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His voice matured as he left his teens, around the time of ska's transition to rocksteady and this period in the late 1960s produced many hits including one of the first rocksteady records, \"Dancing Mood\", \"Jerk in Time\" (with the Wailers), \"Feel Good All Over\", \"I'm Not a King\", \"True Believer in Love\", \"Rain From the Skies\", \"Conquer Me\" and \"Riding for a Fall\". \"Won't You Come Home\", a duet with Ken Boothe on a rhythm originally cut by The Conquerors for Sonia Pottinger has become one of the most-versioned Jamaican tracks ever. After leaving Studio One he recorded for other labels, with varying degrees of success, and set up his own short-lived W\u0026amp;C label. He enjoyed success with Bunny Lee in the late 1960s and early 1970s with tracks such as \"This Old Heart of Mine\", \"Footsteps of Another Man\", and \"Better Must Come\". His double A-side \"It Hurts\"\/\"Put Yourself in My Place\" was a skinhead favourite and narrowly missed UK chart success. 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