Over the next two weeks, The Gleaner and THE STAR will be running a fact a day on the Bob Marley tribute concert, Smile Jamaica. Read the facts and get a chance to win tickets to the event.

Fact:

In 1963, Marley teamed with fellow singers Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingston, Junior Braithwaite, Beverly Kelso, and Cherry Smith to form the vocal group the Teenagers, later rechristened the Wailing Rudeboys then simply the Wailers. They signed on with producer Coxsone Dodd's legendary Studio One and recorded their debut, I'm Still Waiting.

When Braithwaite and Smith exited the Wailers, Marley assumed lead vocal duties, and in early 1964 the group's follow-up, Simmer Down, topped the Jamaican charts. A series of singles including Let Him Go (Rude Boy Get Gail), Dancing Shoes, Jerk in Time, Who Feels It Knows It, and What Am I to Do followed and, in all, the Wailers recorded some 70 tracks for Dodd before disbanding in 1966.