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The Mbube / The Lion Sleeps Tonight saga continues |
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Written by Andrew Donaldson - http://www.thetimes.co.za/
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
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The son of George David Weiss, the man who has claimed copyright for his “adaptation” of this classic South African song, earning millions of dollars in the process, claims that he is disgusted by his father’s continued reluctance to recognise the song’s real composer.
In an open letter posted on Dave Marks’ Hidden Years internet site http://www.3rdearmusic.com/forum/forumjul05/mbubefeedback2.html, musician Bobby Weiss recalls his father telling him that the original version of Mbube had “no real author”, that this was some “old African chant” that he had adapted in 1961, turning it into a global hit for The Tokens as The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
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