This 18-track compilation bundles up some of the best of Brown's work with producer Niney Holness and, in conjunction with Heartbeat's Open the Gates collection, mops up virtually all the pair's material together from the 1970s. And what a phenomenal flood of music it was. Although only 16 when he and the Observer began working together, Brown was already a music veteran, a former child star, who had grown into a winsome teenaged balladeer. Holness himself was barely out of his teens, but still managed to help shape the youngster into one of the age's greatest roots singers. Between 1973 and 1977, the pair, accompanied by Earl Chinna's Soul Syndicate, unleashed a torrent of seminal recordings and sent a slew of singles rocketing into the Jamaican chart. Some Like It Hot may disregard chronology -- in fact, the duo's first hit, Westbound Train, is immediately followed by their last, Tribulation, but to complain would be churlish, considering the masterpieces found here, including the two just mentioned. There's also the sublime Wolf and Leopards, the infectious title track, the pop classic My Time, and the powerful Cassandra (one of several cuts utilizing the Westbound Train rhythm). For collectors, there's also the fabulous 12" mixes of Africa and Here I Come (like Tribulation, its rhythm was cut in London with the Cimarrons, misspelled Cimaroons here), alongside Big Youth's DJ version of Westbound, Ride On/Wild Goose Chase. As an added bonus, the liner notes include an interview with the Observer himself. In their catalog, Heartbeat subtitles the album The Best of Dennis Brown -- they'd have been justified to print that on the CD's sleeve. ~ Jo-Ann Greene, Rovi

1		Here I Come
2		Westbound Train
3		Tribulation
4		Some Like It Hot
5		Lightning and Thunder
6		My Time
7		Tenement Yard
8		Africa
9		Wolf and Leopard
10		So Long Rastafari
11		Yagga Yagga
12		Conqueror
13		Cassandra
14		Ride on/Wild Goose Chase
15		No More Will I Roam
16		You're No Good
17		Why Must I
18		Truth and Rights