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Dear sir: If you see this response from across the years, it is because I found it appropriate to have more than one language talking about Solomon Linda's magnificent contribution to the world. Though he never was recognized by moneymen out to sell records, let his memory never die. Harmony is Heaven on Earth; no one fights someone they're singing with. I thank you for make this little documentary. I thank you more for not having narration; it would distract from the beauty.

The viewing of this documentary on French speaking Belgian tv , 20 years from now (or so) , was so touching, and emotional , it almost brings me into crying at that time. So nice you give us this wonderful medley. Thank you.

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A very popular Danish singer, Flemming "Bamse" Joergensen, who became very popular with his version of this song, found out that the composer hadn't been paid, so he actually sent him the profit from his version in Danish.

De Bersiapcijfers van het Meerjarenonderzoek (NIOD) beperken zich tot de periode sept. 1945- maart 1946. De Ned.Indische burgerdoden van na maart 1946, de oversterfte van de Bersiapkampen en de slachtoffers van de Tweede Bersiap vanaf 1947 hebben ze dus niet meegerekend.

De Bersiapcijfers van het Meerjarenonderzoek (NIOD) beperken zich tot de periode sept. 1945- maart 1946. De Ned.Indische burgerdoden van na maart 1946, de oversterfte van de Bersiapkampen en de slachtoffers van de Tweede Bersiap vanaf 1947 hebben ze dus niet meegerekend.

Wat kregen wij een mooie reacties op deze eerste gemeentelijke Indië-herdenking in de stad Groningen! Dank iedereen die gekomen en geïnteresseerd is.

I love African voices and music. Thank you so much for this interesting account of the origins of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. 🥰

Volgens Boeroeng Biroe praat Hans Goedkoop waarschijnlijk over de vermiste familieleden in Andere Tijden. Sinds het ODGOI onderzoek (NIOD, KITLV) van Esther Captain en Onno Sinke naar de Bersiap massamoorden, die alleen over de periode eind 1945-begin 1946 al ruim 6000 (Indisch)Nederlands burgerdoden telden, is Goedkoop niet teruggekomen op zijn uitspraken over de Bersiap dat er aan de Nederlandse kant alleen 5000 Nederlandse militairen zouden zijn gedood. Regelmatig heeft Goedkoop de Bersiap pogroms gebagatelliseerd en dat doet hij nog steeds.

Sorry for misspelling 'vamonos' in the podcast.

Elvis or Bill Haley aren't the ones to compare with, but the pre WW 2 Black Spiritual singers , blues prison songs of the South or the street corner doowop singers in the 50s. Even if these have their roots in West Africa, it's a comparable cultural phenomenon - singing together to enjoy and have a good time - as far as possible onder suppression and bosses that would not allow it. There's revolutionary power in it, in other times it may have been war chants, or a preparation ceremony for hunt, harvest or social/ religious events. American folk singers turned it to something they thought fitting for traditions, they could hardly know about the real thing (even if song collectors like Alan Lomax knew quite a bit and played a crucial role in collecting this sort of material from all around the world.) But, it was the commercial guys from the record company who made it the smooth commercial " Lion sleeps tonight" we know today, then again Disney who commercialized it even more. But in it's groundwork, Solomon Linda songs are connected to all the original trad music made in Africa and further developed by American Africans. Elvis, Little Richard, but also Bob Dylan and their record companies took it further to the white audience and into the commercial realm of pop music. They knew it's value, but Linda wasn't paid, he received only couple dollars for signing away his rights - another similarity with black afro American artists of old.

Beautiful blessed

Beautiful blessed

Loving those days

Those chants and the pictures of those simple people now long gone, brought tears to my eyes. They remind me of my own ancestors here in Nigeria. Black people all come from the same womb. Black people have being robbed of too many things for far too long.

