apart from the Jamaicans who made this music , the people who blew up ska and reggae in the West were the White British teens of 60s and 70s who went out and brought these records in numbers . So, big up to them for their contribution
...and my sister and her (then) boyfriend were those very people - and am l grateful to them for that! They introduced me to Ska when l was about 10 because they played Tighten Up Vol 2 all the time. She had loads of singles too. We laugh now thinking about our dear ol' Dad tapping along to it. Funnier still was him whistling along to....'Wet Dream'!😂 We giggled cos we knew he couldn't even understand the words!!😂 I was lucky enough to inherit all that sister's vinyl, which was great as Two Tone hit when l was about 18. I knew all the songs by then from the original artists. As a 64yr oldNan l still love listening to Ska, esp Prince Buster. Takes me back to great times as a teen in S.E London ♡
...yep, that'd include my next-sister-up! I have her to thank for leaving me all her vinyl to play while she was at work!😂 I was introduced to Ska via Tighten Up Vol 2 as a 10yr old. I can still remember giggling with her, watching our Dad tapping his foot along to Max Romeo's 'Wet Dream'...not that l understood it myself. Just knew it was rude!!😂 I had all her original 60s Ska when Two Tone broke, so l was in my element. Great times for a teen in London. Now a 64yr old Nan nd still listening. Feel good music
So sorry for your loss. Mums are like the glue In The family so I feel you. This song is great I love 😄 Hope this song makes you smile every time you hear it. Aka Lady Voice 🇯🇲✊🏽
I know you posted months ago but just incase...I'm a mum and what I taught my boys, youngest is 21 eldest is 30, keep what I did and still do, alive by singing, stomping, skanking, everything, with your kids. When they have them. I taught them to shake the kitchen floor and moonstomp!!! They couldn't keep up with me. Hope, I'm not being to personal but...my dearest girl, you obviously loved your mum and I know, if you sing or dance and smile, no matter how much of a pillock you feel, she'll know and she'll be proud. My daddy died when I was 7 and whenever I start Israelites, I know he's smiling no end. Much love to you and yours. You're strong and beautiful. Shes always with you. Much love. ( sorry if I overstepped the mark. You just touched my mothering heart).
I remember arriving from Jamaica to England to meet my parents, and these tunes helped my parents and many other Caribbeans through the dark times. Love and blessings.
Born in wolverhampton dad was a dj for his dominoes team we got to listen to music every sunday loved my ska good music never dies thanks to my jamaican roots
These reggae tunes... nothing like them, timeless, original, pure and unique talent... Props to the Jamaican artists, the Caribbean people and British teens of the times who listened to and bought these vinyls! ... like most black music, especially American and Caribbean on the ground, no main-stream recognition existed nor wanted. West Indians of all ages would be listening, partying to and buying these tunes... of the white communities in Britain, mainly if not only the teens... respect to those generations! ✌🏽✊🏽
This takes me back to being 14/15 years old stood in the local reggae music shop in Nottingham. A little white kid amongst all these cool black dudes loving Trojan and reggae music... soundtrack of my teens. Loved It!
@@faiseljahan4605 Hi Faisel, No it was a shop on Middle Furlong Road in the Meadows. I am afraid it so long ago I cannot remember the shop name. They were so friendly to me....
Same except Moodies on White Plains Road Bronx NY and these were oldies to them as they were mostly into dancehall at the time. No internet at the time so all wax and or tape and you had to hunt foe those tasty old Rocksteady tracks. Cheers pal.
Storytelling at its finest! Growing up in Jamaica in 1960s to 1970s, the top news of the day, were turned into songs by most of the upcoming singers. Everyone had a transistor radio playing. We didn't miss any news that was headline news😂😂😂😂. This song is truly about a horse race at the race tract - Caymanas Park. Big bets were made on him, but he died before completing the race. In the same way, we sat around fire at night time and told anansi stories.
Is my memory deceiving me,i can remember young white skinheads in london loving reggee,with young black kids all in crombies and trilbee hats all together dancing together.i am 61 yrs old now somone tell me my memory is going.im sure this was what happened
Your memory is not failing you Amanda. The skinhead movement originally developed out of a love of ska, rocksteady and reggae...then by the 70s it turned into something entirely different.
