Desmond Dekker - Israelites (1980 10" Version)

"Israelites" by Desmond Dekker; RARE version released as a 10" in 1980.

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• dekker
• israelites
• reggae
• music

[gittahfiend]

Disco screwed up this reggae classic.

[BmwCz]

vai desmond facci saltare

[JonesArmandoHoward]

Consecration.Sacrifice and Destruction...

[dawnwilldo]

IT IS A COOL SONG- PLEASE DON'T TAINT IT WITH POLITICAL INSANITY!

[jonjuliecat]

@lolgellor ... there are still plenty of talented artists around that still have to keep their day jobs ... I could name a few around here .... one band here on their last major label sold 60k copies in the UK. Can't get a major label to take any interest in their last album even though it has been widely praised by the music press and played on 6music ... oh well :-(

[lolgellor]

@jonjuliecat True enough we were both skint and signing on, he had a family to support, which kind of made the lyrics as poigniant as ever for him I'm sure. If it hadn't been for a speculative intervention by Vic Keary at Chalk Farm studios, there wouldn't have been a deal with Stiff and to be fair to Mr Robinson Stiff did come up with a bit of dough - for DD & other talented artists the real shafting went on in the sixties, hang on I have never recieved any royalties for DD stuff I produced!

[Googlystube]

thumbs if you were eating vitalite spread before you searched for this

[GeneralG7]

For this to be released on 10" by Stiff Records only makes this song better!! :P

[jonjuliecat]

this version was released on Stiff records - at the time poor old DD was so poor he couldn't afford a telephone ... another talent shafted by the record industry...

[835sedici]

Uuuhm uuuhm, we Israelites. 7 People doesnt understand this sentence. ;)

[PhflyDan1]

BrrrrrraaaaaaP!!!!

[barnydrunk]

my ears are alight ;-)