I was a skinhead rudeboy and all i ever listened to was reggae and ska. I was proud to be a white skinhead embracing Jamaican rudeboy music and culture but, then along came the NF and tried to spoil it all giving the skinhead a bad racist name. Me and my best mate Tommy who was black had to get ourselves out of some very sticky situations cos we never ran from the racist scumbags and Tommy being a good street fighter and built like a brick shithouse used to knock fuck out of five of them at a time while i was rolling about on the floor trying to bite some fuckers nose off. Tommy saved me so many times and it wasn't even me they wanted to kill but, i stuck by him. We both loved Ska music with a passion and later in the 80s we went everywhere watching bands like The Specials, Madness, The beat, Selector, The Bodysnatchers. Tommy passed away in 1992 and it was t6he worst day of my life when i was told. A message to the NF, you never spoilt it for us cos we loved everyday being proper skinheads and rudeboys, not fake arse idiots like you always looked. Thank you Jamaica for giving me your music and culture and giving me my best friend and brother Tommy. You made our tough, miserable upbringing and surroundings a lively happy place. RIP Tommy Skinheads and rudeboys forever.
@Meg megie I will get back to you asap on that Meg. It's not a problem I'd be happy to tell you whatever you want to know but, right now is a little difficult. Family issues.
Thank you for sharing your music and culture with us, and the rest of the world ...we will never forget it...it's brought nothing but happiness in my life ...TY
@@caramelrhapsodyjesseslife 🤨🤔? Explain please because that dont sound right and just looked at pictures of you DAMN your a big girl aint you do you have a scooter or can you still walk because you look like one of them obese people that has to be forklift out of bed and you got the nerve to talk bout ANYTHING but yeah you got a point nothing makes an impact like you jabba
Here, I sit in April 2021 (in NSW, Australia having migrated from the UK in 1984) watching this program! :) I'm a 60 yr old boomer male and just love it.....oh, the memories? My Australian friends wouldn't understand, but this time in the UK with this wonderful music was just so magical to this old fella.
Desmond Decker and the isralites,saw them at Cheltenham town hall on their first British tour.I was the only white boy in the place,man what a great night,got wrecked on the atmosphere,so much weed being toked.Magical,great music,and a great educational experience.
It’s amazing how we had absolutely no material possessions back in the 70’s and 80’s and had so much fun while listening to the best music era in the world! Music now has nothing on all thee oldies!
@@ddootzles when old people say things like that, the material possessions they speak of are the items unnecessary to survive. You're welcome. Carry on now.
I'm British of Irish descent but I adore ska, reggae and the sound system sound. A real believer in the proper punky reggae party. Thank you all for the amazing music
Reggae is tribal beats that resonates with all human beings........reggae music unites people, brings all races together, bless up my west Indies rooters living in the UK don't ever forget the gift you gave us 🙏
I love ska and reggae music. I grew up in San Diego and a girl classmate of mine in eighth grade asked if I liked ska circa 1983. Had no idea what it was. This was around the time Dance Craze came out. So thanks Jamaica and the UK for some good music. Funny I live in Hawaii now(25 yrs)and reggae is huge here
*@FuckILoveYouTubby* .....Strange.......yet your username is from King Tubby , the most influential 70's reggae producer....🤴🏽 You're partly right though ...most post 80's reggae is utter garbage. You might try this 70's DJ toast ......👉🏼ua-cam.com/video/b_BcBFOVjA0/v-deo.html👈🏼
I F-in hate that Philadelphia doesn't have a Reggae station...I do have it in my trunk on a flash drive. Favorite record...1960's Bob Marley...Birth Of A Legend.
Just in case I did not reach tomorrow, thank you UA-cam for the music and history of many materials in your internet. The pleasure when we are bored with something else somewhere are endless. You have made it possible for people to escape the worries, trouble and boredom. 👍 great.
Great documentary. Grew up in Brixton to Irish parents. Was always treated with love and respect by my Jamaican neighbour's, and vice versa. Loved West Indian food too! Addicted to bass. Love reggae, Ska and lovers rock, UB40. Remember buying Bob Marley's 'No woman no cry' in Brixton market..what a tune. Moved away after riots in 81,but never forget the impact reggae had on my psyche. Peace out.
One of the most accurate assessments of the British Reggae scene. JUST as I remember it, the chronology, the different scenes & how they all linked up . I had goosebumps through most of it & I'm sure I had something in my eye by the closing credits. Thank you to whoever put this all together. An absolute treat
It's around the same time that Reggae arrived here in Maranhão, a state of Brazil. Roots Reggae is still very powerful and played in every corner of my city, São Luís, also known as the Brazilian Jamaica. 🇯🇲🇧🇷
This doc. is so poignant for me. The ska and early reggae, which is really rock steady, hits are the sounds of my childhood in Kingston. Some of the interviewees were clearly born in Jamaica, and like me, emigrated as children with their parents. The clips of Kingston in the 1960s and early 1970s also brought back memories. I was sad to leave my home, but the images and sounds in this doc. are of a Jamaica that no longer exists.
remember me (sorry for my really bad English !) my first travel in London (hackney) in 1979 with school for twinning...i was in a jamaica family it was great! i was 1o years old and it was the first time i heard reggae and soul....magic time in London !!! great documentary !! with suedehead 70's style;....love it!!!
