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1969 compilation album by Desmond Dekker
This Is Desmond Dekkar
Compilation album by Desmond Dekker
Released1969 (1969)
GenreSka
LabelTrojan
ProducerLeslie Kong
Desmond Dekker chronology
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(1970)
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This Is Desmond Dekkar is an album by Desmond Dekker released in 1969. For unknown reasons Dekker is credited as "Dekkar" on the album's cover.

Track listing

All songs written by Desmond Dekker.

  1. "007 (Shanty Town)"
  2. "Sabotage"
  3. "Shing a Ling"
  4. "Hey Grandma"
  5. "Beautiful and Dangerous"
  6. "Wise Man"
  7. "Music Like Dirt"
  8. "Rudy Got Soul"
  9. "Unity"
  10. "Mother Pepper"
  11. "It Pays"
  12. "Mother's Young Girl"

Influence

A copy of the album can be seen on the wall of the 'shop' on the sleeve of The Style Council's 1985 single 'Come to Milton Keynes'.

References

  1. This Is Desmond Dekkar at AllMusic
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