Max Romeo (born Maxwell Livingston Smith, 22 November 1947, St. D'Acre, St.… Read Full Bio ↴Max Romeo (born Maxwell Livingston Smith, 22 November 1947, St. D'Acre, St. Ann, Jamaica), is a reggae and roots reggae recording artist who has achieved chart success in his home country, and in the UK. The singer who put the rude in rude boy, Max Romeo was responsible for launching an entirely new sub-genre of reggae, whose overtly suggestive lyrics caused an outcry but took a massive hold of the music scene regardless. Yet innuendo was the least of the singer's stylings, previous to the release of his infamous "Wet Dream," Romeo had garnered a string of sweet hits with the vocal trio the Emotions. And once the nocturnal naughtiness faded, the singer established himself as one of the most important figures in the roots scene.
He left home at the age of 14 and worked on a sugar plantation outside Clarendon, cleaning out irrigation ditches, before winning a local talent competition when he was 18; prompting a move to the capital, Kingston, in order to achieve a successful musical career.

In 1965 he joined up with Kenneth Knight and Lloyd Shakespeare in The Emotions, whilst also working as a record plugger for Ken Lack's Caltone label. The group were unsuccessful in auditions for other producers, but Lack offered them an audition after overhearing Smith singing to himself as he worked one day. In 1966, the group had their first hit, with the Lack-produced, "Buy You a Rainbow". The Emotions went on to have several hit singles and by 1968, the singer, by this point known as Max Romeo, felt confident enough to launch a solo career. Working with producer Bunny Lee, the young star recorded a number of pop songs, mainly love ballads, but they failed to be popular and so he returned to The Emotions, now recording for Phil Pratt. During this time he began work as a sales representative for Bunny Lee and did some recording with The Hippy Boys, which would later became The Upsetters.

Later on in 1968, Romeo wrote new lyrics for the rhythm track of Derrick Morgan's "Hold You Jack" and handed them over to Lee. Morgan, who was due to add his vocals to the track, ultimately gave it a miss, as did several other vocalists (including John Holt and Slim Smith), leading the producer to turn to Romeo to sing the lyrics he had written. The result, "Wet Dream", was an instant hit in Jamaica, although in the UK it was met with a BBC Radio ban, despite Romeo's somewhat-disingenuous claim that the song was actually about a roof that has a leak. Still, the ban only made it more popular and the single charted in the Top Ten, in the UK Singles Chart, spending almost six months therein, before featuring on his LP, A Dream, which included several follow-up singles in a similar vein, such as "Mini Skirt Version", "Fish in the Pot", "Belly Woman", and "Wine Her Goosie". A UK tour also met with Romeo being banned from performing at several venues, although many allowed him to play, the singer staying in the UK for eighteen months.

In 1970, Romeo returned to Jamaica and set-up Romax, an unsuccessful record label and sound system. Following which, he recorded several singles, mainly with old producer Bunny Lee, before going on to work a host of other producers including Niney Holness. This was followed by a period of which saw the release of a series of politically charged singles, most advocating the democratic socialist People's National Party (PNP), which chose his song, "Let The Power Fall On I", as their campaign theme for the 1972 Jamaican general election. Romeo joined the PNP Musical Bandwagon, travelling around Jamaica, playing on the back of a truck. After this, Romeo recorded a number of religious songs, until he worked with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, producing the classic singles "Three Blind Mice" (an adaptation of the nursery rhyme with lyrics about a police raid on a party), "Sipple Out Deh", and "Chase the Devil". A remixed version of "Sipple Out Deh", entitled "War Ina Babylon", was another popular track in the UK, the first fruits of his deal with Island Records, and was followed by an album of the same name, and a follow-up single "One Step Forward". Shortly after this the pair fell out, leaving Romeo to self-produce his follow-up album, Reconstruction, which could not match the success of its predecessor. Perry's animosity towards Romeo was demonstrated by his single "White Belly Rat", with Perry also writing the word 'Judas' over a photograph of Romeo on the wall of his Black Ark studio.

