Wedding Songs

Bob Marley Wedding Songs

Getting married to a Bob Marley fan? That’s not a bad choice. Robert Nesta or Bob Marley was a Jamaican musician, known as a rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers and Bob Marley & The Wailers. Bob Marley is credited with spreading both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.




Bob Marley introduced the ska music genre which is a combination of Caribbean reggae and blues. The ska eventually evolved into reggae music that we hear nowadays. Reggae lyrics are about love, religion, poverty and injustice. If you want some good songs by Bob Marley, you can consider the following ones:

Could You Be Loved

This song was written by the Wailers in 1979 on an airplane while experimenting on the guitar. The song also features some background singers singing a few lines from Marley’s first single called Judge Not released in 1961: “The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you.”

One Love/People Get Ready

This is the hybrid of One Love ska rendition on his 1965 album, The Wailing Wailers and People Get Ready song composed by Curtis Mayfield.

Up, Stand Up

This song was written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and refers to the Rastafarian belief that the Emperor of Ethiopia was God incarnate. This song was the last one performed by Marley on stage on 1980.

No Woman, No Cry

This is a nice song that was released by Marley on his 1974 Natty Dread album.

Waiting in Vain

Waiting in Vain was a song released in 1997 on the Exodus album and reached no. 27 on the UK Charts. It was later covered as a single by artist Annie Lennox.

Stir It Up

There are many versions of this Bob Marley song such as a single on The Wailers own label, Wail’n Soul’m’ and a single on Johnny Nash’s album I Can See Clearly Now. The song gained a lot of popularity among reggae fans.

Is This Love

This is a single from Bob Marley’s album Kaya that reached no. 9 on the 1978 UK charts. The video of the song features supermodel Naomi Campbell when she was seven.

Three Little Birds

The song was released on the Exodus album and reached no. 17 on the UK’s Top in 1980. The music video features a young girl walking and carrying a T.V. on the streets. On the TV screen are rolling videos of Bob Marley.

Jamming

This single was released in 1977 and was another single on the Exodus album, recorded in London while Bob Marley was recovering after an assassination attempt.

Buffalo Soldier

The lyrics of this song tell about some historical inaccuracies. The idea of the song came from Bob Marley’s admiration for the Buffalo Soldiers meaning African-American cavalry regiments during the Indian Wars) and invokes them as the symbol of the black resistance.

The sound of reggae music is nice and will have a good impact if played during your wedding reception.

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