The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) - Young People's Chorus of NYC at The GREEN at Lincoln Center
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1961, I was a little kid learning to use my voice. As was my habit, I would place myself in the utility room where my mom kept the radio my dad built for her and sing everything that came on the radio. New songs, old songs and all the commercial jingles, I learned every note and ran to the little room off the kitchen to sing in my own little sound booth. When this song came out, I was all over it and my mom was horrified. First, she was a bigot and this was 'black music' to her, then, she was not amused at my musical talents, combining the two was just too much for her for a time. She wouldn't let me sing that song when it came on the radio. It was the first time, of many, where I was not allowed to sing a particular song. But I could get all the notes even though I was all of four years old.
I think about that whenever I hear this song.
