Anthology CD

MUSIC

REGGAE

ROOTS

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Miss Jamaica ~ Jimmy Cliff

2. Hurricane Hattie ~ Jimmy Cliff

3. King Of Kings ~ Jimmy Cliff

4. Waterfall ~ Jimmy Cliff

5. Time Will Tell ~ Jimmy Cliff

6. Wonderful World, Beautiful People ~ Jimmy Cliff

7. Come Into My Life ~ Jimmy Cliff

8. Hard Road To Travel ~ Jimmy Cliff

9. Viet Nam ~ Jimmy Cliff

10. Many Rivers To Cross ~ Jimmy Cliff

11. Sufferin' In The Land ~ Jimmy Cliff

12. Use What I Got ~ Jimmy Cliff

13. You Can Get It If You Really Want ~ Jimmy Cliff

14. Let Your Yeah Be Yeah ~ Jimmy Cliff

15. Wild World ~ Jimmy Cliff

16. Bongo Man ~ Jimmy Cliff

17. Sitting In Limbo ~ Jimmy Cliff

18. Goodbye Yesterday ~ Jimmy Cliff

19. Harder They Come, The - (single version) ~ Jimmy Cliff

20. Trapped ~ Jimmy Cliff

21. Oh Jamaica ~ Jimmy Cliff

22. Fundamental Reggay ~ Jimmy Cliff

23. Under The Sun, Moon And Stars ~ Jimmy Cliff

Disc 2

Song Title

1. Struggling Man - (album version) ~ Jimmy Cliff

2. Better Days Are Coming ~ Jimmy Cliff

3. Sooner Or Later ~ Jimmy Cliff

4. House Of Exile ~ Jimmy Cliff

5. Action Speaks Louder Than Words ~ Jimmy Cliff

6. If I Follow My Mind ~ Jimmy Cliff

7. Brave Warrior ~ Jimmy Cliff

8. Stand Up And Fight Back ~ Jimmy Cliff

9. I Am The Living - (album version) ~ Jimmy Cliff

10. Love Again ~ Jimmy Cliff

11. What Are You Doing With Your Life ~ Jimmy Cliff

12. Shelter Of Your Love - (single version) ~ Jimmy Cliff

13. Give The People What They Want ~ Jimmy Cliff

14. Rub-A-Dub Partner ~ Jimmy Cliff

15. We All Are One ~ Jimmy Cliff

16. Club Paradise ~ Jimmy Cliff

17. Love Me, Love Me ~ Jimmy Cliff

18. She Was So Right For Me ~ Jimmy Cliff

19. I Can See Clearly Now ~ Jimmy Cliff

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Jimmy Cliff (vocals); Earl "Chinna" Smith, Radcliffe "Dougie" Bryan (guitar); Ansell Collins, Phil Ramacon (keyboards); Bertram "Ranchie" McLean (bass); Mickey "Boo" Richards (drums); Uziah "Stickey" Thompson (percussion).
	Producers include: Jimmy Cliff, Guilly Bright, Chris Blackwell, Cat Stevens, Trevor Lawrence.
	Compilation producers: Dana G. Smart, Mike Ragogna.
	Recorded between 1962 & 1993. Includes liner notes by Dave Thompson.
	Audio Remixer: Jimmy Bralower.
	Liner Note Author: Dave Thompson .
	Photographers: J. Janson; Chuck Krall; Harry Goodwin.
	Arranger: Larry Fallon.
	Jimmy Cliff has always occupied an odd position in reggae music, first of all because he predates it significantly, but also because for much of his career he merged his musical interests with international pop considerations to the extent that he managed to record frequently for such major labels as Warner, EMI, Universal, and Sony. Although his commercial success was spotty, it was recurrent; he first hit the charts internationally in 1969 and was still scoring occasionally in the mid-'90s. His label hopping had made it practically impossible to assemble a thorough compilation of his work until the release of Anthology. Universal's Hip-O reissue subsidiary specializes in putting together anthologies that span record labels, and the compilers had quite a task on their hands when it came to Cliff. Early in his career, he recorded for Island, later controlled by Universal (including his contributions to the celebrated soundtrack to The Harder They Come), and in the early '80s he was on the Universal-controlled MCA label, so Hip-O could start with that material. But there was still a chunk of recordings issued by Warner/Reprise in the U.S. and EMI in the U.K. in the '70s as well as a period on Sony's Columbia imprint in the '80s and '90s to consider. Nevertheless, Hip-O's Anthology succeeds in being the perfect two-disc compilation of Cliff's work over 30 years, 1962-1993. There are early Jamaican hits; the international breakthrough "Wonderful World, Beautiful People"; the topical hit "Viet Nam"; tracks from The Harder They Come, including "Sitting in Limbo" and "Many Rivers to Cross"; Cliff's version of Cat Stevens' "Wild World"; numerous tracks from the Warner/EMI period; and Columbia hits like "Club Paradise" and Cliff's U.S. Top 20 hit revival of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from 1993-1994. Not only is the compilation thorough, but for the first time, it gives a good sense of Cliff's career as a whole, revealing his talents as a songwriter and his ability to use Jamaican rhythms to make a music palatable to pop audiences around the world. ~ William Ruhlmann

Artist Overview

One of the great popularizers of reggae music, Jimmy Cliff blazed a trail into rock that Bob Marley later followed. In the mid 1960s, the young Jamaican singer moved to London to pursue his singing career. After returning to his home and recording some ska & rocksteady material, Cliff finally broke through in 1969 with "Wonderful World, Beautiful People." After hearing the song, Paul Simon travelled to Kingston and booked the same rhythm section, studio, and engineer to record "Mother and Child Reunion"--arguably the first U.S.-made reggae song. As the gun-toting, reggae-singing star of THE HARDER THEY COME (1972), Cliff was suddenly Jamaica's most marketable property. It was the island's best homegrown film, and its soundtrack one of the biggest-selling reggae records of all time.

Compilation Appearances

	Harder They Come
	Ultimate Reggae
	Island 50 Reggae
	Hits: reloaded
	Hawaii Five 0 (Ost)
	Playlist:king Of Kings Reggae Hits
	Reggae Golden Jubilee:origins Of Jama
	Ruler:reggae Anthology

Associated Artists and Works

	Brown, Dennis
	Lebo M
	Nu Colours
	Unlimited ~ Nu Colours
	Original Soundtrack
	The Harder They Come [Remaster] ~ Original Soundtrack

Technical Info

	Release Date : 07/01/2003
	Original Release Date : 2003
	Catalog ID : 556766
	Label : Universal Distribution
	Number of Discs : 2
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00731455676624

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (8/7/03, p.77)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...[Traces] Cliff's development from early-Sixties charmers...through his sunny yet authoritative European hits...to an unerring selection of his Eighties and Nineties adventures..."

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Anthology (2003)

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