T'es un veinard moi nada pas de voyages scolaires en Angleterre , j'aurai aimé ton expérience sauf que moi je connaissais déjà fan de sugar minott et Sanchez yelow man.
I’ve listened 2 a lot of Reggae music over the years,but my utmost favourite without doubt is the great 💙Gregory Isaacs💙no one delivers like Gregory 💙Mr Suave💙Smooth Operater 💙
I was 10 years old little white girl when I am The Magnificent came out.[double barrell] It made me feel magnificent. That was memorable. First reggae tune. I never felt any racism as a young teen. round Brixton in 70s It was puzzling one black girl and one half-black /jewish in class. She wouldn't be my friend because protective of her quiet black friend and obviously she'd had her terrible moments. Invited half the class to her home as reassurance but none of us batted an eye-lid. We all simply liked Marcia.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
i was a white kid in Leicester and grew up listening to all these sounds, great music, i think Chris Blackwell of island records was partly responsible for bringing them to the UK. one of my favourites was the Pioneers, Long shot kick de bucket. about a horse race. i remember Wet Dream getting banned but my brother got a copy. Prince Buster was another one. i think the Artists should be properley rewarded for their hits. i remember blasting out Young Gifted and Black out the bedroom window, even though i was a local white kid. This should be shown to people today to show how Education and History was geared towards White people.
i was 14 in 76 when punk was the medicin for the youth ,no matter where their lived,punkmusic (johny lydon)introduced me to reggae&ska,it,s stil my fav music,dub,dancehall,roots,ska it doesn,t stop!great music!!and i became also a Villafan,so i visited the Midlands more than once!!!
@@callithowiseeit5806 it did thought you absolute mug. They helped rebuild the UK after war, brought great music. This country would be FUCK ALL if it wasn’t for foreign influence - forced or voluntary. It’s a pathetic place when you peel away it down to the bare bones.
Blue beat, ska ,reggae. I love it all. Check out the Story of Jamaican music collection. It goes from blue beat and ska all the way to dance hall. Changed my life.
Its really amazing, none of these documentaries never, ever care about docunenting the regular jamaican man or woman on their growing up with reggae and dancehall or how the music was surpressed by the intelligentsia of jamaican society. Reggae was once called rag songs, was never played on sundays.
REMEMBER ALL THESE TUNES YOU PLAYING FROM EARLY AGE THEY PLAYED AT ICE RINK AFTER SCHOOL CLUB I WENT TO BLUES REGGA CLUBS I KNOW ALL THE TUNES YOU PLAYING SO MANY MEMORIES GREAT DAYS IN THE 70S SO MUCH FUN 😂 STILL LOVE THE MUSIC TO THIS DAY LOVE IT PART OF MY YOUTH GREAT TUNES GREAT DAYS 😂😍😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
That’s amazing to have someone you don’t know get you through really rough times. I have so many memories where his music and voice was the background to life events and glad I saw him live 4 years ago! The day he died I listened to “Reborn” and when his voice echoes on the fade out I really choked up.
Man my eyes are tearing.Now I learned more about that wonderful music and it’s roots as I thought too be the smart ass.Thought it startet with twotone,thx for the awakening
Most Jamaicans don't 'puff' i.e. smoke weed. A love of reggae and weed smoking are two different things. I know several Rastas who do not smoke at all. Their argument is that 'weed' was never ever mentioned in the Bible. However thinking about it, perhaps 2000 years of history would have been better if weed was indeed promoted in the Bible.
Got to be honest my own personal experience of that time was that most puffed... Definitely a musical enhancement. Each to their own. Note: The human body contains canaboid receptor cells... Scientists reckon this part of human evolution happened many many thousands of years ago... Our ancient ancestors used it.
Young gifted and black became a hit amongst young blacks in the 60s because of the Black Power movement Nina Simone also recorded this not too sure if Nina Simone recorded in first or was it Bob and Marcia but it hit both sides of the pond
Never underestimate the impact reggae had on following genres of music. Those that know their toasting will already know it was the precursor to Rap....
