Mar292024

Hopeton Lewis

Hopeton Lewis is a Jamaican singer. Lewis began recording in the mid-1960s, and had one of the earliest rocksteady hits with "Take It Easy" in late 1966. He had several more Jamaican hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the first 'herb' song ever recorded in Jamaica, "Cool Collie", worked for Duke Reid as an arranger and backing singer, and won the Festival Song Contest in 1970 with "Boom Shaka Lacka". He began working as a singer with Byron Lee & the Dragonaires, and in 1971 had a hit with "Grooving Out On Life". Read more on Last.fm

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Take It Easy
95032
2Express Yourself
54769
3Sounds and Pressure
20533
4Boom Shacka Lacka
17717
5Tom Drunk
15999
6Sound and Pressure
14257
7the mighty quinn
13013
8Sounds & Pressure
12401
9Cool Collie
9950
10Grooving Out On Life
9688

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