Bob Marley - Stir It Up

Sunday, time for a classic!

"Stir It Up" is a song composed by Bob Marley in 1967, written for his wife Rita, and first made popular by Johnny Nash. Nash's recording hit the top 15 in both Britain and America in 1973.

When Marley returned to Jamaica from the United States in 1967, The Wailers started their own label, Wail'n Soul'm records, and released their first independent single, "Freedom Time", backed with "Bend Down Low". "Nice Time", "Hypocrites", "Mellow Mood", "Thank You Lord", and "Stir It Up" were all recorded in the same year.

The label folded shortly after and Marley began writing for American singer Johnny Nash. On Nash's I Can See Clearly Now album, he used members of The Wailers and recorded several Marley songs: "Stir It Up," the follow-up single, "Comma Comma", "Guava jelly", and the Nash / Marley co-written ballad, "You Poured Sugar on Me". The track "(It Was) So Nice While It Lasted" received radio play.

"Stir It Up" was Marley's first successful song outside Jamaica. Another song written by Bob Marley, "I Shot The Sheriff", was made a hit by Eric Clapton on the album 461 Ocean Boulevard, July 1974. Marley's first "own" international hit, "No Woman No Cry", was released on the Bob Marley and the Wailers album Live!, December 1975.

The Nash vinyl, 45 version of the song has appeared in CD format only once - TimeLife's Sound of the Seventies: 1973 Take Two CD. It includes several audio tracks that are not on the album version (e.g. the prominent vibraslap percussion), and some recorded at different levels, brass and strings in particular, which give the song a more recognizable sound, as it was this version that received radio play during the time the song was a hit, and not the album version. This was the version to receive radio play until the CD version was released. Other mixes eventually made it to vinyl 45 pressings, but thus far the original 45 mix still has not been released in an official digital version, other than the TimeLife CD.

Today's tune "Stir It Up" is with Bob Marley "live" on The Bob Harris Old Grey Whistle Test 1973. The Wailers performed this song during their first trip to the UK, back in 1973.



Trivia:

In 1991, the song was covered by DREAD ZEPPELIN on their second album 5,000,000.

In 1993, the song was covered by THE BLACK SORROWS.

In 1993, the song was covered by Diana King for the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. The song also appears on the soundtrack album.

In 1993, the song was covered by Haddaway on his debut album Haddaway.

In 2009, THE FRATELLIS covered the song for the compilation Island 50: 50 Years of Island Records.

In 2009, the song was used by K'naan and J. Period in their mixtape The Messengers, which was a tribute to Bob Marley. The version is called "Fatima / Stir it up"


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Bob Marley & The Wailers - So Much Trouble In The World

Sometime ago I received an order for a painting, the painting was supposed to be Bob Marley. The description was pretty simple, the picture should be clean, but contain the right colours. So I gave myself into this job and during the process making it was played allot of Bob Marley, even many others in the classic roots reggae got the chance for a spin on the record player, that can Thetania verify, hehe.

Now finally after some time is the painting delivered, here are the results.

So today we are playing some Bob Marley! A tune that is picked from the album "Survival", that is an album with an outwardly militant theme. Some speculate that this was due in part to criticism Marley received for the laid-back, ganja-soaked atmosphere of his previous release, "Kaya", which seemed to sidetrack the urgency of his message. In the song "Africa Unite", Marley proclaims Pan-African solidarity. The song "Zimbabwe" is a hymn dedicated to later-independent Rhodesia. The song was performed at Zimbabwe's Independence Celebration in 1980, just after the official declaration of Zimbabwe's independence. "Zimbabwe" is seen as an unofficial national song.

Survival was originally to be called Black Survival to underscore the urgency of African unity, but the name was shortened to prevent misinterpretations of the album's theme. Marley originally planned to release Survival as the first part of a trilogy, followed by Uprising in 1980 and Confrontation in 1983.

In South Africa the album was partly censored by the then apartheid government

Todays tune "So Much Trouble In The World" is the first track on the record and have a really good meaning. The clip is a Live Rehearsal @ Criteria Studios,Miami, 14/9 - 1980



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Bob Marley - Exodus

Its a Big Birthday today, with a BIG B :)

BOB MARLEY!

Even though he past away in 1981, quite strange he lived in Florida by then and I lived there as well under that time. But I was all introverted in Hard Rock to even look outside and appriciate this good musician.



Today We at Tune Of The Day wanna celebrate him on his, should be 67 year, day.

Hurray Hurray, Rasta man!



Folks, This is Bob Marley.

Homesite here!

Peace, Thetania





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