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REGGAE DANCEHALL PIONEERS: Alton Ellis — I Named It Rocksteady | Part 4 | The Disputed Birth of a Genre
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In 1965 at Duke Reid's Treasure Isle, Alton Ellis recorded "Girl I've Got a Date" — and insisted he named the genre we now call rocksteady. But Lynn Taitt, Hopeton Lewis, Hugh Malcolm, and others all claim the credit. Part 4 maps the most disputed origin story in Jamaican music.