No woman, no cry

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Chart placements
Explanation of the data
Singles
Bob Marley & The Wailers
  UK 8th 09/27/1975 (18 weeks)
Londonbeat
  DE 23 03/11/1993 (14 weeks)
  UK 64 03/02/1991 (2 weeks)
Bingo boys
  AT 10 07/28/1991 (13 weeks)
Fugees
  DE 33 12/09/1996 (12 weeks)
  AT 40 01/05/1997 (1 week)
  CH 23 12/15/1996 (10 weeks)
  UK 2 11/30/1996 (9 weeks)
Bob Marley & The Wailers
  UK 58 11/12/2005 (1 week)

No Woman, No Cry is a reggae - Ballad of Bob Marley and Vincent Ford . She became famous for the seven-minute concert recording on the Live! -Album. The song was first released in 1974 on the album Natty Dread by Bob Marley & the Wailers .

The title is written in Jamaican Creole : “No, woman, nah cry” ( English : “No, woman, don't cry”, German: “No, woman, don't cry”).

composition

Text and music are, as in some other compositions, ascribed to Bob Marley and his childhood friend Vincent Ford ("Tata"; 1940–2008) together. According to a popular account, both are said to have sat one evening in Trenchtown , a neighborhood in the Jamaican capital Kingston , in the courtyard of Tata's soup kitchen , which served food for hungry young people. A neighboring couple is said to have had an argument in which the crying of the woman (Puncie Saunders) could be heard in the courtyard. Her for consolation should Marley and Tata in the following night in the kitchen, where Marley and the guitars had learned game, No Woman, No Cry have composed. "The kitchen could later be operated from the royalties ."

The album version has a significantly higher tempo than the known live version; In addition, the key of the live version is C sharp major , that of the album version and other live recordings are mostly C major . By 2005 the original version of Marley was released on 24 different LPs and samplers .

reception

The music magazine Rolling Stone placed the song in November 2004 in its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time at number 37. Wyclef Jean wrote the lyrics for his hip-hop - band The Fugees to and provides a reference to his life on Haiti ago. Their version was the most commercially successful to date, reaching number 2 in the British charts in 1996.

Cover versions

Chart placements
Explanation of the data
Singles
Zaragoza Band
  DE 23 02/15/1982 (6 weeks)
Naughty by Nature
  US 53 02/08/1992 (20 weeks)

There are cover versions of Sublime , Charlie Hunter , Rancid , Joan Baez , Bettina Wegner , Jimmy Cliff , Xavier Rudd , Jimmy Buffett , Boney M. , ZSK , Hugh Masekela , Patrice , Wizo , NOFX , JBO , Sean Kingston and many more. Londonbeat were able to place themselves in the charts in 1991 with the song. In 2013 , the satirical video by the Saudi Arabian artist Hisham Faghee, who with the acapella song “No Woman, No Drive”, targets the discrimination of women in his country with biting irony, spread like a flash .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "No Woman, No Cry" by Bob Marley & The Wailers on chartsurfer.de
  2. ↑ "No Woman, No Cry" by Londonbeat on chartsurfer.de
  3. ↑ "No Woman, No Cry" by Bingoboys on chartsurfer.de
  4. ↑ "No Woman, No Cry" by Fugees on chartsurfer.de
  5. ↑ "No Woman, No Cry (Live)" by Bob Marley & The Wailers on chartsurfer.de
  6. ↑ mdr.de: "No, Woman, no cry" by Bob Marley ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  7. ↑ 'Tata' dies at 68 , Jamaica Gleaner January 1, 2009 (accessed October 26, 2010)
  8. ↑ Frank Brother and Richard Fasten (eds.): Pop-Splits. Volume 1 and 2: The best songs of all time and their history . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2011, page 178, ISBN 978-3-7466-7083-6
  9. ↑ Rolling Stone: No Woman, No Cry ( Memento June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 27, 2010)
  10. ↑ The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: Rolling Stone ( Memento from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 27, 2010)
  11. ↑ Fugees : No Woman, No Cry in the Official UK Charts (English)
  12. ^ "Dance With The Saragossa Band" by Saragossa Band on chartsurfer.de
  13. ^ "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" by Naughty by Nature on chartsurfer.de
  14. ↑ YouTube video by Alaa Wardi and Hisham Faghee