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Biography

Kingston, Jamaica

Alton Ellis (1938-2008) was a musician best known as the innovator of rocksteady music. He began recording in the late 1950s and continued until his death in 2008, but he reached his period of greatest popularity in the late 1960s.

Ellis was born in Trenchtown, a poor area of Kingston, Jamaica, and learned to play the piano at a young age. In his teens, Alton and Eddie Perkins formed Alton & Eddie, and began recording for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, scoring a hit in 1958 with “Muriel”.

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2	La La Means I Love You	64
3	Ain't That Loving You	62
4	I Am Still In Love With You	55
5	Breaking Up	54
6	Why Birds Follow Spring	49
7	Willow Tree	46
7	Dance Crasher	46
9	Rocksteady	42
10	Remember That Sunday	41
11	Girl I've Got A Date	36
11	Baby I Love You	36
13	It's A Shame	34
13	You Make Me Happy	34
15	If I Could Rule This World	33