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This video features scenes from music videos filmed for legends, Toots Hibbert, and, Johnny Osbourne. The Johnny Osbourne scenes were filmed in 1988 on Drumalie Avenue, Waterhouse, close to King Tubby's studio. King Tubby is also the producer of the song titled "Nuff Respect'. I am yet to find the other scenes, especially those shot in the studio, and, the final edited music video, but keeping my fingers crossed.
Long before artistes like Black Uhuru, Junior Reid and Wayne “Sleng Teng” Smith helped put Waterhouse on the music map, there was Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock, a down-to-earth sound engineer who operated a recording studio at Drumalie Avenue in the community.
Tubby, 48, was murdered on February 6, 1989, at his home in Duhaney Park. A pioneer of dub and sound effects, his feats are legendary and remain the yardstick for engineers.
Lloyd “King Jammy's” James, the outstanding engineer/producer, first met Tubby as an 11-year-old when he moved to Waterhouse in the 1950s from Montego Bay; he learned the rudiments of engineering from him and in the 1970s was his in-house engineer.
“Well, Tubby was a genius…a self-taught genius. He loved to create new sounds an' was jus' exceptional at what he did,” James told the Jamaica Observer.
King Tubby's music career began in the 1950s with the rising popularity of Jamaican sound systems, which were to be found all over Kingston and which were developing into enterprising businesses. As a talented radio repairman, Tubby soon found himself in great demand by most of the major sound systems of Kingston, as the tropical weather of the Caribbean island, (often combined with sabotage by rival sound system owners) led to malfunctions and equipment failure. Tubby owned an electrical repair shop on Drumalie Avenue, Kingston, that fixed televisions and radios. It was here that he built large amplifiers for the local sound systems. In 1961/62 he built his own radio transmitter and briefly ran a pirate radio station playing ska and rhythm and blues which he soon shut down when he heard that the police were looking for the perpetrators. Tubby would eventually form his own sound system, Tubby's Hometown Hi-Fi, which became a crowd favourite due to the high-quality sound of his equipment, exclusive releases, and Tubby's own echo and reverb sound effects, at that point something of a novelty.
King Tubby's production work in the 1970s would see him become one of the best-known celebrities in Jamaica and would generate interest in his production techniques from producers, sound engineers, and musicians across the world. Tubby built on his considerable knowledge of electronics to repair, adapt and design his own studio equipment, which made use of a combination of old devices and new technologies to produce a studio capable of the precise, atmospheric sounds which would become Tubby's trademark.
One unique aspect of his remixes or dubs was the result of creative manipulation of the built-in highpass filter on the MCI mixer he had bought from Dynamic Studios. The filter was controllable by a large knob—aka the 'big knob' -- which allowed Tubby to introduce a dramatic narrowing sweep of any signal, such as the horns until the sound disappeared into a thin squeal.


The Toots Hibbert scenes are somewhat mysterious, to me, as I cannot remember the name of the song that we were shooting these scenes for. I know it was filmed in the mid-1980s, during the time when he was a Coptic follower, and he was smoking herbs in his kutchie constantly during the shoot. I am not sure we actually completed shooting the scenes for this music video. These scenes were shot, spontaneously, somewhere up Stony Hill, in a sports bar. We did not know the people, who seemed happy to accommodate Toots request to do some filming there.

Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the frontman of the group, The Maytals, was born in May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica, in 1942, the youngest of seven children. He grew up singing gospel music in a church choir and moved to Kingston in the late 1950s.
The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best-known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music.
Frontman Toots Hibbert, who died in 2020, was considered a reggae pioneer on par with Bob Marley. His soulful vocal style was compared to Otis Redding, and led him to be named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Singers.
Their 1968 single "Do the Reggay" was the first song to use the word "reggae", coining the name of the genre and introducing it to a global audience. The Oxford English Dictionary credits Toots and the Maytals in the etymology of the word "Reggae".

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