The Amazing Rise & Tragic Downfall of '80s British Reggae Band Musical Youth

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @zoeledwards6617
    @zoeledwards6617 3 месяца назад +43

    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.

  • @collegestudent1980
    @collegestudent1980 3 месяца назад +103

    Pass the dutchie , I used to play this song a lot when I was 19. Ok the memories 😊

    • @ConleySmooge
      @ConleySmooge 2 месяца назад +1

      I passed the dutchie from coast to coast, with my man over here come rockin it most.

    • @azborderlands
      @azborderlands 2 месяца назад +2

      I was 9, and pressed rewind many times.

    • @DavidMolina-jq7im
      @DavidMolina-jq7im 2 месяца назад

      @@ConleySmooge

    • @Zimmy_1981
      @Zimmy_1981 2 месяца назад

      Love that song, recently bought their album on LP, I had 0 clue they were UK, always thought they were Jamaican

  • @TheRetroWoman80
    @TheRetroWoman80 3 месяца назад +29

    I saw that Unsung episode too. One of the saddest stories in the music industry.

  • @beaniegee5129
    @beaniegee5129 3 месяца назад +38

    Great story on Musical Youth

  • @brebre23461
    @brebre23461 3 месяца назад +34

    Pass the dutchie is a bop

  • @danavixen6274
    @danavixen6274 3 месяца назад +44

    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. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️

    • @SuperMarioBrosIII
      @SuperMarioBrosIII 3 месяца назад +1

      @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. 🏝🎸🕺💽

  • @jaylene.turner6524
    @jaylene.turner6524 3 месяца назад +101

    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!

    • @ibukunojediran8135
      @ibukunojediran8135 2 месяца назад +2

      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).

  • @leonardreid2911
    @leonardreid2911 3 месяца назад +10

    Pass The Dutchie was my jam in high school! Great memories from that somg! Another great video Juicy Pop!

  • @autobotdiva9268
    @autobotdiva9268 3 месяца назад +20

    i still have their 2 albums. when i got married, i had NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP playing for cocktail hour

  • @rozchristopherson648
    @rozchristopherson648 2 месяца назад +4

    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. 🧡🧡

  • @RBS_
    @RBS_ 3 месяца назад +21

    ...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

  • @lachelleslithub6529
    @lachelleslithub6529 3 месяца назад +10

    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.

  • @davidhinkson8856
    @davidhinkson8856 3 месяца назад +13

    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.

  • @ksianoedwards7732
    @ksianoedwards7732 3 месяца назад +10

    Wow, I remember the song growing up! Now I know the artists 😶 lol Thank you for sharing! ❤️🙏🏾☝🏾

  • @MsDezB1
    @MsDezB1 3 месяца назад +3

    This was the JAM back inna day. Still sounds good. I had suuuuch a crush on the drummer. R.I.P.

  • @oddsandwindsocks5905
    @oddsandwindsocks5905 3 месяца назад +4

    I remember buying .that song in 82 , sad to know that two of the guys have passed on.

  • @jeremytheloner
    @jeremytheloner 3 месяца назад +5

    I like the style and vibe on this channel, nice work. You just earned another sub!

  • @TrapTrunks-ng1oo
    @TrapTrunks-ng1oo 3 месяца назад +8

    Sheesh this was sad, I never knew they were replaced by New Edition.

  • @alfonsogreen2722
    @alfonsogreen2722 3 месяца назад +8

    Pass the dutchie was the s#!+ back when I was little. They were very talented. Should've had more hits

  • @jonahkshackleford1129
    @jonahkshackleford1129 3 месяца назад +3

    I don’t think I’ve heard of them before, but this was a very sad story. I’m going to check these brotha’s music out. 🙏🏿

  • @SilverSurfer5150
    @SilverSurfer5150 2 месяца назад +1

    What a great song! I remember loving and singing it over and over!!

