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This Is Desmond Dekkar
Compilation album by Desmond Dekker
Released	1969 (1969)
Genre	Ska
Label	Trojan
Producer	Leslie Kong
Desmond Dekker chronology
Action! (1968) This Is Desmond Dekkar (1969) Intensified (1970)

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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.

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"

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'.

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