Solomon died in 1962, just one year after The Tokens recording was released in 1961; the world falling in love with a sound we couldn't name yet.

Imbube song still brings the best of SA rich music history

Mbube song will always be Africa's greatest musical treasure thanks to Sol Linda. Siyabonga Bhubhesi li kwa Linda 🙏

Those chants and the pictures of those simple people now long gone, brought tears to my eyes. They remind me of my own ancestors here in Nigeria. Black people all come from the same womb. Black people have being robbed of too many things for far too long.

In the 1960s in Harlem I was in public school during segregation Mr Black who taught us African history had a 78 record and it fascinated me and I was amazed by listening to it when I was 10 years old he gave me a copy of that 78 record and I took it home and have my father play it on his console my father got rid of Lion Sleeps Tonight by the tokens and kept that 78 by all means because this was the original song my father said to me this is the song that I wanted to get and my father would play that 78 record all the time nothing beats the original mbube

I love Miriam Mekeba's rendition of Mbube better than all others, hers is the most powerful to me.....

Heart piercing and I don't even know what it means. Just thankful for the music of their voices.

@daddieeddie5057

5 жыл бұрын

Uyimbube means you are the lion

@JRT5573

3 жыл бұрын

The song has a rather interesting origin and history which can be read on Wikipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight#History The original recording (1939) by the composer can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6ams7Zth87Ifqg.html

I love African voices and music. Thank you so much for this interesting account of the origins of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. 🥰

@LettyK

10 ай бұрын

Wish I could translate the text in the video as I don't know and Africans.

So wonderful to hear the original

Glorious and enchanting.

A very popular Danish singer, Flemming "Bamse" Joergensen, who became very popular with his version of this song, found out that the composer hadn't been paid, so he actually sent him the profit from his version in Danish.

Deeply touching Video.

SO MEMORABLE .

Thank you.

Hmm.. In the intro those are Samburu warriors hunting a lion as a right of passage into manhood, in Kenya.

Loving those days

Beautiful blessed

Around 3:00 is how I get around delta blues musicians from Johnson to Muddy to Lightin Hopkins to Son House, Mississippi John Hurt etc. since discovering it in high-school my freshman year. I totally get the point he's trying make. They're doing a frikin 8+ part harmony and don't even have electricity. I was immediately obsessed and have been ever since with cultural music such as the delta blues and African chants/social songs. The raw emotions never fail to give me goosebumps and it actually rubs off on music like this from the origin of a culture and race to the universal feelings, issues and beauty expressed with every voice or instrument. This is the good stuff and I appreciate the OP for uploading it. 🙏 however, what do you call/classify this as? Does the style and genre have a specific name? I'd like to look up some more of it.

this is culture

@ldlvega

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is

As powerful and inspirational as gospel music. The Tokens cover version sucked it dry of all its power and vitality and turned it into a commercial jingle.

AFRICA

My soul long for my people in Africa…Let’s go back home

❤️

L’histoire réelle

Can the words in Dutch be translated please ?

Did the Linda family receive correct, not bloody legal, compensation for the use of Solomon’s music? I haven’t heard so.

@jacquelinelayne7702

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully they did

@jamieandthemore

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacquelinelayne7702 Well, mr folk himself, Pete Seeger, was the one who, along with his Greenwich Village crowd, had gotten their hands on a copy of "Mbubue" and flatly ASSUMED it was a traditional AFRICAN, no specific culture attempted t be identified, song. In a way it is but Sol Linda changed it. Seeger et al never acted like true folklorists or ethnomusicologists as they put themselves out to the world to be. Seeger claimed ignorance. My answer to such claims, like I didn't know those shackles were painful, is ignorance is truly a choice. They were well educated people and people of so called consciousness. They had it in them to do a bit of research. The Weavers w/Pete Seeger were the ones who bought "Mbubue" to the US, mispronounce the lyrics, and not provide proper credit. There's a whole documentary on this.

what are the names of all these artists performing? obviously solomon linda at begging and i think i heard Miriam Makeba. whats the band that plays at like 6 minutes

@riccardobruero

10 жыл бұрын

The band I don't know. You're right about Makeba, and at the end it's the leader of Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

@luthulimadlanduna4753

5 жыл бұрын

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Those shields at 0:47 look more Kenyan than Zulu.

@Mutezz1

3 жыл бұрын

Thats the Samburu from Kenya

David Lee Roth's pododcast brought me here! :)

@riccardobruero

5 жыл бұрын

Did David Lee Roth talk about Solomon Linda?

@legasiguy551

5 жыл бұрын

​@@riccardobruero He talks about his vist to Apartheid South Africa in the late 1970's. He tells peopel to go watch the Netfix documentry, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" several times. Don't know if this is the same one. But it's an interesting story, nevertheless. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gY2Cs8-TeNy6eaw.html

Is that Ladysmith Black Mambazo?

@fmshyanguya5351

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Elvis or Bill Haley aren't the ones to compare with, but the pre WW 2 Black Spiritual singers , blues prison songs of the South or the street corner doowop singers in the 50s. Even if these have their roots in West Africa, it's a comparable cultural phenomenon - singing together to enjoy and have a good time - as far as possible onder suppression and bosses that would not allow it. There's revolutionary power in it, in other times it may have been war chants, or a preparation ceremony for hunt, harvest or social/ religious events. American folk singers turned it to something they thought fitting for traditions, they could hardly know about the real thing (even if song collectors like Alan Lomax knew quite a bit and played a crucial role in collecting this sort of material from all around the world.) But, it was the commercial guys from the record company who made it the smooth commercial " Lion sleeps tonight" we know today, then again Disney who commercialized it even more. But in it's groundwork, Solomon Linda songs are connected to all the original trad music made in Africa and further developed by American Africans. Elvis, Little Richard, but also Bob Dylan and their record companies took it further to the white audience and into the commercial realm of pop music. They knew it's value, but Linda wasn't paid, he received only couple dollars for signing away his rights - another similarity with black afro American artists of old.

Nederlandse kijkers kunnen de Engelse ondertitels uitschakelen via de [=] ondertitelknop.

@johnvicente7142

5 жыл бұрын

English please

like si tampoco entendiste nada :V

Beautiful blessed