My grandma love this song and really love it as he would always put on this song whenever I came to visit. There song Pass the Dutchie is probably their most popular song.
The music business is so cruel, but I’m glad Dennis and Michael are still performing. I’m glad that Kelvin is still performing as well. R.I.P. to Patrick and Freddie Waite. Awesome video,Juicy Pop!
Wow. The other day I was feeling nostalgic when I was discussing with one of the drivers in the company, whom I suspected to be one of the younger members of the band, but was now a full-grown man: he assured me that he was not whom I thought he was, but he actually grew up about that time, and he indeed knew a few things here and there, about members of that band, but he'd rather not speak about it extensively - only that a few of them currently work normal jobs (now I understand).
Pass the Dutchie is such a SWEET as 🥧 song! If dessert were a song. ☺️ But on a somber note, so sorry for how things fell apart within Musical Youth. Hope the surviving members are healing. Rest in paradise, Patrick Waite and Freddie 'Junior' Waite. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️
@danavixen6274 And did you know that Musical Youth were signed to PWL which was Pete Waterman's record label in the U.K. Of course this isn't mentioned in this video! Funny Pete Waterman and I stress hated the song Pass The Dutchie when he first heard it LOL! Pete "Mix Master" Hammond remixed many of the bands early hits including Pass The Dutchie and Sixteen. 🏝🎸🕺💽
I graduated from college in 1983. Came home and vegged out in front of the TV, watching MTV. "Pass the Dutchie" was on high rotation. And I loved it. Still do. 🧡🧡
I first saw Musical Youth on a children's programme in England shortly before they became famous, and I also saw them in concert when they visited Barbados in 1984. I have often wondered what became of them because I had heard stories that were not too pleasant.
...might as well.....The Pop Top Ten, when Musical Youth were THE Black Boy Band to beat...until "Candy Girl" by New Edition came out 4 Months later.....February, 1983.....(cont.) 10. ***Pass The Dutchie*** - Musical Youth 9. We've Got Tonight - Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton 8. Down Under - Men At Work 7. You & I - Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle 6. Hungry Like The Wof - Duran Duran 5. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Clutlture Club 4. Billie Jean -Michael Jackson 3. Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats 2. Shame On The Moon - Bob Seger & The SB Band 1. Baby Come To Me - Patti Austin & James Ingram ....and, their collab with Donna Summer (on the R&B Charts), November 1983.... 10. Stay With Me Tonight - Jeffrey Osborne 9. ***Unconditional Love*** - Donna Summer (feat. Musical Youth) 8. Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson (..jumping, from #23!) 7. Every Girl Wants My Guy - Aretha Franklin 6. Ain't Nobody - Rufus & Chaka Khan 5. Angel - Anita Baker 4. Party Train - Gap Band 3. I Am Love - Jennifer Holliday 2. Stop Doggin' Me Around - Klique 1. All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
I bought their ablum when I was sixteen. However, I didn’t realize how talented they were until a month ago. Since then, I've been listening to their first album every day. I've also listened to their new album and to Kelvin's album. Some good stuff too. It hurt my heart to realize how the record company didn’t know who they'd signed. They needed to stick to reggae, not R&B. Well, at least we have the music they made as a legacy.
Interesting video that needed to be shown, l always wondered what happened to musical youth over the years and l never seen any content creators covered them only up until now. It truly ashame they started off so well, then there career took nosedive just after they second album was released. Anyway there first track pass the dutchie pon the left hand side, will always be one of my favourite childhood reggae classic covers in the 80's a century where great music was produced and airplayed a lot on the radio.
I remember seeing the band in a coach in Galway City in the west of Ireland circa early 1992, their faces peering oit s d looking utterly fed up. This was an excellent cautionary tale to the perils of the music biz
They may have been improperly touched and no it wasn’t Michael(who was innocent) that did it. Patrick turned to drugs, Junior became mentally ill, and Kelvin seemed like he had ptsd on the ‘UnSung episode, and has said he will never return to the group.
Their track: "Pass the dutché" was a very great hit back then. Other tracks like "don't blame the youths" "007" "Watcha talkin'bout" "Tell me why" & "16," among many others were all beautiful hits back then. Also their great colabo with Donna Summer on her album: "She works hard for the money" made them so popular in the hearts of many music lovers. All of a sudden, they just faded into music oblivion. May the souls of the fallen ones among them rest in peace.
My son is now 48, but was under 11 when Mystical Youth first came to the U.S. They were performing in our city around my son's birthday. I took five boys, including my son, to the concert, and did they have a great time!! Loved the Mystical Youth and that song!
