Vincent Ford

Vincent Ford

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Vincent Ford
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Born: 1940
Died: December 28, 2008

Vincent "Tata" Ford was a Kingston friend of Bob Marley's who received songwriting credit for "No Woman, No Cry," "Crazy Baldheads" and other famous compositions. A wheelchair-bound community worker who had lost his legs to diabetes, Ford ran a soup kitchen in the "government yard in Trenchtown" described in "No Woman, No Cry," and helped an impoverished teenage Marley survive the notorious ghetto. The "government yard" is now the Trenchtown Culture yard, a museum dedicated to the Marley legacy.

Scholars generally agree that Marley used the names of family and friends such as Vincent Ford as pseudonyms in order to evade his publishing company at the time, Cayman Music. In fact, Marley wrote these songs.

In 1987, Marley's estate successfully won a dispute against Cayman Music and gained control of the Vincent Ford compositions.
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  • No Woman, No Cry

Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry ◄ (4 versions)

Island Records 1974
  • Positive Vibration (as V. Ford) and 2 more…

Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry Live (12")

Island Records 1975
  • No Woman, No Cry (as V. Ford)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live! ◄ (18 versions)

Island Records 1975
  • No Woman No Cry (as Ford)

Boney M* - Daddy Cool (12", Ltd)

Atlantic 1976

Roots, Rock, Reggae

(7", Single) 		Island Records 1976
  • Positive Vibration (as V. Ford) and 3 more…

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration ◄ (5 versions)

Island Records 1976
  • No Woman No Cry (as Ford)

Boney M. - Take The Heat Off Me ◄ (2 versions)

Atlantic, Atlantic 1976
  • Crazy Bald Head (as V. Ford)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Who The Cap Fit / Crazy Bald Head (7", Single)

Festival Records, Island Records 1976
  • No Woman No Cry (as V. Ford)

Boney M. - No Woman No Cry (7", Single)

Durium 1977
  • En Kvinna - En Man (No Woman No Cry) (as V. Ford)

Sten & Stanley - Sten & Stanley's Framsida (LP)

Mariann 1977

Live At The Rainbow

(VHS, PAL) 		BMG Video 1978
  • No Woman, No Cry

Garland Jeffreys - One-Eyed Jack ◄ (4 versions)

A&M Records 1978
  • Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) (as B. Vicent)

Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) (7", Single)

Elektra, Elektra 1979
  • Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) (as B. Vincent)

Gilberto Gil - Realce ◄ (3 versions)

WEA, WEA 1979
  • No Woman No Cry (as V. Ford)

Various - Reggae (LP, Comp)

K-Tel 1979
  • No Woman No Cry (as V. Ford)

Various - Reggae (LP, Comp)

K-Tel International (Sweden) AB 1979
  • No Woman No Cry (as V. Ford)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved / No Woman No Cry ◄ (2 versions)

Island Records 1980
  • Positive Vibration

James Last - Caribbean Nights ◄ (2 versions)

Polydor 1980
  • No Woman, No Cry

Various - Party Party - Original Soundtrack Recording ◄ (4 versions)

A&M Records 1982
  • No Woman No Cry (as V. Ford)

Saragossa Band - Das Totale Za Za Zabadak - 100 Super-Party-Fetzer Non Stop - Dance With The Saragossa Band (2xLP)

Ariola, Ariola, Ariola 1982
  • No Woman No Cry (as V. Ford)

Saragossa Band - Das Neue Große Za Za Zabadak - Party Total - 50 Super Fetzer - Dance With The Saragossa Band (LP)

Ariola, Ariola 1982
  • No Woman No Cry

Joan Baez - Live In Europe 83 - Children Of The Eighties ◄ (3 versions)

Ariola 1983
  • No Woman No Cry

Joan Baez - Children Of The Eighties - Kinder Der 80er Jahre - Live In Concert (Vinyl, Album)

Ariola 1983
  • No Woman No Cry (as V. Ford)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers ◄ (15 versions)

Tuff Gong 1984
  • Crazy Baldheads

Jah Warriors - No Illusions ◄ (2 versions)

A Record Company 1984
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