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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...