The Hammer Song (The Weavers at Carnegie Hall, 1957)
“”So Long” by Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and The Weavers is good, mid to up tempo jolly pop with a 1950s Western musical vibe, featuring male and female chorus backing vocals and an individual female singer alternating with Jenkins, the woman’s vocal outdoing Jenkins.”ħ. They renamed the song “Wimoweh” which was a mishearing of the original song’s chorus of “Uyimbube” in Zulu.” The song then enjoyed a revival in the 1950s and 1960s in particular, after Alan Lomax brought the Linda recording to the attention of Pete Seeger of The Weavers, with the song cut by many artists after The Weavers recorded it on 25 October 1951. English lyrics were subsequently written by George Weiss. “”Wimoweh”, also known as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, was originally recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda’s Original Evening Birds, which outstanding record features on my list for that year Solomon Linda, who was a South African Zulu singer, wrote the song in the 1920s, with lyrics written in Zulu. Unfortunately, the Weaver’s 50’s-style lily-white vocal harmonies sound cringe-inducingly corny and dated today.” Midnight Special (Midnight Special, 1952)
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