![]() Hope you enjoyed “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens. Thank you for stopping by The Daily Doo Wop. Please click here for the Daily Doo Wop YouTube channel, to which you can subscribe. Every weekend, there is a Golden Oldie Juke Box Saturday NIght, and the juke box is full of song requests from the 1950s and 1960s. You are welcome to listen to any of the 40+ selections there. After a song is featured, it then goes into the juke box. The Daily Doo Wop Rec Room has daily featured doo wop, rock and roll, R&B, or rockabilly songs that were hits during the first era of rock and roll (that is, from about 1952 until the British invasion in 1964). ![]() The lion sleeps tonight” For More Golden Oldies Music ![]() (A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh) Geils Band- Atlantic 4 The Lion Sleeps Tonight-The Tokens-RCA (33) 24. Here are the lyrics to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens: The Tokens were also record producers of several artists, including The Chiffons, Randy & The Rainbows, The Happenings, and Tony Orlando and Dawn. Group personnel changed over the years, but for this record, the members included Jay Siegel, Hank Medress, Mitch Margo, and Phil Margo with Joe Venneri on guitar. THE TOKENS name is of course synonymous with their biggest hit, the chart-topping, multi-million selling The Lion Sleeps Tonight, a song which has continually reinvented itself over the decades. The Tokens were from Brooklyn, NY, and originally had singer/songwriter Neil Sedaka as one of their members. Many people today know the song via Walt Disney’s The Lion King. The Lion Sleeps Tonight By The Tokens The Tokens - Digital Sheet Music for piano, voice and guitar (chords only) - Download & Print HX.289335 Sheet Music Plus. In 1961, the version by the doo-wop group The Tokens went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the R&B Chart. The Lion Sleeps Tonight is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda under the title Mbube for the South African Gallo Record Company in. There were many covers, including those by Jimmy Dorsey, The Weavers, Miriam Makeba, and The Kingston Trio. Also known as “Wimoweh” or “Wimba Way,” this song was originally recorded by South African Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds in 1939 and called “Mbube.” The lyrics were in Zulu. The golden oldie “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens, a doo wop style vocal group, has an interesting history.
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