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Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (Brussels, Belgium, April 29, 1922 - August 22, 2016), known as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. He was known for his harmonica playing, as well as his guitar and whistling skills.
A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette," where he used whistling and guitar in unison. He worked both as a bandleader and as a sideman, including many projects with composer/arranger Quincy Jones. He performed on many film soundtracks, such as Midnight Cowboy, Cinderella Liberty, Jean de Florette, The Sugarland Express, The Yakuza, Turkish Delight, the 1972 version of The Getaway, French...
Jamaican ska vocal group The Maytals became a reggae band in 1971, renamed Toots and The Maytals with Frederick "Toots" Hibbert as front figure. The band won a 2005 Grammy award for the album True Love. Funky Kingston in early 70s is on Rolling Stone's list The Greatest Albums of All Time. The bass line in "54-46" is one of the most covered in pop music. Songs such as "Monkey Man", "Pressure Drop", "Bam Bam", among others, made them favorites for the early skinhead movement of white working-class youth in UK.
Toots and The Maytals are from Kingston, Jamaica. It...
Toots Hibbert (born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, 10 December 1945, May Pen, Parish of Clarendon, Jamaica) is a ska and roots reggae singer and leader of the reggae band Toots and the Maytals.
As the youngest of seven children, he grew up singing gospel music in a church choir, but went to Kingston when he was a teenager in the early 1960s. In Kingston he met Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias, and they formed The Maytals. The Maytals became one of the most popular vocal groups in Jamaica in the 1960s, recording with producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster, Byron Lee and...
A foot stompin', horn honkin', go-go dancing, psychedelic freak-out. Five members on record, nine on stage. The Toots' live shows are a haphazard spectacle filled with sweat, glitter and trumpets. A garage, country, big band bonanza whose songs tell ol' tales of rural Australian misfits. .
Bam Bam
Do the Reggay
Reggae Got Soul
54-46 Was My Number
Pressure Drop
Monkey Man
54-46 Was My Number
Pressure Drop
Louie Louie
54.46 That's My Number
You Really Got Me
54-46 That's My Number
Country Roads
Monkey Man
Pressure Drop
54.46 That's My Number
54-46 Thats my Number
Eye for an Eye
Funky Kingston
Hold On
Perfect Lover
Sweet and Dandy
Jungle
Blame On Me
Get up Stand Up
Careless Ethiopians
Our Father
Back to the Island
More and More
Jungle
Judge and the Corporal
Feel Free
Feel Free
Love Gonna Walk out on Me
Spend the Night
Livity
Blame on Me
True Love Is Hard To Find
Love Gonna Walk Out On Me
Love Gonna Walk out on Me
Intro Country Roads
What Kind of Woman
Almighty Way
Mini Conversation
Bound to Win
Fool for You
Back to the Island
Love Is the Best
God Bless You
Our Father