“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” began its life in 1939 in Johannesburg, when a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda improvised a high-pitched, otherworldly melody in a recording studio. The resulting so ...
In 1961, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens became the first African song to reach number one on the American pop charts. In 1965, The Beatles earned a gold record for the album "Rubber Soul," ...