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"No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song was recorded in 1974 and released on the studio album Natty Dread. [2]The live recording of this song from the 1975 album Live! was released as a single and is the best-known version; it was later included on several compilation albums, including the greatest hits compilation Legend.
The Score is the second and latest [4] studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees, released worldwide on February 13, 1996, on Columbia Records.The album features a wide range of samples and instrumentation, with many aspects of alternative hip hop that would come to dominate the hip-hop music scene in the mid- to late-1990s.
The Fugees first gained attention for its cover versions of old favorites, with the group's reinterpretations of "No Woman No Cry" by Bob Marley & the Wailers and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (first recorded by Lori Lieberman in 1971, remade by Roberta Flack in 1973), the latter being their biggest hit. [25]
"Ready or Not" is a song by American hip-hop group Fugees, from their second studio album, The Score (1996). The song contains a sample of "Boadicea" (1987) by Irish singer Enya, and its chorus is based on "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)" by the Delfonics.
[6] [8] [15] The other three singles – "Killing Me Softly", "Ready or Not" and "No Woman, No Cry" – did not appear on the Billboard Hot 100 as they were not released for commercial sale, making them ineligible to appear on the chart, [16] although they all received sufficient airplay to appear on the Hot 100 Airplay and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop ...
Greatest Hits is a compilation released by American hip-hop trio, the Fugees. The album was released on March 25, 2003, by the group's former record label, Columbia Records . The band had long since split at the time of the album's release, although renewed interest sparked them to record a release a single, "Take it Easy", in 2005, the first ...
The song has been performed by artists as diverse as Boney M. (sung by Liz Mitchell), The Fugees, Pearl Jam, Jimmy Buffett, Rancid and Gilberto Gil. Songwriting credit for "No Woman, No Cry" went to V. Ford. Vincent Ford, better known as "Tartar" to his friends and neighbors, had been a kind friend of Marley as a child in Trenchtown.
Topics about Fugees songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories ... No Woman, No Cry; R. Ready or Not (Fugees song) Rumble in the Jungle (song) V.