Originally Posted By: Don Gaynor
The Tokens may have been two hit wonders but the soprano on "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" raises the hairs on the nape of my neck.


I also love the vocal! The guy's name is Jay Siegal, and he sounds great on their other hit too,
"Tonight I Fell In Love".

I heard Neil Sedaka (now 80) last week on Sirius-XM rave about Jay Siegal's vocal ability.

(Neil started the group, called the "Linc-Tones", named after their (Lincoln) high school in
Brooklyn. They changed their name to the "Tokens", after subway tokens were introduced. Jay Siegal
joined the group in 1956. Sedaka sang lead, and the only thing unusual about the group was that
they recorded only original songs written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, and that Sedaka always
played piano (duh) with the session musicians. Sedaka left the group in 1957. BTW, Greenfield lived
in Sedaka's apartment building, and Neil Diamond lived across the street and also went to Lincoln High!)