THE TOKENS THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT PLUS

They are known best for their chart-topping 1961 single, 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'. Pretty short weight on this ten-track compilation of early-60s material. This is the first time that this body of work has been thus compiled many of these sides are surprisingly difficult to find elsewhere, while a couple of the real collectors' rarities have never previously appeared on CD. Big sellers in the area, already well established on BMW's charts, were 'Lion Sleeps Tonight,' Tokens 'Little Altar Boy,' Vic Dana 'Your Ma Said. There is no strumming pattern for this song yet. The Tokens are an American male doo-wop-style vocal group and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York.

THE TOKENS THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT PLUS

This collection presents all The Tokens (together with their satellite identities) 45s issued between 1956-1962, plus the strongest sides from their first two LPs. The Brooklyn DooWoppers had cut their first 45 five years earlier, whilst still at school, but broke up shortly afterwards (Neil Sedaka was, famously, a founder-member and he both wrote and sang on their first record).Īfter re-emerging in 1959 as the short-lived Darrell & The Oxfords, they reverted to their original name and in early 1961, cut their first million-seller, 'Tonight I Fell In Love'.ĭuring 19 they also charted with 'Sincerely', 'B'Wa Nina' and 'La Bomba', and the albums 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and 'We Sing Folk'. THE TOKENS name is of course synonymous with their biggest hit, the chart-topping, multi-million selling 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', a song which has continually reinvented itself over the decades. The story of the Tokens is really the story of a song.

The tokens the lion sleeps tonight