{"id":3121,"date":"2006-02-27T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T00:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/27\/3121"},"modified":"2006-02-27T19:33:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T00:33:43","slug":"wimoweh-the-lion-sleeps-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/02\/wimoweh-the-lion-sleeps-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimoweh&#8230; the lion sleeps at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/mbube.jpg\" alt=\"An original 10-inch 78rpm recording of Mbube\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/>In 1939 a tall, shy Zulu migrant worker named Solomon Linda stepped up to the microphone and produced <em>Mbube<\/em>, a song that echoed around the world, becoming Pete Seeger&#8217;s <em>Wimoweh<\/em> and the international classic <em>The Lion Sleeps Tonight<\/em>. Linda was paid a total of 10 shillings for the song, while it went on to make US$15-million for others. The musician died in 1962 with less than R100 in his bank account. His widow couldn&#8217;t afford a headstone for his grave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southafrica.info\/what_happening\/arts_entertainment\/mbube-210206.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Last Friday, Linda&#8217;s legacy finally received some justice&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1939 a tall, shy Zulu migrant worker named Solomon Linda stepped up to the microphone and produced Mbube, a song that echoed around the world, becoming Pete Seeger&#8217;s Wimoweh and the international classic The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Linda was paid a total of 10 shillings for the song, while it went on to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}