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The Lion Sleeps for good

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If the comments on that YouTube clip are correct, the lead singer is not the one who died, it is the guy on the far left next to the woman???
 
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Hank Medress
Singer with the Tokens on hits including 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'
Published: 23 June 2007

Henry Medress, singer and record producer: born New York 19 November 1938; died New York 19 June 2007.

The record producer Hank Medress called his favourite songs "earworms": they were the ones that you couldn't get out of your head while you were walking or showering. Medress himself was responsible for several of them, either as singer or producer - including "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (by the Tokens, 1961), "He's So Fine" (the Chiffons, 1963) and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" (Tony Orlando and Dawn, 1973).
 
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