You Can Get it if You Really Want – Desmond Dekker  (1970)

Description

Additional information about this, Desmond Dekker  vinyl art.

Desmond Dekker  – The Artist

Desmond Dekker (born Desmond Adolphus Dacres; 1941 – 2006) was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard), he had one of the earliest international reggae hits with “Israelites” (1968). Other hits include “007 (Shanty Town)” (1967), “It Mek” (1969) and “You Can Get It If You Really Want” (1970).

You Can Get it if You Really Want – The Song

You Can Get it if You Really Want is a reggae song written and originally recorded by Jamaican singer songwriter Jimmy Cliff and released as a single in July 1970. This is a cover version, recorded by Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker and released within a few weeks of Cliff’s version. It became a hit single in a number of markets, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

The Shopping Trolley – The Shape

This record had been modelled into a silhouette of  a shopping cart or trolley. A shopping cart (North American English), trolley (British English, Australian English), also known by a variety of other names, is a wheeled cart supplied by a shop or store, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the premises for transport of merchandise as they move around the premises, while shopping, prior to heading to the checkout counter, cashiers or tills.

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