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Darling is a term of endearment of Anglo-Saxon origin.

It may also refer to:

People[link]

• Darling (surname)

Places[link]

In Australia

• Darling Downs, a region in Queensland, Australia
• Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia
• Darling Heights, Queensland
• Darling Point, New South Wales
• Darling River, the third-longest Australian river
• Darling Scarp, an escarpment in Western Australia
• Darling Street, the main thoroughfare of Balmain, Sydney
• Darling railway station, Melbourne

In Nepal

• Darling, Dhawalagiri, a Village Development Committee (administrative region)
• Darling, Lumbini, a village and municipality

Elsewhere

• Darling, Chin State in Burma/Myanmar
• Darling, Western Cape, in South Africa
• Darling Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada

Films[link]

• Darling (1965 film), a 1965 British film directed by John Schlesinger
• Darling, a French film directed by Christine Carrière
• Darling (2007 Hindi film), a 2007 Bollywood film starring Fardeen Khan
• Darling (2007 film), a Swedish film directed by Johan Kling
• Darling (2010 film), a Telugu film starring Prabhas
• Darling! The Pieter–Dirk Uys Story, a 2007 documentary by Julian Shaw

Music[link]

Bands

• Darling (band), a British band featuring guitarist Hal Lindes and drummer Paul Varley
• Darling, a band fronted by former Calibretto 13 drummer Christopher Thomas

Songs

• "Darling", a 1978 single by Baccara
• "Darling", a song by Eyes Set to Kill from Reach
• "Oh! Darling", a song by The Beatles from Abbey Road
• "Darling Darling", a single by Hitomi Yaida

Other uses[link]

• Darling (German car), an early automobile model manufactured by Neue Automobil Gesellschaft
• Darling (American car), an automobile model manufactured before 1919
• Darling (game), a video game series
• Darling (perfume), promoted by Kylie Minogue
• Darling language, an aboriginal language of the Darling River in Australia
• Jay Norwood and Genevieve Pendleton Darling House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa

See also[link]

• The Darling (disambiguation)
• Darlin' (disambiguation)

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Donald Sutherland
Sutherland at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 2005
Born	Donald McNicol Sutherland[1] (1935-07-17) 17 July 1935 (age 76) Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1962–present
Spouse	Lois Hardwick (1959–66) Shirley Douglas (1966–70) Francine Racette (1972–present)
Children	Kiefer, Rachel Rossif, Angus, Roeg

Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans nearly 50 years.^[1] Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in popular war movies such as The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Kelly's Heroes, as well as characters in other popular films such as Klute, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, JFK, Ordinary People and, more recently, The Hunger Games. He is the father of actor Kiefer Sutherland.^[2]

Early life[link]

Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol; 1892–1956) and Frederick McLea Sutherland (1894–1983), who worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity, and bus company.^[1][3] His ancestry includes Scottish, as well as German and English.^[4][5] His teenage years were spent in Nova Scotia.^[6] He got his first part time job at age 14 as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He then studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he met his first wife Lois Hardwick (not the child star of the same name), and graduated with a double major in engineering and drama. He had at one point been a member of the "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer, and subsequently left Canada for England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Early work[link]

In the early-to-mid-1960s, Sutherland began to gain small parts in British films and TV. He featured alongside Christopher Lee in horror films such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), appeared in a 1967 episode of The Avengers entitled "The Superlative Seven" and twice appeared in the TV series The Saint, firstly in the 1965 episode "The Happy Suicide"^[7] and then, more auspiciously, in the episode "Escape Route" at the end of 1966.^[8] "Escape Route" was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland "asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important part... they came to view a rough cut at the studio and he got The Dirty Dozen".^[9] Sutherland was then on course for the first of the three war films which would make his name: as one of the The Dirty Dozen in 1967, alongside Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson; as the lead "Hawkeye" Pierce in Robert Altman's MASH in 1970; and, again in 1970, as hippy-like tank commander Sgt. Oddball in Kelly's Heroes, alongside Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas.

