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Wimoweh: The Best of the Tokens
Wimoweh: The Best of the Tokens
The Tokens / CD / 1994
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Artist
The Tokens
Format
CD
Genre
Rock
Label Name
Sbme Special MKTS.
Release Date
2008 02 01
Run Time
45:55
Song List
1: The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (2:45)
2: B'wanina (Pretty Girl) (2:16)
3: La Bamba (2:32)
4: Hear the Bells (Ringing Bells) (1:57)
5: You're Nothing But a Girl (1:53)
6: Tonight I Met an Angel (1:56)
7: Sincerely (2:03)
8: When I Go to Sleep at Night (2:36)
9: A Thousand Miles Away (2:20)
10: Please Write [#] (2:13)
11: Dream Angel Goodnight (1:56)
12: Somewhere There's a Girl (2:20)
13: I'll Do My Crying Tomorrow [#] (2:21)
14: A-B-C, 1-2-3 (2:23)
15: Tonight Tonight (2:40)
16: Dry Your Eyes (2:18)
17: Sweet Laurie, Fair Laurie [#] (2:26)
18: My Candy Apple Vette (2:09)
19: My Friend's Car (2:18)
20: When Summer Is Through (2:33)
Style.Categories
Brill Building Pop, Doo Wop
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The Tokens
' unlikely blend of
doo wop
and what was, in
folk
circles, termed "ethnic music," resulted in one enormous and enduring hit:
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)."
After that, it was all downhill for the group during their
RCA
tenure -- the biggest of their followup hits reached a modest number 55 on the charts.
Wimoweh: The Best of the Tokens
rounds up all six of their chart entries, some of which -- like
"B'Wanina (Pretty Girl)"
and
"La Bamba"
-- repeated the
"Wimoweh"
formula. When those failed,
the Tokens
returned to straightforward
doo wop
material (
"Tonight I Met an Angel"
), covers of other vocal groups' hits (
"Sincerely,"
"A Thousand Miles Away"
), and, finally,
Beach Boys
-style car songs (
"My Friend's Car"
). The anthology also compiles a number of choice cuts and oddities that fall in-between, from the gorgeous
"Somewhere There's a Girl"
to the weirdly insulting love song
"You're Nothing But a Girl."
There's a
"Little Darlin'"
retread titled
"Dry Your Eyes"
and several songs with "night" or "tonight" in the title in apparent reference to the group's first two hits.
Wimoweh: The Best of the Tokens
also includes three previously unreleased songs for collectors. For those who couldn't get enough of
the Tokens
, several additional recordings from their
RCA
period were made available the same year on a budget collection,
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
. ~ Greg Adams, All Music Guide
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