It Miek was a 1969 hit

Hit record

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 song

Song

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 by the Jamaica

Jamaica

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n musician

Musician

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s, Desmond Dekker & The Aces

Desmond Dekker

Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites". Other hits include "007 " and "It Miek"...

. After being re-released in June 1969, the single

Single (music)

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 reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart

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. The track was written

Songwriter

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 by Dekker (under his real name of Desmond Dacres) and his record producer

Record producer

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, Leslie Kong

Leslie Kong

Leslie Kong was a Chinese Jamaican record producer.-Career:Leslie and his two older brothers Cecil and Lloyd ran a restaurant, ice cream parlour and record shop called Beverley's in Orange Street, Kingston...

, and was recorded in Jamaica with the brass

Brass instrument

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 accompaniment added in the UK

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. It spent eleven weeks in the UK chart

Record chart

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, and by September 1970 had sold over a million copies worldwide. A gold record

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 was presented by Ember Records, the distributors of Dekker's recordings

Sound recording and reproduction

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The song's title is Jamaican patois meaning "that's why" or "that's the reason."