Gold - 20 Super Hits
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Gold – 20 Super Hits is a 1992
greatest hits album by group Boney M.. Shortly after record label PolyGram
had acquired the rights to the ABBA
back catalogue and had issued the multimillion-selling hits package Gold: Greatest Hits
, BMG
and producer Frank Farian
followed suit with Boney M.'s Gold - 20 Super Hits which resulted in their best chart entry in the UK (#14 - see The Greatest Hits
) and most other European countries since 1980's The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
.
The album covers of some editions of the Gold career retrospective declared that these were the 'original masters' which was a truth with modification since producer Farian not only had edited most of the tracks but also had overdubbed them with synthesized 1990s percussion such as disco hi-hats, sampled tambourines and handclaps. These mixes have since been credited as the original 1970s versions on most Boney M. hit collections issued in the 1990s and 2000s, including 2006's The Magic of Boney M.
.
Gold - 20 Super Hits/The Greatest Hits
included a new "Boney M. Megamix", also issued as a single, which reached #7 in the UK in December 1992 and gave the group their tenth UK Top 10 entry.
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1992 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....
greatest hits album by group Boney M.. Shortly after record label PolyGram
PolyGram
PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...
had acquired the rights to the ABBA
ABBA
ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
back catalogue and had issued the multimillion-selling hits package Gold: Greatest Hits
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits
Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album of recordings by Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released on September 21, 1992 through PolyGram, the first compilation to be released after the company had acquired Polar Music and thus the rights to the ABBA back catalogue. In 1998, PolyGram was in turn...
, BMG
BMG
Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
and producer Frank Farian
Frank Farian
Frank Farian , is a German record producer and songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into the music industry...
followed suit with Boney M.'s Gold - 20 Super Hits which resulted in their best chart entry in the UK (#14 - see The Greatest Hits
The Greatest Hits (Boney M. 1993)
The Greatest Hits is a 1993 greatest hits album by Boney M., the UK version of BMG's Gold - 20 Super Hits with alternate album art and a slightly diffefrent tracklisting, omitting songs like "Felicidad ", "Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song" which never had been released as singles in the UK...
) and most other European countries since 1980's The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits is a greatest hits album by Boney M. issued in May 1980 which contained all their biggest hits up until that point, including non-album singles "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" and "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday", key album tracks from Take The Heat Off Me,...
.
The album covers of some editions of the Gold career retrospective declared that these were the 'original masters' which was a truth with modification since producer Farian not only had edited most of the tracks but also had overdubbed them with synthesized 1990s percussion such as disco hi-hats, sampled tambourines and handclaps. These mixes have since been credited as the original 1970s versions on most Boney M. hit collections issued in the 1990s and 2000s, including 2006's The Magic of Boney M.
The Magic of Boney M.
The Magic of Boney M. is a greatest hits album of recordings by Boney M. released by Sony BMG in October 2006.The compilation which is an updated version of 1993's Gold - 20 Super Hits and 2001's The Greatest Hits includes eighteen of Boney M's best known hits from the 70s and 80s, a new remix of...
.
Gold - 20 Super Hits/The Greatest Hits
The Greatest Hits (Boney M. 1993)
The Greatest Hits is a 1993 greatest hits album by Boney M., the UK version of BMG's Gold - 20 Super Hits with alternate album art and a slightly diffefrent tracklisting, omitting songs like "Felicidad ", "Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song" which never had been released as singles in the UK...
included a new "Boney M. Megamix", also issued as a single, which reached #7 in the UK in December 1992 and gave the group their tenth UK Top 10 entry.
Track listing
- "Rivers of BabylonRivers of Babylon"Rivers of Babylon" is a rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The Melodians' original versions of the song appeared in the sound track to the 1972 movie The Harder They Come and the 1999 Nicolas Cage movie...
(Dowe, McNaughton) - 4:15- 1992 overdub version.
- "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:26
- 1992 overdub version.
- "SunnySunny (song)"Sunny" is the name of a song written by Bobby Hebb. It is one of the most covered popular songs, with hundreds of versions released. BMI rates "Sunny" number 25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century."...
" (Hebb) - 3:56- 1992 overdub version
- "Brown Girl in the RingBrown Girl in the Ring (song)"Brown Girl in the Ring" is a traditional children's song in the West Indies. It was originally featured in the game of the same name.Brown Girl in the Ring is a children's ring game thought to have originated in Jamaica....
" (Farian) - 4:00- 1992 overdub version.
- "RasputinRasputin (song)"Rasputin" is a 1978 disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and disco group Boney M., the second single off their hugely successful album Nightflight to Venus. The song is a semi-biographical song whose subject and namesake is Grigori Rasputin, a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia...
" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:24- 1992 overdub edit. Original 7" mix ( - 4:43) remains unreleased on CD.
