So this week I thought of Dekker again, and I decided I needed to hear him.
Example: A few mornings ago, I suddenly thought of a reggae singer named Desmond Dekker.
The singer's fortunes waned in the 1970s until a British ska revival briefly resuscitated Dekker's career.
Dekker headed to England, where the self-proclaimed King of Ska was received like royalty.
He made some adjustments after surrendering a two-run triple to Matt den Dekker in the fourth.
New York finished with nine hits, including two each from Ike Davis and Matt den Dekker.
Dekker was planning another international tour when he died last week of a heart attack in London.
Early reports suggested Ms Dekker sailed from Portugal, but later reports suggested she may have been elsewhere.
Sam Dekker scored nine of his 11 points in the second half, including seven in a row during one impressive burst.
And there was Desmond Dekker on the clock radio, singing The Israelites.
Mets CF prospect Matt den Dekker was diagnosed with a fractured right wrist and will be in a cast for six weeks.
Davis had a double and den Dekker homered in the fifth inning.
Matt den Dekker broke a tie with a two-run triple in the seventh inning and the Mets came back from a five-run deficit.
It was another Dutch one-two in the final of the women's 50 metres butterfly with Chantal Groot taking gold and Inge Dekker the silver.
"She left from the port of Gibraltar, " said Marijke Schaaphok, whose company is handling Ms Dekker's media representation, saying she had spoken to Peter Klarenbeek.
In April Ms Dekker won a court case against Dutch social services, who had argued that the voyage could harm her emotional and social development.
"Fox was totally stunned by it, " says Nico Dekker, chief executive of Cape Town Film Studios, the South African facility where "Chronicle" was primarily shot.
Laura Dekker, 14, who won a legal battle to sail earlier this year, left at around 0900 GMT aboard her 11.5m (38ft) boat Guppy, Dutch media said.
Media had gathered in Portimao, Portugal, at her scheduled departure time of 1200 GMT on Saturday, but there was no sign of Ms Dekker or her vessel.
Evans had a layup, Brust went 1 for 2 at the line, Jared Berggren made a big 3-pointer and Dekker dunked inside off a nice pass from Jackson.
The teenager left her home port of Den Osse in the Netherlands on 4 August, accompanied by her father Dick Dekker, and arrived in Portugal ten days later.
Ms Dekker will make more than 20 stops along her route, and has more than two years to complete the trip in order to break the existing record.
Dekker says the studios are a huge step for South Africa's movie industry and will help the country to build its reputation as an emerging force in global filmmaking.
In 1967, Dekker's song "007 (Shanty Town), " detailing the island's "rude boy" gangster ghetto culture, topped charts in Great Britain and became a trans-Atlantic anthem for Britain's growing mod scene.
Dekker and his backup singers, a group of brothers dubbed The Four Aces, produced a string of hits, mostly love ballads and songs with hints of religion or advice to parents.
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