Based on the credits in the autogen, assume it would be a Prince cover, but I don't hear it.
Perhaps Diamonds and Pearls, but I'm unfamiliar.
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Diamonds & Pearls · Jay Siegel's Tokens
The Vintage Collection
℗ 1990 Jay Siegel
Released on: 2013-01-01
Composer: Prince Rogers Nelson
Autogen credits are wrong. That's definitely not the Prince song
Further proof... That song appears on a Tokens album released in 1988, a full three years before Prince's song. https://www.discogs.com/The-Tokens-Vintage-Edition/release/7959450
Boy this is messy. Currently, I'm rather confident that "Jay Siegel's Tokens" is different than "The Tokens" and that there was or remains related litigation. Now you've found:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Tokens-Vintage-Edition/release/7959450
Apparently reissued as:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Tokens-Featuring-Jay-Siegel-The-Vintage-Collection/r…
https://www.discogs.com/The-Tokens-The-Tokens/release/3338810
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-vintage-collection/1443552152
Notice the evolving performing artist credits:
2011: New stereo recordings by the original artists
i reviewed recordings from the 2013
You are correct about the group and litigation, though Siegel was a member of The Tokens at the time of the 1988 release (see Wikipedia for more on the lawsuit). I'm not sure what the outcome is/was since one of the people involved in the suit died in 2017. Siegel was a member of The Tokens at the time of the 1988 recording.
You are correct about the group and litigation, though Siegel was a member of The Tokens at the time of the 1988 release (see Wikipedia for more on the lawsuit). I'm not sure what the outcome is/was since one of the people involved in the suit died in 2017. Siegel was a member of The Tokens at the time of the 1988 recording.
a) Yeah, I had read that Wiki portion and offered as part of a related error report. If the litigation is on-going, I suppose the deceased estate would take over as a party.
b) I'm not sure who or what source to trust on membership. Was Siegel of member of his "Tokens" or the "official Tokens"? It would appear his "Tokens" give how the reissues were re-credited, notwithstanding how releases are entered on Discogs, etc.
Frankly, given recent SHS experiences, I'll likely just decide how to handle for my notes, not worrying about any possible errors on SHS.
Jay Siegel was a member of the original group from 1956 through the 1970s. He's the one who sang lead on "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
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It is a cover of the West Tyler song of the same title, written in 1960, originally performed by his doo-wop group, The Paradons. Diamonds and Pearls
