| These tracks were quite sweet, simple melodies played by the Skatalites band on such tune as "Dancing Shoes." The various Wailers' vocals on these early singles were carefully crafted and controlled even though they were not yet experienced performers, nonetheless, the potential in its infancy was slowly coming to the fore, that potential latentecy only began to show while being under the Lee "Scratch" Perry influence as producer where The Wailers made their most compelling recordings. More on Lee Perry later on. The lyrics of the song "Let Him Go" was not a demand upon society. In the mid 60s when these cuts were recorded, Bob Marley had already cultivated his subsequent phantasm of universal egalitarianism. Nowhere is this evident than on the original version of his worldwide hit "One Love," as well as the irate, polemical "Let Him Go." "One Love" recoiled along, in a more mid 50's style pop tunes than its latter laid back antecedent. The solemnity of the song, nonetheless, is not lost in this more mercantile understanding. Coming from a country torn by opinionated societal mayhem, Bob Marley's mental picture of a grandeur religious harmony bound collectively by a simple love of your brethrens and sistrens that thwacks a commanding authorative chord, a sincerity that it is just a concerned venerable entreaty for harmony, devotion and the seeking of love. "Let Him Go," conversely illustrates the other side of The Wailers' early predisposed mental picture of the direction intended. The song "One Love" is one drawn out supplication for those who neglect to see the point to understand the quandary ..... |
