stuff i did not know the song 'the lion sleeps tonight' aka 'wimoweh' aka 'mbube'

Read this on Wikipedia: (tldr: african composer screwed out of millions in royalties, dies poor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight

They made a documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lionstrail/

Original song (heart youtube):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrrQT4WkbNE

Pete Seeger and the Weavers version:
Earlier version (live mp3)
Later version (live mp3)
(...which was not a huge hit. The one you probably know was by 'The Tokens'.)

Update:
A fuller version of the story.
New York Times article.