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Hopeton Lewis
voc, bvoc, 1947-2014 JM, Kingston Parish
Singer of Reggae
Hopeton Lewis (born 3 October 1947, Kingston, Jamaica, died 4 September 2014 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) was a Jamaican singer. With his baritone voice, he is mostly known for the rocksteady hits "Take It Easy" and "Boom Shaka Lacka".
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Take It Easy on Take It Easy by Hopeton Lewis Drive Her Home on U Roy by U-Roy Express Yourself on Grooving out on Life by Hopeton Lewis Sound and Pressure on Take It Easy by Hopeton Lewis Boom-Sha-Ka-Lacka on Gay Jamaica Independence Time by Various Artists The Mighty Quinn on The Mighty Quinn by Hopeton Lewis Get On the Right Track on One Life to Live by Phyllis Dillon Tom Drunk on Classic Gold Collection by Hopeton Lewis Cool Cool Collie on Take It Easy by Hopeton Lewis Grooving out on Life on Grooving out on Life by Hopeton LewisTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Band Members
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| There She Goes / Reggay Trombone | Hopeton Lewis / Vin Gordon & The Supersonics | 2017 | Single |
| Blackman Time / Live It Up | Hopeton Lewis With Tommy McCook & The Supersonics | 2016 | Single |
| Drive Her Home / I Love You Baby | U-Roy & Hopeton Lewis With Tommy McCook & The Supersonics / The Versatiles | 2015 | Single |
| Run Down / Napoleon Solo | Hopeton Lewis / Lynn Taitt & The Jets | 2014 | Single |
| Run If You Are Afraid / Sounds And Pressure | Hopeton Lewis | 2014 | Single |
| Happy Christmas / Lester Sterling Special | Hopeton Lewis / Lester Sterling With Lynn Taitt & The Jets | 2013 | Single |
| Everybody Rocking / Rocking Mood | Hopeton Lewis With Lynn Taitt & The Jets | 2012 | Single |
| Knocking On My Door / Pick Yourself Up | Hopeton Lewis | 2012 | Single |
| At The Corner Of The Street / Move Along With Me | Hopeton Lewis | 2012 | Single |
| Boom Shaka Laka / Testify | Hopeton Lewis | 2011 | Single |
| Girl You Cold / Are You Ready | Hopeton Lewis & Glen Brown / The Progressions With Lynn Taitt & The Jets | 2011 | Single |
| This Music Got Soul / Rocksteady | Hopeton Lewis | 2011 | Single |
| Dwyck It Easy / Ska Junkies | Gang Starr, Hopeton Lewis, Nice & Smooth / The Heptones | 2008 | Single |
| Mighty Quinn / Rescue Me | Hopeton Lewis / The Reggae Girls | 2008 | Compil. |
| Classic Gold Collection 1968-1998 | Hopeton Lewis | 1998 | Compil. |
| Reggae Boys Deh Pon Dem | Hopeton Lewis / Mikey Jarrett | 1998 | Single |
| Love Me Now / Old Time Gospel Medley | Hopeton Lewis | 1997 | Single |
| Love, Life, And Music | Hopeton Lewis | 1997 | Album |
| Big Girl Now | Hopeton Lewis | 1995 | Single |
| Grooving Out On Life | Hopeton Lewis With The S.P.M's | 1992 | Single |
| When A Child Is Born / I Believe | Hopeton Lewis | 1991 | Single |
| Nothing Left To Give | Hopeton Lewis | 1990 | Single |
| Please Stay / Money Mind | Hopeton Lewis / Ken Lazarus | 1990 | Album |
| I Lost Her | Hopeton Lewis | 1990 | Single |
| Come, Come, Come | Hopeton Lewis And Screwdriver | 1989 | Album |
| I'd Really Like To | Hopeton Lewis | 1988 | Single |
| It's Raining / Ready Fi Dance | Hopeton Lewis / Bunny General | 1988 | Album |
| Dance Sweet | Hopeton Lewis | 1987 | Album |
| This Music Got Soul | Hopeton Lewis | 1987 | Album |
| Wanna Dance With You | Hopeton Lewis | 1986 | Album |
| Irie Reggae Feeling | Hopeton Lewis | 1985 | Single |
| All Night Bubblin' | Hopeton Lewis | 1985 | Album |
| This Song / Why Did You Do That | Hopeton Lewis | 1984 | Album |
| Celebrate This Twenty One / Na Na Na This Twenty One | Hopeton Lewis / Grubrick | 1983 | Single |
| This Song | Hopeton Lewis | 1983 | Single |
| Live In Concert | Hopeton Lewis | 1981 | Album |
| 007 (Shanty Town) / Cool Collie / Judge Dread In Court | Desmond Dekker / Hopeton Lewis / Derrick Morgan | 1980 | Single |
| God Loves You Children | Hopeton Lewis | 1979 | Single |
| Let Your Love Flow | Hopeton Lewis | 1979 | Album |
| Think Positive : Soulful Reggae Hits Vol. 1 | Hopeton Lewis | 1979 | Album |
| Let Your Love Flow / Let Dean Blow | Hopeton Lewis | 1978 | Single |
| Jamaica You Are Mine | Hopeton Lewis | 1977 | Single |
| Story Book Children | Hopeton Lewis | 1977 | Single |
| Think Positive / Story Book Children | Hopeton Lewis | 1977 | Album |
| Whenever I Am Around You | Hopeton Lewis | 1977 | Single |
| See And Blind / Sounds And Pressure | Jackie Paris / Hopeton Lewis | 1977 | Album |
| Hell In The City | Hopeton Lewis | 1976 | Single |
| Leaving Babylon | Hopeton Lewis | 1975 | Single |
| Dip & Fall Back | Hopeton Lewis | 1975 | Single |
| Dreadlock Chalice | Hopeton Lewis | 1975 | Single |
| Dynamic Hopeton Lewis | Hopeton Lewis | 1974 | Album |