  • @bladecastlevania3653
    @bladecastlevania3653 3 месяца назад +20

    These young guys were primed to be the next Jackson Five!....Until one day, New Edition came along and stole their thunder😔

  • @MissMariaAllen
    @MissMariaAllen 2 месяца назад +2

    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.

  • @kevinwhelan9607
    @kevinwhelan9607 3 месяца назад +1

    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

  • @nicolesherman8974
    @nicolesherman8974 3 месяца назад +8

    New juicy pop video 🥳

  • @sean367
    @sean367 2 месяца назад +2

    I had the whole family up dancing to the pass the dutchy at Christmas' in the 80's

  • @juliet7703
    @juliet7703 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for this. Takes me back..great times ❤

  • @charlesmomodu9728
    @charlesmomodu9728 2 месяца назад +1

    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.

  • @UNKLP66
    @UNKLP66 3 месяца назад +6

    🔵🟡⚫️🔴🟢
    Salute to Musical Youth
    🕯 to Junior and Patrick

  • @craiggerrard5117
    @craiggerrard5117 3 месяца назад +3

    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.

  • @DeeNice681
    @DeeNice681 3 месяца назад +27

    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.

    • @TheRetroWoman80
      @TheRetroWoman80 3 месяца назад +11

      I remember that. He seemed like such a tortured soul.

    • @juliet7703
      @juliet7703 2 месяца назад +2

      Wouldn't surprise me. Predators everywhere especially in the music bisness

  • @ITreasureMEAromatherapy
    @ITreasureMEAromatherapy 2 месяца назад

    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!

  • @BLKNOIZEPODCASTANDMEDIA
    @BLKNOIZEPODCASTANDMEDIA 3 месяца назад +4

    My grandma love this song too

  • @fionahamilton7231
    @fionahamilton7231 3 месяца назад +11

    Let me guess their manager ran off with all their money

  • @travismclaurin9419
    @travismclaurin9419 2 месяца назад +2

    I’ve always wondered the whereabouts of Musical Youth. So sad.

  • @keijak1
    @keijak1 3 месяца назад +2

    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...

  • @elijahramsingh
    @elijahramsingh 3 месяца назад +10

    I heard that song on Scooby Doo back in the 2000s many times while I was watching it. No wonder it sounded familiar tho

  • @JenniferBeathea
    @JenniferBeathea 2 месяца назад +2

    Lived that song.❤❤❤❤

  • @kewsiyehboah9514
    @kewsiyehboah9514 Месяц назад +1

    Well Researched and Presented..
    Appeared On ' MTV ' Before Michael Jackson..
    Great Fact..
    All da Best..
    Swahili..
    Pumzika Kwa Amani..

  • @patrickmaruniak5987
    @patrickmaruniak5987 2 месяца назад +1

    Pass The Duchie was and still is one of my favorite songs from the 80's.

  • @SoapboxEntTV
    @SoapboxEntTV 3 месяца назад

    I was in 7th grade and loved!!! This song.

  • @mizzjacquettaxx6974
    @mizzjacquettaxx6974 3 месяца назад +2

    Pass the dutchie is such a catchy tune 🎵 🩷🩷

  • @happygolucky7241
    @happygolucky7241 3 месяца назад +12

    Legends 💯 ❤️‍🔥 🇯🇲 🇬🇧

  • @blackcutty8549
    @blackcutty8549 3 месяца назад +2

    I like the song. Give love a chance

  • @michaelgrant7530
    @michaelgrant7530 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm crying right now

  • @errolthomas9426
    @errolthomas9426 2 месяца назад +1

    RIP Waite Brothers Fred Jr 1967-2022 and Patrick 1969-1993

  • @annielane5621
    @annielane5621 2 месяца назад +1

    I absolutely love there song❤

  • @rodhipps6378
    @rodhipps6378 3 месяца назад +6

    Shame how greedy adults rob children

  • @Kwameking1
    @Kwameking1 2 месяца назад

    Many blessings to the survivors of the group.

  • @element64
    @element64 2 месяца назад

    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.

