Consumer Guide Album

Jimmy Cliff: Wonderful World, Beautiful People [A&M, 1970]
If I told you that the two other great songs here are called "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Viet Nam," would you agree that naming this album after its "hit" amounts to false advertising? Yet running through all the protest and self-help is a good cheer independent of message--partly in the headlong tempos and drum explosions, partly in Cliff's own sweet fervor. B+