Technically this is ska. In the summers it got really hot in 1967 and reggae was born. Blue beat turned into ska from 1954-1964 and then the heat wave hit. Reggae began in 1967-9 depending on who's dreads were longer. Little Bobby Marley had already had a hit with the Skatelites in 1964 or1965(depending on press date)
I just put this song on before I walked up 2 flights of stairs and there isn't a song that exists that is is better than this one to walk up stairs to. I could have easily walked up 10 more flights. Great Song. If I owned a building where the elevator was always broken I would play this song in the stairwells and people wouldn't even be mad about having to take the stairs that day.
If you were skankin', it's be terrible to climb stairs to - all that two steps up, on step back.... :-) It would, however be the best elevator music ever.
A life changing piece of music. I remember this blasting out of the Galleon pub in Dreamland, Margate, before I even knew what a pub was. I knew a brilliant tune when I heard it though.
I had the same experience, but mine was Monkey Spanner by Dave and Ansell Collins, being blasted out of the Kittywake Pub on Hayling Island, I was about 11 years old.. happy days.
Not quite - it's actually the Version of Val Bennett's cover of Fats Domino's Sick & Tired. Perry decided he didn't like Bennett's vocal so he wiped it (but kept his sax solo).
RIP my friend, you will be sorely missed, thank you for all the amazing and sometimes whacked out music. As a radio DJ I frequently devoted whole 3 hour shows to Lee and LOVED every minute of it as did my listeners. Me love you Scratch mon, have a great time out there in the universe flying around!
One of those markers in my timeline that put a timestamp on my youth and changing musical tastes. Up there with Canned Heat, Led Zeppelin, Moody blues, Pink Floyd and all of the golden age of popular music.
Ashton’s bass line is so steady and clear. This song serves as a tutorial. Very nice. First time listener here, in February 2024, after hearing of “Family Man’s” passing. Tuff Goin right-der mhan!
It's rocksteady, not ska, not reggae... The bass line is dubbed by a rythm guitar and the tempo is medium, inbetween typical ska and reggae, so it's rocksteady...
Brilliant memories so many incredible memories of raw amazing music!!!!....Just love it...It was great to dance to on the Atlanta Ballroom sprung dance floor
The first reggae album I ever saw....then I bought No 1, 3 & 4. Paul Gardiner from the Tottenham Crew introduced me to it. I discovered Ska as a result. I remember being laughed at in 1971 / 2 at the youth club when we dressed as skinheads and played the records. I lived in Tottenham for 10 years in later years, but sadly never met my old pal Paul, but did meet a friend in Island Records in Seven Sisters who was still there from the 70s. He was a Rasta. I started talking about the old reggae hits and Ska. We then recognised each other. He remembered me coming from Devon and my passion for Jamaican music. We laughed and I replaced my vinyls with CDs - this was the 90s. He smiled when he saw me in my 3-piece black mohair suit, long cashmere Crombie velvet-collared coat, Italian loafers, black trilby (from Stamford Hill) and various accoutrements. This was in the early 90s. I now wear Cotton Traders casual clothes, am overweight, still happy, eating and drinking well, listening to all music, have 2 teenage daughters living with me, etc, etc. C'est la vie!
Youth Club, loved this. Heard this just recently where I was dancing. Such a good choice! I thought this has to be a great club to be playing this! It was!
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Still sounds good February 2024
Reggae music has given the world some of the great instramental anthems ever...and this is one of them.
Technically this is ska. In the summers it got really hot in 1967 and reggae was born. Blue beat turned into ska from 1954-1964 and then the heat wave hit. Reggae began in 1967-9 depending on who's dreads were longer. Little Bobby Marley had already had a hit with the Skatelites in 1964 or1965(depending on press date)
@@punishedmatteson7108This is reggae. 1969 Same tempo as Toots do the reggae
@@joeakajoe1 I could've sworn this came out in '65 or '66. I stand corrected on the ska part. Thanks, bro
HOW MUCH DO YA'LL LOVE THIS??? After all these years-STILL does it for me!!
