Tika na Lela by Lovy Longomba & l'orchestre Shika Shika

[@sebastianitooi5863]

Sweet voice of Lovy.What a singer,what a piece.Soo sad that today we can't have bands producing such clean sweet,skillful played music especially my home country Kenya.

[@BMANONO]

Lovy longomba had a unique voice ..

[@jacobociti3110]

Thika na Lela, I love it, can't get old. Reminds me of a grand dance at St Mary Lacor. Life was at its peak. It also reminds me of a colleague who used to say, Kill life before life kills you. What lovely and beautifully played music with slow step gentle dance-Shika Shika oyeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

[@eliudkirarei9553]

This song reminds me back to 1982.

[@muzikifan]

This is most of the song. i bought it used in Kenya in 1983 and, as you can hear, it is fried. The missing part is unlistenable which is why i requested someone else post the whole thing. You can hear the flip to side B at 3'04. Moreno, Lovy & Jimmy Monimambo are all dead. Three of the surviving band members live in Minneapolis, Ontario and Japan.

[@Digold5]

Ahsante sana ndugu kwa kutuchapisha wimbo huu. Naipenda sana wimbo hii. Even if a part of it got fried, Am just excited that finally I can listen to this song. Thanks so so much.

[@jameskiprop7282]

Immediately I completed my standard seven CPE paper in the year 1982 this song was in handy and for sure it is a good song.

[@elizabethkhayumbe1598]

Remembering discos back in 1982

[@frankmanupa2704]

Remembrance of the old days, very nice

[@francismwangi4259]

Takes me back to my school days,Lovy's everlasting super voice

[@muzikifan]

Wabansilu (bass) lives in Kampala; Chery (lead guitar) lives in Montreal; Siama (rhythm guitar) is in Minneapolis, still making music. i think another guitarist may be alive in Tokyo. Drummer (Lava Machine) & three lead singers have all died, sadly

[@barikijofrey4394]

what about horn section

[@mawenzi]

TIKA NALELA (LEAVE and WEEP) is a great song; golden status. Thanks muzikifan for sharing

[@LinaLina-vb7el]

mawenzi let me weep or cry.....tika when used alone it means leave* as in go....but when theres something like ngai -me, nakende- i go......the meaning changes

[@cosmasmwazo6934]

Tika nalela means let me weep.

[@jameswambede4524]

I have the audio version and I like the instruments.

[@Shammy-rn3tn]

@@cosmasmwazo6934 yes that ia correct meaning. The rest are not correct. In Swahili simply " niache nilie".

[@stanleywangugi3427]

This song, reminds me of my anxiety while waiting for my k.c.e.results which were released by the late minister for higher education j.j kamotho the music was realeased one week earlier before our 1980 kce results and I was also a master of history geography English and literature in English but a donkey in mathematics. In short my English teacher Mr mungai called me master of cartography

[@robertamalemba1537]

listening again and again.

[@wilfredk1478]

Thanks for this upload.

[@newtonsimba7930]

Great music.

[@kimanijohn5550]

Next time you visit Nairobi, check with MELODICA MUSIC STORE on Tom Mboya street - Interfina Hse, near Gill House. They have all 70's & 80's music. Perhaps the guy who you were told works at Hurlingham could be Bwamy Walumona (Mangelepa original) who has since gone into Church music and works at Africa Leadership University (also called Nairobi International school of Theology). The institution is behind Nairobi Women's Hospital. Bwamy has worked and lived with all these lingala guys.

[@jamesgordonjames2998]

The only problem is that Melodica uses simple cassette recorders and the so the audio quality of many of their tape and CD products are wanting. I really don't understand what they did with their recording studio and the equipment they had where great works emerged from: e.g. Bana Ngenge, Les Kinois etc. This is what happens when inheritance sometimes passes to people without the vision and commitment of the founders. Mzee Dawoodia was remembered by Samba Mapangala in a song which is not in circulation today. Could the Melodica owners please re-release it??

[@johnooko3735]

Just an edit comment, the right name for the title translated in English is 'I must cry', and not 'Go away and cry' as appears above. However, as I have commented on some of these songs, let's all work toward coming up with some kind of an association to help our artistes, the living or their descendants, of whom we have immensely benefited from in the name of 'free' music! I may not have anything of the sort soon, but it's alive somewhere in the back of my mind ...

[@rutarugwa8586]

Tika na lela means" Let me cry"

[@aikambekyara4703]

Thanks a lot for this great song! Who are the three surviving members and what are they doing?

[@jamesangana_lingalarumbainstit]

Tika nalela=Let me cry Mosala eponi ekolo te=Work doesn't depend on your tribe,race,country

[@christopherkinyera1835]

Do you have the translation in KZbin?

[@jamesangana_lingalarumbainstit]

@@christopherkinyera1835 I did on May 12 2022 kindly check

[@christopherkinyera1835]

@@jamesangana_lingalarumbainstit I found it! Thanks bro.

[@jamesangana_lingalarumbainstit]

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[@jamesangana_lingalarumbainstit]

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[@Digold5]

I am really really glad that you uploaded "Tika Na Lela" Been searching for this song for over 10 years. Even flew into Nairobi from US to search but nothing showed up in the Nairobi music studios. Was told one of the original singers of the song lives in Harlingham , but could not trace him. Request is can you please upload part 1 of this song because unless there are two versions to this song what is uploaded here is part 2.

[@mpayakamara5028]

Part 1 is available; just write Tika na Lela Part 1

[@linusasagwile8836]

Nyimbo hizi tukipiga kipindi hicho kwenye prea tulikuwa tunakariri maneno ya mwimbaji vazi letu lilikuwa ni kiatu cha laizoni soli ya kiatu ngazi 3 shati slimfiti suruali Bugaluu haina mifuko ukumbi kwanye Godauni za kuhifadhia mazao ya kijiji

[@elizabethkhayumbe1598]

Ngora high school

[@jothamwaweru3878]

where do i get this songs in Kenya

[@COOLEYMACK]

Siama is still making music! Here is Siama Matuzungidi's website: www.siamamusic.com/

[@eliudkirarei9553]

Wapi mayatu.

[@kingzulu7245]

Wapi ile inaitwa hadija Mama Samba

[@jaredmakori6337]

Its posted. Search here on KZbin.

[@kumultribez4150]

man I never knew that Lovy Elias can sing 😂

[@fredrickongadiawabwire9448]

Great song. How do I get 'Habari Yako by the same band?

[@muzikifan]

i dont know of any song by them called Habari Yako, are you sure that's the title?

[@fredrickongadiawabwire9448]

The song has lyrics like "Habari yako,...... Unakwenda kulewa uchokozi na wake za watu......."sisi wengine time olewa"

[@muzikifan]

that's "Wake za watu" by Moreno on his EVERLASTING MEMORIES cassette, also on LP "It's My Discothek Vol 2" (POLP 547)

[@fredrickongadiawabwire9448]

Apparently the song I have by Moreno is mabibi za watu & it is quite different from the Habari Yako I want. Actually Habari yako is almost similar to Ditaki

[@fredrickongadiawabwire9448]

Almost similar to Sitaki Mambo which was released almost thereafter

[@bongonzyastephen1848]

there's a song I think by ochestre Shika Shika that had words like, cheza, pumzika, no shika Shika. other words were like aterere......satana, satana... someone please let me know the right title

[@bongonzyastephen1848]

cheza, pumzika na Shika Shika

[@EWMachu]

Inyo pt 1 & 2 by Orch. Shika Shika.....