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Alton Ellis vinyl records

10 albums with 181 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Alton Nehemiah Ellis. 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.