I Shot the Sheriff

~ Recording by The Wailers

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.9I Shot the Sheriff4:41Bob Marley & The WailersLegend: The Best of Bob Marley and the WailersBob Marley & The WailersAlbum + Compilation
Tuff Gong422-846 210-2
1.9I Shot the Sheriff4:41Bob Marley & The WailersLegend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers (BMG Direct, 62 minute version)Bob Marley & The WailersAlbum + 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
1.10I Shot the Sheriff4:40Bob Marley & The WailersLegend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers (deluxe, Sound & Vision, PAL version)Bob Marley & The WailersAlbum + Compilation
The Island Def Jam Music Group (American holding company, not normally a release label), Tuff Gong0602498125380
1.9I Shot The Sheriff4:41Bob Marley & The WailersLegend: The Best of Bob Marley and The WailersBob Marley & The WailersAlbum + CompilationIsland (imprint of Island Records, a division of Universal Music Group), Tuff GongSTARCD 5662
1.10I Shot the Sheriff4:42Bob Marley & The WailersLegend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers (Sony DADC reissue of 2002 remaster)Bob Marley & The WailersAlbum + CompilationIsland (imprint of Island Records, a division of Universal Music Group), Tuff Gong548 904-2

Relationships

recording engineer:Sylvan Morris
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)
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
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)
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/60e5PcqGmlVFQ0HHgUagCJ [info]
recording of:I Shot the Sheriff

I Shot the Sheriff

lyricist and composer:Bob Marley (Jamaican reggae artist)
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)
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
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)