What happened to Denis and Michael does not sound like a tragic downfall. Denis, in particular, seems to have a very strong work ethic and has done well for himself. And Michael's final quote on here showed that he has got the right attitude as well.
Fun fact. Musical Youth did the theme tune for "Jim'll Fix It" in 1983, it was the B side of Never Gonna Give You Up. The Jim in question was of course the notorious Jimmy Savile. I wonder if they ever met...
I'm a dj producer & had some interaction with relatives of the bands manager in the 90s. I was astonished to hear how they were mismanaged & exploited. . Musical Youth had sponsorship from a sports company. The incompetent manager did not negotiate & sign for a percentage of sales .They just went to the warehouse & left with a trolley & handful of items.
This song comes on at my job at least once a day (print warehouse) I’m out there bustin my ass stalking the clock waiting 2 take my lunch break n I sing the “how does it feel when u got no food” part xtra loud n chuckle to myself don’t judge me lol love this song they deserved better
they stole from each other, the industry stole from all of them, many of them are junkies and they spend all their time arguing about royalty payments in the courts, trash,
I hated this song, I hated them, and still do. .I did read a few years ago that they had ripped each other off for money and were arguing in the courts about royalty payments and some of them had descended into habitual drug use, I was pleased when I read that TBH
That interview was hilarious! I love it! Also loved the interview with Whitney Houston. That was the most epic interview ever. Whitney chewed Wendy up and spit her out. But, Wendy is the GOAT of all interviews. Miss Wendy….wishing her well!
fun fact my brother was supposed to be the lead singer of this group , my mom was friends with Fredrick and i was sitting at the table listening to them discussing the band coming together ,my brother had to sing a few tracks to seal the deal , my brother sang off key on purpose as he didnt want to be a lead singer and then the next thing we knew Dennis was in the group. I wonder what would have happened if he didnt sing off key on purpose.
I always find it strange that a song about pot was edited to become a song about an actual pot, was adopted as a song about weed by stoners and now very few know about or have heard the original. Sad their careers and lives went so badly.
it is an old SKA song from the late 50s early 60s and they changed a few words to get it by the censors in the UK, there is nothing original, they are trying to claim intellectual property payments for it as the original artist is dead, there thieves and the original artist has a grand daughter living in prince town but she cant afford to come to England to appear in the courts and fight or her money, black junkies ripping a black girl off in Jamaica, who would have thought that. . .
3:15 This isn’t entirely correct. They didn’t perform live on TOTP until December of 1982 for a Christmas special. Before then, they were just showing their music videos
These young fellows also recorded a minor Hit duo with the Late Great Donna Summer, their longevity in the business however was very Brief, as usual these individuals in the entertainment business always end up without making any real 🤑 during Short tenure in Music, how sad😮.
There was me thinking, all this time, that the Dutchie in question was a Dutch Master split and rerolled with weed. 🙄 I still think that. Dutch ovens are hot and heavy. No one's passing that...pan de left hand side 😝
It's not just black groups that get screwed over by the record companies pretty much every musician or band gets ripped off usually only receiving Penny's on the dollar.
they were so busy stealing from each other they didn't notice the big white businessman was shafting the whole lot of them, this is the black man's problem in all aspects of life, they grab what they can reach and can't see past their noses,
They never should have signed to MCA Records. They were a simple British reggae band and should have stayed that way. They should have signed to an independent label like Trojan Records or Greensleeves under Jet Star, one of the premier British reggae labels at the time. Stay with your own Black people and make pure reggae songs and the money would come in steadily. Instead, MCA pushed them too hard, gave them "royalty" cheques of £1 million [filmed for television in front of their family] without telling them that the label was extracting all costs out their profits and had them recording pop songs that didn't fit them. At the end, one singer had a nervous breakdown after experimenting with drugs, he drifts further into addiction and mental illness and dies and the band are broke because MCA UK (Universal Music) claimed all of the publishing and licensing rights for decades after the band was dropped from the label.
How dare you unfairly smear *Michael Jackson's* name. Nothing "untoward" happened when the group visited his home because Michael never did anything "untoward". He was found innocent of any wrongdoing. Your implication that he was suspect is malicious and untrue. Thumbs down and unsubbed for that unjust insinuation. 👎🏾
We all know what the music and tv industry do to children behind the scenes 😖it's why most of them turn to d..r..u..g use to try and forget but unfortunately it ends badly for them.
