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Surf on Guitar Medley
CD-Charts > Music > Oldies
by: The Ventures
Release Date November 25, 1997
In a world where the copyright is disappearing into an internet void for musicians, perhaps there is no better example of a stolen song than "Wimoweh/The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Uyimbube, uyimbube" is how the song really goes (wimoweh is how Pete Seeger wrote it down), sung by no other than the great grandfather of Mbube himself, Solomon Linda of South Africa in the 1930s. Recorded by many, this song became a world-wide hit and the Linda family did not have enough money for nearly twenty years to buy a stone to put on his grave when he died as a pauper. Even I find myself singing the song that I heard many years ago as I child and then I think of Solomon and become sad. There is so many like him. It hit me tonight when I heard the Tokens on ... Read More:
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