The Best Bob Marley and the Wailers
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National Library of Jamaica "ONE LOVE", a St•ng that recently shot lnck to the top of the Brit1sh pop charts. "I SHO T THE '•HERIFF", agam featur .ng the origmal Waders from the Album Bur nm'. The song provided fnc Clapton w1th an Amencan hit. "WAIT! G IN VAIN", from the LP Exodus. "REDEM PTI ON SONG", from Upnsing. A \ ery nch song of ex hortauon done with the smooth sounds of the acousnc gu1tar. "S ATI SFY MY SOUL". "EXO DUS", from the album of the same name. One of the f�w Reggae songs that scored big on both s1des of the AtlantiC. "J AMMING", an other hit single from the album Exodus. Several exciting pic tures recording the Mar ley phenomenon help to decorate the album's outer jacket, while the mner section has pic· tures of Marley mem orabilia, from concert posters and album Jack et� to newspaper clip pmgs and record labels. Marley's legendary sales Wming in the June 1ssue of Music Week resenrative of rhe bc�r next eight records in the t-.1ay, 1981, Magazine, commenta � Marie� or Wa ilers album chart.'' bert N esta Marie Jor Alan Jones dest:ribed �ounds, and as soon as T. Riley k · ,\farle) Legend as rep J.IVI., R• eggae mg o \ ("' '• one starts to enjoy the thl' world, died of resentatiYe of a maJor \Ong�. they seem to end. bounce-back in the Bm cancer. This year, Is- I think a double LP tsh recording mdust!]. ha e land Records v would have served the Sale,, he wrote, were paid tribute to a rn.1n 1nrended purposes more �taggering. who, even in death, and g•ven u� a chance to "In its first three continues to be their hear a longer version of weeb of release (in En btggest star. The trib- the songs. But to com gland) Legend has sold bme on the same album ute is the compilation well ..,ver 112 million cop fourteen of the best reg of Legend, the best Ies, establishing itself as gae songs that were the best seller in the 22- smgles of Marley. made is a treat. Marley vear history of Island Last month, Tuff ts Marley and the album Records. At present Gong, the company that 1s mdeed a collector\ Legend 1s outselling its Marley himself started item. Those songs fea- closeM competitor six to and which is now man- rured are: . one, and would still aged hy h•s wtfe R1ta, SIDE ONE emerge tnumphant if LOVE", rde;m·d the album for "IS THIS pmed against the com lm·al d1�rnbunon. The from the album Kava. bined st eri th of the "NO WOMAN NO LP •� not to1.1lly rep- CRY", the ll\·e version '----------- of the song recorded at the Lyceum m London. "COULD YOU BE LOVED", featured on the LP llpnsmg. "THREE LITTLE BIRDs··, from the al bum Exodus. "BUFF ALO SOl DIER", from the post humou� album Con fronrauon. "GET UP STAND UP", from the LP Bur mn ', featuring Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer of the origmal Wailers. "STIR IT UP", from the album Catch A Fire. .