstorms. 6 great acts, with Black Uhuru and King Sunny Adé the last two, after the likes of Rev Al Green and Eek-a-Mouse. The storm started during the fourth act and although he tried his best to carry on, despite getting shocks, they cancelled during Mr. Mouse's set.
Another informative and entertaining video! Thanks again!!
Thanks Dan! 😀
Great job man.
🙏Thank you 😊
Great Channel!
The pronunciation of hand change from the release of the song till the live reunion
Interesting ! I'm looking forward to the story of the members after the band split up... keep up the good work! Greetings from the French Alps. 💖🐕
It's not a completely happy one, sadly. The band broke up acrimoniously. The Waite brothers are both dead; Patrick died of a heart condition when he was only 24, and Freddie Jr died last year after suffering mental health issues for some time. Kelvin Grant turned his back on the music industry for a very long time after being burned by exploitative managers.
Just discovered your amazing channel. Will be bingeing while I work tomorrow onwards.
Cool! glad you found me 😀
But er shouldn't you be working...at work...don't let me get you in trouble😆
@@Traxploitation I work in the living room 🤣
These videos are solid
Much appreciated bro 🙏 🙌🏿
Great breakdown.
The Althea and Donna track uptown top ranking would be a good story
Good suggestion, and links to this track too as it was John Peel that brought that track to the UK public.
But I'd go back and talk about the original Three Piece Suit...and I'm still in love with you 🤔
Yeah really good suggestion! 👍
Thanks.
I like the video, may this comment kick the algorhythm. Thank you!
RIP PATRICK WAITE
And Freddiie Jnr 😢
@@Traxploitation
Oh wow, really? ) :
Interesting! This song was so popular in my country Ghana when I was a kid in the 90s. Did they credit URoy?
Culture Club, Men At Work, The Police were among many white UK groups who incorporated elements of reggae in their music: while pocketing more money. Non-Blacks hijacking elements of Black culture to create something “new” has unfortunately been the norm forever. Still, awesome upload. New sub.🎼🖤🎼
I get what youre saying but Culture Club aren't a "white group". Mikey Craig, bassist and founding member is a black englishman of Jamaican descent. 🤷♂️ they didn't "hijack" anything. They combined their individual cultures...hence the name.
"Down Under" has a vaguely reggae vibe to it, but Men At Work was mostly rock/pop.
But the Police? Don't get me started on the Police!. I can't think of another all white band that relied so heavily on reggae and yet never did anything in return. Most other bands, even members of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones actually went to Jamaica and recorded in Jamaican studios with Jamaican musicians. The closest the police got was George Martins AIR studios in Montserrat that locals were not permitted to use.
Ugh then there's "Regatta De Blanc" allegedly a faux French rendering of the phrase "White reggae" with Stings borderline offensive fake carribean accent 🙄.
(I do still think message in a bottle and walking on the moon are great songs) but other than that I have very little good to say about them.
(I should probably add, for context, I'm a mixed race englishman myself, my mum is Jamaican and i lived there as a young child)
@@Traxploitation i appreciate the breakdown and insight concerning CC and MAW. However, the general hijacking of Black culture particularly in music cannot be denied. As you are aware, most forms of *American* music were created/invented by *Black* artists: gospel, blues, r&r, jazz, hip-hop, etc. Early blues and rock&roll artists died penniless because they were swingled. Thankfully, modern Black artists now have more economic autonomy and creative control. During the onset, we paid a heavy price for our ignorance. Thankfully, “thangs in the game done changed.” ✌🏽🎼🖤
@Leslie Warnell yes "in general" there are some nuances to it but even them it doesnt really change the overall truth that marginalised communities got savagely exploited, and in terms of the USA the largest marginalised community is black people.
Some black artists and creatives are now gaining some autonomy but there's still some ways to go until its truly and even playing field.
Lol I knew that was Don Lets, he’s like Keith Morris- just doesn’t age.
