My Lovely Elizabeth

It was released as a 45 credited to S. E. Rogie and His Guitar on Rogie's own label, around 1962 according to Song Nebula, though a label image reads first published in 1965. The B-side "Advice to Schoolgirls" urges honesty and loyalty to dreams and warns against prostitution. Gary Stewart wrote in Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm (1992) that it was his biggest early hit, with an estimated 13,000 copies sold in Sierra Leone, a high figure given how few record players there were, and EMI's international distribution added thousands more; Rogie distrusted EMI's figures, was unhappy with royalties and returned to distributing the records himself. He performed it in the 1990 film Acoustic Sounds from Africa as his best-known song. Wikipedia lists it with "Koneh Pehlawo" and "Please Go Easy with Me" as his hits. We found no statement on its lyric, no chart entry, no setlist count and no covers.