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"Stir It Up" is a song composed by Bob Marley in 1967 and first recorded by the group 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.
"Stir It Up" was Marley's first successful song outside Jamaica. Another tune written by Bob Marley, "I Shot The Sheriff", was made a hit by Eric Clapton on the album 461 Ocean Boulevard, July 1974. Marley's first "own" international hit, "No Woman No Cry", was released on the Bob Marley and the Wailers album Live!, December 1975.
In September 1993, Australian band The Black Sorrows released a version of the song. It became a hit, peaking at #20 in New Zealand, the band's highest charting single in that territory. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994, Joe Camilleri was nominated for Producer of the Year for his work on this song, losing out to Tony Cohen.
Track listing[]
CD single (Columbia 660 105-2)
"Stir It Up" – 3:34
"Ain't Love the Strangest Thing" (acoustic) – 4:10