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The Tokens

They may be forever defined by 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', their huge universal hit of 1961, but the enduring influence and importance of The Tokens - who once featured Neil Sedaka in an early line-up - stretches much further. Before Elvis and the rock & roll revolution and before The Beatles and the beat boom, the hottest records around were made by the male vocal groups creating a style known as doo-wop, which had its beginnings in Afro-American communities in the 1940s. Having their start as school friends at Abraham Lincoln School in Brooklyn, New York, The Tokens emerged i...