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DeMOznlgxx:
Don't mean to trouble you Bruv. But please there's an old skool song I've been trying to get, I don't know if its Nigerian at all, but the lyrics goes thus; "I want you to be mine . . . I want you by my side, be my guide." Pls can you help me get the name of the artiste and the title of the track. Thanks.

Bro, I saw your earlier post, but your question took me on a journey that was sometimes frustrating. I'll tell you what happened.

I recognised the lyrics as soon as I saw your question (I knew that I had heard the song), but I couldn't remember the melody. It was so frustrating! I kept searching my mind, trying to remember where I had heard those words.

Then I remembered the melody yesterday night and it occurred to me that the song has been done more than once. There's a 1970s version and a 1990s version, but I couldn't remember the name of the song or who sang it. I wasted a lot of time because I wrongly believed that the 1970s version was done by Ofege.

Now I've found the '70s version. I'm hoping that someone will hear this and remember the name of the person that covered it in the '90s.

Wrinkers Experience - Fuel For Love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39oV7VcTAWE

dfrost:
Chairman naptu2 is my Alaga on NL. Hence I dedicate this list to him (you must vet it else I will cry). I and a couple of old pals are planning a party for those that were digging these tracks by then. Feel free to add yours.

Here we go...

Method Man Ft. Mary J. Blige - You're All I Need
DMX - What They Really Want ft. Sisqo
The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Faith Evans - One More Chance (Remix)
The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Faith Evans - One More Chance
JAY-Z - Song Cry
DMX - Ain't No Sunshine
DMX - Lord Give Me a Sign
JAY-Z - Excuse Me Miss ft. Pharrell
JAY-Z - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)...
Next - Too Close
Young Jeezy - Soul Survivor ft. Akon
Brandy - Baby
Puff Daddy ft Mase - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
G-Unit Feat. Joe - Wanna Get To Know You
Mase - Welcome Back
LL Cool J - Hey Lover ft. Boyz II Men
Mase - Feel So Good
Fabolous feat Lil' Mo- Can't Let You Go
Ja Rule Feat. Lil' Mo & Vita - Put It On Me
The Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa
Ja Rule - Down Ass Chick ft. Charlie Baltimore
The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
Trade It All - Fabolous Ft P Diddy & Jagged Edge
Ja Rule featuring Ashanti, Vita & Charli Baltimore - Down 4 U
Fabolous feat Tamia So Into You
Fat Joe - What's Luv? ft. Ashanti
Thalia featuring Fat Joe - I Want You
Mya ft Jay Z - Best of me
Nelly - Dilemma ft. Kelly Rowland
Nelly - My Place ft. Jaheim
Jennifer Lopez - All I Have
Mya - The Best Of Me ft. Jadakiss
LL Cool J ft. Total - Loungin (Who Do Ya Luv)
112 ft BIGGIE & MASE - ONLY YOU
112 - ONLY YOU
LL Cool J - Paradise ft. Amerie
Aaliyah - Back and Forth
Usher - My Way
MArio - Just A Friend
Mase - What You Want (Feat. Total)
Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real (remix) ft. Ja Rule
Brandy - Sittin' Up In My Room
Brandy - I Wanna Be Down
Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E. ft. Snoop Dogg
Busta Rhymes - Pass The Courvoisier Part II ft. P. Diddy, Pharrell
Kanye West - Through The Wire
OutKast - Ms. Jackson
Ice Cube - You Can Do It
Montell Jordan - Get It On Tonite
Big Pun feat. Joe - Still Not A Player
Chingy - One Call Away
112 - U Already Know
112 Dance With Me
feelin freaky-- B2K ft Nick Cannon
Timbaland & Magoo - Luv 2 Luv Ya
Timbaland & Magoo ft. Aaliyah and Missy Elliott - Up Jumps Da Boogie
Missy Elliott - The Rain [Supa Dupa Fly]
Common - The Light - Bohemia After Dark
Common - The Food
Lauryn Hill - Doo-Wop (That Thing)
Nas ft Lauryn Hill If I Ruled The World
The Fugees - Ready or Not
Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack
Ashanti - Happy ft. Ja Rule
Mariah Carey - Boy (I Need You) ft. Cam'Ron
Cam'Ron - Oh Boy ft. Juelz Santana
Destiny's Child - Say My Name
Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills
Destiny's Child - Jumpin', Jumpin'
Usher - U Don't Have To Call
Usher - U-Turn
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name
Q Tip - Breathe And Stop
Ludacris - Pimpin' All Over The World ft. Bobby V.
Ludacris - Area Codes (feat. Nate Dogg)
Eve - Who's That Girl?
DMX - X Gon' Give It To Ya
DMX - Party Up (Up In Here)
DMX - Where The Hood At
DMX - What's My Name?
DMX - We Right Here
Bobby V. - Slow Down
Mario - Let Me Love You
Bobby V. - Tell Me
The Notorious B.I.G. - Mo Money Mo Problems
Puff Daddy ft. The Notorious B.I.G., The LOX & Lil' Kim - It's All About the Benjamins
Nas - Hate Me Now ft. Puff Daddy
Brian McKnight - Hold Me ft. Kobe Bryant
Ja Rule Feat. Case - Livin' It Up
Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine
TLC - No Scrubs
50 Cent - P.I.M.P. (Snoop Dogg Remix) ft. Snoop Dogg, G-Unit
Destiny's Child - Soldier ft Lil Wayne ft. T.I., Lil' Wayne
Jagged Edge - Where the Party At ft. Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat, R.O.C., Lil Bow Wow, Tigah
Cassidy - Hotel ft. R. Kelly
Jennifer Lopez featuring LL Cool J - All I Have ft. LL Cool J
Big Pun - Punish Me