He moved to New York City in 1978, where he co-wrote (with Hair producer Michael Butler) the musical, Reggae, which he also starred in. In 1980 he appeared as a backing vocalist on "Dance" on The Rolling Stones album Emotional Rescue. In 1981, the favour was returned when Keith Richards (of The Rolling Stones) co-produced and played on Romeo's album, Holding Out My Love to You. The rest of his output during the decade went practically unnoticed, with Romeo finding work at a New York electronics store. He returned to Jamaica in 1990, and began touring and recording more regularly.

He visited the UK again in 1992, recording the albums Far I Captain of My Ship and Our Rights with Jah Shaka. In 1995 he recorded Cross of the Gun with Tappa Zukie, and he joined up with UK rhythm section/production team Mafia & Fluxy in 1999 for the album Selassie I Forever.

His music has been sampled by other artists; The Prodigy sampled his track "Chase the Devil" for their 1992 UK Top Ten hit "Out of Space". Kanye West has also used samples from it to produce Jay-Z's hit song "Lucifer", which appeared on Jay-Z's 2003 release - The Black Album.

"Chase the Devil" is featured on the reggae radio station K-JAH Radio West in a popular videogame Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, released in October 2004. Romeo's single "Sipple Out Deh" appeared in John Peel's Record Box.

- Albums:
A Dream (1970) Trojan
Let The Power Fall (1972) Dynamic
Revelation Time (1975) Black World
War Ina Babylon (1976) Island
Reconstruction (1979) Island
I Love My Music (1979) Wackies
Rondos (1980) King Kong
Holding Out My Love to You (1981) Shanachie
Transition (1989) Rohit
Fari - Captain of My Ship (1992) Jah Shaka
Our Rights (1992) Jah Shaka
Cross or the Gun (1995) Tappa Zukie
Selassie I Forever (1999) Mafia & Fluxy
Love Message (1999) Warriors
Something is Wrong (1999) Warriors
In This Time (2001) 3D (Max Romeo & Tribu Acustica)
Pocomania Songs (2007) Ariwa Sounds
- Compilations:
Max Romeo Meets Owen Gray At King Tubby's Studio (1984) Culture Press (with Owen Gray)
Max Romeo and the Upsetters (1989)
Wet Dream (1993) Crocodisc
McCabee Version (1995) Sonic Sounds
Open The Iron Gate (1999) Blood & Fire
The Many Moods of Max Romeo (1999) Jamaican Gold
Pray For Me: The Best of Max Romeo 1967-73 (2000) Trojan Records
Perilous Times (2000) Charmax
On The Beach (2001) Culture Press
The Coming of Jah (2002) Trojan
Ultimate Collection (2003) (compiled by David Katz)
Holy Zion (2003) Burning Bush
Wet Dream: The Best of Max Romeo (2004) Trojan
Crazy World of Dub (2005) Jamaican Recordings

One of Jamaica's most provocative lyricists, a singer who gave us such enduring songs as 'Chase The Devil' (which was sampled in the song 'Out of Space' by The Prodigy and the song 'Lucifer' by Jay-Z), 'Public Enemy Number One', 'One Step Forward' and 'Three Blind Mice'. It was Romeo who first introduced Britain to the concept of rude reggae with 'Wet Dream', which, despite a total radio ban, reached number 10 in the UK charts in May 1969.
In 1972 Romeo began working with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. 'Babylon Burning', 'Three Blind Mice' and 'The Coming Of Jah' all maintained his star status in Jamaica between 1972 and 1975. Revelation Time was one of the best albums of 1975, and 1976's War Ina Babylon was hailed by the rock press as an all-time classic reggae album. Two outstanding contributions that will remain classic recordings from the so-called ‘golden age’ of Jamaican reggae music.

