In the Dark (Toots and the Maytals album)

In the Dark
Studio album by
Toots & the Maytals
ReleasedSeptember 1974 (1974-09)
Recorded1973
StudioDynamic Sounds Studios, Kingston, Jamaica
GenreReggae
Length39:15
LabelDragon
Producer
  • Byron Lee (exec.)
  • Warwick Lyn
  • Neville Hinds
  • Carlton Lee
Toots & the Maytals chronology
Funky Kingston
(1972) 		In the Dark
(1974) 		Reggae Got Soul
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

In the Dark is the second international album release by the reggae singing group Toots and the Maytals, issued in Jamaica and in the United Kingdom on Dragon Records, DRLS 5004, a subsidiary label owned by Chris Blackwell.[3] It was released in September 1974.[4]

Content

To follow up Funky Kingston, label owner Blackwell returned Toots and the Maytals to Dynamic Sound Studios in Kingston for new recordings.[5][6] Included were songs previously released as singles, "54-46 Was My Number" and "Pomp and Pride." Continuing interesting choices of cover material aimed at the English market, the Maytals included a version of the hit single by John Denver, "Take Me Home, Country Roads," which replaces West Virginia with West Jamaica in the lyric.

For a hybrid release of Funky Kingston for the United States, six songs from this album were substituted for five others from the original Jamaican version of Funky Kingston, adding in the 1969 "Pressure Drop" single. On March 25, 2003, In the Dark was released on compact disc by Universal complete in its original format, along with the Jamaican Funky Kingston album and the "Pressure Drop" single.

Track listing

All tracks written by Frederick "Toots" Hibbert except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Got to Be There" – 3:06
  2. "In the Dark" (F. Hibbert, E. Chin) – 2:48
  3. "Having a Party" – 2:48
  4. "Time Tough" – 4:23
  5. "I See You" (B. Davidson) – 3:16
  6. "Take a Look in the Mirror" – 3:17

Side two

  1. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (John Denver, Taffy Nivert, Bill Danoff) – 3:23
  2. "Fever" – 2:26
  3. "Love's Gonna Walk Out on me" – 3:15
  4. "Revolution" – 3:31
  5. "54-46" – 3:24
  6. "Sailing On" – 3:35

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Bush, Nathan. In the Dark at AllMusic. Retrieved 9 Dec 2010.
  2. ^ Miles, Milo (April 22, 2003). "Toots and the Maytals Funky Kingston/In The Dark > Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 9 June 2008. Retrieved 18 Aug 2011.
  3. ^ Katz, David. Funky Kingston/In the Dark. Island Records 440 077 076-2, 2003, liner notes.
  4. ^ Jones, Mark, The B&C Discography: 1968 to 1975, The Record Press – Bristol Folk Publications, 2015, p. 100 (ISBN 978-1-909953-37-6).
  5. ^ Katz, liner notes.
  6. ^ In The Dark Dragon – DRLS 5004