Essential Artist Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Israelites

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 2
  It Mek

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:18
• 3
  Fu Man Chu

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  3:18
  2.0 ★
• 4
  (Where Did It Go) The Song We Used to Sing
  3:05
• 5
  Beautiful and Dangerous

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:47
• 6
  King of Ska

  Desmond Dekker & The Cherry Pies
  2:42
• 7
  Intensified '68

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:43
• 8
  Sabotage

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:50
• 9
  Sugar Dumpling
  3:06
• 10
  Don't Blame Me

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:22
• 11
  Perseverance
  2:44
• 12
  It's a Shame

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:22
• 13
  Jeserene

  Desmond Dekker & The Cherry Pies
  2:38
• 14
  Bongo Gal

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:29
• 15
  Pick Up the Phone
  3:35
• 16
  Mother Young Gal

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:57
• 17
  This Woman

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:31
• 18
  Shing a Ling

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:24
• 19
  You Can Get It If You Really Want
  2:36
• 20
  Unity

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:21
• 21
  Live and Learn
  3:17
• 22
  Rudy Got Soul

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:46
• 23
  Get Up Adina

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:38
• 24
  Generosity
  2:59
• 25
  Pretty Africa

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:37
• CD 2
• 1
  007 (Shanty Town)
  2:32
• 2
  The First for a Long Time
  2:27
• 3
  Rude Boy Train

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:24
• 4
  Honour Your Mother and Father
  2:26
• 5
  It Pays

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:56
• 6
  Problems

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:41
• 7
  Wise Man

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:13
• 8
  Mother Nature
  3:34
• 9
  It Gotta Be So
  2:46
• 10
  Beware
  3:06
• 11
  Coconut Water
  3:26
• 12
  Soldering
  2:30
• 13
  Busted Lad
  3:17
• 14
  Sweet Music

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:29
• 15
  Labour for Learning
  2:36
• 16
  No Place Like Home
  3:18
• 17
  Writing on the Wall

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:13
• 18
  Parents
  2:29
• 19
  Sing a Little Song
  3:00
• 20
  Mother Pepper

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:20
• 21
  Mount Zion

  Desmond Dekker & The Four Aces
  2:42
• 22
  Licking Stick

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:13
• 23
  Young Generation

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:18
• 24
  Pickney Gal

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:45
• 25
  Jamaica Ska

  Desmond Dekker & the Aces
  2:22

More by Desmond Dekker

King of Kings

King of Kings 1993

Rockin’ Steady: The Best of Desmond Dekker

Rockin’ Steady: The Best of Desmond Dekker 1992

Black & Dekker

Black & Dekker 1980

King of Ska (The Beverley's Records · Ska Singles Collection 1963-1967)

King of Ska (The Beverley's Records · Ska Singles Collection 1963-1967) 2023

King of Ska: Beverley’s Records · Ska Singles Collection

King of Ska: Beverley’s Records · Ska Singles Collection 2021

Double Dekker

Double Dekker 2018

Release credits

• Anna Pesquidous
  design
• Caeshia St Paul
  task
• Florence de la Fournière
  art direction
• Laurence Cane-Honeysett
  task
• Leslie Kong
  producer [1.1, 1.3, 1.23, 2.22]
• Neel Panchal
  art direction

Issues

• 

  E
  (Combined release view)
• 

  E
  Essential Artist Collection

  2x 12" Vinyl (Vinyl Edition)
  9 June 2023
• 

  E
  Essential Artist Collection

  2x CD
  23 June 2023