![]() ![]() It’s available on Spotify, too, if you’ve graduated from actual CDs. In early spring, my car’s CD player is always occupied by “Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody?” a Bird Song Ear Training Guide by John Feith. The rhythm within phrases is similar, but there’s more space between them, and they feel less like the bird is shouting. This song is a little different than the robin’s. Cheer up, cheerily … here I am … over here … in a tree. ![]() A second after the key turns, the singing begins again. Once the alarm does go off and my morning routines are complete, I jump in my car to head to work. ![]() I might appreciate the sentiment more if the admonitions didn’t start at the faintest hints of dawn light, long before my alarm goes off. Nothing makes a person madder than being told to cheer up when they don’t want to, and yet the robin outside my window has been shouting at me to CHEER UP for weeks. Listen to the best Bob Marley songs on Apple Music and Spotify.CABLE - Cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, CHEER UP! Those “Three Little Birds” may have long since flown, and so has Bob, but the inspiration one gave to the other resonates as strongly as ever. But Bob Marley’s original remains definitive. A version by Britain’s Got Talent child star Connie Talbot was a conspicuous success on both sides of the Atlantic in 2008. Billy Ocean’s version appears on his The Best Of collection, and the song graces a compilation of the same title by Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil. Maroon 5 delivered their interpretation in 2018 Robbie Williams sang it for his “Corona-oke” on Instagram during the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak Ziggy Marley and Sean Paul recorded it for the 2004 animated movie Shark Tale and Steven Marley remixed it on Legend: Remixed. ![]() Wendy & Lisa, formerly of Prince’s Revolution, created a version fronted by Karen David for the US TV drama Touch in 2012. Resonates as strongly as everĭecades after Marley recorded it, “Three Little Birds” became a go-to for artists seeking a song that offered hope and gladness in the face of life’s troubles. The song was too uplifting, too powerfully perky, to hide in the undergrowth. In 1980, however, “Three Little Birds” was finally freed from its album-shaped aviary, and though it only made the Top 20 in the UK, it began a steady rise to “classic” status. Perhaps the fact that the title was not part of the song’s hook, meaning that even today, some listeners believe it is called “Don’t Worry About A Thing” or “Every Little Thing Is Gonna Be Alright,” was a reason why it was not issued as a single in 1977. Released in 1977 on Exodus, which, in 1999, Time magazine declared The Best Album Of The Century, “Three Little Birds” nested unobtrusively on the second half of the album, while “Jamming” and “Waiting In Vain” claimed hit single status, and the seriously rootsy first half of the album drew critical acclaim.Ĭompared to, say, Exodus’ title track, or the spiritual “Natural Mystic,” “Three Little Birds” seems a little lightweight, with its simple refrain and message from Bob’s avian visitors that “every little thing is gonna be alright.” But in the same way that the singer patiently waited for the world to catch up with his music after more than ten years of making it, “Three Little Birds” chose to bide its time. Even when we were recording it, we knew it was our song.” A steady rise to “classic” status “They were pretty birds who would come by the window at Hope Road.” Gilly witnessed Bob writing the song and recalled, “It was just amazing how he put the words together in a flow.” The I-Threes, Bob’s trio of female backing vocalists, found their own meaning in the lyrics: Bob sometimes called them his “three little birds.” Marcia Griffiths remembered of the song: “We loved it. “I remember the three little birds,” he told author Vivien Goldman in 2006. According to Gilly Gilbert, Bob’s close friend, road manager, and fitness partner, who also cooked the “ital food” that kept the singer nourished on tour and at home, “Three Little Birds” arrived as naturally to Bob as singing does to larks. ![]()
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