Pass the Dutchie

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For the EP by Buck-O-Nine, see Pass the Dutchie (EP).
"Pass the Dutchie"
File:Pass the Dutchie single.jpg
Single by Musical Youth
from the album The Youth of Today
B-side "Give Love a Chance"
Released 17 September 1982
Recorded May 1982
Genre Reggae-pop
Length 3:25
Label MCA
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
Musical Youth singles chronology
"Generals"/"Political"
(1981)		 "Pass the Dutchie"
(1982)		 "Youth of Today"
(1982)

Pass the Dutchie is a song by the English reggae band Musical Youth, taken from their debut studio album, The Youth of Today (1982). The reggae song was a major hit worldwide, peaking at number one on the UK for three weeks, number ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and selling over 5 million copies worldwide.

Background

The song was the band's first release on a major label. It was a cover version of two songs: "Gimme the Music" by U Brown, and "Pass the Kouchie" by Mighty Diamonds, which deals with the recreational use of cannabis (kouchie being slang for a cannabis pipe).[1] For the cover version, the song's title was bowdlerized to "Pass the Dutchie", and all obvious drug references were removed from the lyrics; e.g., when the original croons "How does it feel when you got no herb?", the cover version refers to "food" instead. Dutchie is used as a patois term to refer to a food cooking pot such as a Dutch oven in Jamaica and the Caribbean. It has since become a drug reference, denoting a blunt stuffed with marijuana and rolled in a wrapper from a Dutch Masters cigar, since American and British listeners assumed that the term was a drug reference.

The song was first championed by radio DJ Zach Diezel and became an instant hit when it was picked up by MCA Records in September 1982. It debuted at #26 on the UK chart and rose to #1 the following week.[1] In February 1983, it reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA.[2] The song also scored the #1 position in five other countries, eventually selling more than five million copies worldwide.[3][4]

Music video

The video, directed by Don Letts,[5] was shot partly on the southern banks of the River Thames in London, across from the Palace of Westminster. It depicts the band performing the song and playing instruments, until an official appears to arrest them.[6] Courtroom scenes are interspersed with the exterior ones. Musical Youth became the first black artists to appear in a studio segment on MTV.[7]

Track listing

A. "Pass the Dutchie" – 3:25
B. "Please Give Love a Chance" – 3:36
A. "Pass the Dutchie" – 6:05
B. "Pass the Dutchie" (Special Dub Mix) – 4:40

Charts and certifications

Cover versions and references in other songs

  • The song was covered in Spanish language by Mexican kids group Chiquilladas in 1983 (Orfeon 45-4217) "Ponle musica a tu corazon" Spanish lyrics by Sue y Javier.
  • The song was sampled by rap group Public Enemy for the song "Revolutionary Generation" on their 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet.
  • The song is referenced lyrically on Ice Cube's 1994 single "Bop Gun (One Nation)" (featuring George Clinton), the fourth single from Ice Cube's fifth album, Lethal Injection.
  • The song is referenced lyrically on Beck's 1996 album Odelay in the song "Where It's At".
  • "Pass the Dutchie" was covered by the ska band Buck-O-Nine in 1998.
  • "Pass That Dutch" was released by Missy Elliott in 2003.
  • "Pass the Dutchie" was re-made by the Kumbia Kings on their 2004 album Fuego.
  • The song was sampled in Superfunk song "The Young MC", which was released in 2000.
  • The song was sampled in The Black Eyed Peas song "Dum Diddly" from their 2005 album Monkey Business.
  • The song was parodied by a band from the Seychelles Islands Dezil' under the title "Laisse tomber les filles (qui se maquillent)", and peaked at #13 in France and #47 in Switzerland in 2006.[26]
  • In May 2009, Los Angeles based music duo LOONER released "Dutchie", their laid back version of the song which lyrically references the main chorus of the original.[27]
  • UK-based electronic hip-hop artist Star Slinger remixed the song for his first volume of music. The remix is called "Dutchie Courage".
  • Manix sampled the song in their track "Living in the Past" from the album of the same name, which was released in 2013.[28]

References in popular culture

  • The song was used in the soundtrack of the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer.[29]
  • In The Simpsons 1999 episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo", Homer states that instead of going to Japan he would rather be going to Jamaica, so that he could "pass the dutchie on the left hand side".
  • The song was used in the soundtrack of the 2002 movie Scooby-Doo.
  • The song was used in the soundtrack of the 2010 movie Boy.[30]

References

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External links

Preceded by UK number one single
2 October 1982 - 16 October 1982		 Succeeded by
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" by Culture Club
Preceded by Australian Kent Music Report number-one single
6 December 1982 - 20 December 1982		 Succeeded by
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" by Culture Club
Preceded by Canadian "RPM" Singles Chart number-one single
22 January 1983 - 5 February 1983		 Succeeded by
"Africa" by Toto
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