His version of the song, called “Wimoweh”, achieved chart success in 1951. Over the past 60 years around 160 recordings have been made of different versions of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”.

A second version of the song, dubbed The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens in 1961, is estimated to have generated millions of dollars and also became world famous.

Millions of dollars in royalties from the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" will go to the heirs of the late South African composer Solomon Linda, who died in 1962. In 1950, when blacks had few ...

Hank Medress, a founding member of the 1960s doo-wop group the Tokens, whose biggest hit was “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” died Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 68.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Three impoverished South African women, whose father wrote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," have won a six-year battle for royalties in a landmark case that could affect ...

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.

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 ...

This version of the song known as The Lion Sleeps Tonight went to number one, remains in copyright - and continues to be the subject of legal battles.

Relatives of the original composer of The Lion Sleeps Tonight have dropped a lawsuit against Disney after settling for an undisclosed sum of money with a US music publishing house.

Philip Margo, longtime member of The Tokens — the doo-wop vocal group most famous for “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” — has died. He was 79.