SONG OF THE DAY
“One Love/ People Get Ready” by Bob Marley & The Wailers (Exodus, Tuff Gong Records, 1980). Recorded in 1977. Written by Bob Marley and Curtis Mayfield.
INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia)
– It was first recorded in a ska style by Marley’s original group, The Wailers, on their 1965 debut album The Wailing Wailers.
– The song contains an interpolation of The Impressions’ song “People Get Ready” written by Curtis Mayfield. Marley’s hybrid version is titled, “One Love / People Get Ready,” and it gives co-authorship credits to both Marley and Mayfield.
– This song was inspired by Marley’s friend Roman Selvaggio, a North Caribbean painter.
– A posthumous music video was created for the song in 1984 to accompany the Bob Marley “Legend” compilation album. It combines footage of a young British boy, Jesse Lawrence, in London and archival footage of Marley. It also features several cameo appearances including Paul McCartney of The Beatles, two members of Bananarama, and Suggs and Chas Smash of Madness – some of the short clips in this video are also in Madness’ video for their song The Return of the Los Palmas 7 (see VIDEO OF THE DAY below).
– The song was named “Song Of The Millennium” by The BBC.