Toasting has been used in various African traditions, such as griots chanting over a drum beat, as well as in the United States and Jamaican music forms, such as ska, reggae, dancehall, and dub; it also exists in grime and hip hop coming out of the United Kingdom, which typically has a lot of Caribbean influence. Toasting is also often used in soca and bouyon music. The African American oral tradition of toasting, a mix of talking and chanting, influenced the development of MCing in US hip hop music. The combination of singing and toasting is known as singjaying. In the late 1950s deejay toasting was developed by Count Matchuki.[2] He conceived the idea from listening to disc jockeys on American radio stations. He would do African American jive over the music while selecting and playing R&B music. Deejays like Count Machuki working for producers would play the latest hits on traveling sound systems at parties and add their toasts or vocals to the music. These toasts consisted of comedy, boastful commentaries, half-sung rhymes, rhythmic chants, squeals, screams and rhymed storytelling. Osbourne Ruddock (a.k.a. King Tubby) was a Jamaican sound recording engineer who created vocal-less rhythm backing tracks that were used by DJs doing toasting by creating one-off vinyl discs (also known as dub plates) of songs without the vocals and adding echo and sound effects.[3] Late 1960s toasting deejays included U-Roy[4] and Dennis Alcapone, the latter known for mixing gangster talk with humor in his toasting. In the early 1970s, toasting deejays included I-Roy (his nickname is in homage to U-Roy) and Dillinger, the latter known for his humorous toasting style. In the early 1970s Big Youth became very popular and had three very successful albums, Screaming Target, Dreadlocks Dread and Natty Cultural Dread. In the late 1970s, Trinity became a popular toasting deejay. The 1980s saw the first deejay toasting duo, Michigan & Smiley, and the development of toasting outside of Jamaica. In England, Pato Banton explored his Caribbean roots, humorous and political toasting[5] while Ranking Roger of the Second Wave or Two-Tone ska revival band The Beat from the 1980s did Jamaican toasting over music that blended ska, pop, and some punk influences. The rhythmic rhyming of vocals of African American toasting influenced the development of toasting in Jamaica and development of the dancehall style[5] (e.g. hip-hop pioneer and Jamaican expatriate DJ Kool Herc and Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest).
Born in London to Irish parents in 69, grew up with Trojan records and had Jamaican neighbors who had a sound system in their garden in summer, ended up as a bassist and Dub DJ
I'm white and when I was twelve and thirteen years old, I used to climb out of my bedroom window in the middle of the night and go across the road to a unoccupied house, where Gemi magic sound would be setting up about one in the morning. The dance would start about 2am! I would dance like NO one was watching! Go home about 7 in the morning, pretend to just be getting up for the day, and head straight back over to the dance! I did this every time Gemi played on my road! I never felt scared or threatened being the only white boy in the dance!? Maybe because I was a kid? But from the age of 10 I was going to the blues on the high street with my parents! Wicked times!
@@AnthonyMonaghan twice they did it opp my flats. In a big empty house. They wired up from about midnight and were playing by 2am! They also played a few times at a house at the bottom of Sandringham road, East London's original frontline! Now full of Harry clams!
I have always listened and loved Jamaican music. My parents were from Clarendon, Jamaica. If my Dad was not dropping Jamaican Mento, it would be Blue Beat, Ska, Rock Steady, Reggae. He never really got into the Roots Reggae Scene that I love, but he gave me a solid musical foundation for life if I may say, my social life - which entirely revolves around Reggae music.
Love the Ska and Reggae scene from the 70's and 80's, the youth of the UK really adopted the genre and welcomed the influences from Jamaica. The music made me rice an peas go down well with a boogle boogle style !
This is a real eye opener. Marley was doing the same thing other Jamaicans before him had done. He had more personal appeal to the record industry's public because of his mixed heritage I believe. Not forgetting of course that he was extremely talented and good-looking. A real good pop-musician package.
Jamaica and Jamaican music has always uplifted.I consider how can such music come from somewhere which had so many tribulations.Manley/Seaga caused a lot of death.Even for Marley and Tosh.Blackwell was a crook.Nothing to admire from them but, so much respect for all Roots Reggae.Rockers.
Im living in Italy 5 years, im English, and im treated the same as these West Indians, it was the same in Spain for 5 years. Its not black vs white, it never was (in europe) it seems to be fear of something you arent used to, fear of change, fear of disruption of what we know. White people were treated like dirt by bosses and they lived in disgusting conditions, freezing cold and mostly starving check the in the last couple of centuries in Northern England mills and mines. If it wasnt for the arshole newspapers, and media, all of us would be one, and we will be SOON so play that reggae, and thanks to all West Indians, you are most welcome, and always will be.
Reggae changed our country for the better no doubt, it's certainly not perfect but I see more racial unity here than most countries, spread the love! 🇬🇧❤🧡💚🇯🇲
tbh black people put UK on the map (music wise) since the 60's, with the reggae, ska, lovers rock, Afro beat, grime, garage, rap, Jungle, funky house, drum n bass, bassline, 4x4, Dubstep, niche, 2 step racist comments are down to jealousy
and a lot of that all came from American Black music. Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Rock n Roll, Funk, Soul, RnB, House, Techno, Acid House, Disco, Hip Hop(Rap) Black music has been the lead in music around the world for the past 150 years. You wouldn't have most of the genres you mentioned without blacks from America.
