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| "Stir It Up" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Bob Marley and the Wailers | |
| B-side | "This Train" |
| Released | |
| Recorded | 1967 |
| Genre | Rocksteady |
| Length |
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| Label | Trojan |
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Marley |
| Producer(s) | The Wailers |
| "Stir It Up" | ||||
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| Single by Johnny Nash | ||||
| from the album I Can See Clearly Now | ||||
| B-side | "Cream Puff" | |||
| Released | UK: March 1972, US:15 January 1973[3] | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Rocksteady (proto-reggae) | |||
| Length | 3:02 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Marley | |||
| Johnny Nash singles chronology | ||||
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"Stir It Up" is a song composed by Bob Marley in 1967 and first recorded by the group Bob Marley and the Wailers that year and issued as a single. It was later covered by American singer Johnny Nash on his 1972 album I Can See Clearly Now. The following year, Marley and the Wailers re-recorded the song for their album Catch a Fire.
The band performed "Stir It Up" on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1973 during their first trip to the UK, singing live over a Chris Blackwell overdubbed backing track.[4]
"Stir It Up" was the first Marley-written song to be successful outside Jamaica. Another tune written by Bob Marley, "I Shot The Sheriff", was covered by Eric Clapton on the album 461 Ocean Boulevard, July 1974. Marley's first international hit recorded by him, "No Woman, No Cry", was released on the Bob Marley and the Wailers album Live!, December 1975.
- ^ "Bob Marley And The Wailing Wailers – Stir It Up / This Train". Discogs. March 11, 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Bob Marley & the Wailers – Stir It Up". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "Johnny Nash - Stir It up".
- ^ The Old Grey Whistle Test (DVD). Warner Home Video. 2003.