Lauyn Hill - Doowup (That Thing)
Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones
Timbaland, Mgoo, Missy - Here We Come
Ja Rule - Holla
R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix)
Tatyana Ali - Daydreamin
Funkmaster Flex, Wyclef and Khadejia - Here we Go.

I would have posted this video earlier if I had remembered.

This is taken from the Bala Miller Show in the early 1980s. Elder Steve Rhodes, Bala Miller and Gloria Rhodes (now Gloria Rhodes-Nash) perform some of the highlife anthems that are on this list.

It's quite interesting seeing Steve Rhodes attempt to sing in bini.

It's also fascinating the way Steve Rhodes combined his group with Bala Miller's band (those men really understood music).

By the way, does anybody have a clip of the episode of the Bala Miller Show in which Kris Okotie was the guest? The one in which he dressed like a superstar. I'd be very happy if somebody posts a clip of that episode.


Bala Miller, Steve Rhodes and Gloria Rhodes performing

1) Baby Jowo
2) Taxi Driver.
3) Omo Pupa
4) Omo Laso
5) Joromi.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2-c4L7OEtY

gemale:
Big up 2 op. He rili knows d history of Nigerian music. I dnt know a lot of those songs he mentioned hweva dere r some songs I felt shld hv made d list dt were absent. Onyeka onwenu's iyogogo & ekwe, Neil Oliver's baby girl, benita okogie's Osamudiame, blaccky's Rosie r songs r some of D few I can rmbr nw.

Blakky's Rosie is on the list. Nell Oliver is not Nigerian. He is from Benin Republic.

emeka2847:
Yes, they even used to protest at that time. That they are being served only one kind of food for 2 or 3 days consecutively

This is the answer to the question, "What happened".

Muafrika2:
50K? What were they serving, pythons?

Hahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahhahaha

50k = 50 kobo.

PETUK:
eje ka jo was done in 1980 is it the Ben Bruce that we all know? I mean the Silver bird crew and the Senator?

Yeah, that's Roy's elder brother.

Pheeknow:
Ans somehow Osadebe did not make the list

Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe's Osondi Owendi is on the list. Read the list slowly.

Freciprocal:
Bro Good Job you did by invoking Nostalgic moments


You meant Onyeka Onwenu... I remember Mumsy singing this to me, Powerful praise song

cc: merahki
benzmatic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFtND9lX_e4&list=PLN4xbskXOh74m-mJXjiPtBZmZzCS-tDIW&index=41

That's the song. Although Nelly Uchendu's version was slower, but that's the tune. Thanks very much.

