Who sang Buffalo Soldier first? Bob Marley or Giddes Chalamanda? 

Bob Marley developed someone's song...that song belong to Chalamanda

you nailed it

you said it all dear, from sierra leone, west africa

Doesnt hurt to tell the trueth, lyk wise history always a history.

After all Jamacan are the roots of Africa.

I guess people don’t have ears to hear that an old man is singing the song with digital instruments in 1974. No logic no common sense.

My friend dats backward.

Trees never grow from leaves to root, in another word african were forced to jamaica, otherwise other trees grown upside down. Correct knowledge or else back to school cuz this piece of history already been done n not even genius can change it!

Everyone sang it traditionally, African tradition and Jamaican stuff

Perfect observation

Nice analogy. Thank you

Nothing on debate can change the direction of this idea... Infact this is the third understanding of the song as sang already from the two legends. Giddes @Foresight Bob's @Insight The overall look of comparisons brought us @Hindsight. "Am ALLOWANCE" from Nigeria. Long live AFRICANS and AFRICA.

Nice thought

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Chalamanda sang the song first

Bob did a remix of the song. Chalamanda deserves the credit for the song's creation.

U love Africa

Chalamanda Buffalo Soldier was foolishness. I don’t know how anyone can compare both songs and believe them to be the same. Everyone here should go on RU-vid and listen to the banana split song that was recorded in the 60s.

@@thetruth3775 just listen to the message don't just talk only, Bob was a big singer so he couldn't sang in the same rhythm as it's prohibited in the music industry

Where is the proof that Giddes recorded that song in 1974?

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It could be true how many things that us Africans have done first but because they are not recorded and same one up there in Europe does it and keeps it on record they become founders e.g David Livingstone when he came to northern Rhodesia he found people who lived along the Zambezi river and took him to the falls along the river where he claimed to have discovered the falls and named Victoria falls....Giddis sung that song first you where not there...🤔

What do you mean Bob Marley perfected it? What a heck is that? The original cannot be perfected, think my friend! You cannot tell a musician how to sing his first original song! Everybody could be perfecting any song if there is no law of such as copyright! Think, he stole the copyright from the African man, I am mad about not giving the reverence to THE AFRICAN MAN!

@@francissakala6367 What do you mean Bob Marley perfected it? What a heck is that? The original cannot be perfected, think my friend! You cannot tell a musician how to sing his first original song! Everybody could be perfecting any song if there is no law of such as copyright! Think, he stole the copyright from the African man, I am mad about not giving the reverence to THE AFRICAN MAN!

The internet is in your hands and people just keep spewing misinformation

And people don’t have ears lol. How you hear pure digital and say yes this in 1974

Very few if not none 🤣🤣🤣

@@hulisaniramabulana5035 you´re kidding...

of arcourse Sam i conquar with the artist of new generation.sing much different to old musicians. Newly musicians their song cant last for years.thanx very much. Bosco from uganda

@@kateetejohnbosco4463 oh, this is exactly what the very old ones thought about the old artists with all their electric guitars and stuff - every generation has a new way of expressing and every generation thinks they are the bestest... :-) during the recent years i have been revisiting my old musical heroes, because i wanted to show my son a few of them - it started in the late 60s with pop rock music of that time - i read thousands of comments and under every single 60s band or artist i could read: this band was underrated and far ahead of their time! they only produced the best albums in the world! so i went on, 70s music, almost the same - there i learned: who doesn´t like disco has no taste! 80s (which i didn´t like so much), the fans also claim they had the best music - 90s hiphop, the fans even claim they had the REAL music (which all fans say b.t.w.), although their music consists mainly of samples from older music... well, i also like 30s/40s music and there: this artist plays all modern musicians in the ground! a.s.o. and even when i went to classical music, the first comment i read was this: we got to be aware that all so called pop music is nothing but dross! it´s ridiculous, because it shows the arrogance of the listeners, like: "i have the best taste i am a menber of the best generation" - it may be nice to feel that way, but it has not much to do with reality - time will show... when techno started in the 90s (it started earlier, but became famous then) no one thought it would last long - now we have 2022 and it´s still there and prospering well... hey bosco, thank you for answering, i appreciate that yout took the time... btw. i have a record with "aluar horns" from uganda on it and that is among the most impressive music i have encountered in my life - do you know it? is this music still made today? i send love and greetings from germany

@@kateetejohnbosco4463 do you happen to know dr. namadingo from malawi? he is a new artist, and i think he is just brilliant! he even sang together with giddes - he was here in germany in 2018 not 30 kms from where i live - so sad i din´t know him then - i hope he will come again some day, then i will go to his concert... :-)

Correct. Bob Marley has the cultural context to sing buffalo soldier. The African artist is far removed from what a buffalo soldier is

And that buffalo soldier is African no doubt about it. Even the reggae protesters like Bob Marley and Mighty Culture were much defending Africans. Their origin

Bob visited Zimbabwe in 1980. His Song was recorded in 1978.