I am older than you. I lived in Catford and used to and dance all night at The El Partido at Lewisham, it was mainly Ska, but some soul and live groups. I loved it. Then I walked home at 8 in the morning and went to bed and went out dancing the next night, in fact everynight. What a life.😁
Definitely the case Amanda. Same age as you and all through school I remember a great mixed community in Manchester of English, Irish and Jamaicans all living happily together. Great music, great days.
I started to listen to reggae in the late 80s when I was about 12. My older cousin would make me tapes with Half Pint, Pinchers, Marley, etc..You're in for a great journey.
The first reggae album I ever saw....then I bought No 1, 3 & 4. Paul Gardiner from the Tottenham Crew introduced me to it. I discovered Ska as a result. I remember being laughed at in 1971 / 2 at the youth club when we dressed as skinheads and played the records. I lived in Tottenham for 10 years in later years, but sadly never met my old pal Paul, but did meet a friend in Island Records in Seven Sisters who was still there from the 70s. He was a Rasta. I started talking about the old reggae hits and Ska. We then recognised each other. He remembered me coming from Devon and my passion for Jamaican music. We laughed and I replaced my vinyls with CDs - this was the 90s. He smiled when he saw me in my 3-piece black mohair suit, long cashmere Crombie velvet-collared coat, Italian loafers, black trilby (from Stamford Hill) and various accoutrements. This was in the early 90s. I now wear Cotton Traders casual clothes, am overweight, still happy, eating and drinking well, listening to all music, have 2 teenage daughters living with me, etc, etc. C'est la vie!
Know sumtim funny... Always loved the song as a kid when my dad played it often. Never got to know the lyrics till this year.. 48years ago..... Great.. Evergreen
I remember hearing this blaring out of my older sisters stereo when I was a young kid. This and many more like this got me into my love of reggae, soul, Motown etc. At 60 years old I still love it.
Sweetheart i'm pushing Seventy and i still love it , i listen several times a day , using as part of my daily exercise , in my room swinging and a swaying to this beat doing My Grandpa shuffle . it's about as close to Heaven that i'll ever get . i can't wait for my Senior Center to open again , i can promise you i'll have a group of my Ladies line dancing to this one , maybe everyone in Ms. Donna's Body Swag Class . To bad that your not at least Sixty - five , We have a ball five days a week . Be Safe , stay Sweet everyone !
Many years since I've heard this song.. Mum woukd play it along with many other great songs on a Sunday while cooking her Sunday dinner.. Best days 😢 Miss my mum 🙏✨️♥️
Long Shot was far from a champion horse, but he had stamina. His ability to complete races - a record 202 by 1969 - made him famous in Jamaica. His name lives on in the Long Shot Trophy, awarded annually at Kingston's Caymanas Park race track. But in reggae, it is his 203rd race for which Long Shot is remembered. 1st tune was long shot, pioneers 2nd tune was long Shot Kick the Bucket 3rd was long shot the burial, Prince of Darkness
It's from a longer article in the Independent newspaper. It's paywalled but it explains that the song was written about the horse a month before his death and titled Long Shot (Bus Me Bet). The title and the lyrics were changed to reflect the events - i.e. the "weeping and wailing down at Caymanas Park" and a mention of the horses in the race. The original lyrics were about the whipping and the beating Long Shot took to make him run so many races until his heart gave out. Consequently I can't listen to this without feeling sad at the cruelty of human beings. The weeping and wailing is not grief for the horse, but for money lost in bets. I'm of West Indian descent and the indifference of many people there to animal suffering is depressing.
This brings back memories of chatting up a girl in my dad's car .. This came on the radio and she said, " Quick, turn this up " I'd never heard music like this before... Glory days 👍
If someone looked like us with a bald head, a bomber jacket and Martens said that he thought ska etc was shit, we "Non Racist Skinheads" immediately knew what was going on. This ended further discussions. Today I'm 62 and I still see it that way, even tolerance has its limits.
