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Roy Ayers Ubiquity

Running Away

1977 · via A Tribe Called Quest

Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s 1977 recording of “Running Away” is the earliest release on file. Roy Ayers shares the writing credit with Edwin Birdsong. A Tribe Called Quest’s “Description of a Fool” (1989) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Running Away
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Tribe's "Description of a Fool" runs on "Running Away," which Roy Ayers Ubiquity first put on record in 1977, and Ayers and Edwin Birdsong still share the credit on the Tribe track. Play the 1977 cut first, then hear what Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad built on top of it.

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Credited writers: Roy Ayers and Edwin Birdsong.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1977.

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A Tribe Called Quest’s “Description of a Fool” (1989) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

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