JAMAICAN singer Hopeton Lewis, reputed to have recorded the ... the Country Side Club over half-hour long and Hopeton kept the large audience of over 2,000 patrons going through with gospel songs.

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Hopeton Lewis was just hoping for a break when he stepped into the recording booth at Federal Records in late 1966 and cut a song called Take it Easy. It became his first hit and ...