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The Lion Sleeps Tonight, the Glossary

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and first recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda under the title "Mbube", through South African Gallo Record Company.^[1]

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A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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A Lion's Trail is a 2002 documentary film by François Verster about the rights for the popular song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", a song written and recorded by the South African shepherd and singer of Zulu origin Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds as "Mbube".

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A Swingin' Safari

"A Swingin' Safari" is a 1962 instrumental composed by Bert Kaempfert, using his alias, Bernd Bertie.

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Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence.

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Afropop Worldwide

Afropop Worldwide is a radio program that presents the musics of Africa and the African diaspora.

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Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.

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All Things Considered

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

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Allen & Unwin

George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co.

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Almighty Records

Almighty Records is an English electronic dance music record label established in 1989.

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Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo (born July 14, 1960) is a Beninese-French singer-songwriter, actress and activist noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.

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Anita Darian

Anita Darian (April 26, 1927 – February 1, 2015) was an American singer and actress who had an extensive career from the 1950s to the 2010s.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Íslenski listinn

Íslenski listinn is the Icelandic top 20 music chart.

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Baha Men

Bahaya Men are a Bahaya junk band formed in New Providence, Bahamas in 1977.

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Bamses Venner

Bamses Venner (Teddy (Bear)'s Friends) was a Danish musical group that performed together from 1973 to 2011.

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Barbados (band)

Barbados is a Swedish dansband, formed in 1992, who have had several Swedish chart successes.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bert Kaempfert

Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Heinrich Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer.

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Big Daddy (band)

Big Daddy is an American comedy rock band formed in Los Angeles, California.

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Bill Hayes (actor)

William Foster Hayes III (June 5, 1925 – January 12, 2024) was an American actor and recording artist.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Billboard Hot 100 are Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles.

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Billy Eichner

Billy Eichner (born September 18, 1978) is an American actor and comedian.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.

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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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Call and response (music)

In music, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans.

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CHUM Chart

The CHUM Chart was a Canadian hit parade that consisted of 50 top tunes from May 1957 to July 1968, but in August 1968, the top 50 song list was reduced to 30 top songs until the final hit parade was issued in June 1986.

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Copyright law of South Africa

The copyright law of South Africa governs copyright, the right to control the use and distribution of artistic and creative works, in the Republic of South Africa.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.

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Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton.

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Cry, the Beloved Country (1951 film)

Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1951 British drama film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson and Canada Lee, in his last film role.

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Daniel Küblböck

Daniel Dominik Kaiser-Küblböck (born Küblböck; 27 August 1985 – 9 September 2018) was a German singer.

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David Newman (composer)

David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Dennis Marcellino

Dennis Marcellino (born January 17, 1948, died May 21, 2022) was an American musician, speaker and author of psychology, philosophy, theology and political books.

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Desmond Dekker

Desmond Dekker (16 July 1941 – 25 May 2006) was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician.

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Dolly Rathebe

Dolly Rathebe (OIS) (2 April 1928 – 16 September 2004) was a South African musician and actress who performed with the Elite Swingsters jazz band, and in Alf Herbert's African Jazz and Variety Show.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

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Dove (band)

Dove were an Australian soft rock band, which formed in 1973 and disbanded in 1978.

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DV (newspaper)

DV (Dagblaðið Vísir) is an online newspaper in Iceland published by Torg ehf.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

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Eric Donaldson

Eric Donaldson (born 11 June 1947 in Bog Walk, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Exotica

Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same name that was popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s with Americans who came of age during World War II.

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F major

F major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, flat, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat.

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Fantasy Island (The Millionaires song)

"Fantasy Island" is a song by Dutch pop group The Millionaires, released as a single in March 1982. The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Fantasy Island (The Millionaires song) are 1982 singles, Jive Records singles and song recordings produced by Tim Friese-Greene.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folkways Records

Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.

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For the Girl Who Has Everything (song)

"For the Girl Who Has Everything" is a song by American boy band NSYNC.

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François Verster

François Verster (born 1969) is an independent South African film director and documentary maker.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gallo Record Company

Gallo Record Company is the largest (and oldest independent) record label in South Africa.

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George David Weiss

George David Weiss (April 9, 1921 – August 23, 2010) was an American songwriter and arranger, who was a president of the Songwriters Guild of America.

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Georgetown Chimes

The Georgetown Chimes is a collegiate a cappella group from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1946 by Francis E. (Frank) Jones as a barbershop quartet, the group has had 286 members, and has recorded two dozen albums in its history.

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Gerard Joling

Gerard Jan Joling (born 29 April 1960) is a Dutch singer and television presenter.

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GfK Entertainment charts

The GfK Entertainment charts are the official charts for music, home video, and video games in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of.

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Gigglebiz

Gigglebiz is a British children's comedy television programme (described as a 'live-action comedy sketch show' by the BBC) consisting of five series that have been broadcast on CBeebies, the BBC's younger children's channel, starting in 2009.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Henri Salvador

Henri Salvador (18 July 1917 – 13 February 2008) was a French Caribbean comedian, singer and cabaret artist.