[10 March 2023] A great track. And I'm so impressed to know Lee Perry wrote it. When one listens to it, one realizes just how *very* Perry it is. Rita Marley once said, of Perry, that "Lee Perry had the ears as to what the street people were listening to. Any [weird] thing happening, he would immediately know...and b-a-n-g, it's a song, it 's a hit, it's what's happening in the street." And that's what this song is: a direct, cold-eyed account of a newsworthy event (the sudden death, midrace, of the famous racehorse Long Shot: "What a weepin' and a wailin' down in Caymanas Park/...Combat fell, Long Shot fell, all our money gone a hell..."). Perfect. One almost wants to call it an example of pop-song-as-journalism. One wonders whether Perry was one of the folks who'd been there, down at Caymanas Park, and lost money betting on Long Shot and wept and wailed. I suspect that he was.
Haven't listen to this song in a decade or so, maybe longer. Always loved the innocence of the lyrics. But since then, I have studied music more seriously. I am in now in awe of songs like this. These people take a few notes from a scale, add a simple rhythm, but then they mute and accentuate certain notes to create an infectious song that everybody likes. Wish I could do that. Oh well, thanks for posting anyway.
Time really runs is the same year one of my grandmother died,and one of my brother was born. It is 51years now since this song was produced, same year Toots and the Maytals won festival songs competition, time is not waiting on one at all.
That bass drop......murder! When I first heard this (Dad had this on a 7") never realised it's a song about a racehorse! Thought it was another "rudie" tune! 👍👍
@@james_pb I met with the jockey Kenneth Mattis we had a heated argument one day at Caymanas Park race track ,said to him u think u can beat me like how you do long shot
@@christopherwoods9899,,, Hey Christopher, Oh I love my music up until right now my dear,, I had a reasonably not too bad a life,, and when I've needed to chill for a few hours, my music is beside me, all of which is sweet reggae music 🎶,,, I prefer the '70s reggae I've got to be honest, I loved going to blues parties ect,,, I have a feeling you're from the same era as myself my dear,,, (?)🤔 🤗 ✌️❤️
This is a song i will never forget and recall with great affection, as a young boy in the 1960s i rember our terrace house in leeds reverberating to this song ,played time after time.The son of our neighbour was in the bedrocks.so they had many a party. My Dad had to fix soundproofing to my bedroom wall.ididnt work❤
Is there a better,more uplifting,more tuneful ska tune than this..i very much doubt it..feeling fresh and in touch after all these years..old is very much gold..take a bow Pioneer's..made this white council estate kid love music..x
Was hypnotized by this lp album I bought in 1970. Thrilled my friends who would cluster around me to be entertained. Simply magical. So refreshed n still refreshing. Really loved the whole songs on the lp.
Happy to find out im not the only person who remembers the singing & dancing in some streets in London with 2 of the many races of the area .ALL GREAT FRIENDS ! HAPPY DAYS.GREAT GREATTIMES.
Brilliant, brilliant song. I was never into reggae but once I heard this, well, it opened my eyes to a whole new world of music. Sitting here on my office chair and playing this AGAIN I can't help rocking backwards and forwards to it, that's how it makes you feel.
I can listen to this marvellous music all day. I have done while decorating, helps keeping those brushes moving. As good today as when i first clapped ears on it.
I brought myself up on this stuff, Pioneers, Upsetters, Dave Ansil, etc... Owned Tighten Up Vols 2 & 3 and 4 when i was 7, hand down from my sisters, Tell you what, they don't make Reggae like this any more.. Any just to think, Made specially for the UK... I Love Trojan Reggae. !!!
One of the many Trojan classics 😎 ... Remember Live Aid '85 Pioneers "Starvation" was covered by Ska collective as their contribution etc .... "Long shot kicked a bucket" classic 🇯🇲😎👍.
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apart from the Jamaicans who made this music , the people who blew up ska and reggae in the West were the White British teens of 60s and 70s who went out and brought these records in numbers . So, big up to them for their contribution
73 and its in my bones. Thanks!
What about the very mighty Steel Pulse from Birmingham,England.i was lucky to get a great view,because i was a Steward??
Bought*
...and my sister and her (then) boyfriend were those very people - and am l grateful to them for that!
They introduced me to Ska when l was about 10 because they played Tighten Up Vol 2 all the time.
