Reggae Hitsound [Import]

Desmond Dekker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Trojan Records UK
• ASIN: B0000011EX
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #579,469 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 007 (Shanty Town)

2. Get Up Edina

3. Beautiful & Dangerous

4. Shing A Ling

5. Pretty Africa

6. Wise Man

7. Sabotage

8. Unity

9. It Pays

10. Israelites

11. It Mek

12. Warlock

13. Archie Wah Wah

14. Pickney Gal

15. Reggae Recipe

16. You Can Get It If You Really Want It

17. Hippopotamus

18. Licking Stick

19. The More You Live

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Honey Voiced In A Shantytown..RIP, August 2, 2005

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Original Mixed Up-Kid "jg" (New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reggae Hitsound (Audio CD)

A great single CD readying the listener for more...4 for sound 5 for music.
The sound quality is OK considering the obvious studio conditions existing at the time capturing undoubtedly one of the SKA masters...Trojan is a solid company and all in all an attractive import..there are other compilations out there luckily..I recall when the 45 single hit the radio waves, Dekker's The Israelites sounded like a Jamaican version of Wooly Bully..comical and strange but rhythmic and intense..in that spirit was Soul Makossa by Cameroon's Manu Dibango, another blast away from US & UK shores.
Jimmy Cliff somehow brought this sweet singer to attention on his Harder To Come movie as well as Desmond's popularity with the 2 tone "movement"in the days of post-punk and the days of the Clash and English Beat and The Specials.
You will not be disappointed in the Ska,steady rhythms with backbeat and feel of the selections presented here.
They are all leepers.
You can feel the palm trees and heat.