February 6 - Bob Marley; Natalie Cole (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Bob Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. [This post is in celebration of Black History Month.]

[For last year's verses on Natalie Cole and Arthur Gold click here.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Takin' a Jamaican Example

In 1966, Marley married, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Newark, under the alias Donald Marley. --adapted from Wikipedia

If you feel in depths of your gut

That your musical life’s in a rut,

Take heart! Persevere!

Believe in your career!

Bob Marley’s example

Provides you with ample

Reasons to get off of your butt!

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Natalie Cole (6 February 1950 – 31 December 2015) was an popular American singer. (This verse originally appeared on this blog last year.) [This post is in celebration of Black History Month.]

Duo

To sing duets with your dead dad,

  -- A most unlikely twosome.

Perhaps the thing is kind of sad,

  -- Or is it kind of gruesome?

Natalie Cole decided to try it.

  -- Recording with the dead.

And boy oh boy, did people buy it!

 -- That much must be said.

 

 

 

 

 

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