one of the most comforting movie intros of my childhood. While this is playing your grabbing the popcorn off the stove or out the microwave and you try to find a spot to watch the movie where you can chill and maybe snug with your mom and annoy your brother. Being a kid was everything man
Indeed I loved watching this a kid, I feel sorry for those who never got the chance to witness pure nostalgia, man what a movie, I miss it so much when life was so full of excitement and enjoying watching with families 😭!
Love that introduction. Beautiful voices. Especially the deepest one. Ladysmith Black Mambazo are just awesome. Has such a flawless vibe to it that takes you and sends you at the same time. Your soul is floating and mind is flying. Truly breathtaking.
this is the best intro song ive every herd in my life..no instrument just all voices and sounds sooo freakin great..love it when i was a kid love it now
Thee most beautiful intro to a movie I think I have ever seen in my entire life. I get so sucked in to the screen with the landscape and the music, and it feels so relaxing and comforting. This movie and song shall never be forgotten in my mind. One love, peace and respect to every living animal (humans included because we are animals) and plant on this planet
Hands down and on a deep level, very best 80'movie ever made. So pure in it's innocence and Beaty, enchanting the folks right away with a hymn of untouched joy wich hides under a costume called "introSong" Frisian greetings
@Walakilma Tiger the song is entitled "Mbube" originally written and recorded in the 1930's by a South African named Solomon Linda. He worked at the Carlton Hotel during the week and on weekends he and his choir would compete with other choirs. The song was recorded three times. There were three takes. It's only on the second take, and right at the end, the last chorus, where all of a sudden he improvises. When Solomon Linda steps up to the microphone and he sings these notes that changed history. "Oweeeeeeembubeeee" He NEVER got writing credit or compensation for this song. Smfh
And here it is. That haunting, beautiful African herding music I heard a brief segment of on the radio way, way long ago. DJ got a hold of world music livestock herding music. In Europe herder sung to her herd in soprano, could be the seed of opera. The African example was this, and it blew me away. On a whim I thought I'd watch Coming to American and this exquisite piece was played. Am I happy!
Just watched this since the last that was a long time ago. In my opinion, this has to be one of the best intros in a movie period. The music flows through the scene beautifully. Just the filming alone makes you feel like you’re floating in a magical land and about to hear an amazing story. please like if you agree 👍🏻
Timeless. Was a cinema projectionist. Would get Coming to America started then rush down to the auditorium to watch and listen. Of all the "big screen" memories that is in my top handful. Over 30 years ago and still a clear memory. I see Brian Smith's post below. I knew there was a significant story to the song but could not remember.
I loved this from the first time I heard it. It's Earthy and soothing...perfect....I had the VHS when I was young... and had a hell of a time trying to reset this to play....thank you...
Eddie Murphy Coming to America Arsenio Hall James Earl Jones (R.I.P.) John Amos (R.I.P.) Madge Sinclair (R.I.P.) Shari Headley Paul Bates Eriq La Salle Frankie Faison Vanessa Bell Louie Anderson (R.I.P.) Allison Dean Sheila Johnson Jake Steinfeld Calvin Lockhart (R.I.P.) Samuel L. Jackson
one of the most beautiful things I've heard in my life.......thank you for posting this. I recorded it on a crappy tape recorder when it finally arrived on shit cable back in the late 80's...LOL memories..
If they don’t have this as the intro to Coming To America 2 then I’ll be cartwheeling out that cinema faster than Cleo McDowell starts to “like” Akeem after he learns he’s a prince
Now that I 'm older and teaching the children this side of their ancestry my heart cries as I shed tears for the "Mother" I never knew still calling for me to come home. I have played too long in the fields of "afar-off" and she beckons me through the wind with her sweet whisper of the one word we all can relate to-LOVE. Afraid, I can never close my eyes as her every word shows me a ravaged birth right along with the faces of kings great and long past. Soon Mama- soon, I will return home.