Wet Dream
Max Romeo Lyrics

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Every night me go to sleep, me have wet dreams
Every night me go to sleep, me have wet dreams
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down

You in your small corner, I stand in mine

Throw all the punch you want to, I can take them all

Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down

Look how you're big and fat, like a big, big shot
Give the crumpet to big foot Joe, give the fanny to me

Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down, so he said

Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Max Romeo's song "Wet Dream" are about the artist's sexual desires and fantasies. He talks about having wet dreams every night he goes to sleep, indicating his strong sexual desire for a woman. He urges the woman to lie down and let him push it up, which is a euphemism for sexual intercourse. The woman seems resistant to his advances and is throwing punches at him, but he claims he can take them all. He even goes so far as to insult her appearance, calling her big and fat, and suggests giving her to another man before finally urging her to lie down and let him have his way.

While the lyrics are explicit and vulgar, they speak to a common theme in music across genres and time periods: sex. However, in the context of the time in which the song was released, it was considered taboo and was banned from many radio stations. The frank discussion of sexual desires and fantasies was not something that was widely accepted in society at the time.

Line by Line Meaning

Every night me go to sleep, me have wet dreams
Every night when I go to sleep, I have sexually explicit dreams.

Lie down girl let me push it up, push it up, lie down
Please lie down and let me have sex with you.

You in your small corner, I stand in mine
We are in separate places and in different social circles.

Throw all the punch you want to, I can take them all
You can insult me as much as you want, but it won't affect me.

Look how you're big and fat, like a big, big shot
You may act important and powerful, but you are actually overweight and unattractive.

Give the crumpet to big foot Joe, give the fanny to me
You can have sex with someone unattractive, while I have sex with you.

Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: MAX ROMEO, BUNNY LEE, DERRICK SEYMOUR MORGAN, MAXIE SMITH

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@natetaiapa2218

4y↑20

Maxie’s reputation as a ladies man must have been on Bunny’s mind when he tried to persuade Max to record ‘Wet Dream’. Max had written the song but did not want to sing it and none of Bunny’s Agro stable of established artists, including Slim Smith, Roy Shirley and John Holt would touch it. Even Derrick Morgan whose ‘Hold You Jack‘ rhythm was to be used for the song did not want to know.

Bunny, a man never short of ideas, (one of his album sleeves even featured a cartoon of a man’s head with a glowing light bulb above it) realised that the song had definite possibilities. He would later gain the soubriquet ‘Striker’ because of his almost innate ability to make hit records. Maxie was not over-keen, but Bunny allegedly told him if he didn’t do it he was ‘out of here’, and so they arrived one night at Studio One on Brentford Road to find Coxsone himself in charge of the session. When he heard Max sing the opening bars of ‘Wet Dream’ he was so disgusted that he refused to go any further and told his apprentice engineer, Errol ‘ET’ Thompson, to take over on the board. Rude or ‘slack’ records were nothing new and, under the influence of American artists such as Blowfly, were currently undergoing something of a revival, but the format usually tended towards boasts of sexual prowess rather than a concern with ‘erotic dreams causing involuntary ejaculations’. Bunny promptly took ‘Wet Dream’ to the Palmer brothers in London who promptly released it on their Unity label.

It was an exciting time for Jamaican music in the U.K. as it bathed in its first real run of international success largely due to its adoption by London’s ‘skinhead‘ cult. Oh how we laughed when we first heard the record, acknowledging that it was a version of an already established hit record on a popular rhythm and expecting that, like most ‘novelty’ records, it would disappear in a week or two as soon as something new came along.

However this one refused to go away and it proved to be instrumental in introducing reggae to the British public as it continued to sell and sell and sell. It made and stayed on the U.K. National Charts for an unprecedented twenty-five weeks where it reached the dizzy heights of number ten without the benefit of any radio play at all. The record was deemed so offensive that Alan Freeman was not permitted to even say the title on his Sunday afternoon ‘Pick Of The Pops’ show and it was only ever referred to as ‘a record by Max Romeo’. The potent blend of humour and sexual ‘suggestiveness’ ensured its popularity with the U.K. audience who had never heard anything quite so blatant before.

It certainly proved to be a rude awakening for young Max who was really thrown in at the deep end and when he arrived in the U.K. to promote the record he steadfastly stuck to his story that his song was nothing whatsoever to do with sex at all. Oh no. In fact it was an everyday story of poverty in Jamaica where the roof of Maxie’s shack was constantly leaking – and we all know just how much it pours with rain in Jamaica.

