Sweet And Dandy

Well, yesterday's post on the Maytals sent me down the YouTube hole and I can't resist posting another one of their songs, Sweet and Dandy.  This version is from the 1972 cult hit, The Harder They Come, about the Jamaican street and music scene.  The entire song is not in the video, if you want it all go here.  In the clip, the guy in the yellow cap is Jimmy Cliff (an reggae singer in real life) who is the tragic hero of the film.

Pressure Drop

Good stuff from The Maytals (1970), the Jamaican ska band, later known as Toots & The Maytals after their lead singer, Frederick "Toots" Hibberts who also composed the song, which has been covered often over the years.  In 1968 I attended a house party in Kingston where I heard a lot of this music.