Band Name: Alton Ellis
Music Album: The Best Of Alton Ellis
Album Release Date: April 1969
Music Genre: Reggae Ska Rocksteady
Record Label: Coxsone Records
Album Release Country: Jamaica
Music Record Type: 12 Tracks Vinyl LP Repress
King of Rocksteady
Born: 1st September 1938 Kingston, Jamaica
Died: 10th October 2008 London, England
Jamaican singer, songwriter, producer and promoter.
Alton Ellis was born in down town Kingston into a musical family and raised in Trenchtown, Kingston. He was the older brother of reggae singer Hortense Ellis and at the end of his life father of 20 children including Noel Ellis.
He grew up being a good dancer and winning some dance contests at Vere Johns' Opportunity Hour. His first musical steps happened in 1959 when he started with Eddie Parkins as Alton & Eddy. He first recorded for Blue Beat, Vincent "Randy" Chin's Randy's later like nearly everyone at that time for Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Studio One< (...)
| A1 | Can I Change My Mind | 3:02 |
| A2 | Breaking Up Is Hard | 3:25 |
| A3 | This Feeling Of Love | 2:35 |
| A4 | Land Of Loving | 2:38 |
| A5 | Pearls | 2:12 |
| A6 | Knock On Wood | 2:52 |
| B1 | Jamaica | 2:56 |
| B2 | Sitting In The Park | 2:56 |
| B3 | La La La | 2:24 |
| B4 | Set A Better Example | 2:29 |
| B5 | Still Trying | 2:46 |
| B6 | Willow Tree | 2:57 |
Recorded at Jamaica Recording & Publishing Studio Ltd.
Made In Jamaica.
White Paper Labels.
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