The fact that someone's tried to interpret "da bong bong bong bong bong bong biddly bong" as actual words is hilarious.

@JohnHill-bn5kn

Жыл бұрын

And I would be like YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! bong=no food

This song was absolutely huge in the UK and still is a big part of british pop culture.

@maxwelle9560

Жыл бұрын

Huh

@TheTaz1999

Жыл бұрын

You are correct 🇬🇧

@Rogier7305

Жыл бұрын

Also a big hit in The Nehterlands where we all did think it was about smoking pot.

Musical Youth was a British-Jamaican reggae group made of adolescents formed in Birmingham, England! This song was number one around the world and it was basically about living poor and being hungry and making music that will deliver them from their circumstances! In the song he is hungry and he walks around and comes across a group of men who wear dreads and were smoking weed! Just a day in the life in the ghetto! Simple as that! There are many children here in the U.S. that go hungry daily! Very sad!❤️❤️

@sierra6936

Жыл бұрын

It is very sad. Child poverty is everywhere. ❤️

@douglasgeorge6186

Жыл бұрын

Dutchie is a joint and it’s being passed around in a clock wise motion.

@rizipt

Жыл бұрын

@@douglasgeorge6186 To you maybe but that's not what they are talking about. It's literally a cooking pot.

@willdrakes7445

Жыл бұрын

@@douglasgeorge6186 kutchie is a joint and dutchie is a cooking pot (in Jamaican patois). The original version by the mighty diamonds is about spliffs but this is not.

@GinaGeeILuvu

8 ай бұрын

@BullShot-to3oz.

Ah man you really had to do the official video for this one. British Jamaicans around London and in court 😂😂

@daveborder7751

Жыл бұрын

Think they were up before the beak just before Boy George was that year.

@PHILPOP2

Жыл бұрын

Yep

They were all kids...They started performing in 1979...When this hit song was released in September 1982 they were between the ages of 11 and 15...These were the members-Dennis Seaton-Lead vocals and percussions...Michael Grant-Keyboard and backing vocals...Kelvin Grant-Electric guitar, lead vocals and backing vocals...Freddie " Junior " Waite-Drums and backing vocals...Patrick Waite-Bass guitar.

@theicelander06

Жыл бұрын

@@pastorofmuppets22 I think only 1 died

@Keivon123

Жыл бұрын

@@theicelander06now 2 junior the drummer and his little brother patrick the bass guitar player are dead now junior died july 2022

@ubhatti17

Жыл бұрын

Where are these guys now

@NathanVeenstra

Жыл бұрын

@@ubhatti17 they performed at the Commonwealth Games last year and they’re still doing gigs in the UK.

@noname_1185

11 ай бұрын

Yeah and the kid singing the intro and hook parts was the youngest

Pass The Dutchie is actually a cover. The band Musical Youth created it starting from two different songs, one of which is Pass The Kouchie by Mighty Diamonds. The Kouchie is the pot that holds marijuana in the Jamaican slang, while the Dutchie is just a generic cooking pot.

@NathanVeenstra

Жыл бұрын

Facts.

This song was a #1 hit in so many countries around the world: The UK, Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, Spain. In the US it hit #10

The MTV video for this song shows just how young the band members were when they made this. I think the term is "sub-teens". Very young to get a song on the radio and other media outlets.

@neillenet291

Жыл бұрын

Pre teens?

@danielhoskins4690

Жыл бұрын

Demi-teen?

@woodymeadows9363

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I noticed. Maybe around the age of Kriss-Kross, at the time (Who got that infernal trend of wearing pants and shirts backwards).

@Knick_Fury

Жыл бұрын

Think Jackson 5 when they debuted with ABC.

@a7n7t7o7n7y

Жыл бұрын

Ween teen?

they were great back in the day. they also did a song with Donna Summer called unconditional love. that video is so beautiful.

@mkmstillstackin

Жыл бұрын

Oh Yeah, I forgot about unconditional love. Thanks for the reminder! I liked that one a lot too.