The chorus of ‘lie down gal let me push it up, push it up’ actually alluded to the ever polite Max requesting that his young lady move out of the way so that he push a broom up into the hole in the roof to stop said leak. So now we knew that ‘Wet Dream’ was not rude and was all about Maxie’s good night’s sleep being disturbed by a leaking roof. So that’s all right then. Of course everyone believed him even though no-one thought to ask him what the lines about ‘give the crumpet to Big Foot Joe, give the fanny to me’ meant and Alan Freeman persisted in calling it ‘a record by Max Romeo’.

Just in case anyone had really believed him, Maxie went on to promptly record a number of innuendo filled records which, strangely enough, also failed to garner any air play and, to this day, ‘Wet Dream’ remains his sole U.K. chart entry. Surprisingly ‘Wet Dream’ was not a particularly big seller in Jamaica, but even if he found it hard to live down the stigma attached to the record in the U.K., Maxie had no such problems at home and he enjoyed hit after hit on the Jamaican charts. Reference: https://trojanrecords.com/artist/max-romeo/

All comments from YouTube:

@MrRichardcrowe

3y↑78

My mum plays this record in the garden so all the neighbours can hear. She's totally oblivious.

@johnrooney1749

3y↑1

You go that girl John moss side Manchester boy 1950s.John Rooney

@johnmilbourn8876

Classes

@wendyharper9454

2y↑5

Love your mum. Would have done the same, except that I was only about 16 when this record came out. Oh what an uproar - banned everywhere in the stuffy 60's!! Didn't stop all the illegal imports though. Great beginning for Trojan Music ...

@JamesJones-bb4bx

2y↑1

LMAO love man

@RetroReminiscing

ha ha ha !!! Love that thought! Id do it purposley so see the neighbours reactions lol

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@oludotunjohnshowemimo434

4y↑54

It was definitely a blessing in disguise for Max Romeo when the BBC banned it as it became number one elsewhere.

@damienelliott4906

3y↑251

My old man's going out song ....should have seen the faces in the crematorium 🤣

@jamesflynn6439

3y↑15

Good for him. Top Man

@spiritov69

3y↑10

Omg 🤣🤣🤣
🙏🙏🙏

@lesliewheeler1750

3y↑7

love it

@CatfoodandSkidmarks

3y↑13

I just physically clapped reading that. Legend

@xxpiggystardustxx4241

3y↑5

i used to go to a local disco in 1970 .great track to dance with the girls to :)

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@allangow4746

4y↑122

I could play this in my bedroom at 16, my mum didn't understand the lyrics!😊 1969, a great year.

@lawretta-jineteluminescent9694

3y↑6

😁 hehehe

@DannyThompson54

3y↑9

I was in 5th form - the boys and girls played this loud from the 6th form room, drove the teachers mad, they couldn't stop it. Kids in the playground shouting out the lyrics ... what an epic sound for my last year at school.

@AndreiTheVampire

3y↑3

@@DannyThompson54 where in the world was this ??

@DannyThompson54

3y↑5

@@AndreiTheVampire This was at Sir Hugh Middleton school, in Clerkenwell, London, UK.

@AndreiTheVampire

3y↑8

@@DannyThompson54 awesome. I was born in 84, can’t imagine what growing up w this music like this would be like.. so much has changed since those days eh? This was when music didn’t sound like computers.

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@katelilyx6323

2y↑61

My dad was a reggae lover, so always heard this in the car, I had zero idea of what the lyrics meant until I was in my 20’s and realised what I’d been singing along to 😂

@marioesquivel8964

You have a nery nice dad

@Moneytane1976

1y↑1

Its about the Jamaican roofing industry - I swear!!

@kimgrattage2395

51w

@@Moneytane1976 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Yeah, course it is. Been round for 64 years, I KNOW what this was about? In fact, still got this record safe and sound until I buy new record player.