Fun fact: Eddie Murphy played Prince Akeem, his parents played by James Earl Jones & Madge Sinclair who 6 years later after Coming To America went on to play the voice of Mufasa & Sarabi who are Simba's parents in the 1994 Disney animated movie, The Lion King. Young Simba played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement & Adult Simba played by Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Rest in peace to both of James Earl Jones & Madge Sinclair. 🙏 🌹🌹
I had seen this many times as a kid. Saw it on Bravo last night, and as soon as I heard the intro song, I texted my friend, 'Make sure to remind me to look up the Coming to America intro song!!!' LOVE IT
I have always adored this film and this song. So regal and awesome. The song is a version of "Mbube" that LadySmith Black Mambazo did for the movie, but this particular version here can not be found on any of their albums. The original by Slomon Linda was the inspiration for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Weavers. LadySmith Black Mambazo still perform.
Breathtaking music that sets you up for a great movie. Eddie Murphy had a 1980s that's never going to be duplicated. SNL, 48 Hrs., Trading Places, Delirious, Beverly Hills Cop, The Golden Child, Beverly Hills Cop II, Eddie Murphy Raw, Coming to America, and Harlem Nights.
Great opening, I was surprised by how well most of the cast of the original had aged when I googled them when Coming 2 America came out, most of them looked really good 30 years on. Still haven't seen the film though!!
I searched everywhere for this song, and I finally found a way to download it from the you tube downloader, then I transferred it to my cell phone!! BRILLIANT!! NOW I LISTEN TO IT WJENEVER I WANT TO....ON REPEAT!!!
Makes me feel like I’m from Africa (what ever it was called before ) and I’m witnessing the crowning of the king. That’s a good feeling I want to get back to when we were king.
The song is called "Mbube", which is Zulu for "Lion", and was originally recorded by Solomon Linda and The Evening Birds, in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1939. ;)
Man I could listen to this all day
me too
Gunnerrich god yes
me three
@@Blue369 me four
Me too bro
one of the most comforting movie intros of my childhood. While this is playing your grabbing the popcorn off the stove or out the microwave and you try to find a spot to watch the movie where you can chill and maybe snug with your mom and annoy your brother. Being a kid was everything man
Popcorn off the stove hit me real hard, those were the days.
Big agree, "comforting" is the word I would use, too.
And watch some boobies in the process
Fun fact: Six years after this movie, Akeem's parents-James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclar played Sarabi and Mufasa in ,,The Lion King" :)
Thank you mr/miss historian.
Thanks! Thats awesome
Yes they did and for that Disney will be forever the Greatest film production companies for creative thinking.
@@damientyre3784 many are there better than Disney, more will come that will be much better than Disney. Ok.
Does that mean Simba’s gonna work at McDowel’s & Akeem will kill his evil uncle?
I remember I fell in love with this intro. I love how it starts while the Paramount logo displays and transitions in. Perfection!
Indeed
Me too have put it as a ringtone
30 yrs later and still BEAUTIFUL!
I hope you have watched coming to America 2.
Perfection
@@ubongbenson8427 not even close. 😂
Indeed I loved watching this a kid, I feel sorry for those who never got the chance to witness pure nostalgia, man what a movie, I miss it so much when life was so full of excitement and enjoying watching with families 😭!
It will always stay beautiful ❤
This song can end wars.
Amen!!!
yes
The song started royalty wars with disney and other americans who tried to copyright the song from the south African who made the Original song
Amen
@@SmokieDeLaCruz what’s the name of the song
Love that introduction. Beautiful voices. Especially the deepest one. Ladysmith Black Mambazo are just awesome. Has such a flawless vibe to it that takes you and sends you at the same time. Your soul is floating and mind is flying. Truly breathtaking.
Bless Solomon Linda for writing this beautiful piece.
The original Lion Sleep Tonight
Who's listening to this in 2020?
@Danielle Malone me to haha
Me
yo
I’m wacth if the movie right now
Meee I’m just now watching it
love the beginning of this movie....