RagEyes NJ lol clearly u know nothing about music it always has to be a competition with u American blacks. Maybe funky house and rap has American influences. But the rest is Jamaican influenced. A lot of stuff u guys get from us Jamaicans
TJ Williams clearly huh?....you seriously don't know the origins of the said genres were American?!....lmao....and I don't know music? Come on man do some simple research. Not making it a competition, just bringing to light what people don't seem to know or like to deny for some reason. Such as yourself guy. Lol you really just said "maybe funky house and rap" were from America. smh....I never denied Jamaican influence in some aspects of certain musical styles and genres we created....but they weren't made in Jamaica. Blues is Jamaican?...Rock?....Soul? Funk? No.The list goes on....for you to deny these are Black American creations shows your ignorance. Why? Idk. Do better my g. How can you be allowed to say Blacks put UK on the map musically, but I can't say where The UK predominantly gets all its popular music from? And there are countless things you can look up to show you the heavy African American influence on Jamaican music. Do a little research and don't talk out your ass. I wasn't downplaying Jamaican influence. You seem to not know enough about music in general to downplay Black American influence though. Clearly.
nobody mentioned rock or blues lol i know your trying to blow your own trumpet but i didnt mention rock or any of those OBVIOUS american genres i specifically mention UK genres or Jamaican influenced genres apart from funky house and rap which directly come from america
No, sorry but you're exaggerating US credit. Most of the genres he mentioned are directly or indirectly Anglo-Caribbean in origin, and only slightly influenced by black American music. As usual, you Americans over-inflate your importance. If you want to play the 'who was doing it first' card then how about acknowledging the fact that all black American genres have strong partial roots in European Christian hymns and folk music. Or did you think gospel and spirituals were created in a vacuum? All genres have their origins in earlier genres, but it seems you Americans like to believe you were the root of it all.
I was a skinhead rudeboy and all i ever listened to was reggae and ska. I was proud to be a white skinhead embracing Jamaican rudeboy music and culture but, then along came the NF and tried to spoil it all giving the skinhead a bad racist name. Me and my best mate Tommy who was black had to get ourselves out of some very sticky situations cos we never ran from the racist scumbags and Tommy being a good street fighter and built like a brick shithouse used to knock fuck out of five of them at a time while i was rolling about on the floor trying to bite some fuckers nose off. Tommy saved me so many times and it wasn't even me they wanted to kill but, i stuck by him. We both loved Ska music with a passion and later in the 80s we went everywhere watching bands like The Specials, Madness, The beat, Selector, The Bodysnatchers. Tommy passed away in 1992 and it was t6he worst day of my life when i was told. A message to the NF, you never spoilt it for us cos we loved everyday being proper skinheads and rudeboys, not fake arse idiots like you always looked. Thank you Jamaica for giving me your music and culture and giving me my best friend and brother Tommy. You made our tough, miserable upbringing and surroundings a lively happy place. RIP Tommy Skinheads and rudeboys forever.
great post brother
Awesome
Damn... :' )
I'm sure your mate Tommy was a great person. May he rest in peace and I feel sorry for your loss. Always remember the Spirit of 69.
@Meg megie I will get back to you asap on that Meg. It's not a problem I'd be happy to tell you whatever you want to know but, right now is a little difficult. Family issues.
wow u can drive from 1 end of jamaica to the next in less than a day an to see the impact we created on the world.....proud jamaican here
Reggae didn't create any impact on the WORLD, Dear. You're delusional if you think that.
@@caramelrhapsodyjesseslife ok thank u for the knowledge
Thank you for sharing your music and culture with us, and the rest of the world ...we will never forget it...it's brought nothing but happiness in my life ...TY
@@caramelrhapsodyjesseslife 🤨🤔? Explain please because that dont sound right
and just looked at pictures of you DAMN your a big girl aint you do you have a scooter or can you still walk because you look like one of them obese people that has to be forklift out of bed and you got the nerve to talk bout ANYTHING but yeah you got a point nothing makes an impact like you jabba
Tanx to whiteman!
Here, I sit in April 2021 (in NSW, Australia having migrated from the UK in 1984) watching this program! :) I'm a 60 yr old boomer male and just love it.....oh, the memories? My Australian friends wouldn't understand, but this time in the UK with this wonderful music was just so magical to this old fella.
Desmond Decker and the isralites,saw them at Cheltenham town hall on their first British tour.I was the only white boy in the place,man what a great night,got wrecked on the atmosphere,so much weed being toked.Magical,great music,and a great educational experience.
So glad for youtube, cos people are discovering Reggae again, even though mainstream radio and tv are not playing it...Reggae will never die!
For real
It’s amazing how we had absolutely no material possessions back in the 70’s and 80’s and had so much fun while listening to the best music era in the world! Music now has nothing on all thee oldies!
So true, I had zilch but felt happier then!
I don't know what you mean by material possessions but you for sure had them, definition wise lmfao. But imma still listen to my music now, thank you
@@ddootzles when old people say things like that, the material possessions they speak of are the items unnecessary to survive. You're welcome. Carry on now.
I'm British of Irish descent but I adore ska, reggae and the sound system sound. A real believer in the proper punky reggae party. Thank you all for the amazing music
Reggae is tribal beats that resonates with all human beings........reggae music unites people, brings all races together, bless up my west Indies rooters living in the UK don't ever forget the gift you gave us 🙏
When reggae came to Britain it made music happy 😃 no complicated feelings just joy it’s for people who feel and can sing to the soundsx
I love ska and reggae music. I grew up in San Diego and a girl classmate of mine in eighth grade asked if I liked ska circa 1983. Had no idea what it was. This was around the time Dance Craze came out. So thanks Jamaica and the UK for some good music. Funny I live in Hawaii now(25 yrs)and reggae is huge here
Reggae is truely heaven-sent!
