[sodpoodle]

Put a little music in your life;)

[Fungi]

Holy cow, octogenarians posing as a rock band.

[Buttons12]

Almost makes me wish I’d been born 50 years sooner.
Almost.

[stylin19a]

thanx...there’s a joke in here somewhere but dang if I can find it.

Siegel.. nice pipes.

I always thought The Tokens were a one hit wonder....but i was wrong...
(the pre-Tokens were “The Linc Tones” which included Neil Sedaka)

the Tokens had this do-wop song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRe753rvhpc

[Fiji Hill]

The original recording:

Mbube (it's morning)--Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds (1939)

Another hit version:

Wimoweh--Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra, with the Weavers (1952)

[jazusamo]

That was great music by The Tokens 60 years ago and it still is.

Thanks for posting.

[vg0va3]

My mother had this 8 track when I was 6. I just texted it her and told her this reminds me of her and her powder blue Monte Carlo. That sing and Tossin’ and Turnin’ by Bobby Lewis

Thanks. Needed that

[Fiji Hill]

In the summer of 1964, this one made it into the Top 40 on KRLA (Southern California's rock blaster at 1110 kilocycles, not the conservative chatterbox of today, with the same call letters, at 870 kcs.). Note that they have moved away from their doo-wop roots and sound more like the Beach Boys.

He's In Town--The Tokens (1964)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda under the title “Mbube” for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939. Linda’s original was written in Zulu.

[Traveler59]

Stumbled across this version years ago. Funny video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvsQ9hYKq7c

[Drango]

That’s a NO from me.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I was so impressed by the soprano in the background. Gives me goose-bumps.

Like Janet Vogel’s sung coda to “Since I don’t have you.”

[FroggyTheGremlim]

something completely different

[airdalechief]

Tokens - The lion Sleeps Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYDcuZ4-xaY Alan Parsons - Eye in the Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVhNPHF0Sb0&list=RDoVhNPHF0Sb0&start_radio=1&t=48 One of my all time favorites...Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I For a plus.. my fav girl drummer SINA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8s93klams She's a hottie so lets do another... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRWqL5c15A Finally, TOTO and AFRICA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_CNGOx2A8

[airdalechief]

Tokens,,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGl5ReYunoY&list=RDY2_CNGOx2A8&index=8

[This I Wonder32460]

My mom had this on an original 45 and I am wondering if she still has it in her record case, which I am pretty sure she still has stored away in one closet or another.

[Hebrews 11:6]

In 9th-grade English class Don Otto tapped me on the shoulder and handed me his 45 of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. He said he was so tired of listening to it he never wanted to hear it again.

[KC Burke]

I always bookend this with one twenty years later — Wondering Where the Lions Are.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=78&feature=emb_title&v=JY__agG_eXc

[Dr. Sivana]

I was engaged to an Italian girl in Brooklyn who claimed to have been related to one of the Tokens AND one of the Starlghters (Peppermint Twist). It seems every doo-wop group in the outer boroughs got to get in on the action in that era.