She had loads of singles too. We laugh now thinking about our dear ol' Dad tapping along to it. Funnier still was him whistling along to....'Wet Dream'!😂 We giggled cos we knew he couldn't even understand the words!!😂
I was lucky enough to inherit all that sister's vinyl, which was great as Two Tone hit when l was about 18. I knew all the songs by then from the original artists.
As a 64yr oldNan l still love listening to Ska, esp Prince Buster. Takes me back to great times as a teen in S.E London ♡
...yep, that'd include my next-sister-up! I have her to thank for leaving me all her vinyl to play while she was at work!😂
I was introduced to Ska via Tighten Up Vol 2 as a 10yr old. I can still remember giggling with her, watching our Dad tapping his foot along to Max Romeo's 'Wet Dream'...not that l understood it myself. Just knew it was rude!!😂
I had all her original 60s Ska when Two Tone broke, so l was in my element. Great times for a teen in London.
Now a 64yr old Nan nd still listening. Feel good music
Remember dancing to this one as a teenager! Now 68 tapping my foot and "nodding" my head😅
Currently playing this in a Norwegian Truckstop ..loud ....
Music of my youth.....Long shot indeed 🎉
Me too same age as you my friend,
Grew up Listening to. This. Tune. Long shot kick the de Bucket. Go to party. You would always hear this playing. Still Listening jan. 2024. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I am old, boring and white. In my teens there was only one type of music.....TROJAN!
My mum use to sing this song around the home to my brother and I cause she knew we would laugh!😁😂🤣.its 2 years now since she died, I miss you mum😔😥☹♥️
So sorry for your loss. Mums are like the glue In The family so I feel you. This song is great I love 😄
Hope this song makes you smile every time you hear it. Aka Lady Voice 🇯🇲✊🏽
Bless up darling. xx
I know you posted months ago but just incase...I'm a mum and what I taught my boys, youngest is 21 eldest is 30, keep what I did and still do, alive by singing, stomping, skanking, everything, with your kids. When they have them. I taught them to shake the kitchen floor and moonstomp!!! They couldn't keep up with me. Hope, I'm not being to personal but...my dearest girl, you obviously loved your mum and I know, if you sing or dance and smile, no matter how much of a pillock you feel, she'll know and she'll be proud. My daddy died when I was 7 and whenever I start Israelites, I know he's smiling no end. Much love to you and yours. You're strong and beautiful. Shes always with you. Much love. ( sorry if I overstepped the mark. You just touched my mothering heart).
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I remember arriving from Jamaica to England to meet my parents, and these tunes helped my parents and many other Caribbeans through the dark times. Love and blessings.
my father bought this tune from jamaica when he moved to England forever in my memories
He brought some tune grate taste
I remember the record label !!😅
Great song, about a Horse Race in jamaica
This turned me on to reggae and ska. I was 15 in 1969 - its been a life long love of this music.
Same here. Except I was 13 in 69. Bought Reggae Chartbusters and this is still the standout track on the album.
ditto
I am the same age as you then. ☀️ 😎
Same as me mate!
@@raymartin1234 i remember Sta-Prest, mate.
Born in wolverhampton dad was a dj for his dominoes team we got to listen to music every sunday loved my ska good music never dies thanks to my jamaican roots
CANNOT BEAT Reggae tunes FACT!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I second that emotion
These reggae tunes... nothing like them, timeless, original, pure and unique talent... Props to the Jamaican artists, the Caribbean people and British teens of the times who listened to and bought these vinyls! ... like most black music, especially American and Caribbean on the ground, no main-stream recognition existed nor wanted. West Indians of all ages would be listening, partying to and buying these tunes... of the white communities in Britain, mainly if not only the teens... respect to those generations! ✌🏽✊🏽
One of my favorite songs of all time.
This takes me back to being 14/15 years old stood in the local reggae music shop in Nottingham. A little white kid amongst all these cool black dudes loving Trojan and reggae music... soundtrack of my teens. Loved It!
Was it Danny's record store on Bentink road in Hyson Green? Long gone sadly.
@@faiseljahan4605 Hi Faisel, No it was a shop on Middle Furlong Road in the Meadows.
I am afraid it so long ago I cannot remember the shop name. They were so friendly to me....