Mid-career: 1972–2000[link]

During the filming of the Academy award-winning detective thriller Klute, Sutherland had an intimate relationship with co-star Jane Fonda.^[10] Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the anti-Vietnam war documentary F.T.A. (1972), consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with American troops who were then on active service. A follow up to their teaming up in Klute, Sutherland and Fonda performed together in Steelyard Blues (1972), a "freewheeling, Age-of-Aquarius, romp-and-roll caper" from the writer David S. Ward. Also starring in this film was the late Peter Boyle (more recently known for his work in Everybody Loves Raymond).

Sutherland found himself in demand as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice-based psychological horror film Don't Look Now (1973), the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Federico Fellini's Casanova (1976) and the thriller Eye of the Needle (which was filmed on location on the Isle of Mull, West Scotland) and as the ever-optimistic health inspector in the science fiction/horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum. In 1975 he starred in Day of the Locust opposite Karen Black of Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces fame; Sutherland played the lead character, Homer Simpson, in this drama based on the book by Nathanael West.

He helped launch the internationally popular Canadian television series Witness to Yesterday, with a performance as the Montreal doctor Norman Bethune, a physician and humanitarian, largely talking of Bethune's experiences in revolutionary China. Sutherland refused a script for this role, saying he knew Bethune's life so well they could ask him anything—and the interviewer ended up with enough material for two programs instead of the planned one.

Sutherland also had a small role as pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978, making himself known to younger fans as a result of the movie's popularity. When cast, he was offered either US$40,000 up front or a percentage of the movie. Thinking the movie would certainly not be a big success, he chose the 40K upfront payment. The movie eventually grossed $141,600,000 (US).

He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic film 1900 and as the conflicted father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People (1980) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. In 1981 he narrated A War Story, an Anne Wheeler film. He played the part of physician-hero Norman Bethune in two separate biographical films in 1977 and 1990.

A prolific actor, some of Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were in the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon; as an incarcerated pyromaniac in the firefighter thriller Backdraft (1989) alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro, Lock Up (1991) with Sylvester Stallone; and as the snobbish NYC art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith. In the 1991 Oliver Stone film JFK, Sutherland played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer, reputed to have been L. Fletcher Prouty, who spoke of links to the military–industrial complex in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.^[11] He played psychiatrist and visionary Wilhelm Reich in the video for Kate Bush's 1985 single, "Cloudbusting".

In 1992, he played the part of Merrick in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with Kristy Swanson. He played a software company's scheming CEO in Barry Levinson's 1994 drama Disclosure opposite Michael Douglas and in 1995 was cast as the antagonistic Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock in Wolfgang Petersen's thriller Outbreak, also featuring Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, and Rene Russo.

Sutherland was later cast in 1997 (for only the second time) with his son Kiefer in Joel Schumacher's award-winning crime thriller A Time to Kill, based on the bestselling book of the same name, written by John Grisham. He played an aging yet ready-for-liftoff astronaut in 2000's Space Cowboys, co-starring with director Clint Eastwood.

Recent work[link]

Several famous Canadians, including Sutherland, carrying the Olympic flag at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Vancouver.

In more recent years, Sutherland was noted for his role as Reverend Monroe in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003), in the remake of The Italian Job (2003), in the TV series Commander in Chief (2005–2006), in the movie Fierce People (2005) with Diane Lane and Anton Yelchin, and as Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (2005), starring alongside Keira Knightley. He earned an Emmy nomination in 2006 for his performance in the miniseries Human Trafficking.

Sutherland starred as Tripp Darling in the prime time serial Dirty Sexy Money for ABC. Sutherland's distinctive voice has also been used in many radio and television commercials, including those for Volvo automobiles. He is the spokesman for Simply Orange orange juice and recently he played multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycut in the Warner Bros. film Fool's Gold. He provided voice-overs and narration during the intro of 1st semifinal of Eurovision Song Contest 2009, and the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and was also one of the Olympic flag bearers. He was also narrator of CTV's "I Believe" television ads in the lead up to the Games. During the games, Sutherland attended some of the events. In 2010 he starred alongside an ensemble cast in a TV adaptation of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth.

Sutherland portrayed President Snow in the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games, released in March 2012. He is slated to reprise the role in its sequel Catching Fire.