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Howie Richmond

Howard Spencer Richmond (18 January 1918 — 20 May 2012) was an American music publisher and music industry executive.

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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz".

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Hugo Peretti

Hugo E. Peretti (December 6, 1916 – May 1, 1986) was an American songwriter, trumpeter, and record producer.

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Hushabye

"Hushabye" is a song that was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman in 1959 for the Brooklyn doo-wop quintet the Mystics. The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Hushabye are Robert John songs.

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Imani Coppola

Imani Francesca Coppola (born April 6, 1978) TV Tropes is an American singer-songwriter and violinist.

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Imgur

Imgur (stylized as imgur) is an American online image sharing and image hosting service with a focus on social gossip that was founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009.

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Isicathamiya

Isicathamiya (where the c represents a tenuis dental click) is a singing style that originated from the Zulu people, a South African ethnic group.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jimmy Dorsey

James Francis Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader.

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Jimmy Fallon

James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974) is an American comedian, television host, actor, singer, writer, and producer.

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Jive Records

Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City.

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Justin Fletcher

Justin Fletcher (born 1970) is an English children's television presenter, actor and comedian, appearing mainly on the BBC pre-school television channel CBeebies.

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Karl Denver

Karl Denver (16 December 1931 – 21 December 1998) was a Scottish singer, who, with his trio had a series of UK hit singles in the early 1960s.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube.

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Laura Cantrell

Laura Cantrell (born July 16, 1967) is a country singer-songwriter and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee.

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Lebo M

Lebohang Morake (born 11 July 1964), known as Lebo M, is a South African producer and composer, known for his songwriting and vocal work on the soundtracks to films such as The Lion King, The Power of One and Outbreak and numerous stage productions.

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List of UK singles chart number ones of the 1980s

The UK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.

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Luigi Creatore

Luigi Federico Creatore (December 21, 1921 – December 13, 2015) was an American songwriter and record producer.

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Mahotella Queens

The Mahotella Queens is a South African female band formed in 1964 by music producer Rupert Bopape, consisting of Hilda Tloubatla, Nobesuthu Mbadu, and Amanda Nkosi.

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Mango Groove

Mango Groove is an 11-piece South African Afropop band whose music fuses pop and township music—especially marabi and kwela.

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Manu Dibango

Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango (12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone.

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María Conchita Alonso

María Concepción Alonso Bustillo (born June 29, 1955), better known as María Conchita Alonso, is a Cuban-American actress, singer, and beauty pageant titleholder who represented Venezuela at Miss World 1975 and placed in the top seven.

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Mbube (genre)

Mbube is a form of South African vocal music, made famous by the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

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Melo-M

Melo-M is a Latvian instrumental cello rock trio consisting of three classically trained cellists: Kārlis Auzāns, Miķelis Dobičins and Jānis Pauls.

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Miriam Makeba (album)

Miriam Makeba is the debut album by Miriam Makeba.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo (stylised in all caps) is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Nanci Griffith

Nanci Caroline Griffith (July 6, 1953 – August 13, 2021) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Noro Morales

Norberto "Noro" Morales (January 4, 1911 – January 15, 1964) was a Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader.

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NSYNC

NSYNC (also stylized as *NSYNC or N Sync) are an American vocal group and boy band formed by Chris Kirkpatrick in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich.

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Odetta

Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Other Voices, Other Rooms (Nanci Griffith album)

Other Voices, Other Rooms (stylized as Other Voices | Other Rooms) is the tenth studio album by American singer Nanci Griffith.

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Passengers (Italian band)

Passengers (also spelled as I Passengers or The Passengers) were an Italian-American pop/italo disco band, mainly successful in the early eighties.

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Pat & Stan

Pat et Stanley (Pat & Stan, Pat e Stan, Pat en Stan, Nik og Jan, Pet i Sten/Petko i Stanko) is an animated series that appeared as part of the children's television programme TFOU on the French network TF1.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Polydor Records

Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Pop Chronicles

The Pop Chronicles are two radio documentary series which together "may constitute the most complete audio history of 1940s–60s popular music." They originally aired starting in 1969 and concluded about 1974.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Pow woW

Pow woW is a French musical group.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. were an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia.

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Ras Michael

Michael George Henry OD (born 1943), better known as Ras Michael, is a Jamaican reggae singer and Nyabinghi specialist.

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RCA Records

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Record label

"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.

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ReMastered: The Lion's Share is a 2019 documentary film about the search by Rian Malan, a South African journalist, for the original writers of the famous song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythm of the Pride Lands

Rhythm of the Pride Lands is an audio CD released on February 28, 1995, by Walt Disney Records, a "sequel" to the original motion picture soundtrack of the animated film The Lion King (1994).

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Rian Malan

Rian Malan is a South African author, journalist, documentarist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent.