Yes I agree
Respect reggae
Reggae was part of my life from the beginning,growing up in the inner city
*@FuckILoveYouTubby* .....Strange.......yet your username is from King Tubby , the most influential 70's reggae producer....🤴🏽 You're partly right though ...most post 80's reggae is utter garbage.
You might try this 70's DJ toast ......👉🏼ua-cam.com/video/b_BcBFOVjA0/v-deo.html👈🏼
I F-in hate that Philadelphia doesn't have a Reggae station...I do have it in my trunk on a flash drive. Favorite record...1960's Bob Marley...Birth Of A Legend.
Reggae, the sweet off beat that has united all cultures coming from the island of Jamaica. I could not imagine life without it. Blessings!!!!
This documentary conjour up a lot of memories for me growing up in England.with reggae and punk and ska.a wonderful time to be alive around that time.
Beautiful something timeless about reggae ? Never tire of it. Fantastic to see Desmond Decker.
RIP Sugar Minott the Coolest Singer!
@Da Royal General
I didn't know he had passed away. Unfortunately a lot of reggae artists seem to die relatively young.
smooth as silk
Just in case I did not reach tomorrow, thank you UA-cam for the music and history of many materials in your internet. The pleasure when we are bored with something else somewhere are endless. You have made it possible for people to escape the worries, trouble and boredom. 👍 great.
Great documentary. Grew up in Brixton to Irish parents. Was always treated with love and respect by my Jamaican neighbour's, and vice versa. Loved West Indian food too! Addicted to bass. Love reggae, Ska and lovers rock, UB40. Remember buying Bob Marley's 'No woman no cry' in Brixton market..what a tune. Moved away after riots in 81,but never forget the impact reggae had on my psyche. Peace out.
Big up Kevin
See music was made for your ears
Not our eyes.
Peace and love to all
It's hard to watch this without thinking "When will be paid, for the work we've done" - The Staple Singers
One of the most accurate assessments of the British Reggae scene. JUST as I remember it, the chronology, the different scenes & how they all linked up . I had goosebumps through most of it & I'm sure I had something in my eye by the closing credits. Thank you to whoever put this all together. An absolute treat
Fantastic Documentary and History of Reggae and British Reggae. Thanks for Sharing!
Music is music...dark skinned or white skinned, we all feel the love, and not the hate. Lord have mercy.
Truely the best music ever. Trojan 1962.
Pauline Black is just beautiful as always
@Harry Clams, Things have changed now, you can buy the lips, colour. Lol
It's around the same time that Reggae arrived here in Maranhão, a state of Brazil.
Roots Reggae is still very powerful and played in every corner of my city, São Luís, also known as the Brazilian Jamaica. 🇯🇲🇧🇷
This doc. is so poignant for me. The ska and early reggae, which is really rock steady, hits are the sounds of my childhood in Kingston. Some of the interviewees were clearly born in Jamaica, and like me, emigrated as children with their parents. The clips of Kingston in the 1960s and early 1970s also brought back memories. I was sad to leave my home, but the images and sounds in this doc. are of a Jamaica that no longer exists.
Maitre Savard Sad
RIP SMILEY CULTURE
remember me (sorry for my really bad English !) my first travel in London (hackney) in 1979 with school for twinning...i was in a jamaica family it was great! i was 1o years old and it was the first time i heard reggae and soul....magic time in London !!! great documentary !! with suedehead 70's style;....love it!!!
clément fronty where from?
T'es un veinard moi nada pas de voyages scolaires en Angleterre , j'aurai aimé ton expérience sauf que moi je connaissais déjà fan de sugar minott et Sanchez yelow man.
I’ve listened 2 a lot of Reggae music over the years,but my utmost favourite without doubt is the great 💙Gregory Isaacs💙no one delivers like Gregory 💙Mr Suave💙Smooth Operater 💙
Watched this documentary in England many moons ago, nice seeing it again,oh what memories.
Brings back great memories. My brother started me listening to Ska and Bluebeat back in the mid-sixties when I was a kid. I've loved it ever since.
Love, Honor and Respect to the channel. In fact, it show that Jamaicans really are true rebels who push for change all over the world.
Love ska 2 tone and reggae still love it and listen to it today it’s a whole culture of music and fashion happy memories great times😊🇯🇲🏴👊
I was 10 years old little white girl when I am The Magnificent came out.[double barrell] It made me feel magnificent. That was memorable. First reggae tune. I never felt any racism as a young teen. round Brixton in 70s It was puzzling one black girl and one half-black /jewish in class. She wouldn't be my friend because protective of her quiet black friend and obviously she'd had her terrible moments. Invited half the class to her home as reassurance but none of us batted an eye-lid. We all simply liked Marcia.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
Israelites is the Rock Around The Clock of Reggae! Such an important and brilliant record!
i was a white kid in Leicester and grew up listening to all these sounds, great music, i think Chris Blackwell of island records was partly responsible for bringing them to the UK. one of my favourites was the Pioneers, Long shot kick de bucket. about a horse race. i remember Wet Dream getting banned but my brother got a copy. Prince Buster was another one. i think the Artists should be properley rewarded for their hits. i remember blasting out Young Gifted and Black out the bedroom window, even though i was a local white kid. This should be shown to people today to show how Education and History was geared towards White people.
i was 14 in 76 when punk was the medicin for the youth ,no matter where their lived,punkmusic (johny lydon)introduced me to reggae&ska,it,s stil my fav music,dub,dancehall,roots,ska it doesn,t stop!great music!!and i became also a Villafan,so i visited the Midlands more than once!!!
