Hopeton Lewis information

Hopeton Lewis (3 October 1947 – 4 September 2014) was a Jamaican born singer of rocksteady and reggae, an arranger, and radio music presenter. Lewis was...

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"Boom shaka laka laka." "Boom Shaka Laka Laka", a 1970 reggae song by Hopeton Lewis, also covered by UB40 on the 2010 album Labour of Love IV. Walk The...

candidates for the first rocksteady single include "Take It Easy" by Hopeton Lewis, "Tougher Than Tough" by Derrick Morgan and "Hold Them" by Roy Shirley...

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Jets, formed in 1966 and which included Hux Brown, Headley Bennett, Hopeton Lewis, Gladstone Anderson, and Winston Wright. Taitt's guitar style was inventive...

instrumental version titled "Mighty Alley". Subsequently U-Roy and Hopeton Lewis sang and toasted new lyrics over "Mighty Alley" to create the recording...

Hopeton Lewis: Rock Steady / Cool Collie, 1967 WI 3055 - Hopeton Lewis: Finders Keepers / Roland Alphonso: Shanty Town Curfew, 1967 WI 3056 - Hopeton...

1966 in Australia; it charted #2 Melbourne #3 Brisbane and #1 Perth. Hopeton Lewis, as a single in 1967 in the UK, but it did not chart. A rendering by...

3:42 "Them a Fe Get a Beatin'" (Peter Tosh) - 3:28 "Napoleon Solo" (Hopeton Lewis) - 3:09 "Skinhead Girl" (Monty Neysmith) - 3:31 "Fire Corner" (Clancy...

year enjoyed further success with "Water Pumping", an adaptation of Hopeton Lewis' "Take It Easy". The hits continued with "Get Cracking", "Check For...

musicians slowed the ska tempo to create rocksteady; one is that the singer Hopeton Lewis was unable to sing his hit song "Take It Easy" at a ska tempo. The name...

Dream" (1985), Element Promotion "Right Track" (2003), Trojan - with Hopeton Lewis "Why Did You Leave Me To Cry" (2004), Treasure Isle - with Alton Ellis...

Lee & The Dragonaires, Archie Lewis, were just some of the acts who recorded hit songs there. In 1965, singer Hopeton Lewis recorded his rocksteady hit...

Cole" Wilburn T. Cole Arthur "Duke" Reid   17. "Take It Easy" – Hopeton Lewis" Hopeton Lewis Jr S. Mitchell & K. Scott   18. "Every Night" – Chuck & Joe White"...

there. Lee's productions included Boris Gardiner's Reggae Happening, Hopeton Lewis's Grooving Out on Life, and The Slickers' "Johnny Too Bad". Dynamic also...

(Intensified '68)" 1969 - The Maytals with "Sweet and Dandy" 1970 - Hopeton Lewis with "Boom Shacka Lacka" 1971 - Eric Donaldson with "Cherry Oh Baby"...

Jamaican-British journalist and playwright (b. 1951). 4 September – Hopeton Lewis, singer (b. 1947). 20 September – Kamara James, Jamaican-born American...

Leonard, 83, American radio personality (WGN), esophageal infection. Hopeton Lewis, 66, Jamaican singer, kidney failure. Edi Mall, 90, Austrian Olympic...

True"  (original by Ken Parker) – 2:55 "Boom Shacka Lacka"  (original by Hopeton Lewis) – 3:32 "You're Gonna Need Me"  (original by Errol Dunkley) – 3:00 "A...

with Sonny Bradshaw's jazz group, subsequently recording duets with Hopeton Lewis, Lloyd Robinson and Dave Barker for producers such as Duke Reid and...

records by artists such as Hopeton Lewis, Beres Hammond, the Mighty Diamonds, and Cynthia Schloss, who became his wife. Lewis' 1966 recording, "Take It...