"The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimba Way" or "Wimoweh" (and originally as "Mbube"), is a song written and recorded by Solomon Linda originally with the Evening Birds (Song by Solomon Linda originally titled just "Mbube") for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939.
Enjoy our The Lion Sleeps Tonight piano sheet music as interpreted by the French group Kids United. The pop-rock American band The Tokens released this African folk song in 1961. Written in 1939 and originally composed in Zulu by the South African Solomon Linda, this title has been covered by many artists including Henri Salvador and the group Pow Wow who made it famous in France. It also The video below is an awesome version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”. The choir started by setting the atmosphere, creating jungle noises consisting of Monkeys and other atmospheric sounds. Slowly they build into the well-known intro and start to perform the song.The man who wrote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "What A Wonderful World" died on Monday at 89 years old. Weiss' music publisher told the composer that when he auditioned the song for Sinatra
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