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The Harder They Come
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 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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Tracks| 1 | You Can Get It If You Really Want | | 2 | Draw Your Breaks - Scotty | | 3 | Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians | | 4 | Many Rivers to Cross | | 5 | Sweet and Dandy - The Maytals | | 6 | Harder They Come | | 7 | Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers | | 8 | Shanty Town - Desmond Dekker | | 9 | Pressure Drop - The Maytals | | 10 | Sitting in Limbo | | 11 | You Can Get It If You Really Want | | 12 | Harder They Come |
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