2022 and I still love it 😀 😍
Me Too !
Sad to learn of Lee Perry’s passing this evening. R.I.P. “Scratch”.
And now we have lost Aston Barratt 😢
I just put this song on before I walked up 2 flights of stairs and there isn't a song that exists that is is better than this one to walk up stairs to. I could have easily walked up 10 more flights. Great Song. If I owned a building where the elevator was always broken I would play this song in the stairwells and people wouldn't even be mad about having to take the stairs that day.
Uplifting music
I'd take on the Burj Khalifa wit' dis sheet, mon. Dis an' a spleef, o' ten. D'ya 'earmeh, mon!
If you were skankin', it's be terrible to climb stairs to - all that two steps up, on step back.... :-)
It would, however be the best elevator music ever.
Up
You're so right, even just walking down the street, this song makes all walking easy.
RIP, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, mad genius of reggae and dub. Monumental innovator of sound.
Reminded of my youth lovely memories.
impossible not to clap & tap your feet to this classic
Old does not mean ugly!.. Perhaps it does with some people but certainly not when it comes to music....
Who agrees?? 🏆✨
Right on bro!❤
A life changing piece of music. I remember this blasting out of the Galleon pub in Dreamland, Margate, before I even knew what a pub was. I knew a brilliant tune when I heard it though.
Then into the sunshine rooms?!! Great times
I had the same experience, but mine was Monkey Spanner by Dave and Ansell Collins, being blasted out of the Kittywake Pub on Hayling Island, I was about 11 years old.. happy days.
Haha, Bembom Brothers - I remember it well 😍
You got me thinking of the old memories Steven . Reminds me of my stompin' to this song in 1970 at the Havana Night Club in Derby England .
Proper, old-school Skinhead music...
Dad’s tune as we said goodbye 🕊️
A treasure, on vinyl. My teenage years, and me is a white female.
Heres one to get you all thinking anyone remember swan lake in reggae can't remember groups name but it was good I still have it on vinyl
Swan lake, I had the single, black swan or white swan label I vaguely recal
Me is too
I played GTA London for the first time in 1999 when I was 10. The soundtrack introduced me to this masterpiece, alongside other bangers
BUSH SAAAAANDS!
@@CountdownToNowhere BECK TUH BECK WIV THE UPSETTAAAAAHS
Me too!
It was the K-Jah radio station in GTA 3 that got me into this music :)
@@ThreadBomb no man it wrong
This song just gets you going and stompin' ! Bring on the good ole days !
2024 🔥🔥🔥🔥 still. Timeless
Lee Perry was an alien,he invented the sounds of today.
Reminds me of Ruthin Youth Club in the late 60s and all the Ska albums in bought in the late 70s and Early 80s...magnificent track.
First reggae I ever heard when I was 14. Stuck with me since!
If there is a god, god bless you Lee Perry for all the tunes you gave us. RIP Scratch 💔
great music . no prejudice between black and white ...Rudy" and skin Heads it was all about Fashion..............
Proper skins are anti racist
Glenn Miller's "In The Mood", set to a reggae rhythm. Bloody marvellous!
I didn't even notice that till I read your post! Both are great tunes.😄
Not quite - it's actually the Version of Val Bennett's cover of Fats Domino's Sick & Tired. Perry decided he didn't like Bennett's vocal so he wiped it (but kept his sax solo).
Holy shiiiii.....
@@grahamlarkbey3735 nice move.
It's not lol
Thanks be for youth club discos back then!!! What a musical education.
Great uplifting song for a nice stroll, it'd be hard not to burst out in a skank
THIS SONG NEVER EVER GETS OLD. I LOVE IT! I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS FOR AGES. BRILLIANT INSTRUMENTAL ON C# MAJOR CHORD. NICE AND RELAXING.
