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 ...

He joined the Brooklyn-based doo-wop group with his brother as a 13-year-old in 1960. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mitch Margo, a founding member of The Tokens, the doo-wop foursome behind the ...

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 song we know today as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was written in 1939 by South African Solomon Linda, and has been performed by thousands of artists all over the world. Nobody owns it, however, like ...

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 ...

His baritone contributed to the 1961 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” which became one of the most recognizable American pop songs ever. By Neil Genzlinger Philip Margo, a member of the close-harmony ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A U.S. company has settled a long-running legal dispute with a South African family over the copyright to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” one of Africa’s most famous tunes, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Ever since the first time someone realized they could make a buck selling a recording of someone else playing music, one of them’s been getting screwed. I think you know ...

Philip Margo, a member of the close-harmony group the Tokens, which earned enduring pop-music fame with the No. 1 hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1961, died Saturday in a hospital in Los Angeles. He ...