I Shot the Sheriff
~ Recording by The Wailers
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.9 | I Shot the Sheriff | 4:41 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Album + Compilation |
| Tuff Gong | 422-846 210-2 |
| 1.9 | I Shot the Sheriff | 4:41 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers (BMG Direct, 62 minute version) | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Album + Compilation |
| Tuff Gong, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions), Island (imprint of Island Records, a division of Universal Music Group) | 422-846 210-2, D153521 |
| 1.10 | I Shot the Sheriff | 4:40 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers (deluxe, Sound & Vision, PAL version) | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Album + Compilation |
| The Island Def Jam Music Group (American holding company, not normally a release label), Tuff Gong | 0602498125380 |
| 1.9 | I Shot The Sheriff | 4:41 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Album + Compilation |
| Island (imprint of Island Records, a division of Universal Music Group), Tuff Gong | STARCD 5662 |
| 1.10 | I Shot the Sheriff | 4:42 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers (Sony DADC reissue of 2002 remaster) | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Album + Compilation | Island (imprint of Island Records, a division of Universal Music Group), Tuff Gong | 548 904-2 | |
Relationships
| recording engineer: | Sylvan Morris |
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| producer: | Chris Blackwell (Island Records) The Wailers (’60s – ’70s Jamaican reggae band of Wailer, Marley & Tosh) |
| mixer: | Phill Brown (UK engineer) Tony Platt (UK engineer and producer) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Island Records Ltd. (not for release label use! company known by this name from 1962‐05‐08 to 1999‐03‐29, and since 2014‐06‐25) (in 1973) |
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| has remixes: | I Shot the Sheriff (part of “The Pacha Experience 2” DJ-mix) by Pacha and Richard Grey (French techno producer Richard Jacquin) present feat. Bob Marley (’60s – ’70s Jamaican reggae band of Wailer, Marley & Tosh) I Shot the Sheriff (Roni Size remix) by Bob Marley & The Wailers |
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| sampled by: | Strictly Business (Mantronik MBA radio edit) by Mantronik (the individual) vs. EPMD |
| mash-ups: | I Shot (That Thing) by David Begun |
| edits: | I Shot the Sheriff (edit) |
| part of: | Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 443) (order: 443) |
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| stream for free: | https://open.spotify.com/track/60e5PcqGmlVFQ0HHgUagCJ [info] |
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| recording of: | I Shot the Sheriff |
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Related works
I Shot the Sheriff
| lyricist and composer: | Bob Marley (Jamaican reggae artist) |
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| publisher: | Blackwell Fuller Music Publishing LLC Cayman Music PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (renamed Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. circa 1998) Blue Mountain Music (in 1974) Cayman Music Inc (in 1974) Fifty Six Hope Road Music Limited (in 1974) Odnil Music Ltd. (in 1974) |
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| sub-publisher: | Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc. (song publisher, never a release label) ヤマハミュージックEH(CM) (Yamaha Music EH(CM)) |
| later parody versions: | I Shopped at Asda |
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| later translated parody versions: | I Shot the Golfball Ich schoss den Teddy |
| later translated versions: | I bin da Scherriff Ich schoß den Scheriff J’ai tué le commissaire Jag sköt sheriffen Taas nousen junaan |
| is the basis for: | He Shot Me I Shot the Sheriff Jeg skjøt snuten Jeg skjøt snuten (reprise) |
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