Do you know the name of the person that sang this hausa song (check the attachment below).

shakablaiize:
yes sir about the phone book i found one in my dad's wardrobe when i asked him if he knew every body in the book... he smiled and said you won't understand my son...i was much younger tho.... mehn life much have been really boring without internet

Boring ke? What does boring mean I grew up in heaven, so I didn't know the meaning of boring (I always joke that I've been to heaven, hell and earth in my lifetime).

There were so many things to do and not enough time in which to do them.

Video games

You could play video games.

We had a Binatone TV Master in the 1970s.

All the games were pre-installed. I particularly remember the tennis game.
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We had an Atari 2600 in the 1980s.


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It had lots of games which you bought separately. The games came in cartridges.

The most popular game was Pac Man
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/PacMan2600box.jpg

My second favourite game was Spiderman

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Spider-Man_%281982%29_Coverart.png


My favourite game was Maze Craze

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I never really understood this game. Superman

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Superman-Atari-2600.jpg

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You could watch TV

TV stations began transmitting at 5pm and shut down around midnight. There was no 70% rule at that time, so they showed a balanced mix of foreign and Nigerian programmes. I knew the tv schedule off heart. The tv became my clock.


Then came LWT. There was a battle for supremacy between NTA2 Channel 5 and Lagos Television and sometime between 1980-1982 LTV started Lagos Weekend Television (LWT).

LWT began at 7pm every Friday and ran (non-stop) until 7am on Monday. They showed the best movies and series all through. Series like Incredible Hulk, Invisible Man, The Man From Atlantis, Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Dan August, The Avengers (John Steed and Emma Peal), etc.


There was a boy in my house. At around 11pm, the adults would make him go and sleep because it was past his bed time. Then, at around 1am, I would hear noise in the kitchen. This guy would be in the kitchen cooking all kinds of food. Then he would go to the parlour and sit in front of the tv with his meal. He would lower the volume so that he would be able to hear what's being said, but none of the people sleeping in the house would be able to hear it. Then at around 5am, he would sneak back into his room and sleep.

So I would wait until it's around 1:30 and then join him in the parlour to partake in his meal

Unfortunately the LWT studios burnt down in 1985 (or '86) and that was the end of their marathon transmission.

This is Chariots of Fire by Ernie Watts. It was the signature tune of LWT. It used to make a lot of people happy on Friday nights.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIKJG3uUWQ

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You could go to the video club and rent movies, tv shows, sports, etc or borrow from friends.

You could borrow video cassettes from friends or rent them from video clubs.

There were hip hop themed movies like Break Dance The Movie (Ozone and Turbo), Fame (the pilot was a movie, then came the tv series), etc.

There were movies and series that were adapted from classic books like The Other Side Of Midnight, Kane And Abel, Hollywood Wives, etc. These usually require TDB (Till Day Break). There was a day that we started watching movies at 7pm, took a short break to watch the news headlines at 9pm, then continued watching till 6am (I only realised what time it was when my mum called me to lock the door for her).

We were one of the first people in the neighbourhood to have a VCR (this was the late '70s) so neighbours often came over to watch with us.

Of course, in the 1980s there were video clubs like Video Mart, Cosmo, Videoscope, Glowe, etc and in the '90s there was Mega Movies.

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Sports

I played football, basketball, tennis, rounders, baseball, cricket and table tennis. I watched, but did not play, rugby.

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You could go to Ikoyi Club to hang out.

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You could read books.

I had a gigantic library. There were crime novels, story books, major literary works, everything from James Hardly Chase, Jackie Collins, Jeffrey Archer and those kind of authors, to Pacesetter novels, to works by Wole Soyinka, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, etc, to the African Writers Series, to story books by Enid Blyton (Famous Five, Secret Seven, Five Find-Outers, Mallory Towers), etc.

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You could go out and play.

I grew up in a multi-national environment and the kids taught each other various games from their countries. We had buried treasure, we had our own makeshift kitchen (where kids would bring recipes from their countries. That's where I first ate curry rice), etc.

