Lion Links

You can hear some of the original ''Mbube" here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Solomon+Linda's+Original+Evening+Birds

or with some pictures at YouTube.

A little longer clip (not from the Evening Birds but in the traditional African style:)
http://songsforteaching.homestead.com/PWMMbube.html


If you want to know the whole sad history -- even though the song earned millions in America when recorded by the Tokens, more millions when it became a hit again covered by Robert John and yet more millions in "The Lion King," the man who wrote it, Solomon Linda, died a pauper -- it's all here:
http://www.3rdearmusic.com/forum/mbube2.html