Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Jamming" is a song by the reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers from their 1977 album Exodus. The song also appears on the compilation album Legend.The song was re-released 10 years later as a tribute to Bob Marley and was again a hit, as in the Netherlands, where it was classified in the charts for 4 weeks. [1]
Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.It was released on 7 May 1984 by Island Records. [2] It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with more than 18 million copies sold in the US, more than 3.3 million in the UK (where it is the 17th best-selling album [3]) and an estimated 25 million ...
Commissioned by Danny Sims (co-founder and owner of JAD Records) and issued after Marley's death in May 1981, Chances Are was a collection of previously unreleased recordings from 1968 to 1972 that were produced by JAD during Marley's time living in the U.S. and otherwise working with JAD back and forth from Jamaica to the States.
Instead, the Bob Marley who surveys his kingdom today is smiling benevolence, a shining sun, a waving palm tree, and a string of hits which tumble out of polite radio like candy from a gumball machine. Of course it has assured his immortality. But it has also demeaned him beyond recognition. Bob Marley was worth far more. [122]
Most of Bob Marley's early music was recorded with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, who together with Marley were the most prominent members of the Wailers. In 1972, the Wailers had their first hit outside Jamaica when Johnny Nash covered their song "Stir It Up", which became a UK hit. The 1973 album Catch a Fire was released worldwide, and sold well.
"Redemption Song" is a song by Jamaican singer Bob Marley. It is the final track on Bob Marley and the Wailers' twelfth album, Uprising, produced by Chris Blackwell and released by Island Records. [3] The song is considered one of Marley's greatest works.
"No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song was recorded in 1974 and released on the studio album Natty Dread. [2]The live recording of this song from the 1975 album Live! was released as a single and is the best-known version; it was later included on several compilation albums, including the greatest hits compilation Legend.
In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it number one on their list of the 50 greatest Bob Marley songs, [4] while The Guardian ranked it number two on their list of Marley's 30 greatest songs. [5] In 1999, the 1973 recording of "Get Up, Stand Up" by Bob Marley & The Wailers on Island Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [6]