LION!!!




My friends and I went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park today, so here are some video clips of this great looking lion we saw. (I guess you COULD say this is SORT of a continuation of my Lion series, since my last video was about SEA Lions! LOL) The song is The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) by The Tokens, which came out WAYYYY back when I was eleven LOL (I SOOOOO remember when this song came out!). Here is some interesting bio on the song and the group, that I found on Amazon.com: The song, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, was based on an South African Zulu folk song Wimoweh made popular by the classic folk group the Weavers in the 1950s. However, the Weavers were political in the best sense of the folk tradition, and fell out of favor among the common folk who thought them Communist sympathizers of varying hues along the spectrum of the color red. However, younger music listeners might remember Robert Johns version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight, which made it to #3 on the Pop charts in 1972 and was included on the soundtrack for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The group, The Tokens, was a doo wop group out of Brooklyn, who originally included Neil Sedaka when they were known as the Linc-Tones (they were students at Lincoln High School). In the early 1960s the group was reformed by Hank Medress with Phil Margo, Mitch Margo, Joe Venneri, and Jay Siegel as The Tokens. In 1962, The Tokens recorded The Lion Sleeps Tonight, which hit #1 on the Billboard Pop charts. It was far and away the biggest hit The Tokens ever had, and this CD-Single basically includes the two songs that are arguably the best of the rest of their inventory. The Lion Sleeps Tonight and La Bamba were both off of The Tokens debut album.



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