I love the whole of this movie
Takes me back to the 90’s. Great times
Once the scene went over the mountain peak, I knew it was on.
Literally man. Saw this film for the first time two weeks ago and blew me away
You couldn't tell by the first second??
Yep. On an poppinnn
Before Wakanda, there was ZAMUNDA!!!
etheangel2220 no I’m pretty sure the black panther comic existed long before this script was written
@@PHATB0Y20 Yeah, they prolly wrote music for the comics...
Wrong, Do you know how old the comic book is!
@Aleksandar Samardzic Hush LMAOO
R.I.P Chadwick Boseman 😢 WAKANDA FOREVER! But also ZAMUNDA 😅
The harmony in this intro is just amazing.
One of the biggest selling groups in Africa. Their harmonies are incredible
Can you tell me the name of the group please
@@SHELDUCKORIGINALSLadySmith Black Mambazo
Just like the sound when its raining, this song brings me peace...relaxing away...
this is the best intro song ive every herd in my life..no instrument just all voices and sounds sooo freakin great..love it when i was a kid love it now
Awesome lead vocal skills, harmonies, and tempo, love it!
This opening music just puts me into a trance of good feelings. Very soothing somehow.
34 years and I still love this beautiful prologue and Film
My favorite movie ALL TIME...
Mine too! I have a Kingdom of Zamunda tank and all!
Thee most beautiful intro to a movie I think I have ever seen in my entire life. I get so sucked in to the screen with the landscape and the music, and it feels so relaxing and comforting. This movie and song shall never be forgotten in my mind. One love, peace and respect to every living animal (humans included because we are animals) and plant on this planet
One of the best intros ever...
... and a great Film!
Why hasn’t this been looped to 10 hours yet???
Hands down and on a deep level, very best 80'movie ever made.
So pure in it's innocence and Beaty, enchanting the folks right away with a hymn of untouched joy wich hides under a costume called "introSong"
Frisian greetings
No matter what color you are, you can always listen to this music and comeback to yourself and just relax and just breath.
Coming to America was one of Greatest Movies of All-Time. No Question. It will in fact continously last throughout time.
Listening to this in 2023 fun fact they showed this film in my junior high school when I actually came to America.
I love this version. Their album version isn't quiet the same as the one recorded for this opening scene.
Thank you uploader! One of the best movies of all time...and wonderful intro music. After all this time...in 2018 still on top!
this song is literally The Lions Sleep Tonight on morphine, so peaceful
@Walakilma Tiger the song is entitled "Mbube" originally written and recorded in the 1930's by a South African named Solomon Linda. He worked at the Carlton Hotel during the week and on weekends he and his choir would compete with other choirs. The song was recorded three times. There were three takes. It's only on the second take, and right at the end, the last chorus, where all of a sudden he improvises. When Solomon Linda steps up to the microphone and he sings these notes that changed history. "Oweeeeeeembubeeee" He NEVER got writing credit or compensation for this song. Smfh
Amazing opening scene, for an amazing timeless movie
I've always loved this intro, that's the Ancestors talking to you!! B1✊🏿
Greatest intro ever
this and star wars
What about lion king
this used to be my alarm clock back in 2005!
They have the golden arches, we have the golden arcs.
How did you do this?
Zoe Cat make it my alarm? It was on an android phone I had, it was one of the settings to set custom mp3s as ringtones, notifications and alarms
@@sithisrants4154 they have the big mac we have the big mic
And here it is. That haunting, beautiful African herding music I heard a brief segment of on the radio way, way long ago. DJ got a hold of world music livestock herding music. In Europe herder sung to her herd in soprano, could be the seed of opera. The African example was this, and it blew me away. On a whim I thought I'd watch Coming to American and this exquisite piece was played. Am I happy!
I hear this and just get overwhelmed by the feeling things will be alright
Rest in peace James Earl Jones. The voice that commanded power. Strength. Royalty and that of a king. God speed. 👑 😔
This song just brings awesome chills! What a pleasure to listen to.