@willowb1527

Жыл бұрын

@@mkmstillstackin Oh yes. 👍

First song I played live on the bass at a High School performance. The anxiety, the pressure. Torn between feeling the groove and knowing I am the groove. Man it was so much fun.

This is an altered version of The Mighty Diamonds "Pass The Kutchie". The Kutchie being a spliff or joint. The Dutchie is a large pan used for communal cooking.

@terrycunningham8118

Жыл бұрын

So they were basically channeling Weird Al?

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA

Жыл бұрын

100% on this. The whole "food" shit was in place of "herb", and it just starts sounding pseudo political. I guess it was politically correct, but I'll take raw reggae any day.

@RSpracticalshooting

Жыл бұрын

Shit man "dutchies" are dutchmaster blunts around me. Just like how "woods" are backwoods blunts.

@jpaine619

Жыл бұрын

@@RSpracticalshooting Nobody cares, dope-head.

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA

Жыл бұрын

@@RSpracticalshooting As cool as that all just sounded, dutchies (dutch oven) in Jamaica are cooking pots. They changed the word "herb" to "food" for this cleaned up, kid version. So it was clever to play off "kutchie" with "dutchy".

This song was originally 'Pass The Kouchie' by Jamaican Reggae band The Mighty Diamonds and I think a Kouchie is what the Rastafarians passed the marijuana around in. They needed a group more acceptable for TV and the charts so a West Indian group based in Birmingham(Musical Youth)got permission to change the title and some of the lyrics and a Duchie is a Caribbean stewing pot,so I read. Originally,the line was 'How does it feel when you got no herb' which was changed to 'got no food' and became more about poverty. The 1982 album had about four other hit singles as well,if I remember?

I was about 8 when this came out. MTV just started and we were always glued to it. This song was played often. Good memories.

It was a cover version of pass the Kouchie which was a reference to weed, and the original chorus was: How does it feel to have no herb. They changed it to food and Dutchie or Dutch oven.

@axandio

Жыл бұрын

Ah... this makes sense.

@mondegreen9709

Жыл бұрын

A "dutchie" is a cooking pot afaik.

@sierra6936

Жыл бұрын

🤣👏😎

I remember this song well performed by some very young British Jamaican lads. Very catchy and popular.

Bass guitarist Patrick Waite died Feb 1993 aged 24. Drummer Frederick "Junior" Waite died this year, 20 July 2022, aged 55.

The Dutchie Pan is the food for their village. They usually cook for the whole village, its a Jamaican large pot. Also Musical Youth are the kids who are singing. I've followed them for a wee bit.

GAWD , I had my whole future ahead me listening to this song at 7 years old… where did the time go 🤨

To clarify a few things: the band were the kids. The group formed in 1979, with all 5 members between 11 - 16 years old, and all of them playing their own instruments. The reason Dennis, the lead singer opens the song by saying “This Generation, Rules The Nation, With Version”(borrowed slightly from U Roy's "Rule the Nation") is because it’s a reworking of both U Brown’s ‘Gimme The Music’ and the Mighty Diamond’s ‘Pass The Kouchie’. But since Kouchie was a ganja song, and with Musical Youth looking for a hit single, they changed the topic of the song.

"Reggae is the peoples news, news about you and yourself., you and your history, things you really wouldn't get in a school" Bob Marley.

This was a huge hit in the early 80s.

The drummer passed away a month or so back in his mid fifties. Tragically one of them had a heart condition & died in his twenties, a decade or so after this was a hit.

@gpxo11

Жыл бұрын

I think the lead singer was the one that had the heart condition if I remember correctly-there's a video documentary of them on youtube.

@annother3350

Жыл бұрын

They headlined at a local free festival about 7 years ago

@NathanVeenstra

Жыл бұрын

@@gpxo11 no, that was bassist Patrick. Lead singer Dennis Seaton still performs with Musical Youth 😊

Hi😃 I have not read through all the comments so I don’t know if somebody mentioned this already. I have an old friend he is from Belize. We were talking about this song one time and I told him I liked it. He asked me do you know what a dutchie is? Me being the young age that I was…. I answered something stupid like a joint?! He said no, a dutchie is a kettle of food were he comes from Anyways, I appreciate you guys, I like how you go right into the song quick style. Have a good day👍🏼

It was also one of the first, if not the first pop-reggae songs by a British/Jamaican group to be a hit record in the USA.