Windrush brought us so much ....... Thank You.
@ Shh Paolo don't interrupt his grovelling virtue
@ bullshit
@@callithowiseeit5806 it did thought you absolute mug. They helped rebuild the UK after war, brought great music. This country would be FUCK ALL if it wasn’t for foreign influence - forced or voluntary. It’s a pathetic place when you peel away it down to the bare bones.
Blue beat, ska ,reggae. I love it all. Check out the Story of Jamaican music collection. It goes from blue beat and ska all the way to dance hall. Changed my life.
Its really amazing, none of these documentaries never, ever care about docunenting the regular jamaican man or woman on their growing up with reggae and dancehall or how the music was surpressed by the intelligentsia of jamaican society. Reggae was once called rag songs, was never played on sundays.
because it´s focused on how people in the uk grew up with it specifically
Black people brought a nice taste of cultural seasoning to these shores and it changed so many things.
Miss T.E.A. Exactly black music the best👍
likkle but wi tallawah! Viva Reggae!!
REMEMBER ALL THESE TUNES YOU PLAYING FROM EARLY AGE THEY PLAYED AT ICE RINK AFTER SCHOOL CLUB I WENT TO BLUES REGGA CLUBS I KNOW ALL THE TUNES YOU PLAYING SO MANY MEMORIES GREAT DAYS IN THE 70S SO MUCH FUN 😂 STILL LOVE THE MUSIC TO THIS DAY LOVE IT PART OF MY YOUTH GREAT TUNES GREAT DAYS 😂😍😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
Great music... don't need more words !
Bring back 1970 .. I'm 64 going on 16
Have you heard of jamaican jubilee stompers?
Happy days
RIP toots
We never met but you did more to help me than you'll ever know
🇺🇸💓🇯🇲
That’s amazing to have someone you don’t know get you through really rough times.
I have so many memories where his music and voice was the background to life events and glad I saw him live 4 years ago! The day he died I listened to “Reborn” and when his voice echoes on the fade out I really choked up.
A few contradictions here; like the assertion that reggae and ska never got air time, and yet "My Boy Lillipop" was a big hit very early on.
Young Gifted and Black #5 in the UK chart. 1970
Liquidator by Harry J and Allstars..
Brilliant work. Great documentary.
Man my eyes are tearing.Now I learned more about that wonderful music and it’s roots as I thought too be the smart ass.Thought it startet with twotone,thx for the awakening
I love reggae culture.
David Rodigan turned me on to dub plate in 1980... Never looked back.... Still puffin....
Most Jamaicans don't 'puff' i.e. smoke weed. A love of reggae and weed smoking are two different things. I know several Rastas who do not smoke at all. Their argument is that 'weed' was never ever mentioned in the Bible. However thinking about it, perhaps 2000 years of history would have been better if weed was indeed promoted in the Bible.
Got to be honest my own personal experience of that time was that most puffed... Definitely a musical enhancement. Each to their own.
Note: The human body contains canaboid receptor cells... Scientists reckon this part of human evolution happened many many thousands of years ago... Our ancient ancestors used it.
Yeah, David Rodigan .. forgot about him ... msut have some cassettes of his programmes somewhere.
There are a few tapes on UA-cam. I recorded a killer tape in 80, wish I still had that..Johnny Osbourne Never Stop fighting, Eek a mouse eyc
@@andyaim4764 I'll look, thanks for the tip...
Loving this documentary! Thanks so much for uploading it, Sonique
I can jus imagine how many artists did not get the money they was due........record industry is a very very shady business
Industry rule number four-thousand-and-eighty; Record company people are shady. - atqc
Have a look at the small faces. Conned out of earning from 65 to mid nineties.
Millie Small ended up in a hostel.
I want to cry. This is beautiful ♥ ♪♪
thoses home made speakers back in the day, nothing beats them today
Sylvia tella your song 'in a special way' was my dads favourite song. We even played it church when he died. My 3 year old now sings it 😊
Rasta Fari. Jah Salasi ai...ruude bwoy..boa boa. Great doc...
BLESS UP 🇬🇧🇯🇲🖤💚💛❤🙏
Everytime!🥳💛💚🖤
Edward Seaga played a great roll in spreading Jamaican Music.
How so? Could also say that Micheal Manley "played a great role".
Yes love it remember in my young days❤❤❤❤❤
My dad used to have a sound back in Jamaica, called Likkle Wicked. Clarendon.
Young gifted and black became a hit amongst young blacks in the 60s because of the Black Power movement Nina Simone also recorded this not too sure if Nina Simone recorded in first or was it Bob and Marcia but it hit both sides of the pond
Never underestimate the impact reggae had on following genres of music. Those that know their toasting will already know it was the precursor to Rap....