@eddyvideostar

49w

Dear Kate Lily X: This was just Jamaican jibberish in its more understandable form -- I glossed over the lyrics and focused on the rhythms.

@MD-yc7dj

24w

Ка Авагс 1:02 а шип п п п ш😊. 😊р

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@richardsadler8124

3y↑37

My girlfriend who became my Wife loved this song but thought it was naughty, 50 years later I play it to my daughter's they love it but didn't realise in those days we had a life. Many times we made love listening to this song, enough said I think. I love the guy who played it as his dad was being put to rest, bless you. Those were the days oh to be young again and have a sense of fun and laughter.

@markpetersen8135

2y↑1

Wet Dream by Wet Leg

@eddyvideostar

49w

Richard Saldler: You -- really -- do have a life, a family life where you can share the naughtiness.
You can gain this type of joy with your family: where I lose my freakiness, being abashed near relatives and loved ones.

@onelife7247

30w

It is rather rude, even by today’s standards lol

@rodneycurtis7055

15w

A completely different song. @@markpetersen8135

@user-td6ky6mb2k

1y↑8

Best record to dance to in the Marisco nightclub, Woolacombe, 1969. What a summer!

@jonrobinson3360

3y↑27

I remember playing this in the 70's at the school disco I ran as a school pupil. Inevitably the disco was banned. I also played je'taime

@TheCryptKeeper8

5y↑18

I cannot believe that at 41 I'd be listening to this song for the first time since i was a kid and that the lyrics are what they are. I used to watch my mum dance around to this and thought nothing of it. Thank goodness I didn't sing this in school. But it is really catchy tune.

@StephenLyons-tl8ie

3y↑1

I'm 68 and still like it!!

@Derwentcub

8y↑45

Mum, Dad and family (including me) were in a seaside cafe when this came on the juke box. I can remember Mum's disgust, but the rest of us loved it! Happy days!

@christians483

3y↑2

She should have heard boom fatty boom boom

@tonydenial1485

2y↑2

If she was disgusted then she must have been listening to the words, which was unusual for an adult, my music didn't even figure on my parents radar !! 😊

@dwatts711

2y↑1

My eldest sister used to play this tune

@michaellock9618

2y↑11

I remember the boys at school back in 1970 singing this.

@deantunkara1567

I was one.

@annesemper4451

4y↑53

When that came out I was in my early teens. My cousin played this at our house and my mum slapped him and banned him from our house. I'm 60 now.

@auntyb6313

3y↑4

Is he allowed back now? 😆

@annesemper4451

3y↑1

@@auntyb6313 My mum and cousin are sadly no longer with us. He didn't ever try again.

@patsyod

38w↑2

One of the best never to be played on R1. Old Max had it cracked!

@edwardgainor1484

9y↑71

Max's public explanation was that the song was really about trying to fix a leaky roof. hahaha

@michaelevans7635

5y↑11

I first heard this live at the Brookfield Hall (now a co…op store) in Ashford Kent, sang live by Mood Reaction. My dad used to be the bouncer there (& I didn’t have to pay to get in), when my dad heard this song he made me go outside! You should have seen his face when he heard the same song blasting out of my bedroom, needless to say I got grounded & the record confiscated! 😂 happy days.

@mackb909

5y↑10

I absolutely believe him. And I believed John Lennon when he said that he and 4-year-old Julian were innocently drawing pictures at the kitchen table one day, and John asked his son what the picture of the lady flying through the air wearing gems was, and Julian said, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds." The song had absolutely NOTHING to do with anything else.

@stingray4real

3y↑1

What a load of bollocks! How does he explain lie down gal let me push it up?

@anthonygoraj5170

@@stingray4real oook

@DAv2003

3y↑5

@@stingray4real Apparently, he said it was about him telling his wife/girlfriend to lie down while he pushed the loose panel on the roof up with a broom.

