Editing Reggae (section)

===Emergence in Jamaica===
Reggae developed from [[ska]] and [[rocksteady]] in the late 1960s. Larry And Alvin's "Nanny Goat" and the Beltones' "No More Heartaches" were among the songs in the genre. The beat was distinctive from rocksteady in that it dropped any of the pretensions to the smooth, soulful sound that characterized slick American R&B, and instead was closer in kinship to US southern funk, being heavily dependent on the rhythm section to drive it along. Reggae's great advantage was its almost limitless flexibility: from the early, jerky sound of Lee Perry's "People Funny Boy", to the uptown sounds of Third World's "Now That We've Found Love", it was an enormous leap through the years and styles, yet both are instantly recognizable as reggae.<ref>"Reggae." ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', 4th ed. Ed. Colin Larkin. ''Oxford Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Web. 16 February 2016.</ref>  The shift from rocksteady to reggae was illustrated by the organ [[Swung note|shuffle]] pioneered by Jamaican musicians like [[Jackie Mittoo]] and Winston Wright and featured in transitional singles "Say What You're Saying" (1968) by [[Eric "Monty" Morris]] and "People Funny Boy" (1968) by [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]].{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

[[File:Jimmy_Cliff_-_Festival_du_Bout_du_Monde_2012_-_022.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jimmy Cliff]]]]

Early 1968 was when the first ''bona fide'' reggae records were released: "Nanny Goat" by [[Larry Marshall (singer)|Larry Marshall]] and "No More Heartaches" by the Beltones. That same year, the newest Jamaican sound began to spawn big-name imitators in other countries. American artist [[Johnny Nash]]'s 1968 hit "[[Hold Me Tight (Johnny Nash song)|Hold Me Tight]]" has been credited with first putting reggae in the American listener charts. Around the same time, reggae influences were starting to surface in [[rock music|rock]] and [[pop music]]; one example is 1968's "[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]" by [[the Beatles]].<ref>Kevin O'Brien Chang, 1998, ''Reggae Routes'', p. 44.</ref>

[[The Wailers (1963–1974 band)|The Wailers]], a band started by [[Bob Marley]], [[Peter Tosh]] and [[Bunny Wailer]] in 1963, is perhaps the most recognized band that made the transition through all three stages of early Jamaican popular music: ska, rocksteady and reggae. Over a dozen Wailers songs are based on or use a line from Jamaican mento songs. Other significant ska artists who made the leap to reggae include [[Prince Buster]], [[Desmond Dekker]], [[Ken Boothe]], and [[Millie Small]], best known for her 1964 blue-beat/ska [[cover version]] of "[[My Boy Lollipop]]" which was a smash hit internationally.<ref name="amg">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/millie-small-mn0000489606/biography|title=Millie Small – Biography & History – AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=9 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308231443/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/millie-small-mn0000489606/biography|archive-date=8 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Notable Jamaican producers influential in the development of ska into rocksteady and reggae include: [[Coxsone Dodd]], [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]], [[Leslie Kong]], [[Duke Reid]], [[Joe Gibbs (record producer)|Joe Gibbs]] and [[King Tubby]]. [[Chris Blackwell]], who founded [[Island Records]] in Jamaica in 1960,<ref>Sexton, Paul. "A Legend in His Own Time." Billboard – The International Newsweekly of Music, Video and Home Entertainment 113.39 (29 Sep 2001): p. C-8.</ref> relocated to England in 1962, where he continued to promote Jamaican music. He formed a partnership with [[Lee Gopthal]]'s [[Trojan Records]] in 1968, which released reggae in the UK until bought by Saga records in 1974.