Editing Johnny Nash (section)

===1970s===
In 1971, Nash scored another UK hit with his cover of Marley's "[[Stir It Up]]".<ref name="allmusic" />

Nash's 1972 reggae-influenced single "[[I Can See Clearly Now]]" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a [[music recording sales certification|gold disc]] by the [[R.I.A.A.]] in November 1972.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book| first= Joseph| last= Murrells| year= 1978| title= The Book of Golden Discs| edition= 2nd| publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd| location= London| page= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/317 317]| isbn= 0-214-20512-6| url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/317}}</ref> "I Can See Clearly Now" reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on November 4, 1972, and remained atop the chart for four weeks, spending the same four weeks atop the adult contemporary chart. The ''I Can See Clearly Now'' album includes four original Marley compositions published by JAD: "Guava Jelly", "Comma Comma", "You Poured Sugar on Me", and the follow-up hit "Stir It Up". "There Are More Questions Than Answers" was a third hit single taken from the album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-can-see-clearly-now-mw0000201192|title=I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>

Nash was also a composer for the Swedish romance film ''[[Want So Much to Believe]]'' (1971),<ref name=Steffens>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yt9SDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT116|title=So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|date=July 11, 2017|last=Steffens|first=Roger|page=116|isbn=9780393634792}}</ref> in which he portrayed 'Robert'.<ref name=BFI>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba75dae7b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010195553/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba75dae7b|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 10, 2020|title=Johnny Nash|website=British Film Institute|access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref> The movie soundtrack, partly instrumental reggae with strings, was co-composed by [[Bob Marley]] and arranged by Fred Jordan.<ref name=Steffens/>

JAD Records ceased to exist in 1971,<ref name="Larkin"/> but it was revived in 1997 by American Marley specialist Roger Steffens and French musician and producer [[Bruno Blum]] for the ''Complete Bob Marley & the Wailers 1967–1972'' ten-album series, for which several of the Nash-produced Marley and Tosh tracks were mixed or remixed by Blum for release. In the UK, his biggest hit was with the song "[[Tears on My Pillow (Johnny Nash song)|Tears on My Pillow]]" which reached number one in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in July 1975 for one week.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited| location= London| page= 387| isbn= 1-904994-10-5}}</ref> The album Tears on My Pillow came out later in the year.<ref name="Evidence of the month and year of album's release">{{cite news |last1=The Herald-Palladium |title=Herald-Palladium:Family Weekly |url=https://ia601508.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/21/items/benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08/benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08_jp2.zip&file=benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08_jp2/benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08_0074.jp2&id=benton-harbor-herald-palladium-1975-11-08&scale=2&rotate=0 |access-date=5 March 2025 |work=Herald Palladium |issue=264 |publisher=Associated Press |date=8 November 1975 |archive-url=https://archive.org/ |archive-date=28 October 2022|page=12 |language=English |quote="...his new album "Tears on My Pillow" looks like another hit." |author1-link=The Herald-Palladium }}</ref>

After a cover of Sam Cooke's "[[Wonderful World (Sam Cooke song)|Wonderful World]]" in 1976 and "Let's Go Dancing" in 1979, for many years Nash seemed to have dropped out of sight.