Aston Barrett, Bob Marley's bass player features here. That was before he joined the wailers 2 years later in 1970
...a "Family Man" of the very highest order, Aston Barrett certainly is.
no i think the session bassist was Clifton Jackson on this track
@@mendostylee no the barrette brothers
RIP my friend, you will be sorely missed, thank you for all the amazing and sometimes whacked out music. As a radio DJ I frequently devoted whole 3 hour shows to Lee and LOVED every minute of it as did my listeners. Me love you Scratch mon, have a great time out there in the universe flying around!
A work of true reggae genius.
I remember this song it takes me to my roots and also the blue beat songs to when I was in my teens I’m now a young 64 years young
Up the skinheads
Rocksteady is the only rock!!!
OK "Clyde Webber"
One of those markers in my timeline that put a timestamp on my youth and changing musical tastes. Up there with Canned Heat, Led Zeppelin, Moody blues, Pink Floyd and all of the golden age of popular music.
The best sounds ever,love this music,xx
This is one of the greats,I just love all reggae music. Kevo, pitsea
65 and still a skinhead only now dont have to ave anumber 1
I'm 62 and down to a half, it lasts longer.
Brother skin
One of the greatest grooves ever commited to tape.
That's right. Tape. Ahaha!
boots on some serious stomping
This was used in an advertisement for "Cadbury's Dairy Milk." It was directed by Terry Gilliam.
And that’s partially why it became a mainstream hit six months after it was released.
Remember this with total love, from when I was a little one. Best always - the best x
This was playing as I walked into my first disco way back, full blast and always remembered.Still play it today on vinyl.
I had it on vinyl n tape.
Remember my wife ( then my girlfriend) dancing to this. She was good
You lived in UK at the time? What was it like back then? God it mustav been great
Dexter Vox It was a brilliant time. Happy music
Oh yes! Keep on stepping! Pure talent!
What a tune. The bass is awesome.
This song is still decent in 2022/2023/2024 anyone agree
Ohhhh, YEH.
If you can't Dance to this - you musta passed on...
@@noelsalisbury7448 true lol 😂
@@noelsalisbury7448 👍
And 2023 😎
Reggae, rock steady skanking ........ Marvellous!
Ashton’s bass line is so steady and clear. This song serves as a tutorial. Very nice. First time listener here, in February 2024, after hearing of “Family Man’s” passing. Tuff Goin right-der mhan!
I always loved the opening to this and wished it could repeated once or twice during the tune.
Youth club when yo was sixteen. Coming up 68 now!!!!
Very sweet tune, iyah.
Best 2 bar drum solo on god's planet.
Best about it is it's only 2 bars.
Loved these days with all the reggae and ska
It's rocksteady, not ska, not reggae...
The bass line is dubbed by a rythm guitar and the tempo is medium, inbetween typical ska and reggae, so it's rocksteady...
which is why she wrote "with", in addition to the reggae and ska.
Ra
No, it definitely has elements of Ska and Reggae
You say tomayto, I say tomarto. Let's call the whole thing off....
Love it Dance to it in common room at break times at college in 70. S
Viva la música, viva trojan records🎊🎊🎉💚
Really putting that sax through its paces..su...perb.
Wicked steppers---- rock it bwoy!!!
Brilliant tune like this one good to dance to 🤩😊😎🤗
Right, I'm taking this with me to work on monday and i will walk up those 6 flights, cheers for the tip
Take care. Those things are dangerous.. Got this, you got a way up. . Omg Xxxxxxxx
Im divinely an addict to these beautiful songs & your voice loverman 😆 🤣 😢❤❤❤
R.I.P Lee 'Scratch' Perry.
I always loved the opening to this and wished they could repeat it once more on the record. However it is still a classic.
i always think the same, just one more time over the intro would make it even better than it already is. Almost reminds me of thr song tequila
No doubt many a head has been kicked in the accompaniment of this jolly tune back in the skinhead glory days
Lol.
Love the old songs
Until we meet again, Scratch. ❤️
400 club in Torquay in the sixties and seventies. Good times
I recognized this song playing when Leo Dicaprio was making a shopping list in "The Beach".