  • @donna2567
    @donna2567 2 месяца назад

    Pass the Dutchie was a great song, I am so glad that stranger things put it in their last season. RIP Junior and Patrick🕊

  • @lukedaley17
    @lukedaley17 18 дней назад

    First time hearing their song pass the Dutchie was in the live action Scooby doo film. Can’t believe Musical youth were the first Black British group to be featured on mtv.

  • @alecjohnson5269
    @alecjohnson5269 2 месяца назад

    TRAGIC STORY TO A BRILLIANT BUNCH OF KIDS WHO WERE AN EXCELLENT REGGAE BAND

  • @john-paulb847
    @john-paulb847 2 месяца назад

    Saw them live last year, they were quite good.

  • @ejeanbrown25
    @ejeanbrown25 2 месяца назад

    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!

  • @deloresannwells
    @deloresannwells 3 месяца назад +3

    I saw their Unsung episode

  • @joiduarte736
    @joiduarte736 3 месяца назад +1

    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

    • @sicks6six
      @sicks6six 3 месяца назад

      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,

  • @jeromewhite7681
    @jeromewhite7681 3 месяца назад +2

    Missy Elliott's song "Pass da Blunt" samples Pass the Dutchie

    • @NellieKAdaba
      @NellieKAdaba 3 месяца назад +1

      I think didn't hear Missy's song yet, but I love Pass the Dutchie probably since the 1990s, and I was born in 81.

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 месяца назад

      They changed the title? I know it as "Pass The Dutch"...

  • @stewpacalypse7104
    @stewpacalypse7104 3 месяца назад +3

    C'mon. I assume almost everyone thought "dutchie" was referring to a blunt rolled with a Dutch Masters cigar.

    • @lonrgrrl59
      @lonrgrrl59 2 месяца назад +1

      No, a cooking pot, so what I heard.

    • @sean367
      @sean367 2 месяца назад +1

      It's a remake of pass the catchy, which is a spliff

  • @curleex3838
    @curleex3838 2 месяца назад

    I went to school with these lads ✌🏻💙

  • @sevenwilliams3485
    @sevenwilliams3485 2 месяца назад

    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.

  • @saveThe90s88
    @saveThe90s88 3 месяца назад +3

    The song was also in 'scooby doo'

  • @TSC-hr7ir
    @TSC-hr7ir 3 месяца назад +1

    Pass the Dutchie Love the Song

  • @Mark-vs6he
    @Mark-vs6he 2 месяца назад

    I will always love COOL IT NOW

  • @gailgreen5621
    @gailgreen5621 Месяц назад

    I remember that song 1982 at age 19😊😊😊

  • @edwardrichardson5567
    @edwardrichardson5567 3 месяца назад +2

    Coutchie is not a pipe, it is called a Chalice.

    • @sicks6six
      @sicks6six 3 месяца назад

      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. . .

  • @Eddie-hn5hp
    @Eddie-hn5hp 3 месяца назад

    I'm STILL waiting for The Dutchie to get passed to me...

    • @OpaqueBoat
      @OpaqueBoat 2 месяца назад +1

      how do you feel when you got no food?

  • @Barefoot_Joe
    @Barefoot_Joe 2 месяца назад +1

    Hearing our own culture badly presented by an American is the right way to commemorate them right...

  • @scotty20040
    @scotty20040 2 месяца назад

    Pass the dutchie is a British Classic

  • @mrironlunglungzielungzietv6697
    @mrironlunglungzielungzietv6697 3 месяца назад

    Pass the dutchie i must have been 6-7 loved that track

  • @richardadlam7351
    @richardadlam7351 3 месяца назад +6

    Didn't they sang with donna summers unconditional love

    • @BillBiggs1
      @BillBiggs1 3 месяца назад +2

      Yes Rich they did.

    • @romerjusu3804
      @romerjusu3804 3 месяца назад +2

      She took them on her global tour in 1983. I saw them in Atlantic City that year and they're also on the DVD A hot Summer Night with Donna.

