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A Lion's Trail

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2002 documentary film
A Lion's Trail
Directed byFrançois Verster
Written bySolomon Linda
Release date
  • 2002 (2002)

A Lion's Trail is a 2002 documentary film byFrançois Verster about the rights for the popular song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", a song written and recorded by the South African shepherd and singer of Zulu originSolomon Linda with the Evening Birds[1] as "Mbube".

In the 1950s, the song had been adapted byPete Seeger ofThe Weavers as "Wimoweh" and further developed in the 1961 version recorded by popular music groupThe Tokens, for whom it was re-written extensively byGeorge David Weiss. This version had been retitled "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The song was also adapted for the screen inThe Walt Disney Company 1994 filmThe Lion King.[2] The film helped Linda's family to sue legally for revenues from the song.

A Lion's Trail was not the first time Verster had tackled the controversy on the song. In 1999, he had filmedThe Story of "Mbube" for television about the song. That film had won the 1999 National Television & Video Association Silver Stone & Stone Craft Award.

In 2000,South African journalistRian Malan wrote a feature article forRolling Stone magazine in which he recounted Solomon Linda's story tracing its history from its first recording by Solomon Linda, a penniless Zulu singer, through the song's adoption by The Weavers, The Tokens and in the movieThe Lion King.

The Story of "Mbubé" and the new interest created by theRolling Stone piece prompted Verster to create his 2002 documentary that told Linda's story, also exposing the workings of the multimillion-dollar corporate music publishing industry about copyright. The film tracks the story of the song "Wimoweh/The Lion Sleeps Tonight" back to itsZulu origin and follows the song's rocky history fromSouth Africa to Brooklyn and back asking why Linda died penniless and his children live in poverty while American artists made millions off the song.

In 2005, it gained prominence when it was screened byPBS on the programIndependent Lens[3] receiving the award for "most outstanding cultural and artistic programming".

The publicity also helped Linda's family to find the support to takeDisney, which used the song in the movieThe Lion King, to court. In February 2006, Abilene Music, which holds the copyright for "Wimoweh/The Lion Sleeps Tonight", settled the case with the Solomon Linda family out of court for an undisclosed sum.

References

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  1. ^Malan, Rian."In the Jungle".Longform.org. Archived fromthe original on 2015-04-18. Retrieved2015-04-23.
  2. ^Malan, Rian (25 May 2000),"In the jungle"(PDF),Rolling Stone, retrieved5 September 2009
  3. ^"National Television Academy Presents 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards" (press release), September 25, 2006.


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