In the 1960s in Harlem I was in public school during segregation Mr Black who taught us African history had a 78 record and it fascinated me and I was amazed by listening to it when I was 10 years old he gave me a copy of that 78 record and I took it home and have my father play it on his console my father got rid of Lion Sleeps Tonight by the tokens and kept that 78 by all means because this was the original song my father said to me this is the song that I wanted to get and my father would play that 78 record all the time nothing beats the original mbube

De Bersiapcijfers van het Meerjarenonderzoek (NIOD) beperken zich tot de periode sept. 1945- maart 1946. De Ned.Indische burgerdoden van na maart 1946, de oversterfte van de Bersiapkampen en de slachtoffers van de Tweede Bersiap vanaf 1947 hebben ze dus niet meegerekend.

De Bersiapcijfers van het Meerjarenonderzoek (NIOD) beperken zich tot de periode sept. 1945- maart 1946. De Ned.Indische burgerdoden van na maart 1946, de oversterfte van de Bersiapkampen en de slachtoffers van de Tweede Bersiap vanaf 1947 hebben ze dus niet meegerekend.

De Bersiapcijfers van het Meerjarenonderzoek (NIOD) beperken zich tot de periode sept. 1945- maart 1946. De Ned.Indische burgerdoden van na maart 1946, de oversterfte van de Bersiapkampen en de slachtoffers van de Tweede Bersiap vanaf 1947 hebben ze dus niet meegerekend.

De Bersiapcijfers van het Meerjarenonderzoek (NIOD) beperken zich tot de periode sept. 1945- maart 1946. De Ned.Indische burgerdoden van na maart 1946, de oversterfte van de Bersiapkampen en de slachtoffers van de Tweede Bersiap vanaf 1947 hebben ze dus niet meegerekend.

Around 3:00 is how I get around delta blues musicians from Johnson to Muddy to Lightin Hopkins to Son House, Mississippi John Hurt etc. since discovering it in high-school my freshman year. I totally get the point he's trying make. They're doing a frikin 8+ part harmony and don't even have electricity. I was immediately obsessed and have been ever since with cultural music such as the delta blues and African chants/social songs. The raw emotions never fail to give me goosebumps and it actually rubs off on music like this from the origin of a culture and race to the universal feelings, issues and beauty expressed with every voice or instrument. This is the good stuff and I appreciate the OP for uploading it. 🙏 however, what do you call/classify this as? Does the style and genre have a specific name? I'd like to look up some more of it.

So wonderful to hear the original

My soul long for my people in Africa…Let’s go back home

Deeply touching Video.

I love Miriam Mekeba's rendition of Mbube better than all others, hers is the most powerful to me.....

Thank you.

They came out the caucus mts stealing and havent stopped stealing since...everything from everyone.

As powerful and inspirational as gospel music. The Tokens cover version sucked it dry of all its power and vitality and turned it into a commercial jingle.

Did the Linda family receive correct, not bloody legal, compensation for the use of Solomon’s music? I haven’t heard so.

AFRICA

L’histoire réelle

Is that Ladysmith Black Mambazo?

SO MEMORABLE .

like si tampoco entendiste nada :V

Can the words in Dutch be translated please ?

David Lee Roth's pododcast brought me here! :)

Those shields at 0:47 look more Kenyan than Zulu.

Hmm.. In the intro those are Samburu warriors hunting a lion as a right of passage into manhood, in Kenya.

Mbube song will always be Africa's greatest musical treasure thanks to Sol Linda. Siyabonga Bhubhesi li kwa Linda 🙏

Solomon died in 1962, just one year after The Tokens recording was released in 1961; the world falling in love with a sound we couldn't name yet.

this is culture

Heart piercing and I don't even know what it means. Just thankful for the music of their voices.

he rich, ik kan hem niet in 'lijst insluiten'?

Sad. She was so sweet, but a one-hit wonder, like Tiny Tim. A novelty, unique, original, and one whose star burned out soon. The trouble with gaining a lot is, we've got to give a lot up. That's the hard part.

I just got the idea of calling a band beatlebums , and ....of course it was taken. you ar enot bad.

Sehr schones musik und singt !

clive good actor.

Glorious and enchanting.

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