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Desmond Dekker - Israelites Anthology 1963-1999
 Year: 2010 Country: USA Genre: Ska Time duration: 2 hours 21 minutes 21 sec   Type: MP3 Bitrate: 128kbps ID Tags: Yes Tracklist: Disc: 1 Disc: 1 1. Honour Your Mother and Father 2. Parents 3. Labour for Learning 4. Jeserene 5. King of Ska 6. Get up Edina 7. This Woman 8. Mount Zion 9. Wise Man 10. 007 (Shanty Town) 11. Rudy Got Soul 12. Unity 13. Mothers Young Girl 14. Sabotage 15. Pretty Africa 16. It Pays 17. Mother Long Tongue 18. Young Generation 19. Beautiful and Dangerous 20. Fu Manchu 21. Mother Pepper 22. Don't Blame Me 23. Hey Grandma 24. Music Like Dirt 25. A It Mek Disc: 2 Disc: 2 1. Israelites 2. Nincompoop 3. It Miek 4. Too Much Too Soon 5. Problems 6. Pickney Gal 7. Generation 8. You Can Get It If You Really Want 9. The Songs We Used to Sing 10. Archie Wah Wah 11. Hippoptomus 12. Reggae Recipe 13. Look What They Are Doing to Me 14. Licking Stick 15. Live and Learn 16. Sing a Song 17. Dance the Night Away 18. This Woman 19. Baby Come Back 20. King of Ska 21. Jamaica Ska 22. Moving On 23. Young Generation 24. Happy Birthday Jamaica 25. Jamaica Farewell   Information about album: Born Desmond Dacres, Kingston Jamaica, Desmond Dekker started his career in 1962 with cuts for Leslie Kong, the only producer for whom he recorded throughout his early career. He teamed up with The Aces with whom he won the prestigious Jamaican Song Festival in 1968. Their winning song Music Like Dirt is included on this album. Dekker's association with the Aces proved very successful as they kept on scoring a string of number 1 hits. As ska and bluebeat gave way to the less frenetic rocksteady sound Dekker scored his first international smash hit in 1967 with the rude boy song 007 (Shanty Town), which had become an anthem in Jamaica. Further international hit status came with the 1969 released scorcher Israelites, the track that kicks off Disc 2 of this compilation set. Between the years of 1967 and 1975 he was Jamaica's principal musical ambassador abroad. In the second half of the seventies his career declined, but he re-emerged during the UK ska revival in the eighties. In the nineties he released some albums on which he covered some of his own biggest hits. Although Desmond Dekker never regained his earlier prominence he stays a well respected figure, especially in the UK. The recordings on this anthology span some 36 years and not only includes Desmond Dekker's worldwide hits such as Israelites, It Miek, You Can Get It If You Really Want and Pickney Gal but also classic rocksteady tunes like Young Generation, Rude Boy Train, 007 Shanty Town and the sublime Rudy Got Soul with its mellow sax and almost frail, delicate vocal. Furthermore it features some great early reggae songs Wise Man, Mount Zion and Pretty Africa, the latter being one of the finest repatriation songs ever made. Most of the tunes found here are well known songs which have stood the test of time easily, so no surprises here, but only full proof quality music of one of Jamaica's most talented singer/songwriters.  
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