This Is Desmond Dekkar Explained

This Is Desmond Dekkar
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Desmond Dekker
Cover:	This Is Desmond Dekkar.jpg
Genre:	Ska
Label:	Trojan
Producer:	Leslie Kong
Prev Title:	Action!
Prev Year:	1968
Next Title:	Intensified
Next Year:	1970

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'.