Ten Big Stiffs - Desmond Dekker "Israelites"

A legend in Jamaican music, Desmond Dekker had a successful touring business, but only sporadic hits through the 60's and 70's. After joining Stiff, Dave Robinson quickly teamed up Dekker with The Rumour and other Jamaican artists who backed him on new recordings of various old hits to create the album Black & Dekker, which included the single "Israelites", which reached number 10 in the UK.
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[@launderground]

brilliant.

[@Lyndanet]

This is an important and beautiful song to me ..its not funny at all how Desmond Deckker got that name though its a bit f'ed up . There's a theory that the lost tribe of Isreal (the iseralites) wound up in modern day Ethiopia who knows but the scholars who study such things ... and I will gladly leave that to them...