I am still in pain. I absolutely love the Obi of Trumpet and I was very happy when this song was used as the theme song of Shoppers' Guide.
Femi Robinson had been the Village Headmaster from 1972 till 1983. He began a new show after leaving the Village Headmaster. That show was called Shoppers' Guide.
They sent reporters to all the major markets in Lagos to find out the prices of foodstuff and other commodities and then they listed all the prices (along with the names of the market) on the show. It was shown at 9am on Saturday morning, so you could find out the prices before going for your Saturday shopping. The show was sponsored by Lanre Badmus (car care products) and Dimaps Batteries. It was aired in 1984-1987.
This song was the theme song of the show and it was great waking up on Saturday mornings to listen to it.
I was very happy when I discovered that the video was on YouTube and then one day I went to YouTube and discovered that it had vanished. Unfortunately it is still not back on YouTube many years later.
naptu2: I guess I can console myself with this, since I can't find Otanjele.
This was the way that I watched the great man decades ago. There were many of these, what I call "Band Stand Shows" on Saturday and Sunday afternoons back in the day and that's where I usually watched him.
Unfortunately the tape had deteriorated before it was digitised and so the colour is gone and the picture is no longer stable, but you can see the Obi of Trumpet, Eddy Okonta, performing.
naptu2: You see, he wasn't only a great musician and singer (as you can tell from Mother and Child), he was also a great producer.
She worked at the NTA in the early 1980s and she approached him to produce her album and he did. I think it was recorded in London, but I can't remember for sure.
naptu2: The moment I fell in love with Onyeka Onwenu.
I had the Everly Brothers version of this song (I believe that's the original) and I absolutely loved it. So, for anyone to make a cover version of the song that is as good as the original. . .that person must be really special.
So the NTA showed a competition that was staged in the UK (c1981) and an unknown Nigerian performed this song. I was blown away. In fact, I think I prefer the tempo and beat of Onyeka's version. That was Onyeka's first hit.
Unfortunately her version is not online (God bless Classic FM for playing it once in a while). Here's the Everly Brothers' version.
naptu2: There was a video clip that caught my attention in 1981 or 1982. It was of an incredibly beautiful young Nigerian woman in the UK. I think she had just won some kind of award and then she gave a performance. She sang the Everly Brothers' song, "Walk Right Back". It was beautiful. That video was shown many times on NTA 2 Channel 5 in 1982/1983. I have been looking for that video on YouTube since 2008.
I already loved the Everly Brothers and it was some feat for someone to perform that song and for me to like it without comparing it to the original. We had the Everly Brothers' album and it was one of my favourites. The album sleeve was very colourful. It was made up of little cartoon strips that represented each song on the album. I loved every song on that album. I loved "Bird Dog" because there was someone that I knew that was named Charlie and we used that song to tease him. (Now I'm tempted to do and Everly Brothers sweep).
Anyway, that was the first video of Onyeka Onwenu that I ever saw. I still haven't been able to find her version of "Walk Right Back" on the internet, but this song (below) was from the same album. (You can clearly hear Sunny Okosun's influence in the horns).
This was the first song by Onyeka Onwenu that I ever heard. I wish I could find the exact video that was on heavy rotation on NTA2 Channel 5 in 1982.
We had the original album that contained this song. That album is one of my favourite albums. It had hit after hit after hit and the album sleeve was filled with cartoons. I absolutely loved that original version by the Everly Brothers, so I thought that it would be difficult for anybody to cover the song in a way that I would like it. Onyeka Onwenu succeeded. I also love this version.
The original video from 1982 showed Onyeka performing this song at an event in the UK. She was very pretty.
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