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The Harder They Come
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Product Details
- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0731458615828
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- Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
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- Label: Island
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- Manufacturer: Island
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Island
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- Release Date: 2001-06-26
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- Studio: Island
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- Title: The Harder They Come
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- UPC: 731458615828
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Product Description: Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack--here presented in a remastered version--with classics from Toots & the Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), the Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." --Sam Sutherland
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Customer Reviews
A lot of fun
I had this LP years ago, and loved it. Now without a turntable, I was so happy to find it re-released as a disc. It is very different, and a lot of fun to listen to. Real toe-tappers. A good one to play while cleaning the house....full of energy.
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Some of the best pre - bob marley reggae
This was reggae before Bob Marley. Jimmy Cliff was its king and the major exporter of the music, primarily to England. This recording is timeless. A lot of gems from a variety of artists featured.
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Essential Reggae
If you like reggae, you should have this CD. If you could only own 5 reggae CDs of all that is out there, this deserves to be one of those 5. I never tire of listening to these tracks after all these years. The other reviewers have ably described this music. I heartily agree. 5 more stars for The Harder They Come.
Favorite tracks (but I like them all)
1. Many Rivers To Cross
2. Rivers of Babylon
3. Pressure Drop
4. You Can Get It If You Really Want It
5. Sitting In Limbo
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remastered excellence
didn't think it could be done. this is great. this does jimmy cliff proud.
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The best from Jamaica...and Alabama
Still the best classic reggae collection, although as one other reviewer noted, some tracks do sound "Americanized." No surprise. "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Sitting in Limbo" were recorded with the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section in Alabama. This wasn't documented at the time (I learned it when I interviewed the MSRS in 1979) because apparently Cliff did not have the proper immigration papers to "work" in the USA when Chris Blackwell decided to bring him up for the quick sessions.
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