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No state banquet or command performance is complete without this song.

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This was one of the other "state songs", along with the hausa song that I posted above, Omo Pupa and Iya Ni Wura. It's also one of the most popular highlife songs. The song has been covered many times.



E.C. Arinze - Nike Nike


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYak_yo2d-U

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This is another song that was played/performed at state banquets, command performances and other such occasions.


This is the original version and when you listen to it you'll know why I'm still searching for the original version of Baby Jowo. Victor Olaiya's voice in the early 1960s is quite different from his voice in 2016.


Dr Victor Olaiya - Omo Pupa (1963).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50U2HEnjR8

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AT LAST, I HAVE FOUND IT!

The thread has served its purpose.

I don't know if this is the original, but these are the lyrics that I remember.

This is the Hausa song


Ishie Brothers - Mafara Kusa da Sokoto


So now, should I reveal the name to my friend?

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GOD BLESS YOU!!!

That's the lyrics that I remember.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA8fLdy7iu0

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Another version.

Ishie Brothers - Akwai Wana Gari



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osm9E78MWeU

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This is a popular Lagos Island folk song that Fela transformed into an amazing highlife song.

The original folk song is one of my favourite childhood songs. I could picture the scene in my head and I often imagined how it would be. The song is from the red and white part of Lagos Island, that is, the famous Lafiaji.

It's about kids that have been sent to sell dodo and moinmoin, but they didn't make much sales. Therefore, they did something crazy, mischievous to attract people .

Fela added some words to the end of the song and they made it funnier. He sang about the things that were thrown on his body when the fight started.

I have become seriously addicted to this song in the past few days.

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Now let's go waaaay back to the afro-jazz and highlife era. Back before the politics. These are the Lagos songs.


Fela Ransome-Kuti and his Koola Lobitos - Oni Dodo (1968).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkrhu0zhkDc

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Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson - Sawale (1960s)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0hutAI3LPE

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You won't believe the places that I've heard the bassline and chords of this song. So many groups, bands and choirs have adapted it for their use.


Feladey also covered this song in 1990.

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Everybody knows this song. It has also been covered uncountable times.

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Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson - Love Adure



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbyFwKQAuMU

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Art Alade - Sisi Jowo live on the Bala Miller Show in 1983.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jsWnOSGgsI

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Chris Ajilo - Ariwo (1950s)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDZn6avqt0

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The reason that I have never posted this song is because I am still searching for the original. However, I will make an exception here. This is the original singer, but this version was recorded in the 2010s, when he was 83 years old.

This is one of the unofficial Lagos anthems.


Chris Ajilo - Eko O Gba Gbere


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXY0R7Xk6JM

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THANK YOU GOD!!!

THIS IS A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT! MY SONG IS BACK ON YOUTUBE!!!

It was uploaded 13 days ago. (Now all that is left is Nelly Uchendu's Jesu Chelum)

9am in the morning on Saturdays between 1985 and 1987. Femi Robinson and this.


This is the Obi of Trumpet.


Eddie Okonta - Otanjele



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzWpowmrvnk

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This is the origin of the Bala Miller Show signature tune.

This song was a huge hit for Bala Miller and the Musical Pirameeds of Africa in the 1970s. He decided to use it as the signature tune of his TV show in the 1980s.

"Wait a minute", you might say. "That's not Bala Miller!"

Well, Bala Miller isn't the one singing. That's a member of the band called Abdullahi. Bala Miller is at the back (to the left), conducting the band.


Bala Miller and the Musical Pirameeds of Africa - Ikon Allah (performed on the Bala Miller Show in 1984).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdNU6vnxVTo

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My favourite song by Oliver de Coque is undoubtedly Identity.

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Phenomenal guitar playing, with wisdom filled lyrics.


Oliver De Coque - Identity (1980)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gG1A_7M6U

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This is the Oracle!

I read his column in. . .was it the Sketch or the Tribune? He often predicted the results of football matches (he got a few of them wrong). He was a musicologist and an academician (he lectured at UNN and Ife). He was also a broadcaster.


Despite the fact that he was a famous musician, he often sat with the Nigerian Football Supporters Club during Green Eagles matches and he played the trumpet with them. The NTA usually interviewed him at half time.


What I want you to listen to is his pronunciation of the following words: "Dodo", "Moi-moi", "Ero".


Sam Akpabot - Oni Dodo (1978).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPp3FiJpg0k

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I don't think there has ever been a Mothers Day in my life that I've not heard this song. There's a live band here and I can hear the bass line from the car park.

Prince Nico Mbarga's Sweet Mother.

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More than 3 million views

Ok, these are the most popular tributes to mothers in Nigeria. The first is by a Nigerian and the second is by a non-Nigerian.


Prince Nico Mbarga - Sweet Mother (originally done in 1974, but released in 1976).

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Today is June 25th. The great Prince Nico Mbarga died in a motorcycle accident in Ikom 20 years +1 day ago. May his soul rest in peace.


Here is his biggest hit.


Prince Nico Mbarga - Sweet Mother (1976).

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And now it's time for the National Anthem.

This is one of the biggest songs to come out of Africa.

It has been covered uncountable times in uncountable languages.


It was, of course, very popular in Nigeria and across West Africa, it had a massive impact on Congolese rumba and soukous (what Nigerians call makossa), it was huge in East Africa (there are East African cover versions) and believe it or not, it was also very big in South America.


Prince Nico Mbarga - Sweet Mother (1976)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mecNrIaWOA

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I was really hurt when this man died. He was an all round entertainer. A musician, magician, tv show host, night club host, hotel owner, etc. I loved watching the funny magic that he performed on his tv show.

Bobby Benson - Taxi Driver (1960s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu5Bav_ySW0

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It's hard to get a good quality version. We had the record, a small disc, back in the day and I'm very sensitive about it.

I remember dancing to this song in the Coaster sometime around 1981.


The guitar playing is phenomenal.

I also remember seeing Sir Shina Peters use this song to tune his band sometime in the 1990s. He played a rock version of the song.


Sir Victor Uwaifo - Joromi



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbe7UefYCN8

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I am good! I have found it again!!!

Nelly Uchendu's version was called "Jesu Chelum" and it was on that album that I had in the 1970s and '80s.

This is Onyeka Onwenu's version and it is called Egwu Ekene

(I prefer Nelly Uchendu's version. It was more energetic).

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I've done it! This is the audio. This is the first time that I'm listening to this song in almost 30 years!


Nelly Uchendu - Jesu Chelum (1978)

https://www.junodownload.com/ultraplayer/4460660-02-01-02.m3u?r=0&c=0&s=01-02