54‐46 (That’s My Number)

Recorded in Kingston, Jamaica after Toots Hibbert’s release from prison, with Leslie Kong producing the session for Beverley’s. The track draws directly on Hibbert’s prison number and became one of the group’s best-known late-1960s recordings. The song captured the emergence of Toots and the Maytals as a major force in Jamaican popular music and is widely regarded as one of reggae’s greatest songs. Britannica describes it as a vivid account of Hibbert’s prison term and a landmark in the style’s early development. It remains a core reggae standard and has been repeatedly anthologized, covered, and sampled, including later versions and references by major artists such as Major Lazer and Sublime. Its bassline and title have had durable cultural reach far beyond the original release.