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Funky Kingston is a Reggae act. Their sound grew out of Ike Turner, Richard Berry, John Denver and The Beginning Of The End. Those roots explain a lot about how Funky Kingston arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dr. Ring-Ding and Dancing Mood, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bob Marley and The Wailers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 8 connections around Funky Kingston, reaching back through Ike Turner and forward to Bob Marley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Funky Kingston is the name of two albums by Jamaican reggae group Toots and the Maytals. The first was issued in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in 1973 on Dragon Records, a subsidiary label of Island Records, owned by Chris Blackwell. A different album, with the same cover and title, was issued in the United States in 1975 on Mango Records. That album was compiled from three previous Maytals albums by Island Records employee Danny Holloway and peaked at No. 164 on the Billboard 200. It was voted the eleventh best album of 1975 in the annual Pazz & Jop poll. In 2003, the American version was placed at number 378 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", 380 in a 2012 revised list and 344 in a 2020 revised list.
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Funky Kingston connections
Funky Kingston grew out of Ike Turner, Richard Berry, John Denver and The Beginning Of The End, shares an orbit with Dr. Ring-Ding and Dancing Mood, went on to shape Bob Marley and The Wailers. 8 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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