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Bananarama

Is Your Love Strong Enough?

1991 · via De La Soul

Bananarama’s 1991 recording of “Is Your Love Strong Enough?” is the earliest release on file. Sara Dallin and Steve Jolley are credited as its writers. De La Soul’s “Cruel Summers Bring FIRE LIFE!!” (2025) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Bananarama – Is Your Love Strong Enough?
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De La Soul's track runs on a Bananarama song from 1991, which puts Sara Dallin and Steve Jolley on the credit sheet next to Posdnuos and Maseo. Spin the source first, then listen for where it turns up.

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Credited writers: Sara Dallin and Steve Jolley.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1991.

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De La Soul’s “Cruel Summers Bring FIRE LIFE!!” (2025) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

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De La Soul's "Cruel Summers Bring FIRE LIFE!!" carries the writing credit of an earlier song, "Is Your Love Strong Enough?" Who first recorded that one?Bananarama
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