Wimoweh

By the '50s, it had become a repertoire staple under the title "Wimoweh" for Pete Seeger and his hugely successful folk group The Weavers.

Michael Sigman: 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' at 50: A Song for the Ages Michael Sigman 2011

Mbube, in case you don't know, is what got turned into 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' when Pete Seeger misheard the singers and wrote out 'Wimoweh'.

Also, I think the original lyric is 'dead,' not 'sleeping' justnick 2008

In 1961 a group of young American musicians called The Tokens sang "Wimoweh" with some English lyrics added to make a song called "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which became an international number-one hit.

Archive 2005-04-03 Michael Evans 2005

In 1961 a group of young American musicians called The Tokens sang "Wimoweh" with some English lyrics added to make a song called "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which became an international number-one hit.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

It became known as "Wimoweh" and rose to number six on the United States music charts.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

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.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

The song has since then been reworked and its title changed to "Wimoweh" in 1951/2 by Pete Seeger and into

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

When I heard the song 'Wimoweh' on a compliation from the folk group The Spinners at the age of ten I thought it was their own composition.

Archive 2003-01-05 2003

I first became aware of it with Karl Denver's version renamed "Wimoweh".

News24 Top Stories 2010

'Wimoweh' only to find myself pondering the question of whether pouring a blastocyst down the drain of a laboratory sink at a fertility center is abortion.

Gawker 2009