Brilliant memories so many incredible memories of raw amazing music!!!!....Just love it...It was great to dance to on the Atlanta Ballroom sprung dance floor
Yes, a timeless classic. I first threw some shapes to this great tune. Now where are my tonics ? Rob H
Just checking the back pleat on my Ben Sherman button down ,Okay then lets go..
❤ skins are on the dance floor.
REIP Lee Perry another of a genius departs the earth 😎😎😎😎
I first heard this coming out from Totnes Civic Hall in 1970, where there was a skinheads club.
I remember Carole Peak putting her bovver boots to good use on my shins to this one, down the yoof club! :-)
Here from the Top Gear car kitchen episode. It has such a catchy intro.
🇩🇰🇹🇹Oh God, it to sweet😁.
Talk about sweetness
👏I’m currently chilling with a bottle of White Wine… my body hot😂👍
Got into the UK chart in October 1969 and made no. 5 the following month.
Great tune in the collection
The Netflix movie Incoming brought me here.
REST IN PEACE LEE SCRATCH PERRY!
If im not mistaken, this is the first ever recording in which Carlton Barrett (drums) and Aston Barrett (bass) ever appeared.
The first reggae album I ever saw....then I bought No 1, 3 & 4. Paul Gardiner from the Tottenham Crew introduced me to it. I discovered Ska as a result. I remember being laughed at in 1971 / 2 at the youth club when we dressed as skinheads and played the records. I lived in Tottenham for 10 years in later years, but sadly never met my old pal Paul, but did meet a friend in Island Records in Seven Sisters who was still there from the 70s. He was a Rasta.
I started talking about the old reggae hits and Ska. We then recognised each other. He remembered me coming from Devon and my passion for Jamaican music. We laughed and I replaced my vinyls with CDs - this was the 90s. He smiled when he saw me in my 3-piece black mohair suit, long cashmere Crombie velvet-collared coat, Italian loafers, black trilby (from Stamford Hill) and various accoutrements. This was in the early 90s. I now wear Cotton Traders casual clothes, am overweight, still happy, eating and drinking well, listening to all music, have 2 teenage daughters living with me, etc, etc. C'est la vie!
I had reggae chartbusters 1 ,2 3 someone nicked 2.
Yes agree it is still nice I use to dance to it at college in the common room of a lunch time love it
Danced to this song back in the 70s with the most beautiful girl in the world
did you keep her?
And what happened?
Do tell..........................
@@carolgoodman4880 He shot her and buried her under his patio.
Brilliant memories .. mis spent youth some would say
Impossible to keep still when this is playing - whether youre 8 or 80 !
Yo 18 different ways to sample here great stuff
timeless music
Youth Club, loved this. Heard this just recently where I was dancing. Such a good choice! I thought this has to be a great club to be playing this! It was!
Grand Theft Auto: London 1961/1969 anyone?
Can’t stop thinking about that advert that use this track, lmao 😂
the HMRC advert🤣
Amazing music
R.I.P. Lee "Scratch" Perry. 😥
All time favourite
Recuerdo esta canción cuando jugaba GTA London 69 😎👍
REMINDS ME OF DR. SEUSS MOVIES. THE COLORS. IT'S AWESOME!
Absolutely!
FRANK MURE EVERYONES A CADBURY FRUIT AND NUT CASE ADVERT IN THE EARLY 70S MAN WHAT AT TIME
WHO REMEMBERS IT
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I remember it well.
This is my youth skin head still.
This is my happy song!!
top 20 of Saturday 18 October 1969 it was a calender which shares dates to 1980 , 1986, 1975, 1997 , 2003 ,2008 2014 and 2025
Love this skin head boot Tapping
I love this channel proper music!!!!!
RIP Lee Perry
When R&B And Ska Meet Each Other.
Ska evolution brought us Reggae 🤓🎶💃🏼🕺👌🏻👇🏻
1969 CHART HITS (Everything.. All In Weekly Chart Entry Order)
th-cam.com/play/PLbO1DMzDZcphtKRhBWWgjE2T2tQGD28gc.html