The "How Country Feels" singer talks Skynyrd and songwriting. Following a shouted intro taken from U Roy's "Rule the Nation" with words slightly altered, the track combined 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). All obvious drug references were re… "By 1985 there was dissension between the members of the band; several of the members left and not long afterwards Musical Youth broke up.".

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They claimed that Woolf Seddon was in breach of duties because lawyers had failed to protect that distinct copyright by agreeing to a division of publishing royalties on the basis that the two songs were subject to the same copyright. Al from Liverpool Spliffs politics dictate that the joint is passed to the person on your left, thus passing the kutchie/dutchie to the left is not an etiquette faux pas, more likely passing to the left is a snub at the upper crust.

For the cover version, the song's title was bowdlerised to "Pass the Dutchie", the new word being a patois term for a Dutch oven, a type of cooking pot. Was Long Tall Sally a cross-dresser?

He said Pass The Dutchie was an adaptation of Pass The Kouchie and the relationship between those two songs formed the background to the legal proceedings. Mr Justice Roth said Musical Youth members were aged between 11 and 15 when Pass The Dutchie was released in September 1982.
From 1980s Childhood by Michael A. Johnson: "There's a common misconception that Musical Youth's number one hit in 1982, Pass the Dutchie, is a song about cannabis, when in fact the song is about extreme poverty; the 'dutchie' in the lyrics refers to a type of pot used for cooking. "The band Musical Youth, with five boy members playing music in the reggae style, enjoyed a short but spectacular success in the early 1980s," said Mr Justice Roth.

The judge said Pass The Dutchie was an adaptation of a song called Pass The Kouchie recorded by reggae group The Mighty Diamonds. Pass the Dutchie Cover of 'Pass the kutchie ", by the Mighty Diamonds, sung by Musical Youth ('82). Taz from Jersey You're out of your mind.

Performers from Birmingham-based Musical Youth claimed that solicitors gave them bad advice about the royalty money they might make from their 1982 hit Pass The Dutchie. He added a footnote to a written ruling, explaining that "Kouchie" was Jamaican slang for a "pot in which marijuana is kept" and "Dutchie" was a "Dutch stewing pot" in the same "patois". See if you know the real stories about one of rock's greatest innovators.

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Ex-members of a child reggae band that hit the heights with a song about a stewing pot 30 years ago have lost a legal battle with their former lawyers. He added a footnote to a written ruling, explaining that "Kouchie…

Ex-members of Musical Youth argued that Pass The Dutchie was a sufficiently original work to attract distinct copyright even though it was an arrangement of Pass The Kouchie. Pass the dutchie 'pon the left hand side (I say) Pass the dutchie 'pon the left hand side It a go bun, give me music, make me jump and prance It a go dung, give me the music, make me rockin' at the dance (Jah know!)

Surviving members are now in their 40s – Patrick Waite died in 1993 aged 24. Music history website the Birmingham Music Archive tells how Musical Youth, which featured two sets of brothers – the Grants and the Waites – was formed at a school.

The judge said Pass The Dutchie was an adaptation of a song called Pass The Kouchie recorded by reggae group The Mighty Diamonds. He said ex-members began legal proceedings in 2004 claiming that solicitor Tony Seddon – and other partners in Woolf Seddon – had "been in serious breach of their duties" by failing to "protect a distinct copyright" held by Musical Youth.

A "Dutchie" is a Jamaican cooking pot, and while there's not much reason to pass one around, it was an acceptable substitute for the original lyric: "Pass The Kutchie," Kutchie being Jamaican slang for a pot that holds marijuana. The song was the band's first release on a major label. Lindsay Lohan has some lyrics from Billy Joel's "I Go To Extremes" tattooed on her ribcage: "Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.". Mr Seddon, and his former partners, who specialised in music industry legal work, had denied the allegation.

The very American song "What Made Milwaukee Famous" was never a big hit in the US, but Rod Stewart made it famous in the UK. A "Dutchie" does not refer to ganja; it is a cast iron cooking pot (Dutch oven) used in "the dreadlock's camp… A "Dutchie" is a Jamaican cooking pot, and while there's not much reason to pass one around, it was an acceptable substitute for the original lyric: "Pass The Kutchie," Kutchie being Jamaican slang for a pot that holds marijuana. "Formed in 1979 at Duddeston Manor School in Birmingham ... they are best remembered for their successful 1982 Grammy-nominated single, Pass The Dutchie," says a Musical Youth potted history on the website. "Some critics and fans say the group was inspired (by) New Edition and The Jacksons. "Its recording of a song called Pass The Dutchie, released in September 1982, became the fastest-selling British single of that year and sold over 100,000 copies in one day.