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Documentary about Kokoro.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mVaEz0SgA

I used to see him every single weekday in the late '70s and 1980s. He used to busk on Igbosere Road and Broad Street on Lagos Island. I had Ekwensi's book, but it was not until the 1990s that I discovered that the book was loosely based on Kokoro.

What amazed me the most about him was that he knew the streets so well that he could walk around unaccompanied.

olaleke2:
YES!!! BELINDA!! WHO WAS THAT GUY, BY THE WAY? HE LOOKED AND DANCED A BIT LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON, TOO!! IN FACT, THOSE DAY, IT WAS SAID THAT MICHAEL JACKSON WAS SUPPOSED TO PERFORM THE SONG, BUT HE WAS LATE, AND THE CAMERA GUYS WANTED TO PACK UP. SO THE GUY VOLUNTEERED TO DO THE SONG, AND KILLED IT. IT WAS SAID THAT MICHAEL JACKSON GOT FURIOUS AND SHOT THE GUY, BUT WAS NEVER CONVICTED! #HausaTalesByMoonlight

Grady Harrell sang Belinda

Does anybody know the name of this song? Attached below this post is a link that will prompt you to download a voicenote of me playing the tune on my keyboard. I've played it without any accompaniment or chords, so that it'll be easier to figure out the tune I'm talking about.

Please help if you can.

merahki:
My goodness @ eaglechild and naptu2
She must have been only a young teen then, barely out of childhood
To my eyes then she looked so grown up and I wanted to grow up to be singing jes like her
My girl

Whoa
Nostalgia...I am going back to my childhood I swear...do all the things I loove but which I have long "outgrown" eg climb trees (mehnn, I dunno oo, but I want to at least ). Okay real resolution...I will rediscover the beauty that is music...I have somewhat let this passion become very lukewarm...soon I may climb a tree and try not to think of those ants!

Here are two absolutely amazing people in one video.

Bala Miller interviewing Yvonne Maha on The Bala Miller Show in 1983.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq_3M9om0D4

Jnrbayano

Yvonne Maha - Wings Of A Dove (1983).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uDaTaJMhJY

eaglechild:
Kola Masha definitely rings a bell but I can't remember any of his songs.


He was on a TV show I believe.

He had his own tv show, he often presented Kiddie Vision 101/Speak Out and he had an album (all these happened c1989-1993).

Jnrbayano, eaglechild and merahki It has just occurred to me that most of our very popular child stars (singers) are female.

There was Yvonne Maha in the early 1980s.

Tosin Jegede in the mid 80's to early '90s.

Chichi of Africa in the late '80s and early '90s.

Benita Okojie in the mid '90s to early 2000s.

And now there's Amarachi.

The only boy that was a bit successful was Kola Masha and he was not half as famous as the girls listed above.

dominique:
Yes I have seen it. Most of the earlier tracks are so strange to me, I didn't even know that Ben Bruce's brother did music.

I bet that you know some of those songs, but you just don't know their names.

Number 2: You've heard Flavour's Nwa Baby, right? It's a cover of Sawalele. Rex Jim Lawson's songs are very popular, but most people don't know their names, so they draw a blank if you say Sawalele or Love Adure or Iworiwo, but once you sing the song, they go, "O! I know that song".

Waka waka baby, (o yeah)
Wuruwuru baby, (o yeah)
I go tell your mama,
I go tell am say,
You be waka waka baby,

O baby sawalele,
Sawa sawa sawalele,
Ashawo

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Number 23: Eddie Quansa is the signature tune of the New Masquerade, so if you've watched the New Masquerade, then you must have heard Eddie Quansa.

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3) Baby Jowo: Dr Victor Olaiya and 2Face remixed the song 2 years ago and it's still being played on tv and radio.

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Number 1: Sweet Mother is the Nigerian Mother's Day anthem. It is one of the most popular Nigerian songs ever. I've even heard them play it in a church on Mother's Day. Just listen to the radio or watch tv on Mother's Day and you'll hear the song. It's particularly very popular across West Africa, especially Nigeria and Cameroon (Nico Mbarga was half Nigerian and half Cameroonian)

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Number 6: Mo Sorire has been remixed by I.K. Dairo's son, Paul Play Dairo and it found renewed fame in the early 2000s.

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Number 17: Otanjele was also the signature tune of Femi Robinson's Shoppers Guide and you would have heard the song if you watched the show.

frank442:
One person is missing. The omoge man. Mike okri

Time na money

I love is sisi

Time Na Money is on the list.

yamunla:
there is a song that goes like this "Hear the children crying,hear the children helpless,nne'm o,iya mi o" please whats the title and the artist name..thanks

The artist is Christy Essien Igbokwe. The title of the song is either Hear The Call or Hear The Children.

bismarck:
Na wa for you oooo, I 've gone through your list, neither Victor Uwaifo's 'joromi', nor ' Akhuankhuan Ekassa' (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enyvs9f9VnM). Even Rex Lawson 'Iworiwo' is missing. Hmmm

Joromi is on the list. So also is Guitar Boy (Mammy Water). How can I exclude Joromi?

bismarck:
Please naptu2, what of 'Ririovara' by Edna Ogholi This song should be in top 100 (though I don't understand the language)

I decided to choose between it and Obaro and I chose Obaro (Obaro is in the list).

jnrbayano:
*If I have the wings like a dove*
*I love children everywhere*
*Gini ka I na-eme oge ncha*

Where is that "child star" right now?

eaglechild:
Good recall

I don't know her name or whereabouts.

