More than 60 years after the song's conception, Gallo Records finally agreed to make Linda's only surviving daughter part of the deal. It was covered by Bobby Stevens, Manu Dibango featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Weavers and Gordon Jenkins and His Chorus and Orchestra, The Kingston Trio and other artists. The lion may be death, some nine so-called authors still clean up its carcass. The song Mbube Wimoweh was written by Solomon Linda and was first released by Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds in 1939. It became an even bigger hit with harmony vocal group The Tokens and electro pop group Tight Fit (n☁ US and UK respectively).
They fell for Mbube, securing the credits under the ficticious name Paul Campbell and hit with their version as Wimoweh. Gallo Records, heir of the Singer catalogue, sent Mbube and some other 78's to American partners at Decca in New York, where Alan Lomax passed it over to Pete Seeger and his Weavers. That whole evolution started with Linda's Mbube. Township jive became a whole movement, nurturing famous exponents as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, known through Paul Simon's Graceland lp. Singing was their only way to express themselves musically, so that's what they did (massively). Musical instruments were forbidden for black workers in the townships as they might be used as weapons. One of the most foul stories of songwriting theft must be the story of Mbube (the song known more widely as The Lion Sleeps Tonight or Wimoweh), with even the. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (Mbube). Hans Theessink 2010:Ĭhristine Lavin 2020: These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. In November 1951, after having performed the song for at least a year in their concerts, The Weavers recorded an adapted version with brass and string orchestra and chorus and released it as a 78 single titled 'Wimoweh', a mishearing of the original song's chorus of ' Uyimbube ' ('You are a lion' in Zulu ). Voice Male 1999:īaha Men 2003:Ĭooldown Café feat.
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