Vinyl records

Hopeton Lewis vinyl records

3 albums with 41 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

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 started the band with Eddie & around 1965 and it's the following year that the success comes with Take it Easy announced by some as the first Rocksteady and the apotheosis with 3902809 which won the Festival Song contest in 1970. He became the lead singer of the Dragonaires from 1969 to 1971. Around 1977 he opened a record store in Montego Bay "Hopetone Lewis Bay City Music" which gave the name to his label (). In the 80's he returned to his love of Gospel music and released a decade of albums