| Composer or Artist |
Selection |
Time |
| Franz Joseph HAYDN |
String Quartet No. 29, Op 33, No. 5 "How do you do?" |
19:19 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART |
Symphony No. 4 in D major, K. 19 |
9:02 |
| Luigi BOCCHERINI |
Quintet No. 7 in e, G 451 |
21:20 |
| * |
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| Johannes BRAHMS |
Trio in B, Op. 8 |
36:55 |
| The Meander |
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| Traditional |
Mbube (The Lion) |
3:32 |
1) The Zulu selection, Mbube, was made very popular in a re-arrangement; by whom and when?
ANSWER: "Mbube" (Zulu for "lion) was first recorded by its writer, Solomon Linda and his group, the Evening Birds, in 1939, Galla Record Company paid Linda a single fee for the recording and no royalties. "Mbube" became a hit throughout South Africa and sold about 100,000 copies during the 1940s. Alaan Lomax brought the song to the attention of Peter Seeger of the folk group the Weavers. It was on one of several records Lomax lent to Seeger. After having performed the song for at least a year in their concerts, in November 1951, the Weavers recored their version entitiled "Wimoweh," a mishearing of the original song's chours (meaning "you're a lion"). Peter Seeger had made some of his own additions to the melody. The song was credited exculsively to Paul Campbell, a fictitious entity used by Harry Richmond to copyright material in the public domain. New lyrics to the song were written by George Weiss, Luigi Creatore, and Hugo Peretti, based very loosely upon the meaning of the original song. The Tokens 1961 cover of this version rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and still receives fairly frequent replay on many American oldies radio stations. In the UK, an up-tempo rendering of this version was a top-ten hit for Karl Denver and his Trio. In 1971, Robert John also recorded this version, and it reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. Since then, "Wimoweh"/"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has remained popular and frequently covered.