| Divine Woman | Hopeton Lewis | 1974 | Single |
| City Of New Orleans / The Wind Cries Mary | Hopeton Lewis | 1973 | Single |
| Don't Take Your Guns To Town | Hopeton Lewis | 1973 | Single |
| Grooving Out On Life | Hopeton Lewis | 1973 | Album |
| Groovin' Out On Life | Hopeton Lewis | 1973 | Single |
| Proud Mary / Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me | Hopeton Lewis | 1973 | Single |
| Good Together | Hopeton Lewis | 1972 | Single |
| Judgement Day / Version Day | Hopeton Lewis & Dennis Alcapone / Earl "Wire" Lindo | 1972 | Single |
| Come Together | Hopeton Lewis | 1972 | Single |
| Got To Get A Good Thing (Going) | Hopeton Lewis | 1972 | Single |
| Good Morning Jamaica / Love Is A Beautiful Thing | Hopeton Lewis | 1972 | Single |
| Starting All Over Again | Hopeton Lewis | 1972 | Single |
| To The Other Man / Stampede | Hopeton Lewis With Tommy McCook & The Supersonics / Tommy McCook | 1971 | Single |
| Tom Drunk / Mabrouk | Hopeton Lewis & U-Roy With Tommy McCook & The Supersonics | 1971 | Single |
| Grooving Out Of Life / Fire Fire | Hopeton Lewis / Byron Lee And The Dragonaires | 1971 | Single |
| You must leave me/Black bullet | Hopeton Lewis ,Joya Landis Tommy McCook | 1970 | Single |
| Boom-Shacka-Lacka / Dynamite | Hopeton Lewis / Tommy McCook Quintet | 1970 | Single |
| To The Other Man / Drive Her Home (Ver.) | Hopeton Lewis With Tommy McCook & The Supersonics | 1970 | Single |
| Must Tame You | Hopeton Lewis | 1970 | Single |
| Peace To You Brother Peace To You Sister | Hopeton Lewis With Tommy McCook Allstars | 1970 | Single |
| Life Is But A Dream | Hopeton Lewis, Winston Shand | 1969 | Single |
| Girl Your Cold | Glen Brown & Hopeton Lewis | 1968 | Single |
| Skinney Leg Girl | Hopeton Lewis & Glen Brown | 1968 | Single |
| "Take It Easy" With The "Rock Steady" Beat | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Album |
| Rock Steady | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| This Music Got Soul / Let The Little Girl Dance | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Cool Collie / This Poor Boy | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Run Down / Pick Yourself Up | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Everybody Rocking / Stars Shining So Bright | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Don't Cry / A De Pon Dem | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Let Me Come On Home / Hardships Of Life | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Rock-A-Shacka / I Don't Want Trouble | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Don't Cry / A De Pon Dem | Hopeton Lewis | 1967 | Single |
| Take It Easy / Why Must I Cry | Hopeton Lewis | 1966 | Single |
| You Make Me Feel Good Pt 1 | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Old Fashioned Love Songs | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| High On Music | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Cool Cool Collie / Deh Pon Deh | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Take It Easy / Sounds & Pressure | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Peace On Earth / Long Life | Primo Davidson & Hopeton Lewis, Bill Gentles | Single | |
| Testify / Ain't That Loving You | Hopeton Lewis / U-Roy & Alton Ellis | Single | |
| Judgement Day | Hopeton Lewis & Dennis Alcapone, Tommy McCook & The Soul Syndicate | Single | |
| Man In The Ghetto | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Going Back To My Home Town | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Sounds And Pressure / Oh Tell Me Darling | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| In Concert | Hopeton Lewis | Album | |
| Too Much Pressure / Version | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Gimme More Music | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Rocka Shocka / Lets Get Together | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Give Me More Music | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Sound & Pressure / Dynamic Pressure | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Drive Her Home / Stampede | U-Roy & Hopeton Lewis / Tommy McCook & The Supersonics | Single | |
| Superman / Testify | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Ragga We Raggamuffin | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Life In The Ghetto | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Live It Up / Smoking Ska | Hopeton Lewis / Baba Brooks | Single | |
| Dread Dread Collie | I-Roy - Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Endless Love | Hopeton Lewis & Maureen | Album | |
| Testify | Hopeton Lewis | Single | |
| Baby Love / Boom Sharka Laka | The Sensations / Hopeton Lewis & The Chosen Few | Single |
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