{"id":10949,"date":"2020-09-13T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2020-09-14T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T01:51:15","slug":"toots-hibbert-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/13\/toots-hibbert-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Toots Hibbert Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/09\/toots-hibbert-dies-reggae-artist-credited-with-naming-genre-was-77-1234575810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from DEADLINE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Toots Hibbert Dies: Reggae Artist Credited With Naming The Genre Was 77<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/bruceharingdeadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bruce Haring<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toots &amp; the Maytals - 54-46 That&#039;s My Number - 11\/15\/1975 - Winterland (Official)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DrdvtvoDjYE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His death comes days after his group released its first full-length LP and new album in ten years, titled&nbsp;<em>Got to Be Tough<\/em>. The recording features contributions from&nbsp;Ringo Starr and&nbsp;Ziggy Marley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hibbert met Henry \u2018Raleigh\u2019 Gordon and Nathaniel \u2018Jerry\u2019 in 1962 shortly after he moved to Kingston. They formed the band Toots and the Maytals. Their 1969 recording,&nbsp;<em>Pressure Drop<\/em>, was instrumental in breaking the band worldwide after it was used in the seminal 1972 reggae film&nbsp;<em>The Harder They Come.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before that, Toots and the Maytals released a 1968 song,\u00a0<em>Do the Reggay,<\/em>\u00a0which is credited with giving the musical genre its name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/09\/toots-hibbert-dies-reggae-artist-credited-with-naming-genre-was-77-1234575810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE Toots Hibbert Dies: Reggae Artist Credited With Naming The Genre Was 77 By\u00a0Bruce Haring His death comes days after his group released its first full-length LP and new album in ten years, titled&nbsp;Got to Be Tough. The recording features contributions from&nbsp;Ringo Starr and&nbsp;Ziggy Marley. Hibbert met Henry \u2018Raleigh\u2019 Gordon and Nathaniel \u2018Jerry\u2019 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}