Anyone know what happened to the young dudes who made this a hit way back when??
Pass the Dutchie pon the left hand side(I say)
Pass the Dutchie pon the left hand side
It a gonna burn(Give me music, make me jump and prance)
It a go done, [Incomprehensible]
(Give me the music, make me rock in the dance
Pass The Dutchie Pon The Left Hand Side.
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Pass The Dutchie Pon The Left Hand Side.
"…I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching." — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Pass The Dutchie Pon The Left Hand Side.
The song was the band's first release on a major label. It was a cover version of two songs: "Pass the Kouchie" and "Gimme the Music" by The Mighty Diamonds, which deals with the recreational use of cannabis, "kouchie" being slang for a cannabis pipe. For the cover version, the song's title was bowdlerized to "Pass the Dutchie", and all obvious drug references were removed from the lyrics; e.g., when the original croons "How does it feel when you got no herb?", the cover version refers to "food" instead. "Dutchie" is used as a patois term to refer to a food cooking pot such as a Dutch oven in Jamaica and the Caribbean. It has since become a drug reference in itself, denoting a blunt stuffed with marijuana and rolled in a wrapper from a Dutch Masters cigar, since American and British listeners assumed that the term were a drug reference.
The song was first championed by radio DJ Zach Diezel and became an instant hit when it was picked up by MCA Records in September 1982. It debuted at #26 on the UK chart and rose to #1 the following week. In February of the following year, it reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA.[1] The song also scored the #1 position in five other countries, eventually selling over 5 million copies worldwide.[2][3]
References in popular culture
The song was used in the soundtrack of the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer.[28]
The "Menu" theme for the Game Boy Camera is a short instrumental loop of this song.[29]
In The Simpsons 1999 episode, "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo", Homer makes a reference to the song in saying that he "wants to pass the Dutchie on the left hand side."
In the 2000 satirical comedy film Scary Movie, during the rap scene involving Shorty, his friends, and the killer, Shorty's rap contains the line "...always pass the Dutchie to the left 'cause the right way is wrong.
The song was used in the film version of Scooby-Doo in the scene where Shaggy and Scooby are "cooking" in their van.
The Canadian hit teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after an 80s hit song, named a season 7 episode after this song, about the use of medicinal marijuana. The episode was aired in early 2008.
The song was used in the 2010 New Zealand film Boy.
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Their debut album The Youth of Today was certified Gold in the UK, while the follow-up single, "Youth of Today", reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart and "Never Gonna Give You Up", released early in 1983, climbed to UK number 6.[1] Minor successes with "Heartbreaker" and "Tell Me Why" were succeeded by a collaboration with Donna Summer on the UK Top 20 hit, "Unconditional Love".[4] The group also took part in her 1983 TV special A Hot Summer Night with Donna.[5] Their second album, Different Style!, was released in 1983 and showcased more R&B-influenced repertoire to make the band more accessible in the North America, but flopped on both British and American market. A revival of Desmond Dekker's "007" saw them back in the Top 30, but after one final hit with "Sixteen", they fell from commercial grace. Nonetheless, the band received a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards of 1984.
With their career going downhill, the band members became embroiled in legal, financial, and personal problems. The Waite brothers struggled with drug addiction, and Junior Waite began to show signs of mental illness.[6] [7] In 1985, Dennis Seaton departed the band, leading to its dissolution. The Grant brothers remained involved in the music industry; Seaton released a solo album in 1989 before going on to form his own band, XMY. Plans for a reunion of Musical Youth were initially halted when Patrick Waite, who had gone on to a career of juvenile crime, died in Birmingham in February 1993.[8] Only 24 years old, he collapsed from a hereditary heart condition while awaiting a court appearance on drug charges. He is buried at Brandwood End Cemetery. A compilation album, Anthology, was released in 1994, followed by Maximum Volume: The Best of Musical Youth in 1995.