You are referring to one of two people.

1) From my memory, Wings of A Dove was sung by Yvonne Maha.

2) And Gini ka I na-eme oge ncha was sung by Chi Chi of Africa.

By the way, I think the person that sang about going to school was Tosin Jegede.

I don't know where Yvonne Maha is, but Chi Chi of Africa was Dele Momodu's personal assistant in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Ishilove:
Can someone remind me of Dizzy K's most popular song? Can't remember the tune

I can't remember all the words, but it goes something like this (I've posted asterix in place of words that I've forgotten).

It's been **** years since we met each other,
But you *****
You rejected my love,
Baby Kilode!

And the guitar goes du du du du du dum dum dum.

I love you, I love you, I'll never let you go,
Baby kilode!

Every few decades politicians and governments propose these utopian years. These are years when, according to governments, politicians and bureaucrats, we would have food for all, shelter for all, etc.

So, in the late 1980s the government started talking about food for all by the year 1990, shelter for all by the year 1990 and President Babangida promised to hand over to an elected civilian government on October 1st, 1990.

So Charlie Boy sang this afrobeat song in which he criticised the government and politicians. He believed that politicians were preparing to loot the country (Dem don sew their trouser with big pocket).

Charlie Boy - 1990 (1988).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4r4IU91fbY

dominique:
Nothing from Mike Okri? I was hoping to see at least 'Omoge' in the list. TBH I don't know up to half of those songs listed up there, nice list all the same

Mike Okri's Time Na Money is on the list. Scroll through the list, I'm sure you'll see a lot of songs that you know. I arranged it in chronological order (though not strictly so) from the 1950s/60s down to the 2010s.

Jethrolite:
Naptu2 I think this your list is excluding very crucial acts from the late 80's and early 90's-the guys in premier music, Alex O, Alex Zito, Edmund Spice, Peter otthiong, Sandy Ermers, Felix and moses.

Two of Alex O's songs are in the list (Do It In The Name Of Love and Banana).

IBNgemini:
Tho am In my early twenties and I know some of these songs...
I love osondi owendi due to the guitar riffs and melody which I enjoy playing everyday.....

If you love the guitar riffs, then listen to Joromi. Victor Uwaifo's guitar playing was absolutely perfect on that song.

His stagemanship was also perfect. I've seen him play the guitar with his teeth while playing that song. Sir Shina Peters played a rock version of Joromi on stage and it was absolutely wonderful.

joseph1832ng:
Akula Owu Onyeara. Not bad. Where can I download it? Been looking for that song since like forever.

The original version (by The Funkees) is on YouTube. I haven't yet found Charlie Boy's version.

Lilimax:
Nice research and collections from the great naptu2 It brought some of the musics to my memory... Well done sir!

Thanks.

OPCNAIRALAND:
Naptu, where are the following in your list?

Lijadu sisters
Orlando Owoh
Lefty
Mamman Shata
Dan Maraya
Eddy Grant

Two of Orlando Owoh's songs are on the list (Alagbon and Kangaroo). By the way, do you know the name of that song in which he criticised General Babangida? The song is a bit x-rated.

Interestingly, I was humming Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue while compiling this list. Three songs were playing in my mind while compiling this list and they are:

Sonny Okosun - Mother And Child
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Kris Okotie - (I don't know the title of the song, but he sings "Don't go o o" in the chorus).

But Eddy Grant isn't Nigerian.

Caveatemptor:
I think that Onyiara song was initially sang by multi instrumentalist,Jake Solo. I am not sure but that guy was a bad mudafocker.

slysteel:
Are you not talking about akula by charley boy?

YES! God bless you guys! You've helped me solve one part of the puzzle. The title of the song is Akula Owu Onyeara and it was originally done by The Funkees.

Cc joseph1832ng

redcliff:
Nel oliver nko..

Nel Oliver is Beninoise. He is not Nigerian.

Caveatemptor:
I also feel some of Fela Ransome Kutis early songs before he became radical,should be on this list such as Ekuro,buy Nigeria,Aya was no, and Ojo Monday,should be on your list.@Naptu2.

Fela did not start music as a social commentator and a lot of his early albums,although not popular are very,very good.
Davido and Lagbaja have tapped into his early songs,modernized ttem and used them to become popular. Even Ebenezer Obey tapped into early Fela songs and made dough.

OMG! Ojo Monday! OMG!

That's actually why I added Oni Dodo Oni Moin Moin. It represents that era, when he was still Fela Ransome-Kuti.

gbosaa:
Oliver De Coque, Osadebe and Sir Warrior aka Oriental brothers should make the top 50 of any naija classics.

I absolutely LOVE Oliver De Coque's Identity (it's on the list). You don't only get entertained, you also learn a lot from it (message music). It's also very funny.

The guitar riffs from Osondi Owendi (it's also on the list) are absolutely fabulous. Almost as good as Sir Victor Uwaifo's Joromi.

[quote author=Slim101 post=50691589][/quote]Tickle Me by Alex Zitto is on the list. Daniel Wilson's Mr Ragamuffin is on thee list. I think the song that you are trying to remember is Funmi Adams' Omode.

Richy4:
OP forgot to add send down the rain by Majek Fashek

It's there.