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@JeanWilkinson-kj4go

1y↑6

Reminds me of my school days and discos, just LOVE this song. ❤

@davidfinding7960

2y↑32

Bless up Trojan, studio one etc, for bringing all these righteous tunes to the white man😎🌈

@jamesflynn6439

2y↑2

Ah David, I’m a 75 year old Grandfather who has come through Blue Beat and all from there, I’m a white man

@eddyvideostar

49w↑2

Dear David Finding, The white man gave these songsters his sacred soil and streets of smooth paving, airplay of opportunities, dredging Marley from the pit to play for the British masses.

@nickjosland473

28w

It’s for everyone

@philrhodes5298

2y↑3

Remember this one at the fairground in Salford, they played while we were on the caterpillar. I must have been about 14.
We loved it, great lyrics!

@tonymaynard1386

Greens Caterpillar i remember it well

@jacquelinefox2632

2y↑1

The original... Me and Wellie rocked this.. Xxxxx

@loobyloo1955

5y↑9

OMG I have the 45 record of this somewhere. Growing up in London, listened to this a lot.

@chrissiequinn3234

9y↑43

when i bought this they only sold it to me on the understanding it had to go over the counter in a brown paper bag ha hahahahhaha

@kukol

4y↑3

That is how record shops sold records, in paper bags.🙄

@kristinejames9812

14w

Only just found this song via an Alexa pressie this Christmas. Asked for reggae music and found this gem that I've never heard of before. Puts my original Prince Buster, Big 5 single that I still play on my dancette in the shade somewhat!! Happy Days!😊🤣

@lesliewheeler1750

8y↑52

we used to play this at the youth club our copy also got snapped in half am now 59 and still love it

@laurendonegan1363

4y↑5

Oh my god who remember s this

@dillongstaff5625

49w↑1

6 months in the UK top 50 ... not bad for a record never played on the radio in 1969.

@dillongstaff5625

27w↑1

Unity Reaords B side She's but a little girl.

@dillongstaff5625

27w↑1

She's probably a bit bigger now,

@patsyporter1266

5y↑5

unerstated groove, keyboard so sweet, remember dancing to this at george and dragon pub in tonbridge, golden times!

@seskac2820

2y↑6

Wow...this is a great tune, man.❤❤

@yvonnenairn9649

1y↑2

Brilliant stuff!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@sambrown2322

32w↑1

So that song was released in 69, it makes legit sense now 😂😂😂😂

@alanmiller4205

1y↑2

Absolutely CLASS RECORD

@stargawper

9y↑25

Good grief, would they allow this today,damn fine times

@markmeade2937

Do we give a toss, absolutely brilliant tune 🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😉

@natetaiapa2218

4y↑20

@eddyvideostar

49w

Dear Natty Good: When you have the golden goose formula -- go with it. Just reading this would make an excited musician languish in ennui.

@spar65

45w

Me and my older brother in the early 70's shared a bedroom, This was a regular on his old Sharp music centre back then! rattled some good memories, Great track and now added to my favourites

@chriskelly1433

5y↑4

You just can’t beat this.lie down girl,let me push it up.

@thesoultwins72

1y↑1

Always evokes so many great memories ......wish I could do back

@didzee002

6y↑18

Levi's boots+braces.. good times

@gerardskiling4065

6y↑16

This is pure Classic

@thewarriorsofficialyoutube5078

4y↑4

Another song from my youth marvellous

@lyndapickering7682

3y↑4

So did I great music still got the single

@rgg6738

1y↑2

My fav reggae track.❤

@stevenbennett2951

37w

Remember it well from my youth! Brilliant those were the days

@johnstrelley3917

3y↑2

I'm 33 and I've just found this lol. I think my dad had the lp but there's no way I would have been allowed to hear it!

@eddyvideostar

49w

To John Strelley: At 33: I think your dad would let you decide.

@keith6667

8y↑134

Was playing this to my friend at his place when I was 13, his mum took it off the player and threw it on the fire.

@kukol

4y↑15

I really laughed out loud at this...sorry!

@lucasamtab

4y↑1

@@kukol and problably threw you out on the fire too :D

@ivyatoppin5682

4y↑9

mine kept throwing mine away and I kept buying.

@jano.e.6063

4y↑8

@@ivyatoppin5682 And so it went up the charts. Great stories!

