Mother had called us to come downstairs for a surprise. My siblings and I gathered in the living room.
Solomon Linda’s Original Evening Birds – Mbube (ORIGINAL VERSION OF WIMOWEH) Memories: The Lion Sleeps Tonight… Setting Sun “Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer My memory of the song is tied to my mother… Read on. Much has been said on how Solomon was cheated out of royalties but more on that later. The original song evolved into other versions particularly two popular versions, Wimoweh (US charts, 1952,#6) performed by The Weavers, and The Lion Sleeps Tonight (US charts #1,1961,UK #11) by The Tokens. In 1939, when Solomom Linda and The Evening Birds sang and recorded his famous song – Mbube – for the South African Gallo Record Company, he had no idea that it would eventually earn millions for others, and be recorded internationally by many well known singers of the century from The Weavers, The Tokens, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba, to The Kingston Trio. The Lion Sleeps Tonight… Lyrics from submitted by Naj Uyanik Happy Hippo & Stan – “ The lion sleeps tonight” The Linda family also claims damages against Nu Metro Home Entertainment, the David Gresham Entertainment Group and David Gresham Records, and is seeking an order to restrain the companies from continuing to use the song.Memories: The Lion Sleeps Tonight… Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh Pretoria High Court judge Hekkie Daniels dismissed Disney’s urgent application to cancel a court order that 240 of its trademarks in South Africa, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, be sold to collect damage money. 7, Disney lost a bid in the Pretoria High Court to set aside the lawsuit, paving the way for lawyers repping Linda’s estate to continue with the royalties infringement claim. When Linda died in 1962, he had less than $25 to his name, and his still-impoverished family, which lives in Soweto, is suing Walt Disney Corp. The song has been adapted and recorded by more than 150 artists, translated into several languages and featured in many stage musicals and films, most notably Disney’s 1994 blockbuster pic “The Lion King.”
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Once the deal is signed, Linda’s heirs will receive the full amount, estimated at 20,000 rands ($3,125) a year. But these payments did not amount to the full composer’s royalties due, Dean said. Since then, his family has been receiving royalty payments of 12.5% of “Wimoweh’s” overall earnings. In 1971, the company acknowledged the song was based on Linda’s original work. Dean said TRO thought the tune was a traditional Zulu folk song, its author unknown, so it paid royalties to the Weavers. Howie Richmond, TRO’s founder, signed folk group the Weavers to record a version of “Wimoweh” around 1951 that rose to No. Folk singer Pete Seeger came across the song in 1949, transcribed it and called it “Wimoweh,” from the Zulu “uyiMbube,” which means “he is a lion.” Linda was a poor Zulu migrant worker and local black township musician who composed the song in Johannesburg in 1939 and recorded it with a group called the Evening Birds.
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