The original version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds, South Africa, 1939

@LamontCranston Not really. It's actually the origin of Iscathamiya style exemplified by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Doo-wop's origins are completely American, deriving from Tin Pan Alley and barbershop quartets.

@LeopoldBloom We will have to disagree.

@LamontCranston Just because it's similar doesn't mean it's related. Like if you hear Ali Farka Touré and other West African singers, you might think that's where the blues came from, when actually it was in the opposite direction because John Lee Hooker is very popular in West Africa.