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"Do the Reggay" — Toots & the Maytals

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"Do the Reggay," recorded by Toots and the Maytals in 1968, is widely credited as the first song to use the word "reggae" in a title - lending its name, within a couple of years, to the entire genre that grew out of rocksteady.

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