Friday, September 26, 2008

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight/Tina 7" - 1962

I'm still so upset about losing that Shirley Bassey post a few days back. I fear losing everything I've done with no warning. So because of this fear I now have to spend time going through each of the posts from this past year and backing them up on my computer. I don't care about losing the photos or the music links. Whatever. I care about what I've written which certainly doesn't infringe upon anyone. Sorry I just had to get that off of my chest.

Today's tracks are from the golden oldies chest box. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is one of those songs I loved as a kid. Now it always brings to mind that scene in "Lion King". "Tina" was new to me when I bought the record, but it is great. I'm trying to place the sound, but it also has a faux islandy exotic sound to it with a bit of surf thrown in perhaps. Give it a listen and let me know what you think.

Enjoy!

01 The Lion Sleeps Tonight.m4a
02 Tina.m4a

1 comment:

Spencer said...

Unfortunately I don't think the blog is that popular. I still can't believe that someone complained. I can't even believe it was anyone even connected to Shirley Bassey. I can't believe anyone connected to her is thinking they were going to be making much money off of a couple obscure songs from her from 1979. I have no proof, but I have a feeling it is going to turn out that it was just someone trying to cause problems.

That is a funny coincidence that you hear this song this morning.