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covered internationally by many pop and folk artists. It was
recorded as "
Wimoweh" by the
Weavers in
November 1951, and
published by "Folkways
Music Publishers"...
- dancing. The song was
later made
internationally famous, by The
Weavers as "
Wimoweh" in 1948 and then as "The Lion
Sleeps Tonight" by The
Tokens in 1961. Miriam...
-
singles in the
early 1960s. Most
famous of
these was a 1961
version of "
Wimoweh",
which showed off Denver's
falsetto yodelling register. He
reached the...
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mimics the "
wimoweh"
vocal figure found in the Weavers' 1952 "
Wimoweh"
recording and the Tokens' version. Kaempfert's own
recording of "
Wimoweh" appears...
- first,
initially releasing limited edition records such as
Brian Eno's “
Wimoweh”/“Deadly
Seven Finns”
seven inch. The
first official Wax Trax! release...
-
their live presentations. Yma
Sumac sang it in 1952 in her
second single Wimoweh/ Babalú with
Capitol Records. It was an
introduction for
Sumac into traditional...
-
rights for the po****r song "The Lion
Sleeps Tonight", also
known as "
Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", a song
written and
recorded by the
South African...
- Running",
which became the B-side to Eno's
cover of "The Lion
Sleeps Tonight (
Wimoweh)". The
album has been
recognised by
critics as a "universally acknowledged...
- friend, folk
musician Pete
Seeger of The Weavers.
Seeger retitled it "
Wimoweh", an
approximate phonetic rendering of the song's Zulu
language refrain...
- (by Hays, Seeger, and Lead Belly), and the Zulu song by
Solomon Linda, "
Wimoweh" (about Shaka),
among others. The Weavers'
performing career was abruptly...
