Just about every song that makes it to #1 takes a long, strange journey to get there. But perhaps none of those journeys are longer or stranger than that of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” “The Lion Sleeps ...

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 ...

He joined the Brooklyn-based doo-wop group with his brother as a 13-year-old in 1960. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mitch Margo, a founding member of The Tokens, the doo-wop foursome behind the ...

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 #1 on the ...

Mitch Margo, who rose to fame with the 1961 hit song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," died at his California home, The Los Angeles Times reported. He was 70. Family members said Margo died Nov. 24 in Studio ...

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. But for the ...

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 ...

Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo-wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” to the top of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has ...

You could easily get the impression that, unlike a certain lion, Phil Margo never sleeps. Margo, who arrives early and stays late, has written a musical and he's hoping to find a community theater or ...

His baritone contributed to the 1961 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” which became one of the most recognizable American pop songs ever. By Neil Genzlinger Philip Margo, a member of the close-harmony ...