The album I intended to post last sunday was this one Kwabena.
When going through them I picked the one with more or less
similar front sleeve. Anyway, here is another of their lp’s from
the same year 1978. It is a little bit noisy but I think it’s one
of their better records, Yellow Sisi and Okponku Special
are straight hits and at least worth a couple of
spins, enjoy doing so..

tracks;

01 – Awisaah
02 – Yellow sisi
03 – Okwan da ma mini
04 – Okponku special

A very popular highlife group in our little music community
is without doubt this one. Sammy Kofi and his Okukuseku
International Band of Ghana worked from Lagos Nigeria.
It’s on Muomaife Records and from 1978. Recorded in a
christian radio studio I do not wish to know what the
lyrics mean. I do know I like it very much musically.
Great rhythms, Sammy Kofi’s wonderful voice,
more sweet highlife, don’t miss..
p.s.
Track #3 has two small pops,
I’m sorry about that.

tracks;

01 – Bz mi dua nie sae
02 – Abua zni dua nyane na pra no tio
03 – Sanka me wo adekye bi sen obia
04 – Mede meho aba munye mami

Hello good morning, Obeeyie should be meaning something
like, All will be okay, if I’m not mistaking. Even if I do, all will
be just fine. This is a record by Kwadwo Donkoh of whom we
never had any work yet. Backsleeve says, “Diplomat turned
Musician”, okay, very nice career move I’d say. Kwadwo
should have made it much sooner cuz his music is
very cool, with prominent bass guitar and awesome
rhythms, I’m an instant fan..listen..

tracks;

01 – Obeeyie / E go good
02 – Enti yede saa / Na so ego be
03 – Obiara wo ne office / Everybody get him office
04 – Ahooya / Skin pain
05 – Honey / Honey

Hello groovers, it is nice to see so many happy reactions
on Ghanaian music. I decided to post this one by the African
Brothers, it has been waiting for the opportunity to find it’s way
to you for some time now. Nana Ampadu I and his African
Brothers made a big pile of records and I’m glad we have a
bunch of them already. This one on Philips is a very nice
album, great music, great cover, enjoy it..

p.s. the centre hole is not in the middle
at the b-side of the lp, so it gets a tiny
bit false towards the end of the album.

tracks;

01 – Obiara wo nea otumi no
02 – Ankore hunu
03 – Onyame wo m’afa

This Ramblers album from 1971 contains both covers and
songs by Jerry Hansen himself. A sweet mixture of their
own and international hits. The Ramblers were here on 4
other occasions, this is their fifth contribution to the GG.
I love every record I heard untill now and this one forms
no exception, Jerry Hansen is the man that never
disappoints. Get it and spread it,
you know the drill..

tracks;

01 – Obaa ahoofe
02 – Me nim beebi a wewu mada
03 – Owu adaada me
04 – Nine miles high
05 – Dzi dzo
06 – Grazing in the grass
07 – Vete pa’ la luna
08 – Muntie
09 – Caramelo a kilo
10 – Womma yen whe yie
11 – Se eye mi do
12 – Wo gya me a me ye mobo

It’s sleeve is quite worn out, I took the liberty to repair the
name which was almost gone on the frontside. Lovely lp
by the Shining Star, Akwasi Ampofo Adjei, or Mr. AAA
and his Kumapim Royals International Band. I like the
sound very much but already know it’s a good thing not
to understand the lyrics on this one. You know why.
The record itself fortunately doesn’t have to many
scratches and plays reasonably well. I’m happy to
bring you another of their albums, we had three
of them so far, go find them using our
search-bar and have fun playing..

tracks;

01 – Anomaa antua
02 – Gyama wosuro
03 – Time changes

King Kwabina Onyina is back at the GG, we had one of his
albums in the past. The highlife he brings is so very relaxed,
delightful laid back sound. I can’t really tell you a lot about
him. The post we had has a link to more info, go check.
For now, sit back and listen to King Kwabina Onyina..

tracks;

01 – Dabi na meka m’asem
02 – Obi de aba
03 – Agona dwuma ho ye fe
04 – Me mere beba
05 – Afenhyia pa aba
06 – Medofo pa nante yie
07 – Taxi driver
08 – Efie mu asem
09 – Onipa ho asem
10 – Me beyee denwo wiase
11 – Dabi wo bekae me

Alex Kwabena Konadu was born in 1950 at Adwumakase
Kese in the Kwabere no.3 district in Ashanti. He developed
a keen interest in music in his infant days when at school.
But as he could not join any band at that tender age, he
learnt to manipulate some of the musical instruments and
never missed watching the concert parties and dance bands
which visited his town to perform at the time. He completed
his elementary education in 1967. He did not persuit further,
but instead took to music as his profession. The first band
which he joined was the Akwaboah’s Band. He remained
with it for three years and then left to join the Happy Brothers
Band as the lead vocalist. While with this group he felt the
desire to be on his own and therefore left after two years stay.
Kwabena went ‘solo’ for sometime, composing and practising.
One day he invited Mr. A.K. Brobbey, a very popular records
dealer and an active producer to listen to his rehearsals.
Having listened to him, Mr. A.K. Brobbey a philantropist and
one of the producers who has the ability to spot talents and
to polish them up, saw that Konadu has the qualities to be
with the best when given the right directions. He therefore,
helped him to organise his present band and signed him on.
With this set of first class instruments and new group, Konadu
has this to say, “Many thanks to my manager and producer
A.K. Brobbey, we shall work hard to be with the first always.”

Unfortunately some idiot has been practising his autograph
all over the sleeve of this lp. Luckily he didn’t start on the
vinyl. The record plays quite well and the music sounds
absolutely great. One small issue though, Label and sleeve
do not agree about tracks 7 and 8. They switched them
around so I stuck with the label, which is also more
complete. If wrong let me know, thanks folks..

tracks;

01 – Nkrabea abebrese
02 – Mena mepe
03 – Yerenom bi
04 – Adada yi
05 – Eno abenaa
06 – Odum aye saa
07 – Enkyene anko nea yedi
08 – Barima yena

Jerry Hansen and his Ramblers are back,
we had three albums so far,
one ,
two and
three.
Their highlife is one of a kind, perfect dancing music
for your weekend. This lp is from 1977, on Decca West
Africa, top sound quality, partly latin influenced,
west african gold..

tracks;

01 – Serwaa akoto
02 – Travel and see
03 – Ewa ha mi
04 – Pe aduro ye
05 – A divina me
06 – Devi tso do
07 – Eka ete
08 – Obi nnim nea onyame ahyehye
09 – High life medley

The lp we have today is very much in demand, if you find
it, mostly it goes for huge prices. I was lucky and found it
quite reasonable so here it is for everybody to grab. It isn’t
in mint condition but plays fair and sounds fine. With Kofi
‘Papa’ Yankson and Ebo Taylor. So finally take this
Chance to listen to C.K. Mann’s funky highlife,
enjoy it and share it with whoever you can..

tracks;

01 – Asafo beesuon
– Obaa yaa aye me bone
– Kolomashie
– Dofo bi akyerew me
– Ankwasema dede
– Okwan tsentsen awar
– Aboa akonkoran
02 – Beebi a odo wo
– Tsie m’afotusem
– Ebusua ape adze aye me
– Yebeyi wo aye
– Do me ma mondo wo bi