Cover of MBUBE in 1961 - n°1 US as The Lion Sleeps Tonight; RCA producers Hugo (Peretti) & Luigi (Creatore) heard the Tokens audition tape and fell for their Wimoweh, deciding the song needed some extra lyrics; with ten words copyrighted by George David Weiss: "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight"; Miriam Makeba objected: a lion sleeps in the savanna