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Format: LP
Label: Island
Year: 2018
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
Heavyweight vinyl LP pressing in a gatefold sleeve.
TRACKS:
A1. Jimmy Cliff - "You Can Get It If You Really Want"
A2. Scotty - "Draw Your Brakes"
A3. The Melodians - "Rivers Of Babylon"
A4. Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers To Cross"
A5. The Maytals - "Sweet & Dandy"
A6. Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
B1. The Slickers - "Johnny Too Bad"
B2. Desmond Dekker - "007 (Shanty Town)"
B3. The Maytals - "Pressure Drop"
B4. Jimmy Cliff - "Sitting In Limbo"
B5. Jimmy Cliff - "You Can Get It If You Really Want"
B6. Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
Originally released in 1972.
Produced by Jimmy Cliff and Leslie Kong.
The breakthrough album that - in conjunction with the film of the same title - burst reggae through into the mainstream with its release in England in summer 1972 and in the US in spring 1973. As film director and co-writer Perry Henzell said of the film, "There is no impact you will ever have greater than the impact of showing a society itself on the screen for the first time."