Marcia Griffiths: Essential Artist Collection (2023) Album

Label: Trojan Records | Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Release date: 06/02/2023

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.

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
24. Dreamland (aka My Dream Island)
25. Sweet Bitter Love
26. Melody Life
27. I Don’t Care (with Bob Andy)
28. Mark My Word
29. I Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely
30. Truly
31. United We Stand – By Bob & Marcia
32. Where Were You
33. It’s a Rockin’ Good Way – By Bob & Marcia
34. I’ve Got to Go Back Home
35. We Want to Know (feat. Marcia Griffiths) – By Bob Andy
36. Where Is the Love
37. Private Number – By Bob & Marcia
38. Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
39. (To Be) Young Gifted and Black – By Bob & Marcia
40. Working to the Top (My Ambition), Pt. 1
41. But I Do (with Bob Andy)
42. Sugar Wooga Man
43. There’s No Me Without You
44. Don’t Ever Leave
45. You Are Mine (with Bob Andy)
46. Lonesome Feeling
47. Band of Gold