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Robert John

Robert John (born Robert John Pedrick, Jr., January 3, 1946) is an American singer perhaps best known for his 1979 hit single, "Sad Eyes", which reached number 1 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

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Rockapella

Rockapella is an American a cappella musical group formed in 1986 in New York City.

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Roger Whittaker

Roger Henry Brough Whittaker (22 March 1936 – 13 September 2023) was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and musician.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Roy Zimmerman (satirist)

Roy Zimmerman (born October 7, 1957) is an American satirical singer-songwriter and guitarist now based in Northern California.

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Royalty payment

A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset.

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Rumpelstiltskin

"Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales.

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Seth Rogen

Seth Aaron Rogen (born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian and filmmaker.

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Solomon Linda

Solomon Popoli Linda OIG (19098 September 1962), also known as Solomon Ntsele ("Linda" was his clan name),Gilmore, Inigo,, The Telegraph (UK), 11 June 2000.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Soweto Gospel Choir

The Soweto Gospel Choir is a South African gospel group.

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Soweto String Quartet

The Soweto String Quartet is a string quartet from Soweto in South Africa composed of Reuben Khemese, Makhosini Mnguni, Sandile Khemese and Thami Khemese.

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Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella

Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella is a 1990 PBS documentary, directed by Spike Lee, around the topic of A cappella music.

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Springbok Radio

Springbok Radio (spelled Springbokradio in Afrikaans) was a South African nationwide radio station that operated from 1950 to 1985.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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St Leonards, New South Wales

St Leonards is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Streetnix

Streetnix was a Canadian a cappella group based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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The Astounding 12-String Guitar of Glen Campbell

The Astounding 12-String Guitar of Glen Campbell is the third album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, recorded in stereo and released in 1964 by Capitol Records.

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The Automatic Box

The Automatic Box is a four-disc box set by R.E.M., released in Germany in December 1993.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

"The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)" is a song and single by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released in 1992.

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s.

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The Lion King

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.

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The Lion King (2019 film)

The Lion King is a 2019 American musical drama film that is a photorealistically animated remake of the traditionally-animated 1994 film The Lion King.

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The Lion King (musical)

The Lion King is a stage musical with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and a book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, with additional music and lyrics by Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor, and Hans Zimmer.

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The Mavericks

The Mavericks are an American country music band from Miami, Florida.

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The Mint Juleps

The Mint Juleps are a six-piece all-female a cappella/pop group from the east end of London.

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The New Christy Minstrels

The New Christy Minstrels are an American large-ensemble folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1961.

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The Nylons

The Nylons were an a cappella group founded in 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, best known for their covers of pop songs such as The Turtles' "Happy Together", Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

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The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was influenced by the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", both in the title of the song and through the song's opening refrain.

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The Stylistics

The Stylistics are an American Philadelphia soul group that achieved their greatest chart success in the 1970s.

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The Tokens

The Tokens were an American doo-wop band and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York City.

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show hosted by actor and comedian Jimmy Fallon that airs on NBC.

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The Tremeloes

The Tremeloes (formerly Brian Poole and The Tremeloes) are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, England.

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The Undertones

The Undertones are a rock band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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The Weavers

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman.

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The Weavers at Carnegie Hall

The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (1957) is the second album by the Weavers.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants, often abbreviated as TMBG, is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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Tight Fit

Tight Fit are an English pop group who had several hits in the early 1980s, including a UK No.1 for three weeks with their cover version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1982.

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Tight Fit (album)

Tight Fit is the second album by British pop group Tight Fit, released in 1982.

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Tim Friese-Greene

Timothy Alan Friese-Greene is an English musician and producer.

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Tonic sol-fa

Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Ann Glover (1785–1867) of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems.

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Township music

Township music (also township jazz) is any of various music genres created by black people living in poor, racially segregated urban areas of South Africa ("townships") during the 20th century.

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Trumpet Africaine

Trumpet Africaine: The New Beat from South Africa is the debut studio record (LP) by South African musician Hugh Masekela.

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University of Massachusetts Press

The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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University of North Texas

The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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VeggieTales

VeggieTales is an American Christian CGI-animated series and franchise for children created by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki under Big Idea Entertainment.

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Welcome to the Jungle

"Welcome to the Jungle" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured as the opening track on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987).

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Who Let the Dogs Out (album)

Who Let the Dogs Out is the sixth studio album by Bahamas-based musical group Baha Men.

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Wiese (music producer)

Trygve Wiese-Haugland (born 15 March 1985), known by his stage name Wiese (sometimes stylized WIESE, pronounced 'vi:se'), is a Norwegian music producer, DJ and songwriter.

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Yma Sumac

Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo (born Zoila Emperatriz Chávarri Castillo; September 13, 1922 – November 1, 2008), known as Yma Sumac (or Imma Sumack), was a Peruvian-born American-naturalised vocalist, composer, producer, actress and model.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight

Also known as In the Jungle, In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight, Le lion est mort ce soir, Lion Sleeps Tonight, Mbube (song), Mbue, Wimoweh.

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