I believe that is the song is from "Money to burn" by the wrinkas experience.

Have you seen that Bature, who's a true Hausa/Fulani northerner, did not contribute to this 70s/80s reflection of mostly Biafran musical artists?

Chiboy just did justice to your questions, Yes the song you were talking about is Money to Burn by winkers experience.

Brother Sokie

Layer and Bongo will never recapture the lure it had in the 70s. Now thinking back I don't how were able to walk and dance with those things on our feet. You guys keep taking us back to memory lane. I remember almost breaking my legs one time played at Girls secondary School Ehime Mbano. I was trying to dance and stepped on something and the whole hill almost came crashing down.

My ribs are hurting. One guy fell and bruised his face very badly and so my old man always ensured we wore something lower. Those were the days!

Titled she is a drop out.

goes like this

Oh girl far far six years I have loved you, You know this is true.

But all this time that have loved you, you have been too bad to me,

You know this in your mind,
and now is just a time that I feel like having some one new.

so change like i am changing girl that you are just a half bread. telling that some one new who would help.

Sooo you remember Ali Chukwuma and Show promoter?

Do you remember Charles Iwegbue?And all those music from East Africa with its ikwokirikwo rythm?

What a shameless hypocrite! You want to show Ndigbo "nwinyi," and from the other side of the mouth, you go "gaga" over an Igbo man's music, huh? Na wa for you. Inferiority complex go quench you kpata kpata...agaracha must come back o, hahahaha!

Na everything U fight over? Its just music.

IBS Owerri?? Did you live in owerri or because it was the clearest voice east of the Niger then? Don't be shy, take your hat off and tell us how much of Owerri you know.

Biafra,

I don't know that song, but I enjoyed "highway to success". The ironic thing is that the Apostle guy may not have completed his high school at Comprehensive Ogbor hill Aba. So he may have been a drop out too.

The song he later did in Ngwa dialect about the fire that gutted Ekeoha market was first class if you understand Ngwa language. His voice was treble and mellow and there was a lot of philosophical sayings in that song. Eg: "the person I invited over for a meal is complaining about the size of my fufu balls"

"I know you'd cry if they did to you what they did to me and I'm still laughing"

It is best narrated in the lovely ngwa dialect.

Does anybody recall Boney M' of the "rivers of babylon" fame. That their song "felicidad" had a very strong and forceful rythm and even old women in my village boogied to it when all they understood was "....Mama O mama.." etc etc Another popular one with the old women was Okosun's(Ozidi) "my papa's land". I still remember the day I ran into sunny O at crystal palace hotel Aba. He's now into gospel muzic since Apatheid collapsed in South Africa. Meanwhile his mentor sir victor uwaifo is now a commissioner in Edo state. Uwaifo for me was a better musician and singer than okosun, but okosun was more business minded and could even descend to praise singing like oliver de Qoque(SP)

Now those were the days!

A good sunday to you all guys
OU

If I lived within a short distance of such a famous group it will be my "claim to fame". 'Dont talk about love' was very cool and my realtives in high school used to exchange the lyrics of all those songs.

Jimmy cliff sang mama look out the mountain.

Also the song you are talking about from Apostles and Walton Arungwa about Ekeoha market disasters Was Titled ENYIM

It Goes Like This

Enyim le
Ezigbo enyim nyem echiche oga enyerem aka o

Oku ngbara Ekeoha le gbara ala Aba o

Onye omere karu ma o.

Onye omere karu m

Umu Apostles si unu karu ma o

Ike Nwiga si unu karu ma o

Then he went on to list so many people who consoled the Aba traders.

yes you were right highway to sucess was another one of their hits,

Followed by another Ngwa dialect song, Titled

Nmere gini bu Ogu

It Goes like this

Nmere gini bu ogu lee nmere gini bu ogu le umu uwa ji agbo ni m ugwu.

Onye akporo kpo iri le si na okwu m ehile.

Oke na tara azu ma ihu na ihu na na ikpa su la m iwe. Brother Ohafia you keep taking me back to the good ole days.

I am not hundred percent sure I think Chyke Fusion was the Apostles drummer. Is been a long time since I lost contact with those guys. I know Benji was the organist, Walton Arungwa on lead Vocal, I think Nwiga was the lead Guiter, Fusion on drums. I could be wrong on fusion he could also be the bassist. I knew Benjamin very well, and Walton casually also.

The last time I saw those guys was in 1980. At Arinze Okpala of the original wings house. As you may be aware of the history of the wings and the so many breakups they went through. That was when some members of original wing had just breaken up to form original wings page one. which didn't last long. Ban Joe who was my good friend was trecruited to be their bass guiterist.

The first Break up was because of the death of Spud Nathan. When spud died, Arinze Okpala and few members said that they will have to mourn for spud for at least for one year without any record release or concerts.
However Manford Best felt that, that will be too much of a fiancial hardship. Mind you that Manford Best was blamed for Spud's death because Manford was driving on the faithful night. Earlier that night Spud had exchanged some hash word with Manford during their concert at UNN Nsukka that night. That was the night Manford's car came out from RT Briscoe Aba, and Spud rode with Manford to that show that night. But during Break Manford had sex inside that car with a girl he met that night.

This infuriated Spud, Spud told Manford that he has defiled that car, that the is not even blessed yet. So after the show Arinze asked spud if he was going to catch a ride with him in his own car (Arinze)? Spud said no that if he do that Manford would think that it was because of those argument they had earlier. So Arinze drove off home to Aba. However Spud's own car was suppose to come Monday, while all this was taking place during the weekend.

So this was the background that made Arinze not to take too kindly about Manford Best suggestion of continue playing while mouning for Spud Nathan. More over Manford came from a rich family so they felt like he could handle the hardship fiancially. So this led to Manford Best forming Super wings, with Jerry boifriend as lead singer. However those allegations of Spud death trailed Manford and the super wings, though they were playing good concerts their records did not was not commercially successful.

Arinze and his group went ahead and mourned for Spud Nathan for almost two years. Then they came out with that smash successful hit Trubute to spud Nathan. Manford Best and super wings also released an album in tribute to Nathan, their's was Titled Tribute to Jonathan Udensi.

Let me give you some of the lyrics of the two tribute, you all probably have your favorite.

First Manford Best super wings goes like this

Jonathan, jonathan undensi Jonathan where have you been, Oh my friend rest in peace. Oh my friend rest in peace. .................

Then Arinze and Original wings with Jerry Demua as lead singer. Goes like this,

Is no good no, is no good, the way you left us, in this wicked world.

You left Mother without a child in this wicked world.

You left sister without a brother as you depart.

mother and sisters all are crying for you.

Oh no Spud Nathan how I wish I never see sunsine,.

You left us in this wicked world.

Thanks. I see I actually combined their two Ngwa songs together. My favourite in the tributes is "it's no good, No..."
I love Ngwa language to bits especially their use of proverbs and exclamations. I remember you mentioned Akpenor(Christie Essien). Her brother Joseph was such a fine footballer when they lived at Umungasi Aba before she moved up the ladder. Clarus was mingling with the Ohafia man called Kalu Ukpai(KANBROS Engineering) who has a society called Atherius Society of Nigeria. Claude Eke(Jegede) spends a lot of time in football pools, while Natty has a pick-up van which he uses to transport market women from the local markets et al.

Ojoto,