Jimmy Cliff in the Harder They Come
For its extraordinary contribution to the contemporary music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, songwriters and general public, or for some other inherent quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, show business professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, the legendary BBC Radio A&R; man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice , Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton, Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" , Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565.       NOTE: THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PRESSING OF THIS ALBUM, RELEASED WHILE ISLAND RECORDS WAS STILL IN ITS INFANCY AND DISTRIBUTED BY CAPITOL RECORDS, AND BEARING THE CHARACTERISTIC CAPITOL RECORDS CATALOG NUMBER (SMAS-7400).  IN 1974, ISLAND RECORDS TERMINATED THE DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH CAPITOL RECORDS AND STARTED DISTRIBUTING THIS AND OTHER ISLAND ALBUMS INDEPENDENTLY. FOR THIS REASON, ALL LATER PRESSINGS AND REISSUES OF THIS LEGENDARY SOUNDTRACK WERE RELEASED AND DISTRIBUTED ON ISLAND'S WHOLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY, MANGO RECORDS, UNDER A DIFFERENT CATALOG NUMBER (MLPS-9202).        THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.