Some great clubs back in the 70's, Pavillion Matlock Bath one, plenty in Notts and Derby, great times and music
Same except Moodies on White Plains Road Bronx NY and these were oldies to them as they were mostly into dancehall at the time. No internet at the time so all wax and or tape and you had to hunt foe those tasty old Rocksteady tracks. Cheers pal.
wiv ya on that one,,,,,,
How can you not love this track ??
Because it's a very sad true story.
Love it
I can't sit still when it plays
WHAT A WEEPIN AAAAAND A WAILIN...TAKES OFF DANCING IMMEDIATELY IN THE HOLY GHOST
Way back in Nigeria 🇳🇬, this was a classic vibe that made us kids- jump around. Much love to our Caribbean people !!
Storytelling at its finest! Growing up in Jamaica in 1960s to 1970s, the top news of the day, were turned into songs by most of the upcoming singers. Everyone had a transistor radio playing. We didn't miss any news that was headline news😂😂😂😂. This song is truly about a horse race at the race tract - Caymanas Park. Big bets were made on him, but he died before completing the race.
In the same way, we sat around fire at night time and told anansi stories.
Not nigerian. Not carabian.
Still, this is a classic for me. And will always be connected to happy days of my life.
Yes😊
Same in UK.
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When I was 14, I skanked to this one as a skinhead, I loved those days, but still love the music and always will.
One of their tunes "you no ready yet" was my first introduction to their music
Is my memory deceiving me,i can remember young white skinheads in london loving reggee,with young black kids all in crombies and trilbee hats all together dancing together.i am 61 yrs old now somone tell me my memory is going.im sure this was what happened
That is so true I am 64 now , but they were great times we all got on together. This push bonded us all together ,. Great times
Your memory is not failing you Amanda. The skinhead movement originally developed out of a love of ska, rocksteady and reggae...then by the 70s it turned into something entirely different.
in Australia aswell.
I am older than you. I lived in Catford and used to and dance all night at The El Partido at Lewisham, it was mainly Ska, but some soul and live groups. I loved it. Then I walked home at 8 in the morning and went to bed and went out dancing the next night, in fact everynight. What a life.😁
Definitely the case Amanda. Same age as you and all through school I remember a great mixed community in Manchester of English, Irish and Jamaicans all living happily together. Great music, great days.
The Dogs Bollocks! Still an Ace Tune
Worth reading this comment thread just to see "The Dog's Bollocks"
My 1st record I bought at 13. Memories
Absolutely ....
Loved it in middle school, love it at 20, and I'll love it when I'm 80. Love from Oklahoma, USA 🇯🇲 never ever let it die
Yea man love ❤️ from Liverpool England 🏴 🙏
Same...can't say it any better...
I love ska , I’m in Oklahoma too!
Yea!
Love from Oklahoma!
This takes me back to Ben Shermans, Crombies, Dr Martens. Fantastic music. Happy days
Me too, two tone, stay press, feather cuts. Happy days.
Harrington Jacket ♥️
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Oi Oi
Over 60 now, grew up in Notting Hill, still listening to ska and reggae in 2022.
Over 40 now, grew up in Palm Bay Florida, still listening to ska and feggae in 2023
Not much reggae there now. Full of rich white people. Most of the people I know were forced to leave years ago by high rents.
This song never dates..55 yes young still listening to this beautiful music.❤
Brilliant Classic..Their trademark close harmonies are instantly recognizable.
I'm 15 right now and reggae music and ska has made me alot more happier than what I used to be, its gets you through hard days.
Ha dude I was same age when I heard it I'm 62! Still rocks
if you haven’t already, listen to the entire album, The Harder They Come. Classic. Keep listening and stay happy🙂
I'm in my mid 20s, its helped me through my youth also. Continues to heal and guide me to this day 🙌🏽👌🏽🔥
I started to listen to reggae in the late 80s when I was about 12. My older cousin would make me tapes with Half Pint, Pinchers, Marley, etc..You're in for a great journey.
Your 16 now and I hope things are a lot better for you. Lad you like it.
Skinhead classic,. A timeless boss sound 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
The first reggae album I ever saw....then I bought No 1, 3 & 4. Paul Gardiner from the Tottenham Crew introduced me to it. I discovered Ska as a result. I remember being laughed at in 1971 / 2 at the youth club when we dressed as skinheads and played the records. I lived in Tottenham for 10 years in later years, but sadly never met my old pal Paul, but did meet a friend in Island Records in Seven Sisters who was still there from the 70s. He was a Rasta.
