THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT
Twenty-five years ago this week - March 1982 - Tight Fit got to Number One in Britain with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Yes I know this is not my usual type of post. Please, do not go into shock.


the lion sleeps tonight (animation)

Please do read the article about this song. It is fascinating. Here is a teaser to whet some appetites

Fifteen improvised notes in 1939 powered Africa's biggest selling record, an entire genre of music, and two separate hit songs on five continents. And, even though those 15 notes and the man who wrote them were buried under all the other names that encrusted to the work, in the end they're what shine through. Listen to the Soweto Gospel Choir's recording from a couple of years ago, which somehow manages to capture all three versions of the song. Or go back to Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds' original, which still sounds pretty good. Listen to that inspiration late in take three and hear a global phenomenon being born. It took seven decades and a lawsuit, but in the village, the peaceful village, the lion sleeps tonight.

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