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

@jamesflynn6439

3 жыл бұрын

Good for him. Top Man

@spiritov69

3 жыл бұрын

Omg 🤣🤣🤣 🙏🙏🙏

@lesliewheeler1750

3 жыл бұрын

love it

@Unfezant1

3 жыл бұрын

I just physically clapped reading that. Legend

@xxpiggystardustxx4241

3 жыл бұрын

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

As a 10yr old I loved listening to my 18yr old sister's Ska. Didn't understand this, but l knew it was a bit naughty. I know our Dad wasn't listening to the words: he'd sit there, whistling along.....oblivious😊 I'm 64 now, and still have all her ska on vinyl that she gave me. To this day l still play Tighten Up Vol 2. Absolutely love it. Makes me feel like a teenager again during the TwoTone era all over again

@Nandor318

3 ай бұрын

he knew 🤣

Being a skinhead had its ups and down’s ….classic skinhead ! I’m in 2024 x

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

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

@lawretta-jineteluminescent9694

3 жыл бұрын

😁 hehehe

@DannyThompson54

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@DannyThompson54 where in the world was this ??

@DannyThompson54

3 жыл бұрын

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

@AndreiTheVampire

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@johnrooney1749

2 жыл бұрын

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

@johnmilbourn8876

2 жыл бұрын

Classes

@wendyharper9454

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO love man

@RetroReminiscing

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

Wet Dream by Wet Leg

@eddyvideostar

Жыл бұрын

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

10 ай бұрын

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

@rodneycurtis7055

7 ай бұрын

​A completely different song. @@markpetersen8135

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

Жыл бұрын

You have a nery nice dad

@Moneytane1976

Жыл бұрын

Its about the Jamaican roofing industry - I swear!!

@kimgrattage2395

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

9 ай бұрын

Ка Авагс 1:02 а шип п п п ш😊. 😊р

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

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

Is he allowed back now? 😆

@annesemper4451

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

She should have heard boom fatty boom boom

@tonydenial1485

2 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

My eldest sister used to play this tune

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

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 68 and still like it!!

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

@deantunkara1567

Жыл бұрын

I was one.

Oh my god who remember s this

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

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

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: trojanrecords.com/artist/max-romeo/

@eddyvideostar

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

Yessss. Love this tune...Rude but classic..😂

First record I bought as a 10 year old, 2 pence off a stall in chapel market Islington, still got it in the loft with rest of oldies ❤

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

@jamesflynn6439

2 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

10 ай бұрын

It’s for everyone

My eldest sister used to play this

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@lucasamtab

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ivyatoppin5682

4 жыл бұрын

mine kept throwing mine away and I kept buying.

@jano.e.6063

4 жыл бұрын

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

@222macman

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

5 жыл бұрын

YEAH RIGHT THERE GOES THAT FLYING PIG AGAIN TELL THAT TO ME UNCLE

@michaelevans7635

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@anthonygoraj5170

3 жыл бұрын

@@stingray4real oook

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

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

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

@markmeade2937

2 жыл бұрын

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

So did I great music still got the single

The Elms college disco, Stoke, every Tuesday night 1969, such happy memories !

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

Жыл бұрын

Greens Caterpillar i remember it well

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!😊🤣

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 🎶

bass is awesome.

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

@dillongstaff5625

10 ай бұрын

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

@dillongstaff5625

10 ай бұрын

She's probably a bit bigger now,

Levi's boots+braces.. good times

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

Wow...this is a great tune, man.❤❤

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.🤣👍👍👍

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

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

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

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

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

This is pure Classic

Absolutely CLASS RECORD

Another song from my youth marvellous

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

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

You don’t wanna know

@amandashare1281

2 жыл бұрын

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

@gavinwtroy

2 жыл бұрын

It's priceless.....

@amandashare1281

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavinwtroy Oh dear!

@amandashare1281

Жыл бұрын

@@chechegarcia1344 are you being serious, if you are nooooooooo!

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 😂

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....

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

Жыл бұрын

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

My fav reggae track.❤

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

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

@eddyvideostar

Жыл бұрын

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

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😂

69, A VERY APT YEAR.

Reminds me of the Locarno 1969 Streatham Hill SW London

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

@annesemper4451

4 жыл бұрын

But nice!

@eddyvideostar

Жыл бұрын

@@annesemper4451: In what way?

I still like this song.. 👍👏👏

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

@WedgePee

3 ай бұрын

It may have been the tail end of 1968. It just became a mainstream hit the following year due to good word of mouth.

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

Souvenirs... #698K ❤

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Some of the older girls who lived in Moss Side used to sing this in the dinner queue. When l was pupil at Manchester Central Grammar /HightSchool for Girls re 1968. Fond Memories Girls We all thought these girls..You know who you are! Were incredbly sophisicated and knowing about Caribbean Music Culture re Ska, Blue Beat and Reggae, They all had gorgeous looking half caste (mixed race} boyfiends. Really sharp dressers. Fond Memories Girls Virtutem et Musas Xxx

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

reggae britannia bought me here

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

@joansmith8215

14 күн бұрын

I bet the lyrics ‘Give your Fanny to me’ would totally confuse you yanks.

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

That's bloody fantastic, what a way to go 😂❤

@carinedupont9376

3 ай бұрын

one of the best reggae tunes ever recorded

Remember this from youth club discos

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 ❤❤❤😅

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

FAB tune MATEY!

Great music!

Nottingham goose fair circa 1970 , sheepskins , crombies, denim jackets everywhere !

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)!

a know it sounds rude but a used to have the 12 inch version very rare, everything was great those days back to the dark ages

I remember back in school the white guys used to walk around the playground singing this song

Bad man ting

such gorgeous organ playin there

@daggersdukc

3 жыл бұрын

Solo organ!

this certainly takes me back to fun times

Iconic solo

love this song

its the first song av heard about an extension ladder

My roof is leaking, might have to give Max Romeo Roofing Services a call !

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 😂

classic love it ❣

Yeah Great times!

Only reached no 10 English charts may 1969

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

Classic🇯🇲💯❤️‍🔥