@melthebell33

Жыл бұрын

Its close with Aswads change in direction tbh

The original was "pass the refer on the left hand side" and "...when you got no doob" but that version got banned from radio play, so they made it about food (a dutchie is a dutch oven, something you would cook with outside). Interestingly, this song helped create 'dutchie' as a term for reefer

@outdoorsman7324

Жыл бұрын

A "dutchie" is a Jamaican cooking pot... nobody is passing around an oven.

@3DJapan

Жыл бұрын

@@outdoorsman7324 A dutch oven is a pot.

@outdoorsman7324

Жыл бұрын

@@3DJapan , try reading. 🙄

@johnharkness7114

Жыл бұрын

@@outdoorsman7324 Try basic comprehension :)

@user-ti4dl8tw7h

Жыл бұрын

​@@3DJapan maybe that's where smoking pot came from 😂

I think they were kids with a really good fun attitude

A classic: Lex’s expressions crack me up - I love how your summation goes off at tangents, I adore you guys.

I was 5 when this came out and one of the first songs I remember (along with Shakin Stevens)!!!….Maybe it started my journey onto reggae and hip hop!

I really love this song! I had heard it for the first time on a tape my grandmother had recorded for me❤❤❤.it s cheerful and really nice to listen

Such a great song from the early 80's

Micheal and Kelvin used to attend the same school as myself. Anglesey Junior school, Newtown, Birmingham. I remember when Micheal walked into my classroom with this record before it was released worldwide. When we played it in the classroom I somehow knew it would be a big hit.

Five members, Musical Youth are a British-Jamaican reggae band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. Their 1982 hit single "Pass the Dutchie", was a number 1 in multiple charts around the world. With Donna Summer, they sang "Unconditional Love". Musical Youth recorded two albums and earned a Grammy Award nomination before disbanding in 1985 after a series of personal problems. The band returned in 2001 as a duo.

@michaelwarner2335

Жыл бұрын

Word. Their album The Youth of Today went gold and this song sold between 4 to 5 million copies.

HAHAHAHAHA, in 1986 (I was 16) I was in my friend Jeff's living room with 4 other people before catching the bus for school, we were passing a joint and yes this song was on. At the time we had no idea they were talking about food. We immediately thought it was weed, we laughed our assess off. I miss the 80's, lol.

Damn, you didn't watch the original video, those kids were talented. And the tune was catchy even if you only understood half of it 😄 Edit: Back then if you were lucky current song lyrics were in music/pop culture magazines or you bought small booklets with lyrics. At least in Germany in the 70s/80s. No internet to do research 😑

@DrMackSplackem

Жыл бұрын

Did you mean "pop culture magazines", or should I be afraid to ask..?

@yeoldegamer5112

Жыл бұрын

@@DrMackSplackem Pop! Although some older folk probably agree with the previous spelling :D

@DrMackSplackem

Жыл бұрын

@@yeoldegamer5112 LOL. Just checking, no disrespect intended to any poo mag lovers out there.

@yeoldegamer5112

Жыл бұрын

@@DrMackSplackem To each their own. Just don't shake hands with them I guess 😀

Omg! During the same time, The Troubles in Ireland was hot...things that marked my teenage years! Thanks!

"that would be terrible." 😏 So super cute 💖

Sounds of my youth British born Jamaicans from Birmingham this was No1 for weeks in England back in the day it brings back good memories.

Dutchie is a crock pot full of food... but yes it sounds like it could be a joint reference..As you were worried about the other night.. all songs are not always about sex or drugs

@gabreel8112

Жыл бұрын

You're correct that a dutchie is a pit but it has a double meaning in this song. Dutchie is also a dutch master cigar that is emptied and filled with Cannabis

I Raised Myself Since I Was 9 Years Old & I Can Tell You From Experience,, It's No Fun Going Without Food For Long Periods Of Time.