Personal life[link]

Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on 18 December 1978^[12] and was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000.^[13] He maintains a home in Georgeville, in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Sutherland was a major fan of the Montreal Expos.^[14]

Son Kiefer Sutherland, an actor best known for his role as Jack Bauer on the TV action/thriller series 24, and his twin sister, Rachel, were born to Donald Sutherland and his second wife, Shirley Douglas, daughter of politician Tommy Douglas.^{[citation needed]}

Donald Sutherland met his current wife, French-Canadian actress Francine Racette, on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder. They have three sons, including actor Rossif Sutherland, Angus Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland.^{[citation needed]}

Sutherland became a blogger for the American news website The Huffington Post during the 2008 election campaign.^[15]

Awards and recognition[link]

Sutherland's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

• 1978: Order of Canada
• 1983: 4th Genie Awards, winner, Best Actor, Threshold
• 1995: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Movie, Citizen X
• 1995: Golden Globe Award, winner, Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Citizen X
• 1998: Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Drama, Without Limits
• 2000: Canada's Walk of Fame
• 2002: Golden Globe Award, winner, Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Path to War
• 2008: honorary Doctor of Letters (Humanities), Lakehead University
• 2011: Hollywood Walk Of Fame.^[16]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Donald Sutherland

• Donald Sutherland at the Internet Movie Database
• Donald Sutherland at the TCM Movie Database
• Donald Sutherland at the Internet Broadway Database
• Donald Sutherland at Yahoo! Movies
• On the Money (Carole Cadwalladr interview), The Guardian, 30 March 2008

Kathy Kirby
Kathy Kirby at the Eurovision Song Contest 1965
Background information
Birth name	Kathleen O'Rourke
Born	(1938-10-20)20 October 1938 Ilford, Essex, England
Died	19 May 2011(2011-05-19) (aged 72) London, England[1]
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1963–1983
Labels	Decca Records

Kathy Kirby (born Kathleen O'Rourke; 20 October 1938 – 19 May 2011)^[2] was an English singer who was reportedly the highest-paid female singer of her generation.^[3] She is best known for her cover version of Doris Day's "Secret Love" and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, where she came in second place.^[4] Her physical appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe. She peaked in popularity in the 1960s.

Early life[link]

Kirby was born in Ilford, Essex.^[2] She was the eldest of three children of Irish parents.^[5] Her mother Eileen brought them up alone after their father left early in their childhood.^[5] Kirby grew up in Tomswood Hill, Barkingside, near Ilford and attended the Ursuline Convent School in Ilford where she sang in the choir.^[6]

Career[link]

Kirby's voice became apparent early in life, and she took singing lessons with a view to becoming an opera singer.^[7] She became a professional singer after meeting bandleader Bert Ambrose at the Ilford Palais in 1956. She remained with Ambrose's band for three years and he remained her manager, mentor and lover until his death on stage in Leeds in 1971.^[3]

She adopted the look of a "blonde bombshell", and was compared to Marilyn Monroe. She had five Top 40 hits between 1963 and 1965, the best known of which is her cover version of "Secret Love". In 1963 she won Top British Female Singer in the New Musical Express poll.

Kirby became one of the biggest stars of the early to mid 1960s, appearing in the Royal Command Variety Performance and three television series for BBC TV. She represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965, and came second with the song "I Belong". Author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor describes Kirby's "I Belong" as being far more representative of current musical tastes than other songs from the contest,^[8] but she was beaten by France Gall from Luxembourg, singing an even more contemporary song written by Serge Gainsbourg. She also sang the theme tune of the BBC television series Adam Adamant Lives!.

After the chart success of "I Belong", Kirby recorded more than a dozen more singles between 1965 and 1967, but they all failed to chart.^[9] She continued to make television appearances, and her 1974 appearance on The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club TV variety show is available to watch on YouTube.^[10]

During the 1970s Kirby's singing career was eclipsed by a turbulent personal life, but she made occasional television appearances and performed a few live concerts on the "nostalgia circuit". On 31 December 1976, she performed her hit song "Secret Love" on BBC1's A Jubilee Of Music, celebrating British pop music for Queen Elizabeth II's impending Silver Jubilee.

In December 1983 she gave one last concert in Blackpool, then retired from show business altogether.^[11]

Post-retirement[link]

She did not perform in public after her retirement, but an amateur recording of Kirby singing the song "He", made in about 2005, is available online.

