BONUS TREAT: Musical Youth “Pass the Dutchie”
A Dutch pot isn’t something you buy in a coffee shop in Amsterdam but a cast-iron cookware found in most any Caribbean (or Dutch) household. (Yankees may know it as a “casserole dish”). When kiddie group Musical Youth decided to put their spin on the Mighty Diamonds’ classic ganja tune “Pass the Kutchie” —a maneuver that resulted in their biggest hit and, in fact, one of the most widely recognizable reggae tunes of all-time—they had to change the lyrics. (It not exactly being OK at the time—or now, for that matter—for likkle pickney dem to sing about weed). The result was “Pass the Dutchie,” a song that turned the Diamonds’ ganja anthem into an unlikely tribute to a household staple. —Jesse Serwer