This is a flashback. Back in the 80s, when cable TV was just starting to show up in smaller towns like mine and music videos were first becoming a thing on cable, one of the channels I would watch late at night started playing some music videos. The selection must have been fairly small at the time, at least for this channel, since I'd see the same ones over and over. This was one of them. Another one was a Boy George tune as I remember.

“Music happen to be the food of love,” suggests that the ‘food’ (and the lack of it) that they are singing about is music. The song is filled with musical references and how wonderful it adds to life and love. How does it feel when you got no music, the food of love.

@1BobsYourUncle

Жыл бұрын

It’s about food, the original was about weed.

I always liked this song. 💖 I was glad that they called attention to the situation, and the song climbed the charts, too‼️💕😊

Another great song with a really, really young lead singer...from 1963 "Lonely Teardrops" by the Rocky Fellers, a Filipino family band. The kid singing lead looks like he's 10 or 11 years old. Jackie Wilson would have been proud of this cover version.

This is a cover of a mid-70s track by reggae pioneers The Mighty Diamonds. Except their version was Pass the Kouchie - which means pipe, specifically for pot. So they sang ‘how does it feel when you got no herb.’ A Dutchie is a cooking pot, these youngsters changed the meaning to be about food.

Love it! Haven't heard this since the 80's - never knew what it meant but now I have the lyrics - thanks!

A "Dutchie" is a Jamaican cooking pot, and while there's not much reason to pass one around, it was an acceptable substitute for the original lyric: "Pass The Kutchie," Kutchie being Jamaican slang for a pot that holds marijuana (a pot pot?).

@TheFairyintheFishBowl

Жыл бұрын

Maybe that’s where “pot” was actually derived from? Makes sense. So interesting…

@Markyajv

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFairyintheFishBowl That's a good observation.

this song i did like so much when i was little i could not talk english back then and i liked the video so much because in our little village here in Switzerland we didnt had cool kids like this,so we all wanted to look and be like them🌸🌸🌻🌸🌸🌸🌸

I've always loved this, it's a happy happy beat ☺☺ thanks!

I absolutely love you two and these reactions😂😂😂😂

Aw man, you Really needed the video for this one.

Even though the theme is food poverty this is a song full of soul spirit and hope I love it so much I was ten when I heard this song and immediately fell head over heels...

This song was BIG Hit in LA on KROQ-FM in 1982.

What a song perfect vibe, they have killed this again💓💞

Lex you seriously are a lot like my Granddaughter. She was groovin like that when she listened to my Bob Marley and the Wailers and Peter Tosh albums.

Everyone ….Y’all need to tune to the live streams.. so fun. Great song!

DAMN, I love this song, beautiful memories.

1 of my 1st vinyl records, gift from my obviously super cool neighbour's. Sometime in mid 80s. I loved it & played it over & over 🎶 ❤

This came out in 1982, the early years of MTV and it was played often.

As people have said, they were not talking about smoking but instead passing a food bowl in a family that doesn't have much to eat. And besides everybody knows you always pass a joint/blunt to the right. Come on guys, get with it! 😂😂😂

That's the Eighties (80's) AGAIN! YEAH!

Wow!! What a flash back. They from my home town of Birmingham UK.

As we used to say, "Pot will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through time of no pot." Down in Jamaica, substitute food, because nobody had no money, either.

Lex you make me laugh- thank goodness for this channel

Good memories when I use to sample this song when I would Dj back in the day

Aah yes!...to be young again, hearing this for the first time on MTV. Good times.

If you like this you may also like Althea and Donna singing Uptown Top Ranking.

A Dutchie is a large cooking pot or pan that can feed more than one family , so when times are hard families get together to eat from this one pot . I believe the lyrics are in reference to poor areas of Jamaica but can relate to any poor areas in the world .

