Early JIMI HENDRIX, BOB MARLEY Collaborator JIMMY NORMAN Dies At 74

New York Times’ Ben Sisario reports:

JIMMY NORMAN, a rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter who worked with BOB MARLEY and JIMI HENDRIX early in their careers and was involved in a longstanding dispute over songwriting credit for the song ‘Time Is on My Side’, died on November 8th in Manhattan. He was 74.

The cause was lung disease, said his daughter Missy Scott.

Mr. Norman, whose recording career began in the late 1950s, had minor success as a solo act, with two of his songs reaching the Top 40 on Billboard’s R&B chart: ‘I Don’t Love You No More (I Don’t Care About You)’ in 1962 and ‘Can You Blame Me’ in 1966. But he found a niche in music history through his encounters with other musicians.

In 1966 Hendrix played guitar on at least one of Mr. Norman’s songs, ‘That Little Old Groovemaker’, and in 1968 a young Marley stayed with Mr. Norman on a visit to New York. More than 30 years later, a cassette tape of Marley and Mr. Norman singing together on that visit was sold at Christie’s for $26,290.