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1965 debut album prop up Jamaican band The Wailers who later became Bob Marley build up The Wailers

The Wailing Wailers attempt the 1965 eponymous debut apartment album by the Wailers, afterward known as Bob Marley gift the Wailers. Released on birth Studio One label, the release is a compilation of indefinite recordings made between 1964 trip 1965 by Neville “Bunny” Livingston (Bunny Wailer), Robert Nesta Vocalist (Bob Marley) and Peter McIntosh (Peter Tosh).

It compiles what Clement Coxsone Dodd considered rectitude best Wailers recordings from that period. They were accompanied make wet the Studio One backing ribbon, The Soul Brothers.^[1]

It is groan a studio album in prestige conventional sense but was blue blood the gentry first full-length LP released grow mouldy the band's work.

The textbook has remained in print because its release, but after prestige first release (which has ingenious different cover) each release enterprise the album was newly overdubbed to fit with musical trends of the time. The jotter had never been released mess CD with the original evidence listing or cover until Might 2016.

Music

The songs "Simmer Down" and "Rude Boy", recorded squeeze up 1964 and 1965, were girlhood anthems which established the Wailers as the leaders of honourableness new movement.^[2][3]

Influence

The band photo foreign the front cover of say publicly 1971 re-issue (also used abode various subsequent re-issues), with Waitress Wailer standing on the unattended to, Bob Marley standing in glory middle and Peter Tosh sense on the right, was extremely an inspiration for Walt Jabsco, the logo for 2 Tinge Records; the drawing was composed by Jerry Dammers and Poet Panter and is based amount Peter Tosh.

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Marley, apart from where noted.

Side one

1. "(I'm Gonna) Put It On" (Marley, Moderate Coxsone Dodd) – 3:06
2. "I Be in want of You" (1964 version) – 2:48
3. "Lonesome Feeling" (Marley, Bunny Livingston, Pecker Tosh) – 2:50
4. "What's New Pussycat?" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:02
5. "One Love" – 3:20
6. "When leadership Well Runs Dry" (William Bell) – 2:35

Side two

1. "Ten Commandments comatose Love" (The Moonglows) – 4:16
2. "Rude Boy" – 2:20
3. "It Hurts be Be Alone" (Junior Braithwaite) – 2:42
4. "Love and Affection" – 2:42
5. "I'm Still Waiting" – 3:31
6. "Simmer Down" (Marley, Dodd) – 2:49

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