One-Hit Wonders: The Tokens

Groups form under one name. Members leave and new members are brought in. The group then changes their name: The Tokens. Information from oldies.com.

Originally in 1955, the Linc-Tones were formed. Members all attended Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. The first members were Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, Eddie Rabkin and Cynthia Zolitin. Sedaka and Zolitin both left in 1958.

Jay Siegel replaced Rabkin. The duo remaining, renamed to Darrell and the Oxfords, would bring in other singers to record.

Medress and Siegel were joined by teenage brothers Mitch and Phil Margo in 1959 and became The Tokens. They had a No. 15 hit, "Tonight I Fell In Love."

The group worked with a variety of producers and songwriters to rework a '30s South African song, "Mbube," to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." That topped the charts in the U.S. and was a Top 15 hit in the UK.

The Tokens were joined by Joseph Venneri, who was replaced by Bruce Force. By the late 1960s and early '70s, The Tokens began to split.

Mitch Margo joined the Army. Medress began producing. He co-produced Tony Orlando and Dawn, among others.

Cross Country was formed with the remaining members in 1973. They charted with a remake of Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour." They officially split in 1974, and two years later The Tokens did "A Tribute To The Beach Boys '76."

Phil Margo began managing rock bands. In New York, Siegel owned and managed a recording studio.