In fact, there were so many things to do, that I could spend the whole day telling you about them.

Beremx:
Long time naptu2. How are you doing?

I'm fine thank you dear. Have you seen this thread? https://www.nairaland.com/3439718/list-150-greatest-nigerian-songs

Statue of Kokoro at Tinubu Square.

https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/13668941_1758216801102286_2215942961837349968_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9

https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-0/cp0/e15/q65/p240x240/36177_477572592789_7201155_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=056944121da127bdfea98882f0350bb0&oe=582AAD0B&__gda__=1478955333_8fcddbe6c669d7f352867fb8d16636a7

armadeo:
Naptu I think you opened a thread I this guy sometime ago.

Or is this De ja vu.

It's almost de ja vous (in more ways than you can imagine), but not quite. This is the thread that you are referring to.

https://www.nairaland.com/3228867/nairalanders-how-many-remember-these

shakablaiize:
baba good evening sir... can you please tell us a story on how you survived without phones back then??

Telephone service was provided by P&T (Posts And Telecoms) which became Nitel in 1985. There were area codes - Ikoyi was 68, Victoria Island was 61, Lagos Island was 62, Festac was 88, Ikeja was 97, etc.

You had to wait for a dialling tone before you could make a call. We were lucky, the government paid our phone bill.

There were huge telephone books (1978, 1979, 1982 and 1983) and you could find people's phone numbers with the telephone books.

Some short codes were 199 (emergency), 198 (speaking clock), but I can't remember what the ring back short code was.

You had to book international calls with the operator.

benzmatic:
If you want to marry a husband, never you marry a waka about!.......Nelly Uchendu was and still is the greatest vocalist to come from these shores. The voice was supernatural, she did not have a single song that was average. Nice one Naptu. This can serve as a thesis

merahki:
Her voice is soo beautiful it almost haunts one. I dunno what sonorous means exactly...but it sure has Nelly's voice as an example...Simi, that new Yoruba girl on the block, has a soulful voice too

(as a total digress)
When Biafra comes, I am so gonna wrap up puleenty Yoruba singers and songs to take with me
That tribe has music in its DNA...true story
I am thankful for the maaaany many times I listen to, and love Yoruba sings without understanding a word
9ice, Lagbaja, Fela, Juju, Simi, Tiwa, that Mandy girl from way back, Whizkid, BankyW, Davido's "aye", DBanj....and etc, and more
Chai

Aha! Maybe one of you can help me.

I had Nelly Uchendu's album in the '80s and I loved all the songs on it. Mamausa was a huge hit, Waka About was funny (comedians used it in their jokes) and Love Nwantiti was also very good.

But there was another song on the album that I also loved. Unfortunately I can't remember the title or lyrics of the song. I've searched everywhere for it (including YouTube) but I've had no luck. So I'm going to play the melody on my keyboard, hoping that one of you will recognise the tune and remember the name of the song.

Please click on the link below this post. It will prompt you to download a voicenote of me playing the song.

Thanks.

tolor:
@naptu I use to think that you are an N.I.A agent on nairaland but after listening your keyboard notes I think Choirmaster fits the description..


the song you played sounds like the song played in a Catholic church for Prayer of the faithful. It goes like this:
when I call on you Lord
Don't reject me Lord
Don't forsake me Lord
But answer my prayer

I don't know if the melody was originally made for this hymn but I know I've come across this melody. It's even used in some vintage nollywood movies you know, those ones that depicts serious suffering and the cast includes Hilda Tokunbo that is always crying and a very dumb Tony Umez who always needs deliverance in his movies and above all the movie will be set in the village,....

Yes, I know the hymn you are referring to. The melody of that hymn was adapted from the hausa song I'm referring to. I also know another version of that hymn that goes:

When we call you Lord,
Have mercy on us,

Harken to our cry
And answer all our prayers

I'm searching for anybody who remembers the name of the hausa song.

That hausa song was always played at Nigerian Independence Day parades, Remembrance Day parades and Bala Miller also sang it on an edition of his show.

King Sunny Ade introduces Kokoro at an event at the Island Club.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCc5C7AfAJ4