The Lion Sleeps Tonight

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Single by The Tokens
from The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
A-side	"Tina"
Released	1961
Recorded	1961
Genre	Rhythm and blues; doo-wop; folk;
Length	2:41
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Solomon Linda; Hugo Peretti; Luigi Creatore; George David Weiss; Albert Stanton;
Producer(s)	Hugo & Luigi
The Tokens singles chronology
	The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (Audio) at YouTube

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda^[1] under the title "Mbube" for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939. Linda's original was written in Zulu, while the English version's lyrics were written by George David Weiss.

The song was covered internationally by many pop and folk revival artists in the 1950s and 1960s, including Henri Salvador, the Weavers, Pete Seeger, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba, and the Kingston Trio.

In 1961, it became a number one hit in the United States as adapted in English with the best-known version by the doo-wop group the Tokens.

References

↑ Malan, Rian. In the Jungle. Rolling Stone. http://reprints.longform.org/in-the-jungle. Retrieved 29 May 2020.

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[In_the_Jungle-1] Malan, Rian. In the Jungle. Rolling Stone. http://reprints.longform.org/in-the-jungle. Retrieved 29 May 2020.

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