@@isaacmwanza462 you are talking about concert visit in 80. We are talking of records of visiting as individual.

And I think let chalamanda claim proceeds coz he was the rightful copyright holder

A person has to be deaf to say that similarity between Bob Marley's version and Giddes song is only in the title. Bob Marley copied Giddes even where he sang 'Yoi yoi yo'.

Don’t try to get popularity by pretending that someone is dishonouring the great works of Bob Marley. 😂

I have come to realise that everything popularised by Jamaica and recognised as Jamaican, and part of its unique culture, is always claimed by one African country or another as originating from them! Why can’t they respect that Jamaicans are very talented in their own right and develop things in their own unique way.

Gide’s song doesn’t sound 1974 to me…it sounds more digital and a bit of advanced studio than the ones of 74

Chilamanda had song "buffalo soldier" the lyrics and context are different so they never be the same song,it would be saying anyone sings about love is copying the first person to sing about love.

@@gilmoreskeen1234 Only if the words, the refrain and the melody were similar or even identical in parts.

This wasn’t recorded in 1974 the piano is clearly some type of Roland,digitized drums give it up too easy. Maybe the man mean it’s was recorded in 1994 not 1974. Go and google what music from Africa recorded in 1974 sound like.

Word....totally well said👍🏻✊🏻👊🏻

@@mellow_keys8618 this is not the one that was recorded in 1974. There is another one with a banjo only by the same Giddes. This is the one that was recorded in 2015

@@limbanimagomero6588 there is no African version from the 70s on the internet meaning it didn’t exist. There are multiple recorded versions of Buffalo soldier by Bob nothing else online. Send the link.

@@mellow_keys8618 You're right there's nothing on the Internet but you may wish to know that we grew up listening to the song on the radio here in Malawi. This is a matter of fact and I will not be able to argue further

where is Chalamanda's proof of recording

The piano in the African man’s song didn’t come out till the 90s

I agree

@@mellow_keys8618 🤣🤣will I call it ignorance or pure lies. Ask of Fela Anikulapokuti, Ebenezer Obey, Onyeka Onwenu, Maria Make e etc. When were you born by the way

@@ikemolokwu5123 it doesn’t matter at least I have the ears to tell the difference between things. You clearly have no knowledge at all on music or it’s technology. The African man is probably from where you’re from so you’re defending this with your life. While we live in a world where most of life’s questions can be answered in your hands you strongly believe that track was recorded in 1974 with digital instruments, a Roland keyboard that didn’t even exist till the late 80s with digital drums. All of the technology in the African man’s song were in development in 1978 when Bob was recording Buffalo soldier. Go listen to recorded music in Africa from 1974.

Many songs are written by someone else but are only made big when famous individuals take it to another level.However credit must always be given to the original piece.

Giddes is the best since he is the one who started recording the song first. He is gifted & creative , i salute mr Chalamanda than those famous guys who did it at second hand 😂😂😂

and i also do remember that those days Kamuzu era Mbc could not allow copied music from outside but only orignal songs from the artists themselves. with this point am so sure that it was Gides who SANG FIRST

A prophet is hardly regarded in his own land

It was the native Indians who first came up with the words “Buffalo Soldiers.” Bob Marley got his inspiration from the history of the war that had black slaves fighting on the frontline and defeated the Indians. Bob Marley don’t sing about foolishness. His song is totally different from Chalamanda’s. What was Chalamanda singing about?

Bob never released this track. It was released posthumously. You’ll need to speak to Chris Blackwell about that. Bob could clearly have been inspired. But we have to be very careful when it comes to Bob’s songs. A lot of his songs that he released in the 1970s, he’d actually written and sang earlier versions in the 1960s. There’s no telling whether Bob Marley actually wrote Buffalo soldier in 1978 or 1968. But Bob obviously listened to African music. And King Sporty would likely have listened to African songs as well. Personally, I feel that either Bob or King Sporty or both, had heard Giddes Chalamanda’s song and used it as a foundation for the more popular version.

