The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds
“Recorded as "Mbube" in South Africa, 1939. Later appropriated for hits by the Weavers, the Kingston Trio, the Tokens, Robert John and the 1994 “Lion King” movie. Solomon Linda never got paid until a suit by his estate was settled in 2006, by which time the man himself had been dead for 44 years.”
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Recorded as "Mbube" in South Africa, 1939. Later appropriated for hits by the Weavers, the Kingston Trio, the Tokens, Robert John and the 1994 “Lion King” movie. Solomon Linda never got paid until a suit by his estate was settled in 2006, by which time the man himself had been dead for 44 years.
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Recorded in 1939 in Johannesburg. The first known recording of this song.
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