Now reduced to a duo, Michael Grant and Dennis Seaton reformed Musical Youth in 2001, and planned a tour. However, the tour plans were canceled due to the September 11 attacks.[9] In 2003, Musical Youth finally performed as part of the Here and Now tour, an annual series of nostalgia concerts featuring performances by musicians of the 1980s.[10][11] A compilation album was released in 2004, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection. In 2005, the band performed at the Wiesen festival in Austria. Currently, Grant and Seaton are working on a new studio album with the working title When Reggae Was King and performing via music manager and agent Jessie Tsang. Kelvin Grant has been asked to join the band for the reunion, but declined.[12]
The song was first championed by radio DJ Zach Diezel and became an instant hit when it was picked up by MCA Records in September 1982. It debuted at #26 on the UK chart and rose to #1 the following week. In February of the following year, it reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA.[1] The song also scored the #1 position in five other countries, eventually selling over 5 million copies worldwide.[2][3]
References in popular culture
The song was used in the soundtrack of the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer.[28]
The "Menu" theme for the Game Boy Camera is a short instrumental loop of this song.[29]
In The Simpsons 1999 episode, "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo", Homer makes a reference to the song in saying that he "wants to pass the Dutchie on the left hand side."
In the 2000 satirical comedy film Scary Movie, during the rap scene involving Shorty, his friends, and the killer, Shorty's rap contains the line "...always pass the Dutchie to the left 'cause the right way is wrong.
The song was used in the film version of Scooby-Doo in the scene where Shaggy and Scooby are "cooking" in their van.
The Canadian hit teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after an 80s hit song, named a season 7 episode after this song, about the use of medicinal marijuana. The episode was aired in early 2008.
The song was used in the 2010 New Zealand film Boy.
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Their debut album The Youth of Today was certified Gold in the UK, while the follow-up single, "Youth of Today", reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart and "Never Gonna Give You Up", released early in 1983, climbed to UK number 6.[1] Minor successes with "Heartbreaker" and "Tell Me Why" were succeeded by a collaboration with Donna Summer on the UK Top 20 hit, "Unconditional Love".[4] The group also took part in her 1983 TV special A Hot Summer Night with Donna.[5] Their second album, Different Style!, was released in 1983 and showcased more R&B-influenced repertoire to make the band more accessible in the North America, but flopped on both British and American market. A revival of Desmond Dekker's "007" saw them back in the Top 30, but after one final hit with "Sixteen", they fell from commercial grace. Nonetheless, the band received a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards of 1984.
With their career going downhill, the band members became embroiled in legal, financial, and personal problems. The Waite brothers struggled with drug addiction, and Junior Waite began to show signs of mental illness.[6] [7] In 1985, Dennis Seaton departed the band, leading to its dissolution. The Grant brothers remained involved in the music industry; Seaton released a solo album in 1989 before going on to form his own band, XMY. Plans for a reunion of Musical Youth were initially halted when Patrick Waite, who had gone on to a career of juvenile crime, died in Birmingham in February 1993.[8] Only 24 years old, he collapsed from a hereditary heart condition while awaiting a court appearance on drug charges. He is buried at Brandwood End Cemetery. A compilation album, Anthology, was released in 1994, followed by Maximum Volume: The Best of Musical Youth in 1995.
Now reduced to a duo, Michael Grant and Dennis Seaton reformed Musical Youth in 2001, and planned a tour. However, the tour plans were canceled due to the September 11 attacks.[9] In 2003, Musical Youth finally performed as part of the Here and Now tour, an annual series of nostalgia concerts featuring performances by musicians of the 1980s.[10][11] A compilation album was released in 2004, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection. In 2005, the band performed at the Wiesen festival in Austria. Currently, Grant and Seaton are working on a new studio album with the working title When Reggae Was King and performing via music manager and agent Jessie Tsang. Kelvin Grant has been asked to join the band for the reunion, but declined.[12]
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jones jones
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Pass The Dutchie Pon The Left Hand Side.
Wow! Thanx for all this infomation. Pass the Dutchie is still a catchy song, despite the drug/cannabus connotations you have referred to in your reply.
"…I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching." — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters