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The Tokens were an American doo-wop band and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York City. [1] The group has had four top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, all in the 1960s, their biggest being the chart-topping 1961 hit single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", which borrowed heavily from the 1939 song "Mbube" by South African singer Solomon Linda.
WLTV made its on-air debut on June 3, 1962. It was an independent station for its first five years of operation, relying on old movies and plenty of live programs, [1]: 251 with local productions including live wrestling, musical shows, and news, [12] [16] befitting the slogan "Wonderfully Live Television".
WZZM (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of ABC.Owned by Tegna Inc., the station has studios on 3 Mile Road NW in Walker (with a Grand Rapids mailing address), and its transmitter is located in Grant, Michigan.
Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the Educational Broadcasting Corporation and later as WNET.org), [2] it is a sister station to the area's secondary PBS member, Garden City, New York–licensed WLIW (channel 21), and two class A stations: WMBQ-CD (channel 46), and WNDT-CD (channel 14, which shares spectrum with WNET).
Members of The Tokens, who recorded the 1961 hit, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". Pages in category "The Tokens members" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
In 1961, a version adapted into English by the doo-wop group the Tokens became a number-one hit in the United States. It earned millions in royalties from cover versions and film licensing. Lyrics of Linda's original version were written in Zulu, while those from the Tokens' adaptation were written by George David Weiss.
It should only contain pages that are The Tokens songs or lists of The Tokens songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about The Tokens songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
His 50-year tenure as channel 13's main anchor is the longest in American television history. [31] In the 1970s, as a result of the investments made by Capital Cities, KTRK became the news leader in the Houston market; by the start of 1973, it was in second place, [ 32 ] and it was the news leader in every ratings book from 1973 to 1993.