Interest in Kirby and her work continued long after she stopped performing^[12] particularly among gay men, for whom she was something of an icon.^[13] In her last decade, she recorded short greetings for her official website.^[7] A biography was published in 2005, and there was a 2008 stage show about her life, written and produced by Graham Smith, called Secret Love.

The Daily Express reported in 2008 that plans for a new filmed interview had been abandoned, but later reports confirmed that the interview had been filmed, and it was subsequently included on a DVD compilation released the following year. She also gave an interview to the Express in 2009, which included recent photographs, and which was billed as her first in 26 years, although a previous one had been published in 2006^{[citation needed]}.^[14]

Following the 2009 interview, the Sunday Express reported that some previously unreleased recordings would be made available on CD in 2010, and that Kirby had been approached to appear on Desert Island Discs.,^[15] although neither the programme nor the CD has appeared.

Personal life[link]

Kirby met Ambrose in her teens and, despite the 42-year age gap and his having an estranged wife at the time,^[5] began a relationship with him which lasted until his death in 1971.^[16] In the 2009 interview, she said she had had an affair with Bruce Forsyth during this time.^[16]

Kirby was married briefly to writer and former London policeman Frederick Pye in the 1970s.^[2][3] Following her bankruptcy in 1975, and a court case following an arrest over an unpaid hotel bill, she was referred to St Luke's psychiatric hospital in London in 1979.^[11] Following her discharge, she had a live-in^[11] lesbian relationship with a fan, Laraine McKay, and said that they intended to marry. McKay was imprisoned for fraud and forgery.^[16][17] In the early 1980s, Kirby had relationships with musician David Cross^[18] and lawyer Alan Porter.^[14][19]

Kirby was diagnosed with schizophrenia^[16] and was in poor physical and mental health for much of her life. Following her retirement, she lived in a series of apartments and hotels in West London, settling in an apartment in Emperor's Gate, South Kensington, surviving on state benefits and some royalties, and maintaining what has been called a "Garbo-esque" seclusion. Very shortly before her death, Kirby moved to Brinsworth House in Twickenham, at the insistence of her niece, Lady Sarah Thatcher, who is married to Mark Thatcher. Another niece, Claudia, became Lady Rothermere after marrying Viscount Rothermere.^[20]

Death[link]

Kirby died on 19 May 2011, a few days after moving to Brinsworth House. According to a message from a relative posted on a fan website, Kirby suffered a heart attack,^[21] but this has not been officially confirmed.

She is survived by her sister, Pat, and her brother, Douglas.^[5]

Hits[link]

^[22]

Note: Kirby had one charted single on the US Billboard Hot 100. "The Way Of Love" peaked at #88 in 1965; Cher also recorded the track.^[23]

See also[link]

• List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1960s
• List of artists who reached number one on the Australian singles chart
• List of performers on Top of the Pops
• List of artists under the Decca Records label
• Royal Variety Performance
• United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965
• United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Eurovision Song Contest 1965

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• "Authorised tribute page" run by a friend
• A Kathy Kirby YouTube Video
• Kathy Kirby at the Internet Movie Database

Toots and the Maytals
Performing at the Summer Sundae festival, Leicester, August 2011
Background information
Origin	Jamaica
Genres	Reggae Ska Rocksteady
Years active	1963-early 1980s early 1990s-present
Labels	Beverley's Trojan V2 Mango
Website	http://www.tootsandthemaytals.com/ http://www.myspace.com/tatm
Members
Frederick "Toots" Hibbert Paul Douglas Carl Harvey Jackie Jackson Michelle Eugene Leba Thomas Marie "Twiggi" Gitten Norris Webb Charles Farquarson Radcliffe "Dougie" Bryan Andy Bassford
Past members
Henry "Raleigh" Gordon Nathaniel "Jerry" Matthias Hux Brown Harold Butler Winston Wright Winston Grennan

Toots and the Maytals, originally called simply The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and reggae vocal groups. According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, "The Maytals were key figures in reggae music. Formed in the early 1960s when ska was hot, the Maytals had a reputation for having strong, well-blended voices and a seldom-rivaled passion for their music. Frontman Hibbert's soulful style led him to be compared to Otis Redding".^[1]

Career[link]

Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the frontman of the group, was born in May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica in 1945, the youngest of seven children. He grew up singing gospel music in a church choir, and moved to Kingston in 1958 at the age of thirteen.

