
UNDOCUMENTED EVIDENCE LEADS TO MANY CLAIMING TO BE ROCK STEADY’S FIRST!
Hopeton Lewis— BY LATE 1965, the ska beat, which had dominated Jamaican popular music since late 1961, and which was highlighted in last week’s article, was giving way to a smoother, slower, and more rhythmic form of music, which by year-end 1966, would become known as rock steady.