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Music : You Can Get It If You Really Want: The Definitive Collection
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0060768052222
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sanctuary Records
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sanctuary Records
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Studio: Sanctuary Records
Sales Rank: 59260
Disc 1:- Honour Your Mother and Father - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Parents
- Labour for Learning
- Jeserine
- King of Ska
- Get Up Edina - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- This Woman
- Mount Zion - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Soldering
- It's a Shame
- Wise Man - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- 007 (Shanty Town)
- Rudy Got Soul
- Rude Boy Train
- Mother's Young Gal
- Young Generation
- Unity
- Keep a Cool Head
- Mother Long Tongue
- Sabotage
- Pretty Africa - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- It Pays - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Beautiful and Dangerous - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Mother Pepper
- Don't Blame Me
- Intensified '68 (Music Like Dirt)
- Fu Man Chu
- Israelites
- It Mek
- Problems - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Medley: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da/Wise Man - Desmond Dekker, Lennon
Disc 2:- Pickney Gal
- Generosity
- Perseverance
- You Can Get It If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker, Cliff
- Coomyah - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- You Got Soul
- Polka Dot
- (Where Did It Go) The Song We Used to Sing
- Get Up Little Suzie
- My Reward
- Archie Wah Wah
- Hippopotomus - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Licking Stick
- Live and Learn (The More You Live)
- Warlock
- Life of Opportunity
- It Gotta Be So
- First Time for a Long Time
- Mother Nature - Desmond Dekker, Zesses
- Beware
- Sing a Little Song
- (I'm A) Busted Lad
- Money and Friends
- Moving On
- Book of Rules - Desmond Dekker, Johnson
- Hot City - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Dance the Night Away - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Jamaica Ska - Desmond Dekker, Lee
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Shopping around for a Desmond Dekker compilation? Well, you've arrived at the right one. Forget all those other Dekker "Best Ofs" & "Greatest Hits," and go with this instead. Spanning the years 1963-1993 with 59 cuts on 2 CDs, YOU CAN GET IT IF YOU REALLY WANT: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION might be a few dollars more, but it's worth it.
The collection starts off with 1963's "Honour Your Mother and Father," a hit single that set the pace for an 8 ... Read More
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It can be tempting for the more serious, long term reggae listener to pigeonhole Dekker as solely representing "popular" or chart reggae -- but that would be a serious error, as the best tracks on this compilation show.
"Wise Man" has a Gladiators at Studio One sound to it, with its lyric concerning encouragement of wisdom as opposed to following a rude boy lifestyle. "Sabotage" and "Pretty Africa" are also slightly reminiscent of the very early Gladiators style.
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Ska was a Jamaican musical style that evolved from an amalgam of native Calypso and American R&B in the late 1950s/early 60s. It developed into Rocksteady, Reggae and a host of other variations since. We often overlook how influential these Jamaican styles have been on American and British music. In December, 2005, I took my teenage daughter to a Skafest in Chicago and was amazed at how a packed crowd of Goths, Punks, Emos, et al, responded enthusiastically to all these styles, including some pure ... Read More
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Disc 1:- Honour Your Mother and Father - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Parents
- Labour for Learning
- Jeserine
- King of Ska
- Get Up Edina - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- This Woman
- Mount Zion - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Soldering
- It's a Shame
- Wise Man - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- 007 (Shanty Town)
- Rudy Got Soul
- Rude Boy Train
- Mother's Young Gal
- Young Generation
- Unity
- Keep a Cool Head
- Mother Long Tongue
- Sabotage
- Pretty Africa - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- It Pays - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Beautiful and Dangerous - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Mother Pepper
- Don't Blame Me
- Intensified '68 (Music Like Dirt)
- Fu Man Chu
- Israelites
- It Mek
- Problems - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Medley: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da/Wise Man - Desmond Dekker, Lennon
Disc 2:- Pickney Gal
- Generosity
- Perseverance
- You Can Get It If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker, Cliff
- Coomyah - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- You Got Soul
- Polka Dot
- (Where Did It Go) The Song We Used to Sing
- Get Up Little Suzie
- My Reward
- Archie Wah Wah
- Hippopotomus - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Licking Stick
- Live and Learn (The More You Live)
- Warlock
- Life of Opportunity
- It Gotta Be So
- First Time for a Long Time
- Mother Nature - Desmond Dekker, Zesses
- Beware
- Sing a Little Song
- (I'm A) Busted Lad
- Money and Friends
- Moving On
- Book of Rules - Desmond Dekker, Johnson
- Hot City - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Dance the Night Away - Desmond Dekker, Dekker, Desmond
- Jamaica Ska - Desmond Dekker, Lee
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0060768052222
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sanctuary Records
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sanctuary Records
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Studio: Sanctuary Records
Sales Rank: 59260
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