@222macman

4y↑10

my old man bent my copy into 4 and used it to jam the shed door open.

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@pcno2832

3y↑5

This is the first time I've heard this; it's unknown in the USA. If I played it in front of a room of people, I doubt they'd have any idea what the lyrics were, unless maybe they had seen the title first.

@eddyvideostar

49w

To PC No: You recently heard this one year ago in the USA?
They'd think you're in church -- compared to the norm issued to our ears today.

@breakevenbernie8543

5y↑5

This is like the
Carry on of the reggae world
Very naughty !

@annesemper4451

4y↑1

But nice!

@eddyvideostar

49w

@@annesemper4451: In what way?

@amandashare1281

5y↑6

Bought this album when I was a kid, had to hide it from my dad! Paid £1 for it sold it for £30 twenty years later. Wish I still had it, I wonder how much its worth now.

@Anykindahandle

2y↑1

You don’t wanna know

@amandashare1281

@@Anykindahandle oh dear is it worth a lot or nothing?

@gavinwtroy

2y↑1

It's priceless.....

@amandashare1281

@@gavinwtroy Oh dear!

@jaimitootutu1996

43w

I sold mine for half a million a few weeks ago

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@yvonnenairn9649

1y↑1

FAB tune MATEY!

@alanpetruj4619

9y↑15

first time ive heard this record it was banned back in 1969 when l was 11

@stephenphillip5656

3y↑1

Ah, innocent me 😇 14 in 1969, loved the song, hadn't a clue what it was about but man, it was catchy! Got some funny looks when I professed to like the tune....

@lisacomber7771

3y↑4

Omg I remember this when I was 14 nearly sixty still know the words🤣

@christineterry3079

3y↑2

This old 45 wss in our record collection at home in my youth 👍 good tune though but a bit out there at the time blushing now 😂

@paulselkirk2345

2y↑1

I haven't heard this one for a long time, used to have this one on vinyl played it alot then.🤩😊😎🤗

@appleyardgardenwoodencraft8736

I have to tell this as I saw it in 1969 iwas born 1964 Kennington Street, bradford, England. my garden looked over the back garden in the other garden I saw one young born Jamaican one born Pakistani one born polish two born English dancing to this singing to the words I joined in singing and dancing like them mum called me in for dinner I'm walking in singing my father stared laughing then started singing my mum looked at father then started to dance 💃 saying glad he doesn't know what it meant. my mother was English my father was Egyptian thank you Jamaica for bringing the world together with your ska music 🎶

@bjpoetoe

2y↑1

I still like this song..
👍👏👏

@micksmith106

3y↑1

Danced to this a few times.. Back in the day.. With the girlfriend ... ..45 years ago....now my Mrs..Good times.. :)

@dawnreece6074

4y↑1

Still have a copy played it forever at 13 didn’t have a clue what it was about just loved the sound. Innocent days.

@meruliouslacrimens5154

2y↑7

I am pleased to say that i replaced all my old singles ( which were knackered by then) with trojan cds, so i can still play them. This just proves that great music is timeless.🤣👍👍👍

@missymaisie7761

3y↑3

Great music!

@gesticulato

5y↑3

such gorgeous organ playin there

@daggersdukc

Solo organ!

@ianbentley7276

4y↑2

69, A VERY APT YEAR.

@Gimenez528Hz

1y↑1

I have the original, it's my mums. Fabulous track 👌🏿

@3niknicholson

1y↑1

Great record!

@nobbysnuts38

32w

can you imagine the reaction it would have now

@karkaju3735

3y↑1

Uuuuh hace cuanto que no es escuchaba esta canción...!!! 😀😀😀👍👍👍

@dianerogers8805

6y↑1

Brilliant record, would never be allowed now. So glad there was no pc in the day,

@zackay8818

2y↑2

love this song

@Jack-fs2im

3y↑1

Wow memories that they haven,t banned yet.reggae on.

@grahampearce6486

9y↑5

Yeah Great times!

