Hibbert, who won the 2005 Grammy for Best Reggae album for True Love, died a few weeks after releasing Got To Be Tough, his latest album in a decade.The most questionable thing about this 2012 Universal set is where to categorize it. When they were doing that song, they were simply expressing themselves,” she said. “We would be standing in a Number 9 matatu going to Eastleigh, it was uncomfortable but some of the discomforts of standing and pushing against each other were taken away by the music. “They did justice to the song and it became a massive hit. Read Also: Toots Hibbert dead - Grammy-winning reggae legend dies aged 77 “You will know the song, maybe several versions of it, even if you cannot tell who recorded it.” Catherine Ndonye, the presenter of the Sundowner show on KBC radio had praise for the latter versions of the song, but still had adulation for the original version. “Bam Bam is one of those songs,” he says.
Njoroge, who ran the hugely popular DS Club at the Nairobi Showground, says there is music that transcends the artiste.
The theme of Bam Bam is about a righteous man, who, if provoked, will not hesitate to defend himself. The Maytals won Jamaica’s National Popular Song Contest in 1966 with Bam Bam. “The owner of the bar would be angry because people are not drinking, everybody would be on their feet,” Njoroge said.In Africa, Tiwa Savage sampled the hook in her Girlie O remix and even lesser-known Nigerian artistes such as Ketchup who made a splash in the music industry with Pam Pam which included samples of the song. “You wanted to sell beer, and when the song played everyone would get on the dancefloor and you would not sell anything. DS Njoroge, a Kenyan music promoter, says it had the kind of popularities that bar owners detested. To Kenyans who couldn’t grasp the patois lyrics, what a bam bam simply became what a bamba. Chaka Demus and Pliers take on Bam Bam was an instant hit worldwide and gave the song second life and heavy rotation in radio stations across the globe. Sister Nancy’s 1982 song of the same name featured Bam Bam’s chorus and was a huge success, cementing Sister Nancy as one of the dancehall legends.
The foundation of Sister Nancy’s 1982 hit has crossed genres and found itself in hip-hop and R&B, house, EDM, and even music from Africa. The song spawned a generation of dancehall and reggae singers such as Sister Nancy, Chaka Demus and Pliers, whose covers of the song catapulted them to stardom. Written and recorded in 1966 by the Maytals, Bam Bam is an era and genre-defining song.
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