Smoke Two Joints
1983 song performed by The Toyes
"Smoke Two Joints" is a song originally written by the Toyes, who performed it in a traditional reggae style and released it in 1983. According to the Toyes, "one fine fall day on a small island" of Oahu in Hawaii, two of the band members, Mawg and Sky, were sitting under a large banyan tree on Kuhio Beach, "tokin' on some sweet bud & jammin' on a rootsy reggae funky town" when they conceived the song "Smoke Two Joints".
It was featured on the soundtrack for the 1998 American comedy-thriller film Homegrown. The Toyes' version was featured in the 2005 video game NARC. The song is often mistakenly attributed to Bob Marley on internet and file sharing networks. Marley had been dead two years when this song was written.
Nardini version
Norman Nardini, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, created two or more cover versions of this song in the 1980s. One was on a studio LP, and another was a version featured on his live CD from 1994, both produced by Circumstantial Records, based in New York City. Nardini first came across the song in 1983 when his friend Stush brought home the 45 as part of the music he had bought during a vacation in Hawaii. Nardini had his band learn it at once and has been performing the song for over twenty years. He wanted to air a cover version on CBS in the 1980s, but the label could not track down the original writers.
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