I found these albums in my friend's laptop and a strong emotion went through my mind...
I remembered the time when I used to listen to these songs without even understanding them. I had my own interpretations. My sister and me often hummed those songs and sometimes replaced the words with our own homegrown "Hindi" words and made it sound really funny. I must be around 6-7 then.
Those were my dad's favorite English albums. He had 2 cassettes which he used to play very often in his 2-in-1 stereo system. Those cassettes were really special to him and he took good care to protect them for being overwritten. You know the left hand recorders in the 2-in-1s... If we would have pressed the red button, those melodious songs would have been overwritten with our nonsense kids' talks.
I also remember the special covers of those cassettes. Those were different than hundreds of cassette covers in the collection. Thinner and made of bendable plastic and less brittle. On front, it contained Bob Marley's picture with his long hairs falling on his face. From his get-up on the pic, I used to imagine him as a rowdy guy singing anything with some good music behind him. At that time, I didn't know what kind of songs were those and how good a singer he was.
Today, when I am 26 years old and with these songs sung (played) again on my 4.1 speaker system and wikipedia a click away, I came to know that the album we, as kids, used to listen to is the "Best selling reggae album ever" (10 times platinum with more than 12 million copies sold).
Sometimes... these small memories are of a great significance to you and bring smiles on your face...
