LIVELY UP YOURSELF
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
SONGWRITER: BOB MARLEY
COUNTRY: JAMAICA
ALBUM: NATTY DREAD
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: REGGAE
YEAR: 1974
Bob Marley and the Wailers(also known as The
Wailing Wailers, Bob Marley & the Wailers, and The Wailers) were a Jamaican
reggae band led by Bob Marley. It
developed from the ska vocal group, The
Teenagers, created by Peter Tosh, Marley,
and Bunny Wailer in 1963.
By late 1963 singers Junior Braithwaite,
Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith had
joined on. By the early 1970s, Marley and Bunny Wailer had learned to play some
instruments, and brothers Aston "Family Man"
Barrett(bass) and Carlton Barrett(drums),
had joined the band. After
Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh left the band in 1974, Marley began touring with
new band members as Bob Marley and the Wailers. His new backing band included
the Barrett brothers, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin
"Seeco" Patterson on percussion.
The "I Threes",
consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and
Marley's wife, Rita,
provided backing vocals.
Natty Dread is the seventh album by Bob Marley
and the Wailers, released in 1974. Previously
Marley had recorded with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer as the
Wailers, and this was his first record without them.
Natty Dread was most popularly received in
the UK, where it peaked at Nº 43 and sold in excess of 100,000 copies, making
it a gold album. Over time it gained popularity in other parts of the world,
and in 2003 it was ranked Nº 181 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Natty Dread is a spiritually charged
political and social statement. It opens with a blues-influenced
positive celebration of skanking, reggae and sex, "Lively Up
Yourself". The
original and still unreleased demo of the Island version of "Lively Up
Yourself" was recorded in 1973.
"No Woman, No
Cry", the second track, is probably the best known recording on
the album. It is a nostalgic remembrance of growing up in the
impoverished streets of Trenchtown, the ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, and the
happiness brought by the company of friends. The song has been performed by
artists as diverse as Boney M.(sung by Liz Mitchell), The Fugees, Pearl Jam, Jimmy Buffett, Rancid and Gilberto Gil.
Songwriting credit for "No Woman, No Cry" went to V. Ford. Vincent Ford, better
known as "Tartar" to his friends and neighbors, had been a kind
friend of Marley as a child in Trenchtown. Marley
claimed he would have starved to death on several occasions as a child if not for the aid of Tartar. The
original version of the song was in gospel style, featuring Peter Tosh and some unknown female backing vocals
and was cut for Island in 1973.
You're gonna lively
up yourself
And don't be no drag
You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag
You lively up yourself and don't say no
You're gonna lively up yourself cause I said so
(Hear what you gonna
do)
You rock so you rock so like you never did before
You dip so you dip so, dip thru my door
You come so you come so oh yeah
You skank so you skank so be alive today
You're gonna lively
up yourself and don't say no
You lively up yourself big daddy says so
You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself cause reggae is another bag
What you got that I
don't know
I'm a trying to wonder why you act so
(Hey, do you hear what the man seh)
Lively up your woman in the morning time you'all
Keep a lively up your woman when the evening come
And take her take ya
You rock so you rock
so you dip so you dip so
You skank so you skank so and don't be no drag
You come so you come so for reggae is another bag
Get what you got in
that bag
What have you got in the other bag
You got hanging there
What you say you got
I don't believe you!
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