Stir It Up
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| "Stir It Up" | ||
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| Single by The Wailers | ||
| Released | 1967 | |
| Format | 7" | |
| Recorded | 1967 | |
| Genre | Reggae | |
| Label | Wail'n Soul'm | |
| Writer(s) | Bob Marley | |
| Producer(s) | Bob Marley | |
| The Wailers singles chronology | ||
| Freedom Time | Stir It Up | This Train (single) |
Stir It Up is a song composed by Bob Marley in 1967, and first made popular by Johnny Nash, peaking on the UK chart in June 1972.
When Bob Marley returned to Jamaica from the United States in 1967, The Wailers started their own label, ‘Wail'n Soul'm’ records, and released their first independent single "Freedom Time" backed with "Bend Down Low." "Nice Time," "Hypocrites," "Mellow Mood," "Thank You Lord," and "Stir It Up" are all recorded in the same year.
The label folded shortly after and Marley began writing for American singer Johnny Nash. On Nash's I Can See Clearly Now album, he used members of The Wailers and recorded several Marley songs: "Stir It Up," the follow-up single, "Comma Comma," "Guava Jelly," and the Nash/Marley co-written ballad, "You Poured Sugar on Me." The track "(It Was) So Nice While It Lasted" received radio play.
"Stir It Up" was Bob Marley's first successful song outside Jamaica. Another song written by Bob Marley, "I Shot The Sheriff", was made a hit by Eric Clapton in 1974. Marley's first "own" international hit would be "No Woman No Cry," from the Natty Dread album in 1975.
