Putumayo Presents: World Hits CD

By, Varios It probably helps to define the word "hit" before determining whether this 11-song compilation lives up to its title. If it means that a record must have placed in the Billboard Top Ten in America, then the title is a fib -- not all of these recordings even made the Top 100. And if World Hits is meant to imply that its contents are sung in languages other than English, that too would disqualify this collection: the two reggae tracks, for example, Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" and Peter Tosh's "(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back," which features a guest vocal from Mick Jagger, hail from Jamaica and are sung in English. (Cliff, incidentally, did chart three times in the U.S., but this song, from the soundtrack of the same-named film, wasn't one of them.) "7 Seconds," from Senegal's Youssou N'Dour with Britain's Neneh Cherry, is in English, and the incidental vocal asides in Mongo Santamaria's "Watermelon Man" are too. When South Africa's Miriam Makeba released her "Pata P