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The Tokens were an American doo-wop band [1] and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York City. The group has had four top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, all in the 1960s, their biggest being the chart-topping 1961 hit single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
In 1998 THE TOKENS became the first and only group to sing the National Anthem in all major league ballparks in one season, an accomplishment that landed them into the Guinness Book of World Records. They have been inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Following the loss of both Mitch Margo in 2017 ...
Nowy. 417 subscribers. Subscribed. 705. 40K views 10 months ago. "The Lion Sleeps Tonigh" by The Tokens (also known as "A-Wimoweh" or "In the jungle, the mighty jungle") is a 1961 song, this...
Oct 29, 2013 · 72.2K subscribers. Subscribed. 604K. 44M views 10 years ago #TheLionSleepsTonight #TheTokens #Oldies. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)" by The Token Listen to The Tokens:...
The Tokens Biography by Mark Deming. A vocal group who first emerged in the doo wop era in the 1950s, the Tokens achieved their greatest fame when "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," their cover of a South African folk song, became a major hit in 1961.
Nov 17, 2021 · Philip Margo, a member of the close-harmony group the Tokens, which earned enduring pop-music fame with the No. 1 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in 1961, died on Saturday in a hospital in Los...
Feb 22, 2011 · 5.1K. 574K views 13 years ago. This Brooklyn doo wop group was originally known as the Linc-Tones when they formed in 1955 at Lincoln High School. Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, Eddie Rabkin, and...
