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The lion sleeps well tonight.(Solomon Linda's 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight')(Brief article)
Descendants of the South African man who wrote the 1939 song that became known as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" won a huge share of royalties from the song that has been covered countless times and appeared on the soundtracks of at least 15 major films. Solomon Linda's song "Mbube," the Zulu word for lion, was the first pop hit from Africa, selling 100,000 copies in the 1940s. Under apartheid laws that prevented Blacks from negotiating over rights to music, Linda ...
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...exploitation of the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" should be paid the heirs of Solomon Linda by virtue of the derivation of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" from "Mbube". Solomon Linda died in 1962, at which...
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- Magazine article from: Jet April 10, 2006 700+ words
...six-year copyright legal battle from their late father's hit song, The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The song, originally titled Mbube, was composed by Solomon Linda in 1939, and has been recorded by some 150 artists and featured in movies...
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- Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England) July 15, 2004 700+ words
...1962. You've probably never heard of Solomon Linda. Neither had I until recently. It...and which eventually evolved into The Lion Sleeps Tonight, recorded in various forms...the Linda family. It seems that the lion sleeps no longer ( it has a mouse to catch...
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...Zulu version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" have reached...battle. Zulu miner Solomon Linda composed the song...and renamed it "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." It enjoyed...the copyright to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"; the Walt...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Beith, Malcolm August 20, 2001 700+ words
...quiz. who wrote the song "Wimoweh" (a.k.a. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")--Pete Seeger, the Kingston Trio or the Tokens...in the process. It was written in 1939 by South African Solomon Linda, who died penniless in 1962. But Linda's now due for...
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...resources have been plundered as well. Take the case of Solomon Linda, a Zulu herder who died in 1962 with $25 in his bank account...a melody called 'Mbube' in 1939. His tune became 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' which, according to journalist Rian Malan, has...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff August 19, 1994 700+ words
Wim-oh-weh, wim-oh-weh, wim-oh-weh, wim-oh-weh, the lion sleeps tonight. Tonight and forever, it would seem, at the top of the charts. That darn cat from Disney is still king in chartland...
