These are some of the biggest juju songs of the 1970s, '80s and 1990s. You can add more songs to the list.
First we begin with a reading from the book of Wisdom.
naptu2: There's no wisdom that you can have, there's no good behaviour that you can exhibit and there's no knowledge that you can have that will enable you to please the entire world.
naptu2: I have accepted that I'm not going to have the time to translate all the stories. I'll only translate a few or just post the song without any lyrics. It's the only thing that's delaying me from creating the thread. I want to move on to Friday's thread.
I am listening to the song right now. I am at the part of the story where he sings:
If the man goes to a party and they ask him what he wants to drink and he says Coca-cola, they will say that he doesn't know how to enjoy life and jedi jedi will kill him.
If he is an enjoyment master that drinks champagne, schnapps, Heineken, etc. they will give him a nickname, "The man who wastes his money on drinks".
If he is an "agba man" that loves women, they will nickname him the man who does not know more than women. He uses all his money to sin".
And if he is a man that doesn't like to womanise and always sits by himself, they will call him a bookworm who just sits and mopes.
naptu2: The miller, his son and the donkey is a widely dispersed fable, number 721 in the Perry Index. Though it may have ancient analogues, the earliest extant version is in the work of the 13th century Arab writer Ibn Said. There are many eastern versions of the tale and in Europe it was included in a number of Medieval collections. Since then it has been frequently included in collections of Aesop's fables as well as the influential Fables of Jean de la Fontaine.
I'm going to narrate what I remember about the video and translate what the talking drummer was saying.
Bear in mind that the video was released 30 years ago. This is the only part of the video that I remember.
It was a party scene and Sunny Ade and his Golden Mercury were on the bandstand. Much of what they were singing about was playing out on the dance floor in front of them.
An old man was dancing with a young lady. Then the old man touched the young lady inappropriately. The lady smacked his hand (did she slap him? or push him away? ) and walked away.
The talking drummer saw what happened and played that line. The old man pretended that he didn't hear the talking drummer and that he was not the one being referred to. Then one of the backup singers said, "They didn't hear you. Say it again". So the talking drummer played it again and this time Sunny and members of the band sang along.
"Ma f'owo kan be yen, ijo ni o ba mi jo o, daddy!"
Translated - "Don't touch me there, we're just dancing, daddy!"
(The word "daddy" doesn't mean that he is her father. It's a way of referring to an old man).
The old man was stunned and Sunny and his singers continued to mock him ( "C-caution" ) until he left the dance floor in shame.
Then someone else on the dance floor was trying to do a complicated dance step, but he ended up suffering from waist pain.
The talking drummer saw that and played the second line.
"Sunny Ade ma pa mi o, Owo Robb ti won, Maa kan mi ni badi, Ki'n to dele."
Translated - "Sunny Ade don't kill me o! The cost of Robb is too much. Don't break my waist, Before I get home."
Robb is an ointment that's used to treat body pain.
You can hear these two famous phrases from the 10th to the 14th minute mark in the first video below.
Unfortunately I can't find the original video, but you can hear the audio in the two videos below.
The other thing that made me love this album when it was released was the guitar line at the beginning and end of the album. I loved to play it on the keyboard and guitar. You can hear it very clearly in the second video below.
"I will open my mouth, I will sing, I will lift God high".
(Well, at least that's the translation).
"Holy angel tells me (Holy angel tells me hello) Holy Michael (Holy Michael tells me hello) Holy Uriel (Holy Uriel tells me hello)
As you can tell, I also had this cassette. This is where Bibire Kose Fowora came from.
Side 1
00.01 Ma Ko̩rin Ma Fi GB'Oluwa Ga 02.51 Ma Ṣọpẹ 08.41 Holy Angel Tells Me Hello 10.12 Ẹnikan Ko Le Mọjọ So Lokun 14.15 Orisun Iye
Side 2
18.09 Chief (Mrs) Abiọla Elegbede-Fernandez 28.12 Aṣa O Le Pa Kuru Wọle Gbẹyẹle 28.52 Oba Oyebade Lipẹde (Alake of Ẹgbaland) 30.12 Ọba Adeyinka Oyekan (Ọba of Lagos) 33.50 Ma Pa Iya Mi Lẹkun
King Sunny Ade - The Good Shepherd (1988). (This is the entire album).
I'm sure that everybody remembers Ace, everybody remembers Shinamania, everybody remembers Seven Seven and quite a lot of people remember Omo Mbo, but I'm not referring to any of those songs.
Do you remember Sir Shina Peters' rap song? Yes, I wrote rap song. SSP had a funny little rap song on the Shinamania album. It lasted a little over 2 minutes and it's called Omoge Loke Loke. I've been searching for that song since forever and now I've found it.
This is the entire album. The funny little rap song is at the 30 minute mark.
Unfortunately the YouTube account that posted the full album has been terminated. This is side A from Shina Peters Vevo account. It is the original video.
naptu2: But I still can't find Ebenezer Obey's album. I don't even know its name. I can actually remember the video, but I don't know the name of the album. That album was released c1987, but I can't remember its name.
I have been searching for this album forever, but I didn't know its name. The terrible thing is that I keep forgetting more of the lyrics with every year that passes by, but the good thing is that King Sunny Ade's Let Them Say always reminds me of the album. And now I've found it!
Classic FM led the way by playing Let Them Say and now I've found it. It's the B side of Immortality (the A side was about Chief Obafemi Awolowo who died that year).
