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	Bob Shannon's Behind The Hits: Stories: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
		Its original title was “Mbube,” (pronounced EEM-boo-beh) which means “Lion,” and it was sung with a haunting Zulu refrain that sounded, to English-speaking people, like “wimoweh.” “Mbube” was a big hit in what is now Swaziland; it sold nearly 100,000 copies in the 1940s by its originator, South African Solomon Linda.
		Linda had written it based on a boyhood experience chasing lions that were stalking the family's cattle, and recorded the tune in 1939 with his group the Evening Birds.
		Wimoweh: Borrowing loosely from Gordon Jenkins' arrangements, the song appeared by Jimmy Dorsey (Columbia) and Yma Sumac (Capitol).
	www.bobshannon.com /stories/Lion.html (0 words)

	Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wimoweh (Mbube) (Traditional; adapted and arranged by Campbell-Linda) This distinctive tune may have earned The Tokens a No. I hit in 1961 under the title "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," but theirs was by no means the first recording.
		The song known as "Wimoweh" (and later as "The Lion Sleeps Tonght") was written by Zulu singer and entertainer Solomon Linda, who recorded it with his vocal group, the Evening Birds, in a studio in South Africa in 1939.
		He taught "Wimoweh" to his group, the Weavers, who recorded it on a 45-rpm single b/w "Old Paint" for Decca in 1952.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/thesongs/Wimoweh.htm (613 words)

	Solomon Linda - Biography - AOL Music
		Although Linda recorded the first version with his group, The Evening Birds, in 1939, the song became an internationally-recognized classic when it was renamed "Wimoweh" and recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers in 1948.
		Whether named "Mbube," "Wimoweh," or "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," the song has been recorded by more than 150 artists including Jimmy Dorsey, The Kingston Trio, The Spinners, The Tremeloes, Glen Campbell, Brian Eno, They Might Be Giants, Miriam Makeba, R.E.M., Chet Atkins, The Nylons, and Manu Dibango.
		Seeger changed Linda's words, "Uyimbube, Uyimbube," to "Wimoweh" and recorded it with his group, The Weavers, in an uplifting interpretation arranged and orchestrated by Gordon Jenkins.
	music.aol.com /artist/solomon-linda/307519/biography (569 words)

	Filthy Choice: Mbube/Wimoweh/Lion Sleeps Tonight
		In the early 50's Pete Seeger heard the record from a friend and transcribed what he thought were the lyrics, turning Uyimbube to Wimoweh.
		With his controversial folk group they recorded the song as Wimoweh which would become one of their most popular songs.
		The song as recorded by the Tokens is bland and milquetoast when listened beside the previous two songs (the wimoweh chant loses all of it's vitality in the Tokens version) and the countermelody as sung by backup vocalist Anita Darian pushes the song towards kitsch.
	filthychoice.blogspot.com /2006/04/mbubewimowehlion-sleeps-tonight.html (716 words)

	☞ Mp3 Wimoweh
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	mp3.foryou74.com /mp3-wimoweh.html (787 words)

	Spoor & Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A settlement with the New York music publishing house that controls “Wimoweh”, the first of two international hits spawned by Linda’s 1939 song “Mbube”, is currenty being concluded.
		Ten years later, "Wimoweh" became the basis of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", a legendary pop song whose massive earnings are the subject of a separate battle pitting the Linda estate against Disney Enterprises and others.
		The attitude of TRO/Folkways is in sharp contrast to that of Disney Enterprises and Abilene Music, owners of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", who have responded to the appeals of Linda´s family with strenuous legal counter-measures, mainly of a technical nature.
	www.spoor.co.za /article.php?no=500 (515 words)

	iancowley.co.uk - The Lion Sleeps Tonight!
		Well, Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds released the original 'Mbube' (in 1939), which is in Zulu.
		The history of the song when it was brought to these shores is scattered, although it is known that the phonetic pronounciation of 'mbube' is very close to 'wimoweh', and that's where the lyric came from.
		The song 'wimoweh' is based quite strongly on 'Mbube'.
	www.iancowley.co.uk /w.shtml (0 words)

