A couple of months ago I read a book called 'African Stars' that included information about Soloman Linda, the African composer of Mbube {The Lion SLeeps Tonight}.

I wrote extensively about this in a Mudcat thread. I'm not sure about the title of that thread. I might have included my comments in another thread about Caribbean music that discussed another example of the composers of songs being 'ripped off' and not getting the credit and royalties they deserve. I thought my posts on this subject might have been in the 'Rum and Coca Cola' thread, but they're not.

I also recall in that thread that someone had posted an update that there was a law suit entered for the Linda family so that they might receive some compensation for the use of this song by "The Lion King" producers and others..

When the Mudcat Search feature is working or when I {or someone else} can get to my archived comments, I {or someone else} can post the link to that related thread.