One of the tracks featured in the HBO Watchmen series is Desmond Dekker’s hit “Isrealites,” produced by Leslie Kong.
Debuting on May 17, 1969, the single cracked the Billboard Top 10 at #9. I heard it on WRKO-AM radio in Boston. I love YouTube videos like this one, with a budget record player. It sounds fantastic, and proves the magic is in the grooves, not the gear.
The reference in the song to the groundbreaking 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde presages the premise of Jimmy Cliff’s The Harder They Come.