Description
Release Date: 2023
Label: Trojan Records
Track List
Disc: 1
- 1 Hurtin’ Inside
- 2 We’ve Got to Get Ourselves Together – By Bob & Marcia
- 3 Peaceful Woman
- 4 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- 5 Stepping Out of Babylon
- 6 I See You, My Love
- 7 Sweet Brown Sugar
- 8 Keep the Customer Satisfied – By Bob & Marcia
- 9 It’s Impossible
- 10 Let’s Fall in Love – By Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths
- 11 The Way I Feel About You
- 12 Gypsy Man
- 13 Give and You Get
- 14 Put a Little Love in Your Heart
- 15 Survival (Is the Game)
- 16 Pied Piper (With Bob Andy)
- 17 Feel Like Jumping
- 18 Play Me
- 19 Tell Me Now
- 20 Your Love (With Bob Andy)
- 21 Why There Is No Love
- 22 Strange World – By Bob & Marcia
- 23 Don’t Let Me Down
Disc: 2
- 1 Dreamland (Aka My Dream Island)
- 2 Sweet Bitter Love
- 3 Melody Life
- 4 I Don’t Care (With Bob Andy)
- 5 Mark My Word
- 6 I Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely
- 7 Truly
- 8 United We Stand – By Bob & Marcia
- 9 Where Were You
- 10 It’s a Rockin’ Good Way – By Bob & Marcia
- 11 I’ve Got to Go Back Home
- 12 We Want to Know (Feat. Marcia Griffiths) – By Bob Andy
- 13 Where Is the Love
- 14 Private Number – By Bob & Marcia
- 15 Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
- 16 (To Be) Young Gifted and Black – By Bob & Marcia
- 17 Working to the Top (My Ambition), Pt. 1
- 18 But I Do (With Bob Andy)
- 19 Sugar Wooga Man
- 20 There’s No Me Without You
- 21 Don’t Ever Leave
- 22 You Are Mine (With Bob Andy)
- 23 Lonesome Feeling
- 24 Band of Gold
Notes
Two CDs. Arguably the greatest female singer in the history of Jamaican music, Marcia Griffiths first made her mark the Jamaican music scene with a number of popular singles during the late Sixties, before finding international fame in 1970 alongside her long-term friend and sometime collaborator, Bob Andy. Bob & Marcia’s uplifting reggae version of Nina Simone’s inspiring song, ‘(To Be) Young, Gifted & Black’ hit number 5 in the UK pop chart, with the single proving to be the first of two British chartbusters, with their exuberant interpretation of Pied Piper’ just missing out on a Top 10 placing the following year. Soon after, Marcia became a member of Bob Marley’s famed backing group, the I Threes, while also continuing to enjoy solo success with numerous Jamaican hits for a variety of record producers throughout the remainder of the Seventies and well beyond. And it is the very best of her solo work that features on this ‘Essential Artist’ compilation, the latest release in Trojan Records’ newly launched range that showcases the work of Jamaica’s best-loved ‘foundation’ artists. This collection expertly demonstrates just why Marcia Griffiths is today widely regarded as a Jamaican legend.