@johnnyb8825

4y↑9

The "official" explanation for the lyrics was that it was about a man whose wife is woken up in the middle of the night by him fixing a leak in the ceiling, and he tells her to go back to sleep while he carries on fixing the leak!

@timhutchings6562

4y↑2

Remember this from youth club discos

@elainereid1386

48w

Love it love it 😂❤
Wow you can't beat the Jamaican reggae artist
💕 Love this man he don't mess with his words gets 😂 straight to the point ☝️❤
Amun RASTAFARI AMUN ❤❤❤😅

@mikelock4247

1y↑1

When I was at school, all the boys used to sing this.

@funkylover6974

30w↑1

Souvenirs... #698K ❤

@mykalgb8643

Wow first time am hearing this song...I can only imagine how Christians in 1968 were upset at rag songs like this

@janeough45

5y↑17

say what you want about this song it sure makes your feet move in all directions ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lol

@eddyvideostar

49w

Jane: Just keep them straight with 5-inch heels.

@prudenceappleby5111

43w

At the crematorium; brilliant 👏
I was 14 in 1970, borrowed it off my friend who was 13!!!!
Couldn't understand why the BBC banned it from Radio One!

Remember the BBC banning the Judge Dread songs too😂

Good old days😂

@paulwilliams6429

1y↑1

It was actually Pama Records (on the Unity label) that brought this classic to the world

@andybaker2456

True. I can still see that Unity label spinning on our radiogram as I played my sister's copy of the single. Good job my parents never understood the lyrics, I don't think they'd have been too happy knowing what I was listening to as a nipper! Not that I understood them either at that age. 😁

@kimgrattage6049

34w

I have this, but on the Ocean Label. Had it since 1970.

@philipquinlan3407

this certainly takes me back to fun times

@Adam-ol8jz

6y↑2

reggae britannia bought me here

@djangiebaby

classic love it ❣

@darenime

Iconic solo

@goodlife6145

Things were so innocent in the old days... oh hang on.

@joseleoncio5908

8y↑1

Só quem curte aki 5:00 da manha brisadao... salve Guarulhos, salve Brasil um Salvi a todos Reggeiro...Leo.S

@spunkospunko4800

Bad man ting

@potdog1000

i was going out with my future wife & we heard this for the first time together, my son was born March the following year , says it all really lol

@lorraine.bernardettehoole7743

The nuns used to play this at lunchtime discos. St Hildas Burnley 1969 1970

@eddyvideostar

49w

Dear Lorraine Hoole: In the sacred land of England: Sad.

@lorraine.bernardettehoole7743

49w

@eddyvideostar I know. I honestly think as I did that they didn't know what it meant. They were just trying to relate to teenage girls by playing pop records in the classroom at lunch time.

@patmiddleton6452

3y↑2

I remember being a skin at grendon club....my Dad went mad at the song...

@kathjordan2497

Brilliant song

@trublmkr75

Fertility clinic music. Bim!

@michelinesheridan7755

Hee! Hee! Remember this song from when I used to go to a Youth Club loosely associated with the Church of England back in the day. Some Jamaican lads asked if they could bring records and the powers that be, long before diversity, said "yes, of course". Happily, they couldn't understand the lyrics 😂

@annieswalef4698

Yes over deh beatiful song after all these years

@eddyvideostar

49w

Dear Annie Swalet: This song was "beatiful." Nice word.

@Frommigrannybelly

15w

My first reggae tune of 2024. 😂😂😂💛💛💛💛💛🍒🍒

@claudegomes6393

1y↑1

Reminds me of the Locarno 1969 Streatham Hill SW London

@melojai4693

39w

Makes me laugh everytime ❤❤🥰🤣🤣

@beetrootbertha

10y↑8

remember moving to this very sexy ,and close to the bone for the year.

@gabordavidkiss8546

Rest in Paradise Bunny Lee 🙏

@tabl10s

3y↑3

I live in California, but originally from Birmingham. My best friend's parents had the record and he was allowed to play with the system.

One day, he heard the song and kept singing the chorus over and over and over again. He caught hell/heck/hades, etc, etc... with a wooden hair brush(he was 7)!