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Desmond Dekker

Live at Basins Nightclub 1987 (2024 Repress)

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Recorded Live at Basins Nightclub in February 1987, 12 songs including the hits that made Desmond Dekker an international reggae star.

Desmond Dekker

King Of Ska (2019 reissue)

180g red lp - £13.99 | Buy

All tracks recorded at ROLL OVER STUDIOS, London.

dekker-explodes

2lp

LP1 SIDE 1

1.    Israelites (with The Aces)
2.    It Mek (with The Aces)
3.    Fu Man Chu (with The Aces)
4.    (Where Did It Go) The Song We Used To
5.    Beautiful and Dangerous (with The Aces)
6.    King of Ska (with The Cherry Pies)
7.    Intensified ’68 (with The Aces)

LP1 SIDE 2

1.    You Can Get It If You Really Want
2.    Unity (with The Aces)
3.    Live and Learn
4.    Rudy Got Soul (with The Aces)
5.    Get Up Adina (with The Four Aces)
6.    Generosity
7.    Pretty Africa (with The Aces)

LP2 SIDE 1

1.    007 (with The Aces)
2.    The First for a Long Time
3.    Rude Boy Train (with The Aces)
4.    Honour Your Mother and Father
5.    It Pays (with The Aces)
6.    Problem (with The Aces)
7.    Wise Man (with The Aces)

LP2 SIDE 2

1.    Sing a Little Song
2.    Mother Pepper (with The Aces)
3.    Mount Zion (with The Four Aces)
4.    Licking Stick (with The Aces)
5.    Young Generation (with The Aces)
6.    Pickney Gal (with The Aces)
7.    Jamaica Ska (with The Specials)

2cd

CD 1

1.    Israelites (with The Aces)
2.    It Mek (with The Aces)
3.    Fu Man Chu (with The Aces)
4.    (Where Did It Go) The Song We Used To
5.    Beautiful and Dangerous (with The Aces)
6.    King of Ska (with The Cherry Pies)
7.    Intensified ’68 (with The Aces)
8.    Sabotage (with The Aces)
9.    Sugar Dumpling (with The Aces)
10.    Don’t Blame Me (with The Aces)
11.    Perseverance
12.    It’s a Shame (with The Aces)
13.    Jeserine (with The Cherry Pies)
14.    Bongo Gal (with The Aces)
15.    Pick Up The Phone
16.    Mother’s Young Gal (with The Aces)
17.    This Woman (with The Four Aces)
18.    Shing a Ling (with The Aces)
19.    You Can Get It If You Really Want
20.    Unity (with The Aces)
21.    Live and Learn
22.    Rudy Got Soul (with The Aces)
23.    Get Up Adina (with The Four Aces)
24.    Generosity
25.    Pretty Africa (with The Aces)

CD 2

1.    007 (with The Aces)
2.    The First for a Long Time
3.    Rude Boy Train (with The Aces)
4.    Honour Your Mother and Father
5.    It Pays (with The Aces)
6.    Problems (with The Aces)
7.    Wise Man (with The Aces)
8.    Mother Nature
9.    It Gotta Be So
10.    Beware
11.    Coconut Water (with The Aces)
12.    Soldering (with The Four Aces)
13.    Busted Lad
14.    Sweet Music (with The Aces)
15.    Labour for Learning
16.    No Place Like Home
17.    Writing on the Wall (with The Aces)
18.    Parents
19.    Sing a Little Song
20.    Mother Pepper (with The Aces)
21.    Mount Zion (with The Four Aces)
22.    Licking Stick (with The Aces)
23.    Young Generation (with The Aces)
24.    Pickney Gal (with The Aces)
25.    Jamaica Ska (with The Specials)

Desmond Dekker

Essential Artist Collection - Desmond Dekker

Trojan Records

limited transparent violet 2lp in gatefold sleeve

Released: 2nd Jun 2023

£32.99 £28.99

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as expertly demonstrated by this superb compilation, few reggae artists were more influential and celebrated than the legendary Desmond Dekker.

The original King of Reggae, Desmond Dekker introduced the sound of Jamaica to the world at large through a series of international hits, with his music gracing the UK pop charts on no less than 7 occasions between 1967 and 1975. This incredible run of hits included, ‘007’, ‘It Mek’, ‘Pickney Gal’, ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’, ‘Sing A Little Song’ and the first Jamaican-produced recording to top the British 7” singles listings, ‘Israelites’. All of these essential recordings feature on the ‘The ‘Essential Artist Collection’, which also includes the very best of his remaining work, with almost every track a major Jamaican best-seller.