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	Pete Seeger
		Seeger came upon a scratchy recording of the song in 1951, transcribed the lyrics ("Wimoweh" was Seeger's misunderstanding of the Zulu word uyimbube, meaning lion), and it became one of the Weavers' popular tunes.
		The song has since been recorded by everyone from Jimmy Dorsey to Yma Sumac, Glen Campbell to They Might Be Giants, and it was a huge hit for The Tokens and The Kingston Trio before Disney's The Lion King made it an even bigger hit in the 1990s.
		Seeger thought "Wimoweh" had been an African folk song, and has always said he was oblivious to the song's hijacking.
	www.nndb.com /people/821/000022755 (0 words)

	The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1952, they recorded their version entitled "Wimoweh", a mishearing of the original song's chorus of 'uyimbube' (meaning "you're a lion"), and credited the four group members as the composers (under the group pseudonym Paul Campbell) and published by Folkways.
		Their 1952 version, arranged by Gordon Jenkins, became a top-twenty hit in the U.S., and their live 1957 recording turned it into a folk music staple.
		In February 2006 Linda's heirs reached a legal settlement for an undisclosed amount with Abilene Music, who held the worldwide rights and had licensed the song to Disney.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wimoweh (784 words)

	Wimoweh - Free guitar tips + tabs TAB
		Wimoweh - Free guitar tips + tabs TAB
		A- [ D ] wimoweh, a-wimoweh a- [ G ] wimoweh, a-wimoweh
		A- [ D ] wimoweh, a-wimoweh a- [ A ] wimoweh
	www.houlston.freeserve.co.uk /wimoweh.htm (0 words)

	SteynOnline - THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT
		Before Tight Fit, it was a Billboard Number Three for Robert John in the Seventies, a Number One for the Tokens in the Sixties; as "Wimoweh", it was a hit for the Weavers in the Fifties, and in the Forties, as "Mbube"...
		Weiss didn't much care for the guys a-hootin' an' a-hollerin' "A-wimoweh a-wimoweh" bar after bar like a bunch of buttondown Brooklynite tribesmen, but an eight-bar instrumental phrase at the end of all the zeudo-Zulu caught his fancy.
		I shall paraphrase: a lion is sleeping in a mighty but quiet jungle, near a peaceful and quiet village and a darling, presumably somewhere in a hut in the village, is told to hush and not to fear because the lion is asleep tonight.
	www.steynonline.com /content/view/108 (2830 words)

	Wimoweh: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Wimoweh: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
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	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Lion finally sleeps peacefully
		An American music-publishing house has offered to pay all future royalties on the song 'Wimoweh' to the family of its South African author, lawyers for the late composer Solomon Linda said on Monday.
		It became known as 'Wimoweh' and rose to number six on the United States music charts.
		Dean said TRO was initially under the impression that the tune was a traditional Zulu folk song, its author unknown.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/349676.htm (502 words)

	Wimoweh composer's family finally gets royalties - Music Room Forum - GardenWeb
		A couple of weeks ago, the San Diego Union Tribune had an article entitled, "Lion Finally Sleeps." It contained some information that I had never come across, so with an apology to people here who may know it already, I will repeat some of it because that song is one of my all-time favorites.
		The real composer of "Wimoweh" was a South African musician who died in poverty in 1962, aged 53.
		He composed Wimoweh for the group, titling it "Mbube"--"lion" in Zulu.
	glyphs.gardenweb.com /forums/load/music/msg0315431730770.html (513 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Orpheus Myron McAdoo and the 'Wimoweh' story \| Fisk Jubilee Georgia ...
		Wimoweh', making it a Number 6 hit in the USA.
		'Wimoweh' lived on, bewitching jazz ace Jimmy Dorsey, who covered it in 1952, and the sultry Yma Sumac, whose cocktail-lounge version caused a minor stir a few years later.
		By now, almost everyone in America knew the basic refrain, so it would have come as no particular surprise to find four nice Jewish teenagers popping their fingers and going ah-weem-oh-way, ah-weem-oh-way in the summer of 1961...
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /orpheus_myron_mcadoo.html (2285 words)

	The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He had heard a haunting song from South Africa and adapted it for The Weavers, a folk group of which he was the tenor.
		The Weavers introduced Wimoweh to United States audiences in their famous Carnegie Hall concert in 1955.
		You can clearly hear the kinship between the Tokens' version and the Weavers' version that came before it.
	www.fantasyfarm.com /wimoweh.html (191 words)

