That friend was the folksinger Pete Seeger. Unable to understand the lyrics of Mbube, Seeger transcribed the central chant as Wimoweh, and that became the name of the song as recorded by the. Woman In Love - Frankie Laine With Percy. Without actually hearing any of the records in a box sent from Africa, Lomax thought a friend of his might be interested in the boxвЂ™s contents. O Mein Papa - Eddie Calvert With Norrie Paramor And His Orchestra. But the story might have ended there had a copy of the record not made its way to New York City in the early 1950s, where it was saved from the slush pile at Decca Records by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax. Wimoweh Wimoweh G D Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh G C Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh G D Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh G C in the jungle the mighty. The story begins in Johannesburg, South Africa, where in 1938, a group of Zulu singers and dancers called Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds stepped into the first recording studio ever set up in sub-Saharan Africa and recorded a song called вЂњMbubeвЂќ-Zulu for вЂњthe lion.вЂќ вЂњMbubeвЂќ was a regional hit, and it helped make Solomon Linda into a South African star. The song that topped the Billboard pop chart on December 18, 1961, was an instant classic that went on to become one of the most successful pop songs of all time, yet its true originator saw only a tiny fraction of the songвЂ™s enormous profits.

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