He's sold millions of records and performed all over the world, but a career highlight for Jay Siegel took place in a kindergarten class. Says the man whose falsetto powered the 1961 hit "The Lion ...
GRAND RAPIDS -- Singer Jay Siegel of The Tokens is happy to report he still can reach the high notes in the group's seminal hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." "I sing it in the same key I did when we ...
It has taken 46 years, but radio DJ Dick Smith and Tokens singer Jay Siegel, whose careers fatefully intertwined, will finally meet this week The legend of Smith and The Tokens is well known around ...
Join us for this all-star lineup with Special Guest Host Cousin Brucie, Frankie Avalon “Venus”, Lou Christie “Lightning Strikes”, Jay Siegel’s Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, and take a stroll down ...
Every No. 1 hit has a story behind it. But few tales measure up to the mighty saga of the Tokens’ “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” The song started out as a South African Zulu hit, “Mbube,” in 1939. A ...
The song we know today as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was written in 1939 by South African Solomon Linda, and has been performed by thousands of artists all over the world. Nobody owns it, however, like ...
For Jay Siegel and his wife, Judy, a safari to Tanzania within the past year was a bucket-list dream come true. Specifying that he was “hunting only with my camera,” Siegel said he spotted hippos, ...
The Tokens, from left: Bill Reid, Kurt ‘Frenchy’ Yahigian and Jay Siegel. WILKES-BARRE — At 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Joe Nardone will present six ...
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