Just watched this since the last that was a long time ago. In my opinion, this has to be one of the best intros in a movie period. The music flows through the scene beautifully. Just the filming alone makes you feel like you’re floating in a magical land and about to hear an amazing story. please like if you agree 👍🏻
Great start to your day after listening to this
This intro and music has such a "perfect world" quality to it. Anyone know what I mean, it's difficult to explain.
its so peaceful, surreal and so familiar at the same time. Its the song of the soul…. i love it!
I get exactly what you mean. =)
I got you !!! :P
Nothing touches true African folk and harmonization, especially Ladysmith Black Mambazo. "Perfect world" quality is a great description.
DRailroad Nothing like African harmonies..
Great for meditation... Love this song..
I was just thinking the same thing!
@@cmo8179 It's just like "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" !
Zamunda Forever!
Imagine waking up in Zumunda......
Good Morning my Neighbors!!!
I vacationed in Zamunda last month. Beautiful place and amazing people. The food is also out of this world!
Calinks hey that place does really exists?? :-)
Lol zamunda is fictional this place doesn’t exist
I went to Ray's Boom Boom Room last night too lol
I was meant to go on school trip to Zamunda but I got too many demerits so I had to stay at Hogwarts over the summer.
Musta been some good shit. Zamunda doesn't exist.
www.quora.com/Does-the-country-Zamunda-exist
Timeless. Was a cinema projectionist. Would get Coming to America started then rush down to the auditorium to watch and listen. Of all the "big screen" memories that is in my top handful. Over 30 years ago and still a clear memory. I see Brian Smith's post below. I knew there was a significant story to the song but could not remember.
love this intro. Sends chills all through me every time. Beautiful
I loved this from the first time I heard it. It's Earthy and soothing...perfect....I had the VHS when I was young... and had a hell of a time trying to reset this to play....thank you...
Eddie Murphy
Coming to America
Arsenio Hall
James Earl Jones (R.I.P.)
John Amos (R.I.P.)
Madge Sinclair (R.I.P.)
Shari Headley
Paul Bates
Eriq La Salle
Frankie Faison
Vanessa Bell
Louie Anderson (R.I.P.)
Allison Dean
Sheila Johnson
Jake Steinfeld
Calvin Lockhart (R.I.P.)
Samuel L. Jackson
This song brings so much peace to my mind and soul, I love it.
one of the most beautiful things I've heard in my life.......thank you for posting this. I recorded it on a crappy tape recorder when it finally arrived on shit cable back in the late 80's...LOL memories..
Greatest comedy movie of all time!! A true classic. #nevergetsold
Made the chill run down on my spine.
BTW one of the best movies I've seen ever.
So relaxing 😌Reminds me of the original song by Solomon Linda The Lion sleeps tonight!❤❤❤
Name me a better intro ever....
Is it fuck.. a load of writing that disappears. Don't come close.
+Damon Smith lmao. best intro
+Rhigelle Augustine best intro ever #agree
+Damon Smith beverly hills cop
+Poisonous Sins apocalypse now? I like this though :D
If they don’t have this as the intro to Coming To America 2 then I’ll be cartwheeling out that cinema faster than Cleo McDowell starts to “like” Akeem after he learns he’s a prince
They will. I will bet all I have on it. Can’t improve on perfection.
They don’t. It has John Legend’s voice instead without this song at all.
Well, good news, you don't have to cartwheel out of a *cinema*
😂😂.
Covid.
2019 still mesmerized 🙌
They should’ve used this intro for coming to America 2
Now that I 'm older and teaching the children this side of their ancestry my heart cries as I shed tears for the "Mother" I never knew still calling for me to come home. I have played too long in the fields of "afar-off" and she beckons me through the wind with her sweet whisper of the one word we all can relate to-LOVE. Afraid, I can never close my eyes as her every word shows me a ravaged birth right along with the faces of kings great and long past. Soon Mama- soon, I will return home.
thank you for posting this. one of paramounts best ever openings. loved it then, love it now
Probably the most important intro to black history of film!
