20-Toots & The Maytals - Do The Reggay

[TheClashpotting]

ska reggae....this is reggae history, these are the origins of the reggae

[Transformers2themax]

@TheGatunis No, it's not. Bob Marley & The Wailers were performing long before this even came out. This is just the first reggae song in discography. It's the first in print.

[Transformers2themax]

Bob Marley was still the King of Reggae.

[TxTFamGuy1]

This tune is Rocksteady (1966), Reggae was a dance before it was a sound and Toots' is referring to the dance. There was no Reggae sound until 1968 (Skinhead Reggae in 1969 and Roots Reggae in 1972 and "Marley" in 1974)

[CosThc]

que buena rolita!!!

[phaniko]

basta hippies, esto es reggae para skinheads!

[Fireperv]

First time I heard this was on the vinyl 3 lp Trojan story album ( still tucked carefully away !!)..and it's bloody fantastic, wanna dance not type !!!!

[blackblock36]

CLose my eyes and dance!

Bless Reggae. Bless Cannabis

[Tartacos]

God Bless Reggae

[Patiki100]

rasta unification aotearoa hokianga whakapou karakia 2014 dec host utaonga ariki

ngapuhi confederation &imperial decendancy passit on

[BlueEyedSoulBro]

This is the first song to use the term reggae in print. It is not the first song with the reggae sound.

[MissMeli1994]

@BlueEyedSoulBro yeah thats right because the first reggae song was "people funny boy" from lee scratch perry in 1968. :D

[Patrick644]

@MissMeli1994 its the first regea song where is inside the word reggea .

i hope you understand wahat i mean..my english isnt so good^^

[soulrebelroots]

Reggae Rootssssssssssssssssssssss

[skroddumb]

i wouldnt say its the first song, people funny boy is considered the first...

[starrystarryskies]

@skroddumb Toots coined the term

[doctorteta]

Asi es, aunque la cancion no es netamente reggae, es la primera donde se escucha el nombre, toots and the maylas fue el primero, la cancion data de 1968 creo, cuando el rocksteady estaba en su apogeo, toots hibert se adelanto, toots rulez !!!

[RasGanjahman]

AL FIN LA ESCUCHO!! es esta a cancion que puso el nombre al reggae, no??

[doctorteta]

Asi es, aunque la cancion no es netamente reggae, es la primera donde se escucha el nombre, toots and the maylas fue el primero, la cancion data de 1968 creo, cuando el rocksteady estaba en su apogeo, toots hibert se adelanto, toots rulez !!!

[RasGanjahman]

rocksteady? buah, pues no me queda a mi ni nada por aprender, tanto del reggae como de la cultura rasta... y esa palabra de donde sale, que significa?

P.D.: nadie nace sabiendo, eh?

[doctorteta]

@RasGanjahman

Claro que nadie nace sabiendo pero debes investigar ya que eres RAS .: man averigua los inicios, con el gran alton ellis, skatalites, desmon decker, john holt, the wailers, etc.

La epoca dorada del buen reggae fue en los 70s pero los que lo dieron a concoer tuvieron que pasar por el rocksteady....... y el ska !!!!!!

[RasGanjahman]

@doctorteta ok, ahora luego me lo miro, tomare nota.... gracias!

[ElJahmanStyle]

@doctorteta

Hermano, RAS significa vivir con rastafari, no implica que te guste el reggae...

[cronox15]

i loved this song

[fritzo62]

This is the 1st song in which the word reggae was used in a printed form. But the name wasnt invented by Toots, it obviously was lent from a dance which was popular at that time. As usual, this isnt the only explanation many people have many different opinions about it's origin. Some say that it originally came from the word "rege":

"rege", as in rege-rege, a word that can mean either "rags, ragged clothing" or "a quarrel, a row" (Wikipedia)

[fritzo62]

Streggae is a jamaican word for.. well, a loose woman or a hooker. And yes there also is a dance with this name which hints at ... the thing a man and a woman do sometimes each other and of course it looks alike.  "Do the streggae" is a pun. ;-)

[DannyDanwel]

well , he invented the name for the music.Reggae is not invented but evolved from bleus/soul into rocksteady into ska into reggae into raggamuffin.......

Big up for toots and the maytals

[Tartacos]

la cancion que le puso el nombre de reggae al reggae xD

[fritzo62]

Do the streggae! :)

[FREERootsman]

Do you or anyone here knows how the streggae look like?

[knallrotesgummiboot8]

the first Reggae song

[rickhoz]

good song

bless

[vanessa1704]

this is the first song of reggae.. not bad for the first xD

[FerMdV]

the first song of reggae.. no?

[Reggae45s]

No the first song of reggae from what I read was "Nanny Goat". But you never know, there was a gradual transition into reggae as Ska music slowed down.

[dasrotekamel]

the word reggae comes from this song

ugly people were called straggay in jamaica

and toots created the word for the song how ever he came from ugly people to something that be done while listenig to this song

but this is a fact

[FREERootsman]

i heard streggae was a very sexual dance done by woman on street while selling their bodys? is it true?

[gussahfr]

the first song to actually use the term reggae as far as i know.