I started talking about the old reggae hits and Ska. We then recognised each other. He remembered me coming from Devon and my passion for Jamaican music. We laughed and I replaced my vinyls with CDs - this was the 90s. He smiled when he saw me in my 3-piece black mohair suit, long cashmere Crombie velvet-collared coat, Italian loafers, black trilby (from Stamford Hill) and various accoutrements. This was in the early 90s. I now wear Cotton Traders casual clothes, am overweight, still happy, eating and drinking well, listening to all music, have 2 teenage daughters living with me, etc, etc. C'est la vie!
As a 1960's carribbean child these were the tunes we used to jump up and down to.
Got to be the greatest Trojan tune of all time
very good tune. for me the greatest Trojan tune of all time is Queen of the Wold by Claudette.
i know no one cares hahaha
Well, ONE of them,there's SO many!
Yeah but he's correct
It's a bold claim given the outstanding competition!
yeah bruv but u got double barrel and liquidator to think of off the top of me head too
There is no doubt this is the real deal. Reggae music is the head nodding moon stomping BEST!! ☺ GROOVY!!
Brings back memories of hearing this song back in 80s as a young girl
an awesome song 🙋🫶🙋🌺
Ska and Two Tone a soundtrack to the 80's Ska ed for life
One of my favourite reggae songs of all time.
May only be 35 been listening to this since my youth still and always will be a classic
I play this in my head every time I bet. Lol. Thanks for posting, thanks Pioneers!
Tiny Island ,big influence!
Know sumtim funny...
Always loved the song as a kid when my dad played it often.
Never got to know the lyrics till this year.. 48years ago.....
Great.. Evergreen
I love all reggae this is my favourite. My mum and dad were very surprised I loved reggae. Keep on
Memories of Winchester in 1969,...Great Stuff.
Never get tired of listening to these songs.
Trojan records, trojan skinheads!! SPirit of 69! Rocksteady, reggae, 2 tone ska, Oi! music!! This is our music. Skinheads and rudeboys!
I remember hearing this blaring out of my older sisters stereo when I was a young kid. This and many more like this got me into my love of reggae, soul, Motown etc. At 60 years old I still love it.
Sweetheart i'm pushing Seventy and i still love it , i listen several times a day , using as part of my daily exercise , in my room swinging and a swaying to this beat doing My Grandpa shuffle . it's about as close to Heaven that i'll ever get . i can't wait for my Senior Center to open again , i can promise you i'll have a group of my Ladies line dancing to this one , maybe everyone in Ms. Donna's Body Swag Class . To bad that your not at least Sixty - five , We have a ball five days a week . Be Safe , stay Sweet everyone !
@@timothymartin8529 you both keep the fire burning, gramps!!! you are precious
Same here
Many years since I've heard this song.. Mum woukd play it along with many other great songs on a Sunday while cooking her Sunday dinner.. Best days 😢 Miss my mum 🙏✨️♥️
Aaaaw bless ya heart xXxX FAB TUNE THIS IS! YOU WILL NEVER EVER EVER BEAT Reggae and Ska and Northern Soul music! NEVER EVER EVER!!!!!
Long Shot was far from a champion horse, but he had stamina. His ability to complete races - a record 202 by 1969 - made him famous in Jamaica. His name lives on in the Long Shot Trophy, awarded annually at Kingston's Caymanas Park race track. But in reggae, it is his 203rd race for which Long Shot is remembered.
1st tune was long shot, pioneers
2nd tune was long Shot Kick the Bucket
3rd was long shot the burial, Prince of Darkness
Respect fi the knowledge 🫡
thank you for the info :)
It's from a longer article in the Independent newspaper. It's paywalled but it explains that the song was written about the horse a month before his death and titled Long Shot (Bus Me Bet).
The title and the lyrics were changed to reflect the events - i.e. the "weeping and wailing down at Caymanas Park" and a mention of the horses in the race.
The original lyrics were about the whipping and the beating Long Shot took to make him run so many races until his heart gave out.