In Kingston, Hibbert met Henry "Raleigh" Gordon and Nathaniel "Jerry" Mathias, forming in 1961^[2] a group whose early recordings were incorrectly attributed to 'The Flames' and 'The Vikings' in the UK by Island Records. The Maytals first had chart success recording for producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd at Studio One. With musical backing from Dodd's house band, The Skatalites, the Maytals' close-harmony gospel singing ensured success, overshadowing Dodd's other up-and-coming vocal group, The Wailers. After staying at Studio One for about two years, the group moved on to do sessions for Prince Buster before recording with Byron Lee in 1966.^[1] With Lee, the Maytals won the first-ever Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition with their original song "Bam Bam" (later covered in a Dancehall style by Sister Nancy, and also by Yellowman in 1982).^[1][3] However, the group's musical career was interrupted in late 1966 when Hibbert was arrested and imprisoned for 18 months.^[1] He stated that he was not arrested for ganja, but whilst bailing a friend.^[4] He also stated that he made up the number 54-46 when writing "54-46 That's My Number" about his time in jail.^[5]

Following Hibbert's release from jail towards the end of 1967, the Maytals began working with the Chinese Jamaican producer Leslie Kong, a collaboration which yielded a string of hits throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.^[1] These included "Do the Reggay", one of several songs released in 1968 to first use the word 'reggae' (spelled 'reggay') in a Jamaican recording;^[6] "Pressure Drop"; "54-46 That's My Number" the 1969 Jamaica festival's popular song winner; "Sweet and Dandy";^[7] and "Monkey Man", the group's first international hit in 1970.^[1] By 1971, they had not only become the biggest act on the island, they were also (thanks to signing a recording contract with Chris Blackwell's Island Records) international stars.^[1] In 1972 they won their third Jamaica festival popular song with "Pomps and Pride".^[7] The group was also featured twice in the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, the 1972 film starring Jimmy Cliff, named as one of Vanity Fair's Top 10 soundtracks of all time.

After Kong's death in 1971, the group continued to record with Kong's former sound engineer, Warrick Lyn. Their re-instated producer Byron Lee renamed them Toots & the Maytals.^[1] The group released three best-selling albums produced by Lyn and Blackwell of Island Records, and enjoyed international hits with Funky Kingston in 1973 and Reggae Got Soul in 1975. Following the release of Reggae Got Soul, Toots & the Maytals were invited to tour as the opening act for The Who during their 1975-76 North American tour.^[8] The tour went poorly and Toots & the Maytals never went on to the success of Bob Marley or Peter Tosh in the U.S.^[9]

Toots and the Maytals' compositions would be given a second airing in 1978-80 during the reggae punk and ska revival period in the UK, when The Specials included "Monkey Man" on their 1979 debut album and The Clash covered "Pressure Drop". They were also included in the lyrics to Bob Marley & The Wailers song, "Punky Reggae Party" - "The Wailers will be there, The Damned, The Jam, The Clash, The Maytals will be there, Dr. Feelgood too". In 1982, Toots & the Maytals' "Beautiful Woman", reached number one in New Zealand, but the group had already broken up.^[1]

They reformed in the early 1990s to continue touring and recording successfully.^[1]

In 2005, the group released True Love, an album consisting of re-recorded versions of their earlier hits, alongside Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Trey Anastasio, No Doubt, Ben Harper, The Roots, and Shaggy. The album won the Grammy Award that year for best reggae album.

In 2006, they recorded a reggae/ska version of Radiohead's "Let Down" for the tribute album, Radiodread, by the Easy Star All-Stars. The album was a song for song makeover of the English rock band's album OK Computer into reggae, dub and ska. In August 2007 Toots & the Maytals released Light Your Light, which featured re-workings of older songs such as "Johnny Cool Man", as well as new material. The album was nominated in 2008 for a Grammy in the best reggae album category.

