“A friend of ours talked to my brother and said, ‘Have you ever listened to Bob Marley?' My brother said, ‘Well, no…’” Robert ‘Kool' Bell on how one of Kool & The Gang's most enduring hits came about

Musical Guest Kool & The Gang perform on February 25, 1984.

Robert “Kool” Bell knows a thing or two about writing hits. After all, his band, Kool & the Gang, spawned tracks like Ladies' Night and Celebration, sold over 70 million albums worldwide, and has been sampled en masse. Not bad for a bassist who started out by learning how to play one song (Coming Home, Baby) on one string.

And, speaking of greatest hits, one of the Gang's best-known tracks, Get Down on It was inspired by an unlikely source – Bob Marley.