Funky Kingston

Funky Kingston
Studio album by
Releasedcirca March / April 1973 (UK)
1975 (US)
Recorded1972
Studio
GenreReggae
Length34:56
LabelDragon (Jamaica, U.K.)
Mango (U.S.)
ProducerChris Blackwell,
Warwick Lyn,
Dave Bloxham
Toots and the Maytals chronology
Slatyam Stoot Funky Kingston
(1973)
In the Dark
(1973)

Funky Kingston is the name of two albums by Jamaican reggae group Toots and the Maytals. The first was issued in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in 1973 on Dragon Records, a subsidiary label of Island Records, owned by Chris Blackwell. A different album, with the same cover and title, was issued in the United States in 1975 on Mango Records. That album was compiled from three previous Maytals albums by Island Records employee Danny Holloway and peaked at No. 164 on the Billboard 200. It was voted the eleventh best album of 1975 in the annual Pazz & Jop poll. In 2003, the American version was placed at number 378 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", 380 in a 2012 revised list and 344 in a 2020 revised list.