Toots & the Maytals hold the current record of number one hits in Jamaica, with a total of thirty one.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2009 it was announced that Toots & the Maytals would be performing alongside Amy Winehouse, for their shared record label, Island Records' 50th anniversary. Winehouse had covered the band's "Monkey Man", and the act were supposed to support her at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 31 May 2009.^[10] However, Winehouse was forced to cancel, leaving the Maytals to play at the more intimate Bush Hall, round the corner from the Empire, to a sell-out crowd.

In the summer of 2009, Toots and the Maytals performed at the Mountain Jam festival at Hunter Mountain, New York.

On 8 July 2011, Toots and the Maytals played the Winnipeg Folk Festival to an outdoor dancing crowd of thousands.

In August 2011, Toots and the Maytals are due to appear at a small number of outdoor events, including Rhythm Festival^[11]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• Never Grow Old -- 1963 Coxsone Dodd production (N.D. Records/Coxsone 1963 JA. LP JBL1113) (Heartbeat 1997 US. CD HB143)
• Life could be a dream -- 1962-4 Coxsone Dodd production (Studio One 1992 JA.)
• The Original Golden Oldies Vol.3 -- 1964 Prince Buster production (Prince Buster Record Shack 1974. LP PB11)
• The Sensational Maytals -- 1964-5 Byron Lee & Ronnie Nasralla production (Dynamic 1965. DBL1003) a.k.a. Sensational Ska Explosion (Hol. Jamaican Gold 1993. JMC 200.112)
• Do The Reggae -- 1966-70 Leslie Kong production (Attack 1988 U.K. ATLP103)
• Sweet and Dandy -- 1968 Leslie Kong production (Beverley's 1969 JA. LP005)
• From The Roots -- 1970 Leslie Kong & Warrick Lyn production (Trojan 1973 UK. TRLS65) (Sanctuary/Trojan 2003 UK. CD TJCCD091)
• Monkey Man -- 1970 Leslie Kong production (Beverley's/Trojan 1970 JA./UK. TBL107) (House Of 1997)
• The Maytals Greatest Hits -- 1970 Leslie Kong production (Beverley's 1971 JA. BLP021)
• Slatyam Stoot -- 1972 Warrick Lyn production (Dynamic Sounds 1972 US. DY3331)
• Funky Kingston -- 1972-3 Warrick Lyn, Chris Blackwell & Dave Bloxham production (Dragon 1973 UK. DRLS5002) (Mango 1973 JA. MLPS9330) (Island/Trojan 1975 US.)
• Roots Reggae -- 1974 Warrick Lyn production (Dynamic Sounds 1974 JA. DY3343)
• In the Dark -- 1974 Warrick Lyn production (Dragon 1974 UK. DRLS5004) (Trojan UK. CDTRL 202)
• Reggae Got Soul -- 1975-6 Warrick Lyn, Chris Blackwell & Joe Boyd production (Mango 1976. MLPS9374) (Island 1976 US. ILPS9374)
• Toots Presents The Maytals -- 1977 Warrick Lyn production (Chin Randy's 1977. CRRLP004) (State Records 1978. ETAT16)
• Pass the Pipe -- Karl Pitterson & Warrick Lyn production (Island 1979. ILPS9534) (Mango 1979)
• Just Like That -- Chris Blackwell, Karl Pitterson & Dicky Jobson production (Island 1980. ILPS9590) (Mango 1980)
• Knock Out! -- Chris Blackwell & Toots Hibbert production (Island 1981. ILPS9670) (Mango 1981. MLPS9670)
• Reggae Greats (Island 1984. IMCD38) (Mango 1985. MLPS9781) (Island 2001. CD remastered)
• Toots In Memphis (Mango 1988 US. 539818, CID9906, L38958)
• Recoup (Alla Son 1997. ASM CD01)
• Ska Father (Alla Son 1998)
• World Is Turning(D&F Music 2003) (XIII Bis 2005)
• True Love (V2 2004)
• Light Your Light 2005 Toots Hibbert production (D&F Music 2007)
• Stinga 1 (D&F Music 2009)
• Flip and Twist (D&F Music 2010)
• Pressure Drop - The Golden Tracks (Cleopatra 2011. B0052EV9FE) - New studio recordings by the group of several of their classic tracks, plus new re-mixes (in various styles, including dubstep) of the new re-recordings.