Consequently I can't listen to this without feeling sad at the cruelty of human beings. The weeping and wailing is not grief for the horse, but for money lost in bets.
I'm of West Indian descent and the indifference of many people there to animal suffering is depressing.
@@davidrbolandif that's true David that really sad
@@davidrbolandWhat a mixed bag of a song.
Happy days just being a skin/suede no racism or politics just a good time
Jamaica Jamaica God Bless the Island sweet vibrations still listening 2020
Takes me back to my youth ✌🏻❤️
This brings back memories of chatting up a girl in my dad's car .. This came on the radio and she said, " Quick, turn this up "
I'd never heard music like this before... Glory days 👍
If someone looked like us with a bald head, a bomber jacket and Martens said that he thought ska etc was shit, we "Non Racist Skinheads" immediately knew what was going on. This ended further discussions.
Today I'm 62 and I still see it that way, even tolerance has its limits.
Too right. Nothing worse than some bell end giving the rest a bad name
When my girls were little we used dance around the house to this they still love it now they have their own kids.
I drove the neighbours mad with this on my old dansette record player be about 15, i'm 73 now, loved it
[10 March 2023] A great track. And I'm so impressed to know Lee Perry wrote it. When one listens to it, one realizes just how *very* Perry it is. Rita Marley once said, of Perry, that "Lee Perry had the ears as to what the street people were listening to. Any [weird] thing happening, he would immediately know...and b-a-n-g, it's a song, it 's a hit, it's what's happening in the street." And that's what this song is: a direct, cold-eyed account of a newsworthy event (the sudden death, midrace, of the famous racehorse Long Shot: "What a weepin' and a wailin' down in Caymanas Park/...Combat fell, Long Shot fell, all our money gone a hell..."). Perfect. One almost wants to call it an example of pop-song-as-journalism. One wonders whether Perry was one of the folks who'd been there, down at Caymanas Park, and lost money betting on Long Shot and wept and wailed. I suspect that he was.
yep 68 to! takes me back to the youth club!
Cool good vibes
I can’t love this enough! I wish this song would play in the background every time i walk into a room 😆😆
AAA and I'm back in Junior School and the world's all to rights again, well, the world of a carefree 10 year old kid.
I play this song frequently at work and am now heavily getting into Ska, Bluebeat and Roots 🙂😎 fantastic culture and sounds.
Should have been around in the 70s 80s mate brilliant times never to be seen again
Wish I was there to experience it, damn shame 😔
Still love the tune it massive
I used to spend ages in Spinadisc in 70s Northampton looking for reggae and ska records such as this, great music
Same here! I remember Spinadisc great record shop!
Haven't listen to this song in a decade or so, maybe longer. Always loved the innocence of the lyrics. But since then, I have studied music more seriously. I am in now in awe of songs like this. These people take a few notes from a scale, add a simple rhythm, but then they mute and accentuate certain notes to create an infectious song that everybody likes. Wish I could do that. Oh well, thanks for posting anyway.
U know what the song is about???
@@davidporter7717 Its about a horse!😊🐎🐴
From the uk
👀i was told its a true story about
a fixed horse race🤣😅🤣 people gambled their money on the "dead" certainty 🏇 hence the tune.
This song was about bringing the music together with dat horse in dem time. Very talented and ahead of the yard times
Bollox
Time really runs is the same year one of my grandmother died,and one of my brother was born. It is 51years now since this song was produced, same year Toots and the Maytals won festival songs competition, time is not waiting on one at all.
That bass drop......murder! When I first heard this (Dad had this on a 7") never realised it's a song about a racehorse! Thought it was another "rudie" tune! 👍👍
Thus is classic song with a Nyabinghi rhythm.
I never thought a song about a dead horse could bring a tear to my eye but here it is!
hehehhe, me too, wtf?
It's just a beautiful song.
Shaney Grog LOL 😆 LOL 😂
Alexander Hamilton’s horse, I met Mr H. Legend.
@@james_pb I met with the jockey Kenneth Mattis we had a heated argument one day at Caymanas Park race track ,said to him u think u can beat me like how you do long shot
WUNDERLICH !!❤❤
Classic❤
I love this song during my youth days and still evergreen
Love this tune so much
What a great tune this is!!!! SO MANY MANY happy memories from BACK in the day!!!! 😘😘😘😘😘 DANCING OR WHAT!!!!!!