The father of hip hop was a Jamaican American DJ
Figures....
@@andyaim4764 DJ Kool Herc, changed music forever.
Toasting has been used in various African traditions, such as griots chanting over a drum beat, as well as in the United States and Jamaican music forms, such as ska, reggae, dancehall, and dub; it also exists in grime and hip hop coming out of the United Kingdom, which typically has a lot of Caribbean influence. Toasting is also often used in soca and bouyon music. The African American oral tradition of toasting, a mix of talking and chanting, influenced the development of MCing in US hip hop music. The combination of singing and toasting is known as singjaying.
In the late 1950s deejay toasting was developed by Count Matchuki.[2] He conceived the idea from listening to disc jockeys on American radio stations. He would do African American jive over the music while selecting and playing R&B music. Deejays like Count Machuki working for producers would play the latest hits on traveling sound systems at parties and add their toasts or vocals to the music. These toasts consisted of comedy, boastful commentaries, half-sung rhymes, rhythmic chants, squeals, screams and rhymed storytelling.
Osbourne Ruddock (a.k.a. King Tubby) was a Jamaican sound recording engineer who created vocal-less rhythm backing tracks that were used by DJs doing toasting by creating one-off vinyl discs (also known as dub plates) of songs without the vocals and adding echo and sound effects.[3]
Late 1960s toasting deejays included U-Roy[4] and Dennis Alcapone, the latter known for mixing gangster talk with humor in his toasting. In the early 1970s, toasting deejays included I-Roy (his nickname is in homage to U-Roy) and Dillinger, the latter known for his humorous toasting style. In the early 1970s Big Youth became very popular and had three very successful albums, Screaming Target, Dreadlocks Dread and Natty Cultural Dread. In the late 1970s, Trinity became a popular toasting deejay.
The 1980s saw the first deejay toasting duo, Michigan & Smiley, and the development of toasting outside of Jamaica. In England, Pato Banton explored his Caribbean roots, humorous and political toasting[5] while Ranking Roger of the Second Wave or Two-Tone ska revival band The Beat from the 1980s did Jamaican toasting over music that blended ska, pop, and some punk influences.
The rhythmic rhyming of vocals of African American toasting influenced the development of toasting in Jamaica and development of the dancehall style[5] (e.g. hip-hop pioneer and Jamaican expatriate DJ Kool Herc and Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest).
Facts Mandy! Facts!😉
Awesome off to watch part 2, want to see the rest of Lennys stand up.
Born in London to Irish parents in 69, grew up with Trojan records and had Jamaican neighbors who had a sound system in their garden in summer, ended up as a bassist and Dub DJ
I live in Australia now, but I miss frontline St. Pauls soundsystem 🎵🎶
The black and white cafe too!!!
What made you want to move to Australia? Wow that's a big change
I love Reggie and always will part of my life.fotevere.😀😃😃♥️♥️♥️
You mean reggae
Who’s Reggie?
1.54 Perfect. Perfect editing !!!!!!!!!!!
You do NOT get much better than that. No way !!
Fantastic video can't stop watching
I'm white and when I was twelve and thirteen years old, I used to climb out of my bedroom window in the middle of the night and go across the road to a unoccupied house, where Gemi magic sound would be setting up about one in the morning. The dance would start about 2am! I would dance like NO one was watching!
Go home about 7 in the morning, pretend to just be getting up for the day, and head straight back over to the dance!
I did this every time Gemi played on my road! I never felt scared or threatened being the only white boy in the dance!?
Maybe because I was a kid?
But from the age of 10 I was going to the blues on the high street with my parents!
Wicked times!
Where was this?
@@AnthonyMonaghan Stamford hill
@@mattysykes2121 Cool.
@Harry Clams go fuck yourself
@@AnthonyMonaghan twice they did it opp my flats. In a big empty house. They wired up from about midnight and were playing by 2am!
They also played a few times at a house at the bottom of Sandringham road,
East London's original frontline!
Now full of Harry clams!
Reggae has Life.
Lee Stratch Perry playing at a Brighton Fest 1991 -ish (yeh I was high as sky) Best Gigg EVER whole day of Live Reggae 🤩🤩
Thanks for posting this! :D
this is why i love BBC documentaries !! just beautiful thanks for the upload !!
I Love REGGAE .🇧🇷
I saw Toots ( RIP ) and the Maytals in Sydney Australia YEARS AGO ! What a Buzzzzz
Brings back memories good old days love it
I have always listened and loved Jamaican music. My parents were from Clarendon, Jamaica. If my Dad was not dropping Jamaican Mento, it would be Blue Beat, Ska, Rock Steady, Reggae. He never really got into the Roots Reggae Scene that I love, but he gave me a solid musical foundation for life if I may say, my social life - which entirely revolves around Reggae music.
I was a skinhead 2-tone led me to all the great Jamaican music.My mum loved the way I dressed she said I'm glad you're not one of them scruffy bikers.
