The Lion Sleeps Tonight - most famous example for unfair music business
The story around the popular hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight is one of the most famous examples for unfairness in the music business. The song, which was originally named Mbube, was first recorded by its writer Solomon Linda and his group The Evening Birds in 1939. Gallo Record Company from Johannesburg, South Africa, paid the artist a single fee for the recording and no royalties. Over the centuries the song had been recorded and performed in variations by numerous musicians and had been used in the Disney movie The Lion King, which caused a lawsuit in 1994.
The story of The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Wikipedia
