Happy birthday …. Woyaya

I say happy birthday Woyaya, but to be accurate the LP of the name by Osibisa was released in 1971 it was just that we bought it in the March of 1974.

“We give you our treasure” they sing and “Be Happy”.

It’s not the oldest LP in the collection, that falls to Peter Seeger at Carnegie Hall recorded in 1963 but it remains a favourite of mine.

It has travelled with me across Manchester to  Chorlton and a full half a century since I bought it it still gets played with pleasure.

And reminds me of a magic night in the Til Kenedy building which was in the early 1970s  home to the Student's Union of Man Poly in All Saints.

Exactly when we saw Osibisa is lost in time but l guess it will have been around 1971.