here’s another scratchy old record, Admiral Dele Abiodun
and his Top Hitters Band Original Super 7. It’s a 1977 live
registration made in New York. Shame the quality is so poor,
fantastic to hear the crowd at the Manhattan Centre go
completely nuts.

tracks;

1 Alleluyah
– Opo enia
– Dami la re
– Aja oni gbagbe olore
– Salawe orokosu
– Egbe ogbomoso ( America )
2 Aringbere
– Are ije
– Kobiti kobiti
– Olowo la gba
– Alhaji Owolabi

A very popular Nigerian Highlife group is this one. We had two of
their albums before at the GG. The album cover aswell as the label
of this one speak of one track on the A side, I found two so I named
them A and B. Enjoy Super Negro Bantous’ 1977 album.

tracks;

1 People no fit understand A
2 People no fit understand B
3 Proudness
4 One suffer go finish

As usual in fuji music, one Chief honours the other on this
1982 album. I see a certain link between the Chiefs we know
from the New Orleans Mardi Gras, such as these,
and the Chiefs we see in fuji music. They both wear pink dresses..,
no but serieus, we better don’t compare Big Chief Jolly with
Chief Benjamin Famuyiwa. This LP was requested by
one of our visitors, enjoy it.

tracks;

1 E ku odun
– Chief Benjamin Famuyiwa
– Adebayo Ogundare
2 Inu bibi ma ya lodo mi
– Alhaji Chief M.K.O. Abiola
– Alhaji Olansile Shaf Awu
– Yegede Yegede a o yale yin

Are you into politics ? I am trying not to be but at the
moment there’s quite some turbulence in the Dutch
political situation. Leaders of party’s come and go and
major changes take place. There will be elections in june
and the papers are full of speculations and predictions.
Personally I am very happy with a fresh new wind blowing
in The Hague in the future, the old one brought us nothing
but shame. I welcome the former mayor of Amsterdam,
Job Cohen, to the political stage, the best of luck to him.

How was the political situation in Nigeria in the 70’s ?
I found us Adawa King, Admiral Dele Abiodun, on a 1977
Nigerian juju album. He can tell us some stories,
listen well. His style’s called adawa, a mixture of juju
and Afro-beat with highlife elements. Both sides of the LP
start quite noisy but during the number it gets a lot better.

tracks;

1 Ile ola
– Adupe lodo baba wa
– Bobo Doherty ( mama Koko )
– Oke ibadan prestige circle
2 Tewe tagba
– Ma se wa bi ko se wun wa
– Ore mi ko mi lofo kan
– Ma ta omi si mi lara
– Abiodun okunuga

Some Fuji for your sunday, and it’s about time. I received a few
comments concerning this music. A good moment to share some
of the stuff. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister is one of the heroes in the field,
he made lots of records. Check out ‘Iwa’ from 1982, rhythm sweetness.

tracks;

1 Iwa
2 Alhaji Rasaq Okoya ( eleganza )
3 Late Alhaja Sidikat Abeni
( Haruna Ishola Bello )
– Olabisi Ajala
– Owolabi Ilori
– Fuji Americano
– Singing roundabout

On Soulposters comes this LP, I don’t know from what year it is.
It looks like late 70’s, if anybody knows ? Another Nigerian highlife
band and not the least. I am sorry that it has a couple of songs,
1 and 3 especially, that open with lots of crackles and pops.
Maybe someone can clean it and return, I don’t have that technology.
The album would certainly deserve it, thanks folks, vous amusez.
Click on that pantherprint suit, ain’t that a party outfit ?

tracks;

1 Original Super 5 / Tabansi label
2 Road safety
3 A go die
4 Life before money

cleaned version

From 1984 we got I.K. Dairo & his Blue Spot.
Yoruba juju to make you have a mellow good time,
the West African easefull peacy feeling.

tracks;

1 Ooni of ife
2 Chief Adebowale
3 Chief Akindele

I don’t know about you but I am a hopeless layman if it comes
to dealing with computers. If there is a problem I need to get
my system manager to fix it. At this moment I have an argument
with Winamp, it refuses to exercise my rippings. It took me quite
a detour to get the ripping done but pfffiew, I managed.
What have we got today? A collector that, to my surprise, was
released by Phonogram, a Dutch record company. The man who
compiled it, Roy Teysse, sure knew what he was doing. What a heap
of great artists he brought together here. The image of the frontcover
did not like to get registered, the shiny parts are a bit hard to capture
with camera. Hope you enjoy.

tracks;

01 – Sir Victor Uwaifo & his Melody Maestros – Ekassa 24
02 – Gentleman Mike Ejeagha & his Premier Dance Band – Obiako nnwam
03 – Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe – Onu kwulunjo
04 – Victor Uwaifo and the Titibitis – Five days a week love
05 – Dr. Victor Olaiya – Ewa
06 – Cardinal Rex Lawson & his Majors Band of Nigeria – Tamuno bo ibro ma
07 – Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & his Nigeria Sound Makers International – Odindu nyuliba
08 – Prince Nico Mbarga and his New Rocafil Jazz – Let them say
09 – Celestine Ukwu & his Philosophers National – Igede
10 – Dr. Victor Olaiya & his International Stars Band – Mo fe mu’yan
11 – Martha Ulaeto – Ndito isong emana nyin

Another fine album by the great Ebenezer Obey, the label of the LP
tells us it’s from 1976 but the cover says 1977. One way or the other,
I think it’s a fine recording and very much worth a few spinnings.
Pay attention to the drummers on this one, outstanding team of players.

tracks;

1 Eda to mose okunkun
– Aiye mi a toro
– Oluwa gbemi leke
– Bowo fun baba ati iya re
– Igbagbo ati imale
– Kaluku lo nse odun
2 Kini ti ma se aiye yi si
– F’eso j’aiye
– Rora rora
– Omoluwabi ni mo feje
– Kaka ki gbajumo jale
– Eledumare a segun elegan

Tonight’s album is for the juju lovers among us. Sunny Adé, without
King in those days, has always been one of the most popular juju
artists in the field. I have no idea how many records he made through
the years but this is No. 16 here already. Being from 1977, this is one of
the older Sunny Adé’s here. The master mixed and produced it himself so
I suppose we can say it sounds exactly how he meant it to.

tracks

1 Emi agbadura
2 Igbagbo ndupe