Did you know the first recording song of Bob Marley ?

In 1962, Bob Marley was just 16 years old and could hardly play guitar. After moving from St. Anns, Jamaica, to King Trench Town of Kingston four years earlier, Marley was just beginning to learn how to play and sing when he saw his friend and old classmate Desmond Dekker had recorded a song. at Jimmy Cliff's Federal Studios.

Marley and her friend Bunny Livingston were just beginning to learn how to write music, and Livingston could not believe that they were good enough to record. But when Marley saw Dekker breaking the record, he wanted to enter right away.

"After [Dekker] did the song, Robert now wanted to record," Livingston recalled in Marley's text. "So Desmond takes her to Beverly's [Records], and she leaves and records a song, to prove that if she can record a song, I can record a song."

The result was 'Judge Not', one that fell into the popular ska type at the time. Before reggae became a popular Jamaican music, ska was a staple in style that almost all Jamaican famous artists, including Bob Marley, performed. 'Judge Not' was certainly one of four songs Marley recorded on the show, including 'One Cup of Coffee', 'Do You Still Love Me?' and 'Terrorism'.

‘Judge Not’ reflected Marley’s early desire in morals and set the pattern for his later reflections on the human spirit and personal relationship with higher authority. But 'Judge Not' was not a chart success in Jamaica, even in the small recording industry. Still, Marley had achieved his goal: he had shown Livingston that it was not difficult to make a record. All you have to do is go down to the studio and get it done.

Soon, Marley and Livingston befriended Peter Tosh, and the trio decided to form a group called The Teenagers. With the help of Tosh and local musician Joe Higgs, Marley began learning how to play the guitar and gaining his own artistic voice. Along with several friends, The Teenagers became The Wailers and released the song 'Simmer Down' in 1966, featuring a social message aimed at preventing the violence that regularly followed the dance concerts that the group started. 'Simmer Down' was Marley's first song in Jamaica, and The Wailers became a popular local drawer.

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