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Larry Marshall is often rumored to have made the first reggae song (Nanny Goat), but there are also some rumors that Lee Perry did the first one(People Funny Boy). So I've made a video with both of them for you guys to enjoy, and if you happen to think you know who did the first one, please enlighten us in the comment section!

Release date: 1968
Genre: Early Reggae
Label: Studio One

To those that don't know, the name Reggae came about from the song "Do The Reggay" done by Toots and the Maytals, when the reggae sound became popular in Jamaica in 1968(After the Rocksteady era), but who actually recorded the first reggae song with that actual reggae(chik-it) sound is still up for debate today, there are also other tracks that some claim to be the first reggae tune, but I put my money on either of these two songs.

Marshall's single "Nanny Goat" was among the early transitional tunes signalling the music's evolution from rocksteady to reggae.
He cut his first single at Studio One in the mid 60's, it was later remade by Clancy Eccles. Later came sessions for Prince Buster and Top Deck labels, then a return to Studio One, where he attained stardom. He eventually became an engineer as well as a vocalist at the label. He has since recorded for various companies, among them Heartbeat and King's music. - Ron Wynn

Marshall's musical career stretches back to the early 1960s, his initial inspiration being Ben E. King. Between 1962 and 1967, he had minor hits for producers such as E. Henry ("Too Young To Love"), Philip Yap ("Promise Is a Comfort to a Fool" and "Snake In The Grass"), Coxsone Dodd ("Please Stay"), and Prince Buster ("I've Got Another Girl" and "Suspicion"). His greatest successes came in the late 1960s when he teamed up with Alvin Leslie in the duo Larry & Alvin, recording hits for Dodd's Studio One label (where he had been working as an assistant engineer) such as the massive Jamaican hit "Nanny Goat" which is regarded as the record that began the shift from rocksteady to reggae, followed by "Hush Up", "Your Love", and "Mean Girl". "Throw Me Corn" also became a big hit in Jamaica when released in 1971. Marshall also recorded as a duo with Enid Cumberland, as Larry & Enid.

In the early 1970s, Marshall worked for Studio One as assistant studio engineer to Sylvan Morris, writer, arranger, and dub-plate seller, and the label released a compilation of his recordings, Presenting Larry Marshall, in 1973. While at Studio One, Marshall arranged several recordings by Burning Spear, and also provided backing vocals. Morris left Studio One in 1974, prompting Dodd to offer the chief engineer job to Marshall, but he declined the offer, unhappy with the wages. After leaving Studio One in 1974, he released the 1975 single "I Admire You", followed by an album of the same name. The dub version on the b-side of the single was one of the first to be credited to King Tubby. Marshall released several singles in the mid-1980s produced by Gussie Clarke, including remakes of "Throw Me Corn" and "I Admire You", and released further albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Marshall also provided backing vocals on Junior Byles' 1986 album "Rasta No Pickpocket".

Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936 – 29 August 2021) was a Jamaican record producer, composer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks. He worked with and produced for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, The Congos, Max Romeo, Adrian Sherwood, Beastie Boys, Ari Up, The Clash, The Orb, and many others.

By 1978, stress and unwanted outside influences began to take their toll: both Perry and the Black Ark quickly fell into a state of disrepair. Eventually, the studio burned to the ground. Perry has constantly insisted that he burned the Black Ark himself in a fit of rage.

Perry died on 29 August 2021 at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Jamaica, from an unspecified illness, aged 85

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