I have been specifically searching for the part from the 14:36 minute till the end.
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - Immortality (side B) (1987).
naptu2: Dear diary, do you remember that I told you about 2 mega interviews that Chief MKO Abiola gave in 1989 or 1990? Remember that I said that I wish that I can get the videos of these interviews?
Well, I found one of the videos last year or 2 years ago and posted it on Nairaland. Segun Odegbami interviewed MKO Abiola in 1992 and it was in that interview that he talked about Abiola Babes and so on and so forth. The interview was mainly about sports, but Segun Odegbami also asked him if he would contest the presidency of Nigeria.
Now, I have found a very short video of the second "interview" and it's helped me to remember it better. I believe that it was either Chief Abiola's birthday or he was being given an award and this was in 1989 or 1990. It was at that occasion that Chief Abiola saw a friend of his in the audience and then told us a story about what happened between him and his friend when they were in secondary school
Chief Abiola said that he could not afford to get the school text books, so he usually borrowed his friend's textbooks for the weekend. He said he would read the textbooks all weekend and he would end up having higher marks than his friend.
One of the things that I remember about that occasion was that Chief Abiola performed with Sir Shina Peters. I seem to remember that he played the saxophone. (Remember that Chief Abiola started a band when he was still a secondary school student and he used the proceeds from his shows to partly fund his education).
Well, Sir Shina Peters included a small clip of that occasion in his 1990 hit album Shinamania. However, in this clip Sir Shina Peters is the one playing the saxophone. Watch from the 28:57 minute mark.
I'm sure that everybody remembers Ace, everybody remembers Shinamania, everybody remembers Seven Seven and quite a lot of people remember Omo Mbo, but I'm not referring to any of those songs.
Do you remember Sir Shina Peters' rap song? Yes, I wrote rap song. SSP had a funny little rap song on the Shinamania album. It lasted a little over 2 minutes and it's called Omoge Loke Loke. I've been searching for that song since forever and now I've found it.
This is the entire album. The funny little rap song is at the 30 minute mark.
There's a particular song by Ebenezer Obey that I've been searching for forever. I didn't know the name of the song and I couldn't find it anywhere.
Then, just a few months ago, it appeared before me. I think it was Ishilove that posted the video.
The thing is, I'm currently searching for the song, but I can't remember the name and I can't find it anywhere. I can't find it on my diary and I can't find it on her diary. This is a song that I finally got just a few months ago!
naptu2: I was very ill sometime between 1982 and 1984 and the radio was beside my bed. They kept playing this song over and over and it brought me back to life. Listening to this song in that place between sleep and wake is simply magical (or maybe it was the drugs, who knows? )
6) Rolls Royce: This car was parked on Awolowo Road (between Chyzob Pharmacy and the photography studio) in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It was sometimes flanked on either side by a BMW 5 Series (E34) and a Mercedes Benz 560SEL (W126). It was in good working order (he sometimes drove it to Sunday Football).
I went past a certain house every day from 1984-1986 and again from 1988-1989. It was said that the house belonged to "Fajemirokun". I wonder if it was true. I believe that they meant Henry Oloyede Fajemirokun, but they could also have meant Dele Fajemirokun.
I can no longer remember if they were there in 1984-'86, but I certainly remember seeing them everyday in 1988 and '89.
Right at the centre was a white 1950s Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. On either side of the Wraith were two fabulous and more modern cars. On the left was a silver W126 Mercedes Benz S Class and on the right was a white E34 BMW 5 Series.
naptu2: I'm confused. Some nairalanders have posted something that is very strange. They say that King Sunny Ade sang a song in honour of Deinde Fernandez in the late 1980s. The song I know about is the song that King Sunny Ade composed in honour of The Erelu of Lagos, Princess Abiola Dosunmu Elegbede-Fernandez (Deinde Fernandez's ex-wife) in the late 1980s. I had the original cassette!
I suspect that they are confused because they heard the name Fernandez in the chorus. Erelu Fernandez was a socialite and no party was complete without her. I suspect that KSA got the idea to compose the song from one of those spraying sessions.
Deinde Fernandez wrote a public letter to the Erelu shortly after this song was released. He demanded that she should stop using his surname or he would go to court and get the court to compel her to stop using it (after all, they had been divorced for many years). She was previously known and addressed as The Erelu Of Lagos, Princess Abiola Dosunmu Elegbede Fernandez. I don't know if Deinde Fernandez actually went to court, but she eventually dropped the extra surnames and became known and addressed as The Erelu Of Lagos, Princess Abiola Dosunmu.
A similar situation occurred in 2003. Oba Oyekan was very fond of Princess Abiola Dosunmu and she was addressed as The Erelu of Lagos (the Queen Mother) while he was alive. However, Oba Akiolu ordered her to stop using the title "Erelu Of Lagos" because she was not the Erelu Of Lagos, she was actually the Erelu-Kuti of Lagos.
Here's the song.
King Sunny Ade - Bibire Kose Fowora (Erelu Abiola Dosunmu Fernandez).
My dad bought the whole album of Sina peters that year.
I loved all the tracks in that album. His daughter Toyin was my elder sisters set and my senior in Aunty Ayo girls comprehensive sec school ikoyi back then. She later died.
We also had obey commander. Omo Araye.
Keteke'n lo lofo, baba kpelu Omo re won lo, won lo..
hahahahaha...
Who also remember this song. When the going is smooth and good many many people will be your friend " by Williams Onyeabor? mehn.. let me go and listen to it