Found your channel today its good
Thank you 😊 and welcome 🙏
@@Traxploitation it’s channels like yours that makes my UA-cam premium subscription worthwhile. Been a fan of Reggae since hearing pirate radio from Moss Side in Manchester England.
Ironic that they were trying to make it less of a drug reference, but inadvertently made it a more modern drug reference, for those who’ve smoked dutch masters blunts at least
Yeah, and for us in UK who didn't find out about Dutch Masters and other blunts until we heard it in hip hop tunes in the 90s, we thought it was a reference to cafes in Amseterdam where u can smoke spliffs🤷♂️
I bought this single at that time I was 9 years old 🥸
That's a subscribe for the channel name alone! Great content too and I'm looking forward to seeing you develop.
Thanks 😀 and welcome!
oh no - this has started me on a rabbit hole of 80s music - Safety Dance... (I was either 12 or 13 when this came out - loved the song immediately, then saw the music video - had the biggest crush on the lead singer 😍) I can see Micky (oh micky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey micky, hey micky!) (this & Eye of the Tiger, oh & We are the Kids from America (woahh) - opps 'in' not 'from' defining songs of our class (so ironic, the 'kids in america' esp, given we were kiwi kids - aka New Zealanders) - . was just wondering yesterday how MANY songs, including lyrics, are stuck in my head.... (& growing - belong to a community choir, so much lovely new music...)
check out my Toni Basil-Mickey Video if you haven't already! She's a f^$*^ng LEGEND! ua-cam.com/video/UNR0E46_Vps/v-deo.html Whereabouts in NZ are you? I lived in Aus for 10 years and I've got friends in Auckland too...
@@Traxploitation kia ora! I'm in Auckland at the moment, but when people ask me where I'm from, I usually say 'the north island' (Wanganui, Auckland, Te Aroha, Waiheke Island, Welllington - back to Auckland).
Te Aroha (6-16) (1977-1988) is where most of these music memories are from - small town, so our class of about 30 grew up together - (each relief teacher would say we were the worst class they'd ever taught, lol - one made us wear sticky name tags so we all promptly swapped them around as soon as her back was turned LOL)
reconnected with some over facebook, we were planning the reunion we had talked about at pool party at kelly pearson's place - eye of the tiger was playing (she's in aussie now) - must have been 1984/13 - but then covid....
my oldest sister was in Sydney for years - years & years (I went & stayed with her in 1993/94 & she'd been there for years then -) only returned back a few years back. a couple of cousins have lived/are living in Melbourne. flatted with a guy from Perth ('flash' - real name Gordon - Flash suited him so much better)
so whereabouts in aussie where you?
thank you - I saw your Micky video on the side there, will definitely watch - right now it's 1:30am & I need to update the register from choir tonight & get some sleep
When the video aired back then, having Parliament as a back drop seemed off. See why now, the message even then.
Yeah I always thought it was strange too...mostly cos I knew they were from Birmingham 🤔
wow - this is really interesting. I was born in 1971, so grew up with this song, and always understood 'the dutchie' to be a reference to weed/ganja/dope - (even though this was not present in my life at all) - funny that it was *actually* about food (while also being about weed/ganja/dope in it's original form). I'll have to listen to this again with FOOD in mind. also, while I knew about dutch ovens always assumed they were, well, dutch - not that this was the casting method. enjoy little tidbits of knowledge like this. thanks. always interested in the background to songs, reeally appreciate this content - thank you!
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it...I'm all about the tidbits!!! Without them I feel like I'm just drawing outlines...those details add colour and texture 😃
All that work to change the drug references for everyone to immediately think is a song about drugs decades later. I always loved the song and thought Dutchie meant weed from the get go. Im glad to know the history behind thesong now😂😂
's good yeah
Even as a kid who knew nothing about drugs, I was pretty sure it was about passing a spliff around when it came out.