MOVIE GOD this and lion king
Fun fact: Eddie Murphy played Prince Akeem, his parents played by James Earl Jones & Madge Sinclair who 6 years later after Coming To America went on to play the voice of Mufasa & Sarabi who are Simba's parents in the 1994 Disney animated movie, The Lion King. Young Simba played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement & Adult Simba played by Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Rest in peace to both of James Earl Jones & Madge Sinclair. 🙏 🌹🌹
Eddie Murphy made fantastic comedy-movies in the 80s and early 90s. I love the song of this Intro.
Making a hour long loop of this today! Thank you having it on UA-cam!
Hope they will use this theme in the sequel! This is legendary and nostalgic!
I had seen this many times as a kid. Saw it on Bravo last night, and as soon as I heard the intro song, I texted my friend, 'Make sure to remind me to look up the Coming to America intro song!!!'
LOVE IT
Wonderful soundrtrack for a epic movie!!!
They should absolutely use this opening for the new Black Panther movie
Indigenous black people do have more than one song you know.
Wakanda forever!!!
Lmao
@@djelite07 zamunda forever
Ibh Zamunda is better than Wakanda
For those interested the song is "The lion sleeps tonight" by "Ladysmith black mambazo".
This is a perfect stain glassed window of beauty. Each note shakes a heart.
I have always adored this film and this song. So regal and awesome. The song is a version of "Mbube" that LadySmith Black Mambazo did for the movie, but this particular version here can not be found on any of their albums. The original by Slomon Linda was the inspiration for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Weavers.
LadySmith Black Mambazo still perform.
$ Listening in 2023 bring back good memories $
This is beautiful
Breathtaking music that sets you up for a great movie. Eddie Murphy had a 1980s that's never going to be duplicated. SNL, 48 Hrs., Trading Places, Delirious, Beverly Hills Cop, The Golden Child, Beverly Hills Cop II, Eddie Murphy Raw, Coming to America, and Harlem Nights.
2024 and had to revisit this
RIP to the true King of Zamunda. James Earl Jones 👑💔
Best movie Intro ever
Great opening, I was surprised by how well most of the cast of the original had aged when I googled them when Coming 2 America came out, most of them looked really good 30 years on. Still haven't seen the film though!!
Rest in Power Japhi "Mufasa" Japhur🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Love it almost makes me feel like im in heaven
One of the best intros in cinematic history
Ladysmith black mambazo rocks bigtime :)
This song is so peaceful
I love this it’s so soothing!
Easily 1 of my most "feel good" songs. All time.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo music like this used to put my son to sleep when he was a baby. Better than lullabies!
I always wondered what was on the other side of that mountain.
We are naming our son Akeem. I want this song played in the delivery room. Only 4 more weeks to go!
What a great intro! In a musical and a cinematic sense!
I searched everywhere for this song, and I finally found a way to download it from the you tube downloader, then I transferred it to my cell phone!! BRILLIANT!! NOW I LISTEN TO IT WJENEVER I WANT TO....ON REPEAT!!!
This song makes me tear [;
One of the best intros ever 2020
this is the best version of this song, believe me i checked all the rest. but i want to find the whole song with this exact version
Makes me feel like I’m from Africa (what ever it was called before ) and I’m witnessing the crowning of the king. That’s a good feeling I want to get back to when we were king.
All I hear is cool whip, hemorrhoids. No joke.
shat myself reading that.
LMAO!!!! You're a fool. You need a hearing aid. (smh!!!)
Thanx now I hear that shit...lol
This is a spiritual song. A window to your soul
Rest in peace james earl jones and madge sinclar Mufasa and Sarabi
And now John Amos.
Song is by South Africas world renowed group Lady Black Mambaza
My favorite movie FOREVER
The song is called "Mbube", which is Zulu for "Lion", and was originally recorded by Solomon Linda and The Evening Birds, in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1939. ;)