  • @StellaBastienne
    @StellaBastienne Месяц назад

    Rip both brother

  • @FrenchBulldogsCantSpeakFrench
    @FrenchBulldogsCantSpeakFrench 12 часов назад +1

    Rest In Peace Fredrick & Patrick Waite 💐🪽🕊️🪽🕊️🪽💐

  • @_B.M_
    @_B.M_ Месяц назад

    What is it about child stars in general that never seems to end well? Why are they never protected when they need it most!

  • @annied9864
    @annied9864 3 месяца назад

    This area of making a living is lined with sadness

  • @sicks6six
    @sicks6six 3 месяца назад +1

    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

  • @p24hrsmith
    @p24hrsmith 2 месяца назад

    Sadly a number of bands got ripped off during this period The Baycity Rollers who were huge at their peak suddenly found all the money had gone

  • @sORrYiMLaTe_wHAtdiDiMisS
    @sORrYiMLaTe_wHAtdiDiMisS 2 месяца назад +2

    Why did you have to say nothing untoward happened. Sick of him still being villified. 😳 He's been cleared. May MJ continue to RIP.

  • @riotofmyown
    @riotofmyown 2 месяца назад

    We have to qualify that they weren’t left alone with Jackson … how is there still no definitive answer on Jackson.

  • @Michelle_Schu-blacka
    @Michelle_Schu-blacka 2 месяца назад

    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.

  • @jlarrywhite8
    @jlarrywhite8 2 месяца назад +1

    damn i forgot all about these dudes

  • @DouglasBrown-wb5bb
    @DouglasBrown-wb5bb 3 месяца назад +1

    😢😢😢

  • @Scorch1028
    @Scorch1028 2 месяца назад

    It’s funny that that word “dutchie” was used as a euphemism for a joint, but everybody knew that these boys were talking about passing a joint.

  • @ConleySmooge
    @ConleySmooge 2 месяца назад +1

    They passed the Deutsche mark to the left hand thief

  • @sxl4205
    @sxl4205 Месяц назад

    Great content! Your intro/outro music is louder than your content please invest in a better editor

  • @valerie4501
    @valerie4501 2 месяца назад

    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😮.

  • @stevenedwards4470
    @stevenedwards4470 3 месяца назад

    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 😝

  • @gutz323
    @gutz323 2 месяца назад

    @1.12 is that bass guitar really big? Or is that kid really small?

  • @Ghost-ch6ik
    @Ghost-ch6ik 2 месяца назад

    Judge Mathis is almost unrecognizable now. He’s aged quite a bit in the last few years.

  • @registeredmental
    @registeredmental 2 месяца назад

    They really were a novelty act

  • @chancest.thomas5160
    @chancest.thomas5160 3 месяца назад

    I Honestly 4got all about 'em.
    Neva knew Any of dis.
    Neva heard of da Group, 5a.m.

  • @904stanley4
    @904stanley4 3 месяца назад +1

    Can You Do BBMak Next Time

  • @matthewprince9705
    @matthewprince9705 2 месяца назад

    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.

  • @abraham_benson_official
    @abraham_benson_official 2 месяца назад

    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

  • @stewartmitchell8007
    @stewartmitchell8007 2 месяца назад

    Always John peel.
    Always

  • @Neil-Aspinall
    @Neil-Aspinall 2 месяца назад

    I always thought that song was totally inappropriate for children to sing. It was obviously about a bong or similar.

    • @nicoleblu5764
      @nicoleblu5764 Месяц назад

      Learn the history of the word ir watch the video

  • @CliffordLivingstone-js2pp
    @CliffordLivingstone-js2pp 2 месяца назад +1

    Good. Time. Ilove.dig.up😊❤

  • @keekeelion
    @keekeelion 2 месяца назад

    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.

  • @grahamherbert3612
    @grahamherbert3612 2 месяца назад +2

    Infantile tosh.

  • @mizzjacquettaxx6974
    @mizzjacquettaxx6974 3 месяца назад

    I forgot about them