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I The Tokens sono stati un gruppo musicale Doo-wop statunitense formatosi nel quartiere di Brooklyn a New York nel 1955. Sono famosi soprattutto per aver pubblicato nel 1961 la cover del brano di Solomon Linda Mbube , ribattezzandolo The Lion Sleeps Tonight , che raggiunse la vetta della classifica Billboard Hot 100 [1] dove rimase per 3 settimane.
The Tokens was een doowop zanggroep uit Brooklyn die bekend is vanwege hun grote hit The lion sleeps tonight uit 1961. Dit nummer is gebaseerd op het Zuid-Afrikaanse Zoeloelied Mbube van Solomon Linda . De groep werd in 1955 opgericht als The Linc-Tones, maar had toen niet veel succes. De band bestond uit Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, Eddie Rabkin ...
The Tokens. Doo-wop to vocal pop group from Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Formed in 1955 by Hank Medress. The original band included Neil Sedaka, but it was not until Medress reassembled the group in 1960, with brothers Phil and Mitch Margo and lead vocalist Jay Siegel, that they really hit the big time. By 1967 they had scored nine charting ...
The Tokens var ei amerikansk doo wop-gruppe som blei etablert i Brooklyn 1955. Gruppa var samansett av Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, brørne Mitch og Phil Margo i tillegg til Jay Siegel. Den største hiten fekk gruppa i 1961 med versjonen av den opphavlege sørafrikanske songen
The Lion Sleeps Tonight. " The Lion Sleeps Tonight " is a song originally written and first recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda [2] under the title " Mbube ", [3] through South African Gallo Record Company. Lyrics of Linda's original version were written in Zulu, while those of the English one were later written by George David Weiss .
In 1998 THE TOKENS became the first and only group to sing the National Anthem in all major league ballparks in one season, an accomplishment that landed them into the Guinness Book of World Records. They have been inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Following the loss of both Mitch Margo in 2017 ...
The Tokens zpívali první anglickou verzi této písně. Tato píseň se později stala hitem v mnoha jazycích. Do roku 1970 následovalo ještě několik menších hitů v amerických hitparádách. Pak se oddělil Henry Medress od ostatních tří, kteří pokračovali pod jménem Cross Country.
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