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Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come (1973 Film) (1990)
	Album details
	Label: Mango    Ref#: ?-0167 Date: 10/25/1990   Category:   Length: 0:00     Format: CD     Audio: Stereo     Genre:
Notes/Reviews
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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1.   You Can Get It If You Really Want   2.   Draw Your Brakes - Scotty   3.   Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodions   4.   Many Rivers To Cross   5.   Sweet And Dandy - The Maytals   6.   The Harder Thay 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.   The Harder They Come
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