Dem a boss sounds
When I hear these songs, I Have to move/dance ❤
Makes me think of my young days in the 60’s I lurrrrrrrrre this toooooon💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Another Trojan Records classic. Sure puts a smile on my face during these troubled times. Brings back fond memories of late 60' s reggae.
Oh me too Christopher,, late 60s through 70s, Trojan was born into my life, and reggae never left ✌️😍🎶❤️
@@lizzeemilligan6434 Hi Lizzee if reggae still in your life all these years later, then I guess you had a good life just like me.
@@christopherwoods9899,,, Hey Christopher, Oh I love my music up until right now my dear,, I had a reasonably not too bad a life,, and when I've needed to chill for a few hours, my music is beside me, all of which is sweet reggae music 🎶,,, I prefer the '70s reggae I've got to be honest, I loved going to blues parties ect,,, I have a feeling you're from the same era as myself my dear,,, (?)🤔 🤗 ✌️❤️
My dad's favourite track - rest in peace royturf 🙏🏽⭐️❤️
Love the heavy base line ,serious tune
Gives me life
Great memories of a miss spent youth!
Still fantastic after all these years
This is a song i will never forget and recall with great affection, as a young boy in the 1960s i rember our terrace house in leeds reverberating to this song ,played time after time.The son of our neighbour was in the bedrocks.so they had many a party. My Dad had to fix soundproofing to my bedroom wall.ididnt work❤
Back to the good old days when I was a skin 69 early 70s .south London.
If You’re Here, then you need to also go check out Prince Buster, Big Youth, Alton Ellis, John Holt, Gregory Issacs, Blessings. JAH loves us. ❤
What memories nothing like it now !
Loved the Ska
RIP Toots. Walk good in your eternal journey.
When reggae was really reggae. You don’t sit still when 70s reggae is playing.
the best of many such topical 1960s hits.
Is there a better,more uplifting,more tuneful ska tune than this..i very much doubt it..feeling fresh and in touch after all these years..old is very much gold..take a bow Pioneer's..made this white council estate kid love music..x
What a tune known it years just found it! Reggae forever!
Was hypnotized by this lp album I bought in 1970. Thrilled my friends who would cluster around me to be entertained. Simply magical. So refreshed n still refreshing. Really loved the whole songs on the lp.
Sigismund Jumbo i use to have the 45, but i do still have the album :-)
Love to jamaica 🇯🇲from us these never grow old
Happy to find out im not the only person who remembers the singing & dancing in some streets in London with 2 of the many races of the area .ALL GREAT FRIENDS ! HAPPY DAYS.GREAT GREATTIMES.
Yessssssss this is ska keepin the faith 😊
Love it
This song was recorded the year I was born but I never heard it till recently. Now it's in my head all the time 🙂
Brilliant, brilliant song. I was never into reggae but once I heard this, well, it opened my eyes to a whole new world of music. Sitting here on my office chair and playing this AGAIN I can't help rocking backwards and forwards to it, that's how it makes you feel.
The pride and purity of Jamaica.
Always loved this music it really gets you moving me and my husband both in our 60s and we always have a dance around the living room
Fantasy Island, Ingoldmells,,Skegness, Lincolnshire,UK. 2018. Stuck at traffic lights and this came on radio. Happy times 😊
I can listen to this marvellous music all day. I have done while decorating, helps keeping those brushes moving. As good today as when i first clapped ears on it.
One of the grooviest songs you will ever hear .
I brought myself up on this stuff, Pioneers, Upsetters, Dave Ansil, etc... Owned Tighten Up Vols 2 & 3 and 4 when i was 7, hand down from my sisters, Tell you what, they don't make Reggae like this any more.. Any just to think, Made specially for the UK... I Love Trojan Reggae. !!!
One of the many Trojan classics 😎 ... Remember Live Aid '85 Pioneers "Starvation" was covered by Ska collective as their contribution etc .... "Long shot kicked a bucket" classic 🇯🇲😎👍.
Forgotten how much I love this tune...REALLY takes me back 👉🇬🇧👈👉😷👉💎