You have to watch TALE OF THE SKINHEAD Documentary with Pauline King from Selecter in it! Pretty cool
Sharp mate, crombie, braces, boots and Sherman's. Nothing better.
Lol, What you mean "I was a skin"? If you're not still a skin, you never were! ... And what are you now? A Herbert?
@@giuseppelogiurato5718 we turned casual and I am middle aged so I would look as sad as you dressed in skinhead gear.
Brilliant love this takes me back still very here !
Love the Ska and Reggae scene from the 70's and 80's, the youth of the UK really adopted the genre and welcomed the influences from Jamaica. The music made me rice an peas go down well with a boogle boogle style !
This is a real eye opener. Marley was doing the same thing other Jamaicans before him had done. He had more personal appeal to the record industry's public because of his mixed heritage I believe. Not forgetting of course that he was extremely talented and good-looking. A real good pop-musician package.
Marley's father was light not white..He is not biracial
@@carolyndarley1045 he was white. The sooner black people emancipate their minds from the “one drop rule” slave indoctrination, the better.
@@carolyndarley1045 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
@@carolyndarley1045 he was white
Brilliant
Gerry the Rude Boy here great Doc groovy funky music love it
Spirit of Sound Still Alive .... Respect Due 😊
Ska my first love
skinhead roots and reggae.Boss
Great Documentary
Jamaica and Jamaican music has always uplifted.I consider how can such music come from somewhere which had so many tribulations.Manley/Seaga caused a lot of death.Even for Marley and Tosh.Blackwell was a crook.Nothing to admire from them but, so much respect for all Roots Reggae.Rockers.
justice for smiley!
Uptown top ranking 👍🏻 Police and thieves 👍🏻
Give thanks for these vital works!
This is so cool. So much I still learn about musical roots. Thanks
Im living in Italy 5 years, im English, and im treated the same as these West Indians, it was the same in Spain for 5 years. Its not black vs white, it never was (in europe)
it seems to be fear of something you arent used to, fear of change, fear of disruption of what we know. White people were treated like dirt by bosses and they lived in disgusting conditions, freezing cold and mostly starving check the in the last couple of centuries in Northern England mills and mines. If it wasnt for the arshole newspapers, and media, all of us would be one, and we will be SOON so play that reggae, and thanks to all West Indians, you are most welcome, and always will be.
20:29 If the sound system didn't play a particular record you could bet it won't be a hit
love it.reminds me of my first ever boyfriend played it all the time.elizabeth
Reggae changed our country for the better no doubt, it's certainly not perfect but I see more racial unity here than most countries, spread the love! 🇬🇧❤🧡💚🇯🇲
Pena que não tem tradução em português.nós aqui no Maranhão são Luís gostamos muito
tbh black people put UK on the map (music wise) since the 60's, with the reggae, ska, lovers rock, Afro beat, grime, garage, rap, Jungle, funky house, drum n bass, bassline, 4x4, Dubstep, niche, 2 step
racist comments are down to jealousy
and a lot of that all came from American Black music. Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Rock n Roll, Funk, Soul, RnB, House, Techno, Acid House, Disco, Hip Hop(Rap) Black music has been the lead in music around the world for the past 150 years. You wouldn't have most of the genres you mentioned without blacks from America.
RagEyes NJ lol clearly u know nothing about music it always has to be a competition with u American blacks. Maybe funky house and rap has American influences. But the rest is Jamaican influenced. A lot of stuff u guys get from us Jamaicans
TJ Williams clearly huh?....you seriously don't know the origins of the said genres were American?!....lmao....and I don't know music? Come on man do some simple research. Not making it a competition, just bringing to light what people don't seem to know or like to deny for some reason. Such as yourself guy. Lol you really just said "maybe funky house and rap" were from America. smh....I never denied Jamaican influence in some aspects of certain musical styles and genres we created....but they weren't made in Jamaica. Blues is Jamaican?...Rock?....Soul? Funk? No.The list goes on....for you to deny these are Black American creations shows your ignorance. Why? Idk. Do better my g. How can you be allowed to say Blacks put UK on the map musically, but I can't say where The UK predominantly gets all its popular music from? And there are countless things you can look up to show you the heavy African American influence on Jamaican music. Do a little research and don't talk out your ass. I wasn't downplaying Jamaican influence. You seem to not know enough about music in general to downplay Black American influence though. Clearly.
nobody mentioned rock or blues lol i know your trying to blow your own trumpet but i didnt mention rock or any of those OBVIOUS american genres i specifically mention UK genres or Jamaican influenced genres apart from funky house and rap which directly come from america
No, sorry but you're exaggerating US credit. Most of the genres he mentioned are directly or indirectly Anglo-Caribbean in origin, and only slightly influenced by black American music.
As usual, you Americans over-inflate your importance. If you want to play the 'who was doing it first' card then how about acknowledging the fact that all black American genres have strong partial roots in European Christian hymns and folk music. Or did you think gospel and spirituals were created in a vacuum?
All genres have their origins in earlier genres, but it seems you Americans like to believe you were the root of it all.
thanx a lot for uploading!
That was me always by the speaker box, know wonder I can't hear proper now...lol