This was always to me anyway ,a cool little song. Saw their video on MTV when video was in it's hay day ✨

Wow... Memories. When this came out, years ago it was played constantly. You heard it everywhere. There were many different explanations of what the song was about, but the most heard was dutchie was a drug/joint.... If you google search what the dutcjie in this song was you get: "A "Dutchie" is a Jamaican cooking pot, and while there's not much reason to pass one around, it was an acceptable substitute for the original lyric: "Pass The Kutchie," Kutchie being Jamaican slang for a pot that holds marijuana".

Loved this song as a kid and still do today

"How does it feel when you got no food" was changed from "How does it feel when you got no herb" so the song wouldn't be censored. Don't worry, the kids weren't starving or hungry. "Dutchie" was also changed from "kouchie" which was Jamaican slang for a pipe to smoke ganja. But then because of the song Dutchie became a slang term for pot or a pipe.

Forgot about this one. It was MTV non-stop lol. I can't remember for sure, but I think it is like a cooking pot or something.

watch the closing of the Common Wealth Games watched by BILLIONS on tv on the 8th August 2022- just a few weeks ago. They sang this and the public did not know that the drummer died a few ago (we still don't know what of), it was announced a week or so after. This group of kids were treated terrible by the record company, sold millions and broke before they hit their 20s.R.I.P Fred, by the way, more people around the world watched that concert than an episode of Stranger Things but all you ever see is comments about stranger things

I grew up in the same part of Birmingham UK as these guys. Not heard this for years

From the heart of Birmingham these lads, pass the 🌿 upon the left-hand side, sounds so much better coming kids, sums up the 80's in Birmingham😅

This is a cover song about passing the ganja. They changed it to duchie which is a snack in Jamaica to make it kid friendly. However, over time duchie came to mean weed because of people familiar with the original song or people like me who assumed that’s what it was about.

Boy Stranger Things season 4 really resurrected a lot of old music lol

I remember this song well, because this was a big hit in the Netherlands back than. I believe even a number 1 in the music charts for a while. Very catchie tune.

I always thought the song was about smoking ganja, having no munchies, so you start dancing and prancing. Lol 😆

For many years I thought that the lyrics were "Pass the dog-sh*t on the left hand side.". I assumed that for British Carribean folks this was a way of "trucking right" when encountering something objectionable on the sidewalk. Now I know i was wrong all that time.

My 10 yr old granddaughter sings this all the time... Ignorance is bliss!

I was 15 and this tune was good smoking music man puff and pass left 🙃❤

The original song was pass the cutchie which is Jamaican for joint and it was how do you feel when you got no weed. As they were kids it was changed to Dutchie whic is a Jamaican cooking pot hence they sang how to you feel when you got no food.

It's a shame you didn't see the video on this one to see how young some of these Brummie lads were 😃😃

So this version is a cover of “Pass The Kutchie”, and the original lyrics are “how does it feel when you got no herb”. So I’m order for a bunch of kids to cover it they had to change the lyrics. A dutchie is slang for a dutch oven, used for cooking food. So this version of the song is literally about passing food around, and it’s not what most people think it’s about😂

I remember this song. Quite catchy and fun; but nothing I would have bought. If it came on the radio, I wouldn't change the channel, for example.

Yup the kids were singing about the poverty around them, being hungry and just getting by everyday life

It’s 100% bout 420. U guys are great, as always!

this is great ,different from what i normally listen to ,one more reason i like you 2

Musical youth was/is a top class British reggae act. Some people thought they were gimmicky but they have made some great music. Their original incarnation made much more serious and Rastafari orientated music.

I also recommend reacting to their other songs as well if you didn't already. Some good ones are "youth of today," "whatcha talking 'bout," and "Never gonna give you up."

Great song & concept!

Biggest hit of that summer.

Love this song!!

Middle school baby.. MTV..👌🏻😎

Definitely listen to "Unconditional Love" by Donna Summer and Musical Youth. It's a wonderful song.

You must see the original Video, the child are so sweet. I was in love in these times.

It's a very happy song about a bunch of kids starving.

First time I heard this song I thought they were saying pass the Doobie on the left hand side lol I know I know! Very catchy!

I had totally forgotten about this song !