	Feature Item - poparchives.com.au
		The lyrics are by George Weiss, who reworked Wimoweh and added the "lion sleeps tonight" lyrics after the Tokens decided to record their version of the Weavers' 1951 record.
		The name of Albert Stanton, added after the initial release of the single, was a fictitious credit often used by the original American publishers of Wimoweh in the early 50s, especially for songs believed to be out of the public domain.
		Wimoweh was a huge success, and was recorded by numerous artists including Yma Sumac (1952), Jimmy Dorsey (1952), The Kingston Trio (1959) and Miriam Makeba (as Mbube, 1960).
	poparchives.com.au /feature.php?id=729 (697 words)

	Wimoweh
		This was no great achievement, given that the Weavers' late-Forties repertoire was full of dreck like "On Top of Old Smoky" and "Greensleeves." Old Pete won't admit it, but one senses that he was growing tired of cold-water flats and work shirts, and wanted a proper career, as befitting a thirtysomething father of two.
		Instead, he struck a deal with Howie Richmond, trading "Mbube" to TRO in return for the dubious privilege of administering "Wimoweh" in such bush territories as South Africa and Rhodesia.
		We'll revisit this conundrum in short order, but first, let's follow the further adventures of "Wimoweh," which fell into the hands of RCA producers Hugo and Luigi, by way of the Tokens, in the summer of 1961.
	www.segerfile.com /wimoweh.htm (4830 words)

	Mbube: Linda's Lion sleeps at last - SouthAfrica.info
		Yet the tune went on to become Pete Seeger's runaway hit Wimoweh, then the Tokens' The Lion Sleeps Tonight, on to at least 160 covers, before ending up in the voices of Timon and Pumbaa, the meerkat and warthog characters in Disney's classic movie and Broadway hit The Lion King.
		Wimoweh was recorded in 1951 by Seeger and his band the Weavers, in a version faithful to the Zulu original - apart from the lyrics, of course.
		Wimoweh was a hit, named a pick of the week by Billboard and reaching number six on the charts.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/arts_entertainment/mbube-210206.htm (2494 words)

	The story of Soloman Linda and Wimoweh \| MetaFilter
		January 10, 2003 3:27 PM The story of 'Wimoweh' 'Mbube' or more popularly 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.
		In which a Zulu migrante creates one of the most recorded songs of the twentieth century, but because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, failed to get any royalties and died a pauper.
		I was listening to The Weavers' version of "Wimoweh" earlier today and thinking about this.
	www.metafilter.com /22770/The-story-of-Soloman-Linda-and-Wimoweh (1274 words)

	The Story of Mbube
		This is the story of an African doo-wop song.
		Its original title was “Mbube,” (pronounced EEM-boo-beh) which means “Lion,” and it was sung with a haunting Zulu refrain that sounded, to English-speaking people, like “wimoweh.” “Mbube” was a big hit in what is now Swaziland; it sold nearly 100,000 copies in the 1940s by its originator, South African Solomon Linda.
		We used to sing it for our own pleasure, and everybody loved it...We thought we were going to be another Kingston Trio or Highwaymen.” Hugo and Luigi were impressed, but they decided the song needed new lyrics.
	www.weeklybugle.com /music/mbube.htm (1857 words)

	YouTube - Wimoweh - Karl Denver
		karl denver's version of wimoweh is perhaps the best example of primitive garage rock, despite it's origins and Denver's love of country.
		The Karl Denver Trio perform "Wimoweh" on Shindig.
		karl denver wimoweh lion mbube solomon linda (more) (less)
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=09SXTH699xE (0 words)

	The Lion Sleeps Tonight
		Released by The Weavers as "Wimoweh" (Decca, 1952)
		A wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a wimoweh, a wimoweh, a-wimoweh, aA-wimoweh, a wimoweh, a wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a wimoweh, a wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a wimoweh.
		Historian and musicologist Alan Lomax took the record to Pete Seeger, of the American folk group the Weavers.
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/songs/Lion_Sleeps_Tonight.html (623 words)

	Independent Lens . A LION'S TRAIL . The Film \| PBS
		Solomon Linda first composed “Mbube” in the 1920s and recorded it at South Africa’s Gallo Records in 1939, after he moved to Johannesburg and began work as a record packer.
		Years later, Pete Seeger heard Linda’s song on a recording and Anglicized “Mbube” into “Wimoweh” in a new rendition with The Weavers.
		In 1961, the New York-based pop band The Tokens worked with composer George Weiss to re-title and re-record the song as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” which soon became one of the most recorded pop songs in the world.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/lionstrail/film.html (640 words)

	Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) Sheet Music (Print Instantly)
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