The Revolutionary Words Of Bob Marley’s “Get Up Stand Up”

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entrepreneur called Leslie Kong. Impressed by the quality of Bob’s vocal, Kong took the young singer into the studio to cut some tracks, the first of which called “Judge Not”, was released on the Beverley’s label (Makin, 38.) It was Marley’s first record.
The other tunes- include “Terror” and One Cup of Coffee” – received no airplay and attracted little attention. At the very least, however, they confirmed Marley’s ambition to be a singer. By the following year Bob had decided the way forward was with a group. He linked up with Bunny and Peter to form The Wailing Wailers. (Makin, 34)
The new group has a mentor, a Rastafarian hand drummer called Alvin Patterson, who introduced the youths to Clement Dodd, a record producer in Kingston. In the summer of 1963 Dodd audition “The Wailing Wailers” and, pleased with the results, agreed to record the group (Haskins, 45).
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