The Essential Desmond Dekker

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  007 (Shanty Town)
  2:36
  5.0 ★
• 2
  It Mek
  2:23
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Pickney Gal
  2:53
• 4
  Music Like Dirt (Intensified 68')
  2:44
• 5
  Unity
  2:14
• 6
  Mother's Young Gal
  3:02
• 7
  Fu Man Chu
  3:09
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Mother Pepper
  2:23
• 9
  You've Got Your Troubles
  3:15
• 10
  Wise Man
  2:06
• 11
  Coconut Water
  3:29
• 12
  Pretty Africa
  2:31
• 13
  Bongo Gal
  2:31
• 14
  Get Up Edina
  2:40
• 15
  Rude Boy Train
  2:18
• 16
  Keep a Cool Head
  2:03
• 17
  Beautiful & Dangerous
  2:50
• 18
  I've Got the Blues
  3:01
• 19
  To Sir With Love (My Lonely World)
  3:09
• 20
  Don't Blame Me
  2:25
• CD 2
• 1
  Israelites
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 2
  It Pays
  2:57
• 3
  Mother Long Tongue
  2:18
• 4
  It Mek (Hit version)
  2:34
• 5
  Problems
  2:44
• 6
  You Can Get It If You Really Want (feat. The Aces)
  2:39
• 7
  The Song We Used to Sing (Where Did It Go?)
  3:04
• 8
  Reggae Recipe
  3:06
• 9
  Honour Your Mother and Father
  2:25
• 10
  Rudy Got Soul
  2:49
• 11
  Sabotage
  2:44
• 12
  Shing A Ling
  2:19
• 13
  Hey Grandma
  2:49
• 14
  Licking Stick
  2:14
• 15
  Archie Wah Wah
  2:32
• 16
  Nincompoop
  2:10
• 17
  Hippopotamus
  2:51
• 18
  Hanging Tree
  3:02
• 19
  It's a Shame
  2:25
• 20
  Mount Zion
  2:43

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Release credits

• Leslie Kong
  producer [2.1, 2.14, 1.1-2, 1.5, 1.7, 1.14]

Issues

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  The Essential Desmond Dekker

  2x CD
  5 June 2006