Toppa Top 10: Ten Cover Songs by Bob Marley and the Wailers

February 6, 2013


Ska Jerk (Junior Walker and the All-Stars’ “Shotgun”)

Wailers Ska Jerk

Backed by the Soul Brothers Orchestra at Jamaica’s legendary Studio One, the Wailing Wailers—Bob, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, then known as Neville Livingston—turned Junior Walker and the All-Stars’ Motown hit “Shotgun” into “Ska Jerk,” putting a Jamaican spin on one of the early ’60’s most popular dances.