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"It Miek" — Desmond Dekker & The Aces

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Desmond Dekker's 1969 follow-up to "Israelites": another Leslie Kong production into the UK top ten, its title Jamaican speech unapologetically intact — proof the breakthrough was a career, not an accident.

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Desmond Dekker & The Aces — It Miek (Official Audio)

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Trojan Records Official audio upload; discovery-only external reference.

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Jamaican records reached the world by half a dozen different routes — a London pop session, a film soundtrack, a cover version, a remix — and almost never the one the industry expected.

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