Name: 007 Shanty Town
Brand: Desmond Dekker and The Aces

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MOVLP2347

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Little Amber Fish

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

8719262008830

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Desmond Dekker and The Aces

Genre GB

Reggae / Dub

Label GB

Music On Vinyl

Desmond Dekker recorded some of his best known songs together with his backing group the Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard). Their debut album 007 (Shanty Town) includes their single of the same name, which made him Jamaican music’s first outer-national superstar, reaching the 14th place in the UK charts. You’ll hear how the Ska music from the mid-60s is developing to the Rocksteady sound.

This was “Ska” or “Blue Beat” - (or its new name for the slower tempo “Rock Steady”), and the lyrics come from the Calypso-Mento method of telling about current events in music. So in a groovy way, Desmond, James and Barry (the Aces) have given a report of love, politics, nagging women, the celebration of the Fifth anniversary of Independence, and gang warfare. 

This is were it all started before Desmond became the international star. Even before Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff Jamaica already had their own international superstar, Desmond Dekker was his name. Famous because of his international hits, such as Israelites (1968) and It Miek (1969)

007 Shanty Town

Music GB