Music can be a huge pick-me-up. Anyone watching the video of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” made virtually by 61 members of the Arcadia Unified School District middle school choir, would almost certainly ...

Mitch Margo was just 14 when he and some Brooklyn pals recorded “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” a doo-wop version of a Zulu folk song that had been recorded dozens of times over the decades. But for the ...

The Tokens’ Philip Margo has died at 79, as The New York Times reports. Margo’s biggest claim to fame was singing on his band’s version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” which eventually hit #1 on the ...

Just about every song that makes it to #1 takes a long, strange journey to get there. But perhaps none of those journeys are longer or stranger than that of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” “The Lion Sleeps ...

In 2006, late South African singer Solomon Linda finally got credit for his part in the smash hit. But with the release of a new 'Lion King,' questions still linger But once again, it seems as if the ...