Toots and the Maytals Trivia Questions

'Pressure Drop' was indeed covered by The Clash and appears on the soundtrack of the iconic 1972 Jamaican film 'The Harder They Come'.

Toots and the Maytals formed in the early 1960s in Trench Town, the same Kingston neighborhood that birthed Bob Marley and other reggae legends.

True—his 1968 track 'Do the Reggay' introduced the term. Toots himself claimed he invented the word while singing about a girl named Reggay.

Toots never trained in opera. He grew up singing gospel in church, which gave him his powerful, soulful voice, but opera training is a myth.

Though highly praised, 'Funky Kingston' didn't win Rolling Stone's top album. It did, however, appear on lists of greatest reggae albums of all time.

The band's hit 'Do the Reggay' is widely credited as the first song to use the word 'reggae', defining the genre forever.

The group was originally called 'The Maytals' from the start. Toots never named them 'The Vikings'—that's a mix-up with a different ska band.

They never won a Grammy. Despite multiple nominations, including for 'True Love' (2004), the award eluded them—a surprising snub for such a pivotal band.