Live albums[link]

• Live (recorded 29 September 1980) (Island 1980, ILPS9647)
• Live at Reggae Sunsplash (recorded 4 August 1982) (Sunsplash Records 1983, VSLP8901, RS8901) (Mobile Fidelity 19??, MFCD753)
• An Hour Live "Straight from the Yard" Dedicated to Robert Nesta Marley (recorded 4 August 1982) (Sus 1990, SUS8924) (Genes 1997, GNS8924)
• Live in London (recorded 8 June 1998) (Trojan 1999, CDTRD420)

Compilation albums[link]

• Roots Reggae (The Classic Jamaican Albums ) (Trojan 2005) - six CD album boxset: Sensational Maytals, Sweet And Dandy, Monkey Man, Greatest Hits, Slatyam Stoot, Roots Reggae.
• The Best Of Toots And The Maytals (1979)
• Reggae Greats (1985)
• Do the Reggae 1966-70 (1988)
• Bla. Bla. Bla. (1993)
• Time Tough: The Anthology (1996)
• Recoup (1997)
• The Very Best of Toots & The Maytals (2000)
• 54-46 Was My Number: Anthology 1964-2000 (2002)

Other Contributions[link]

• Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard, 2007), performing Domino's "Let The Four Winds Blow"

Contemporary usage[link]

Covers[link]

• The Clash, The Specials, Gov't Mule, Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds, Jack Johnson, Josh Heinrichs, Keith Richards, Robert Palmer (on the album of the same name), and The Oppressed, have all covered "Pressure Drop".
• The Specials, Peste & Sida, The Aggrolites, Reel Big Fish, Los Pericos, Big D and the Kids Table, Amy Winehouse, Melt Banana, No Doubt, Adam Ant (on the scrapped Save The Gorilla EP) and Ore Ska Band have all covered "Monkey Man".
• The Australian musician Xavier Rudd covered "Famine".
• "54-46 That's My Number" was covered by Sublime, Ernest Ranglin and Fermín Muguruza, plus the chorus is often played live by The Trews, in an extended version of their own song, "Tired of Waiting".
• 311 covered "Reggae Got Soul" on the soundtrack to the animated film, Surf's Up.
• "Bam Bam" has been covered by several artists, including Chaka Demus.
• "Chaty chaty" was covered by the Basque band Kortatu in their song "Sarri Sarri"

Samples[link]

• The Manchester based band Sonic Boom Six sampled "Funky Kingston", for their song "Monkey See, Monkey Do", on the 2005 Champion Edition of their album, Sounds to Consume.

Soundtrack appearances[link]

• The songs "Pressure Drop" and "Sweet and Dandy" were featured in the seminal Reggae soundtrack to the Jamaican film The Harder They Come, (1972).
• "Bam Bam" was featured in the soundtrack to the film Countryman.^[12]
• "Reggae Got Soul" was featured in the soundtrack to the film Surf's Up.
• "Funky Kingston" and "Pressure Drop" were featured on the reggae radio station, K-Jah Radio West in the video game, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (2004). "Funky Kingston" was also featured in the video game, Scarface: The World Is Yours; in the film, Notes on a Scandal; and in 2004's Broken Lizard production, Club Dread(which also had "Broadway Jungle"). In addition TLC's television series, Miami Ink, used the song as its theme music.
• Shane Meadows' 2006 film, This Is England, featured the songs Louie Louie, "Pressure Drop" and "54-46 Was My Number".
• "Celia" was featured on Weeds: Music from the Original Series, Volume 4.
• "Time Tough" was featured in the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's Project 8.
• "54-46 Was My Number" was featured in the soundtrack to the film Repo Men (2009) and the game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City on the reggae radio station RamJam FM (2009).
• "It Must Be True Love" was heard in Skins (TV Series) Series 5, Episode 3 (Mini) (2011).

See also[link]

• List of reggae musicians
• List of roots reggae artists
• List of ska musicians
• List of Caribbean music groups

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Toots Hibbert website
• Toots Hibbert MySpace
• Comprehensive discography at X-Ray Music
• Maytals.net - fan site and lyrics
• Toots interview by Daiana Feuer, L.A. Record