It's disappointing you don't know the reason for Buffalo Soldiers in the War for America... look it up and see its two different stories

@@bajebajan6937 Me not knowing the reason for Buffalo Soldiers does not in anyway take away the strong possibly that Bob and any other writers of Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier" song listened and took inspiration from Giddies song.

he didn't perfect anything, he plagiarised and popularised the song.

@@mihjibiggschaka4010 a Buffalo Solider was an actual term that White Americans gave Black Soliders who they recruited to fight against Native First Nation people. The term existed before both song writers but keep reaching. Someone came and Said listen hear that beat its not Bob's and you run with it ... the song was released after Bob died so beats could have been added but history fails many when they assume the present is all there is

Wise.... it's a mission far above competition

I guess Africans don’t have ears to tell apart what the 70s and 90s sound like. Bob Marleys version was the original. Go listen to what African music recorded In The 70s sound like

Nope.

Bob took it from chalamanda Bob polished it l am a Bob FAN but let's speak the truth the yrs difference shows it clear It's not a big deal The known guys respects older once and they copy them it a kind of showing a respect It happened to Manudebango the great musician of l think cameroun Micheal Jackson copied SOULMAKOSA and polished it These Stars has ears to hear something no one sees nor hear

@@princeoseitutu9899 Bob marley did not take anything, you don't know anything about music. The vocals, the message ,the beat are completely different. The only similarities in the two songs are the name.

@@islandpatriot2941 @Island Patriot You're blatently bold and very bias. This is not a war. Thankfully these are two very talented originators in their own rights. Your dishonesty has no need here. These two versions in various similar parts, could even work overlaying each other. I respect Bob Marley's work for carrying elder Giddes Chalamanda's work same as was from his ancestors roots of Africa, further afield than it's origin in 1974. Thanks JZ - Joossa👌🏾

@@cheddi6590 Yea, if this is not a war stop then accusing other people of stealing someone else's work. Thank JZ, yea there is a Jay-Z already, what he existed before that one too. You guys need to come up with your sh*t and stop trying to pawn off other people Sh*t as your own.These are very serious accusations, did you know that.

I fully agree with you there, one has to understand history to get that point.

I totally agree with David Piggott

This is so true I agree it the only thing I hear is Buffalo soldier this makes no sense

exactly

it's the Same song..... reason the mortif is the same which is the Baffalo soldier.

i don't think so

Don't agree. Marley should ask the poor man before taking his song. Didn't ask to take the song in a level. it was already in level back in africa.

So Giddes should get credit coz he's got talent? No proof of this, so unless something disproves Bob's claim then it stays where it is.🤷‍♂️

@@KyleInOklahoma Didn't ask any credit from anyone. He is already talented. He is no doing that for many but for joy and love.

The word of the songs are different and they are about a personal wish and Bob's historical story.

That's academic. Music is cultural. Blend wisely and give it to us that's what we want. Sounds are from nature. We thank the universe.

The lyrics and meaning of the songs are totally different. The rhythm and melody are also different. Chalamanda cannot even proved that his song was recorded in 1974 to begin with. Now, Chalamanda already has a team of lawyers around him, why do you think they have not even asked RU-vid or the Marley estate to cease playing Buffalo Soldier? I can tell you that the Marley’s would have Chalamanda’s Buffalo soldier removed from RU-vid if was even sound anywhere near Bob’s Buffalo Soldier.

I share the same opinion with you. This explanation is just clear and should be understood by everyone.

Bob Marley's song is talking about history, fighting to survive and being used to fight against another people in their own land.

blessing 👍

Are you saying the genre of Reggae originated in Africa? Last I checked Bob grew up poor and worked his butt off to reach international status and legend.

marley for ever ... unu gweeeh

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The fact is that both men were glorifying the courage of black fighters, although the war was not theirs. Thanks to both great men music.

@@ferrislkpokpa7867 the other was just a stupid want to see skyscrapers in US

I agree with you, but dont blame bob for dat.

Bob Marley recorded the song first. You have no musical knowledge whatsoever to tell the difference between the 90s and 70s

And Tala Andre Marie sued James Brown before that.

It's a chorus retheme, that is found in many Malawian durational music, I know 10 to 15 songs that are on record with that chorus sang in malawi and many that are sang local not on tap

Wakumuzi anayamba big up Malawi

The reason why Chalamandas version did not get popular was because of the African language the world did not understand. Bob Marley sang it in English which most people did understand. We should also be proud of Chalamanda.

what a perspective. interesting

This is 2022, he's about 92 now, so yes,he was very older in the 70s

Noted, thanks

Bob and the wailers stole the song, from the Malawian,it a fact.