Desmond Dekker and the Aces - A It Mek

[TxTFamGuy1]

Desmond Dekker was not the king of Ska (Price Buster and The Skatalites are the kings of Ska). He only made a few Ska songs (Honor Your Mother And Your Father, Get Up Edina, Mount Zion. His song "King Of Ska" is actually Desmond Dekker and Toot's and The Maytals (known as The Cherry Pies). And Toots totally owns in that tune. All Desmond's most famous tunes are Rocksteady (this tune, 007 Shanty Town) and Reggae (Poor Mi aka The Israelites. I remember Dekker as 'Reggae Legend'.

[BucketPukes1969]

Remember the Skins!

[56postoffice]

What a classic!! I remember one of dad's friends played this when I was small, it's still a wicked tune!!!

[popzilla6]

the first time i every heard this song was on scareface the video game its been my favorite song ive been lookin for this song for 2 years great song

[sugarkang]

wow. this sounds SO goood. the version on the best of CD is horrible.

[durko76]

classic!

[YahKah23]

mi ah di cool girl

[samuelsonable]

THIS IS ENGLAND 86 phat i had this in my cell for a while now anyways DD 007 RIP

[heidebeer58]

It's a great song!

[chunkymilk]

ice water!

[supervirtuouswoman]

Desmond Dekker is the real Israelite.

[keziban100]

lovely song...greets from turkey!

[casucola]

e stupenda ...sempre old school....SEMPRE.. UN SALENTINO..

[chicotower]

This is my favorite Desmond Dekker song. It makes me want to get up and dance! Love that rhythm!

[TheRickynow]

Sounds so much better than the later "sweetened version" Thank You!

[CocainePolitics]

happy song

[teendude16]

Great Tune.

[briteness]

Great stuff. A It Mek!

[danksbutta]

the tunes, the voices... just awesome. he and the aces turned me on to this genre when i was a teenager in the 90s. they're as good as it gets and their music will live on forever - RIP, king of ska.

[ergophonic]

BIG TUNE! Props to spinning it on a gold 1200 as well. Peace.

[TheRickynow]

Yes! that Technics is so so cool!

[visect]

I want your record collection

[heidebeer58]

@visect

I heave 13.000 single's from the year's 1950 till 1990

6.000 Lp's

6.000 CD's

And every weeck more!

[RioGiovanni]

Ik mek!

what does that even mean?

[jamboy301]

what he says "a it mek" jamaican patois

means "thats the reason"

[123sheepdip]

For some reason this version is lacking the trombone and trumpet backing which is on the Pyramid version.

Anyone know the reason for this

[Reggae45s]

The versioon you heard was the "cleaned up" version that was done years later. this is the original.

[justlikeataris]

KING OF SKA

R.I.P

dekker should be where marley is in popularity

[blaafugl]

For the people who knew his music, he surely is way up there!!

[Reggae45s]

I agree.

[rastashredder93]

@justlikeataris I agree too much



[lathzz]

Ive just very recently got turned onto reggae type sounds. This is the tops!

[Teddykinso]

LOVELY!!<3

[xwsftassell]

ACE.

[markthebass]

Hi Bobby - thanks for the video response. In the UK, this was released on Pyramid in 1969 (as on my video), part of the Trojan label which so much great reggae was released on here. I notice your version is slightly different incidentally. Great to hear your sounds - I have some other classic reggae tracks I'm gonna post soon.

[firebladerr1]

ive just found it and as soon as i heard i thought the the same sounds a bit different does any body know the Reason? as u markthe base ive got the uk 1969 Pyramid press!

still a wkd sound though!