Name: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Brand: The Tokens

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

JASCD1113

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

604988111323

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Tokens

Genre GB

Rockabilly / 50s Rock 'n' Roll

Label GB

Jasmine

In 1982 the Jasmine Label was created producing LPs and Cassettes. The new label initially focused on licensed Jazz and Personality recordings. Later in 1985 Jasmine successfully launched its Country & Western catalogue. 1990 saw the release of Jasmine’s first CDs.
Appears also on labels as: JASMINE only and as a company (with manufacturing and distribution roles).

For unofficial releases, use [l=Jasmine Records (10)].

The Tokens name is of course synonymous with their biggest hit, the chart-topping, multi-million selling The Lion Sleeps Tonight, a song which has continually reinvented itself over the decades.The Brooklyn DooWoppers had cut their first 45 five years earlier, whilst still at school, but broke up shortly afterwards (Neil Sedaka was, famously, a founder-member and he both wrote and sang on their first record). After re-emerging in 1959 as the short-lived Darrell and The Oxfords, they reverted to their original name and in early 1961, cut their first million-seller, Tonight I Fell In Love. During 1961 and 1962 they also charted with Sincerely, 'B'Wa Nina' and 'La Bomba', and the albums The Lion Sleeps Tonight and We Sing Folk. This collection presents all The Tokens (together with their satellite identities) 45s issued between 1956-1962, plus the strongest sides from their first two LPs. This is the first time that this body of work has been thus compiled; many of these sides are surprisingly difficult to find elsewhere, while a couple of the real collectors' rarities have never previously appeared on CD.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Music GB