Lol its funny how they changed it but it stayed the same 🤷♂️😂
@@Traxploitation Haha! I know, I just thought Dutchie was Brixton slang for doobie. Dey fooled noo one, mon.
Wedding Singer was my generation's introduction to this song
Love that movie!
Funny how now a Dutchie does refer to a joint made with cigar paper...lol...
I think they talkin about having the munchies after a fire session
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Oh their was andnice
Dutchie sounds like it's about pot too, as pot is legal in Holland
Pay leroy sibbles, vulchures
Innit tho! 🤷
🇯🇲🔥
Girls just wanna have fun would be quite a good one to do
That's coming 😉😊
@@Traxploitation nice!
8th grade I had to do summer school or be held back. One day after school a friend who also was in summer school took me to his South African dads apartment. He was blasting this song smoking spliffs of dirt reb bud and cigarette tobacco. He explained to me what the song means shared his dirty splifs with us and cooked some spicy sausage and rice that was delicious. This song always brings back those memories of the mid 90s hot apartment in a block of immigrants so many different smells and types of music going at once.
Amazing what memories a song can bring back...a sound can remind you of a smell
Thanks for watching and taking the time to share your story 😊
That's hilarious that they changed it from kutchie, because of then I can joints dutchies and I always pass to the left
Right!? Lol.
Also I've never passed a cooking pot around. 🤷♂️
i remember several years back i saw some comedian or somebody on TV talking about when he was young he found them scary, because in the music video they looked just like those pictures you see of little kid soldiers in Africa holding machine guns and stuff and i actually always thought the same thing so i literally never even knew they were an English band. i actually thought they were some group of kids from some African country or something. im American and was the same age as them so i had no idea what the buildings behind them were.
to cool awesome good onto them is the guy that directed them singing in front of parliament house is he the guy from aswad
That's Don Letts. He was videographer for The Clash, co-founded Big Audio Dynamite, managed The Slits. Directed a bunch of music videos for The Clash, Bob Marley and Fun Boy 3. Introduced Bob Marley to punk music, inspiring the song "Punky Reggae Party". Directed the Jamaican movie "Dancehall Queen" and has been a BBC radio host since 2009.
This single-handedly schooled Middle America to the sound of Jamaica
brum
If ya want the REAL OG OG, it's "Full Up" by Jackie Mittoo & Sound Dimension.
Did u not watch the whole video before commenting? 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤣
I mentioned all that and more. 😁
Just the bassine in from Full Up.
Most of the words are from Pass The Kutchie, some words are from U-Browns "Gimme the music" and the intro is adapted from "Rule the Nation" by U-Roy.
All. Mentioned. In. The. Video. 🙄😎
A dutchie is a weed blunt named after the Dutch Master cigar that was used for such.
Nope! It's not. Not in the context of this song. It absolutely isn't.
They were school children from Birmingham UK in the 1980s. Dutch Masters are an American brand that were not on sale in the UK at that time. Even now they're not very widely available, Phillies Blunts are far more common for that purpose and even they're only available in Hip Hop related shops.
They would have had no idea about some obscure brand of American cigar. 🤦♂️ the notion of rolling weed in a cigar didn't come to UK until the 1990s and even then wasn't widespread.
However, every Jamaican kid knows what a Dutch Pot is 🤷♂️
Why on earth would they replace the word Kutchie...that most Jamaicans know about to a brand of cigars that none of them know about, in order to make the song not about smoking? 🤦♂️ makes zero sense. 😆
A dutchie is a pot you cook in
Watching this. I already figured who got all their money. Same old pimp game. Really messed up the original song was stolen and original artist for 'pass the duchee'... got no money. Ridiculous.
Sadly an all too familiar story
Child exploitation. Very sad. Human vultures are always around to exploit naïveté & vulnerability. Most creative people have been exploited by financial shite bags.
Yuck
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Great video bro, nice narration, superb research!!
Thanks 😀