- "Ma BakerMa Baker"Ma Baker" is a 1977 disco hit single by German disco band Boney M. It was the first single of their second album Love for Sale and their third consecutive chart-topper in Germany and their best yet placing in the UK, peaking at #2 although only a minor single in the US .-The song:Frank Farian's...
" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:05- 1992 overdub edit.
- "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-HolidayHooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" is a 1979 single by disco band Boney M. as an adaption of nursery rhyme Polly Wolly Doodle. Despite breaking their row of 7 consecutive German #1 singles, peaking at #4, the single was a big hit all over Europe, peaking at #3 in the UK. The song and its B-side...
" (Farian) - 3:55- 1992 overdub version. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
- "Painter ManPainter ManPainter Man is a song by the music group, The Creation. The song was the group's second, and most successful, single."Painter Man" was later covered by the 1970s pop group Boney M., and reached number 10 in the UK single charts in 1979...
" (Phillips, Pickette) - 3:16- 1992 overdub version.
- "BelfastBelfast (Boney M. song)"Belfast" is the second single of the disco band Boney M.'s 1977 album Love for Sale. "Belfast" was the first Boney M. single to feature lead vocals by Marcia Barrett and became their 4th consecutive German chart-topper. In the UK it peaked at #8...
" (Billybury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:25- 1992 overdub version.
- "No Woman No Cry" (Bob MarleyBob MarleyRobert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
) - 4:20- 1992 overdub edit.
- "Mary's Boy ChildMary's Boy Child"Mary's Boy Child" is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston. With its religious content, it is also widely performed as a Christmas carol....
/ Oh My Lord" (Jester HairstonJester HairstonJester Joseph Hairston was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor. His notable compositions include "Amen," a gospel-tinged theme from the film Lilies of the Field and a 1963 hit for The Impressions, and the Christmas song "Mary's Boy Child".-Early life:Hairston...
, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 4:01- 1992 overdub edit.
- "Gotta Go HomeEl Lute / Gotta Go Home"El Lute" / "Gotta Go Home" is a double A-side single by German band Boney M. It was the lead single off their fourth album Oceans of Fantasy and was the group's eighth and final number 1 single in the German charts...
" (Farian, Huth, Jay) - 2:30- 1992 overdub edit. Original 7" mix ( - 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
- "Still I'm Sad" (April, McCarty, Samwell-Smith) - 4:24
- 1992 overdub edit.
- "Nightflight To Venus" (Farian, Jay, Kawohl) - 3:49
- 1992 edited version.
- "Felicidad (Margherita)Felicidad (Margherita)Paying tribute to the newly elected president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, Frank Farian re-recorded Boney M.'s 1980 hit with singers Sherita O. and Yulee B. with slightly re-written lyrics...
" (Conz, Massara) - 2:50- 1992 overdub edit.
- "El LuteEl Lute / Gotta Go Home"El Lute" / "Gotta Go Home" is a double A-side single by German band Boney M. It was the lead single off their fourth album Oceans of Fantasy and was the group's eighth and final number 1 single in the German charts...
" (Blum, Farian, Jay) - 3:58- 1989 remix version from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume IIGreatest Hits of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume IIGreatest Hits of All Times – Remix '89 – Volume II is a remix album by Boney M. released in November 1989. The follow-up to 1988's Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '88 includes remixes by both PWL's Pete Hammond and original producer Frank Farian and yielded two single releases, "The Summer Mega...
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- 1989 remix version from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II
- "Baby Do You Wanna BumpBaby Do You Wanna Bump"Baby Do You Wanna Bump" is a song recorded by German record producer Frank Farian under the name Boney M. and included on the 1976 album Take The Heat Off Me. It was the first Boney M. single and a minor hit in the Netherlands and Belgium, which prompted Farian to create a proper group to promote...
" (Zambi) - 2:25- 1992 overdub edit.
- "Kalimba De Luna" (Amoruso, Esposito, Licastro, Malavasi) - 4:11
- 1992 overdub edit.
- "Happy Song" (Abacab, Bacciocci, Spagna) - 3:56
- Edited 7" version.
- "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) - 3:51
- 1992 version, radio edit. ("Rivers of BabylonRivers of Babylon"Rivers of Babylon" is a rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The Melodians' original versions of the song appeared in the sound track to the 1972 movie The Harder They Come and the 1999 Nicolas Cage movie...
" / "SunnySunny (song)"Sunny" is the name of a song written by Bobby Hebb. It is one of the most covered popular songs, with hundreds of versions released. BMI rates "Sunny" number 25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century."...
" / "Daddy Cool" / "Ma BakerMa Baker"Ma Baker" is a 1977 disco hit single by German disco band Boney M. It was the first single of their second album Love for Sale and their third consecutive chart-topper in Germany and their best yet placing in the UK, peaking at #2 although only a minor single in the US .-The song:Frank Farian's...
" / "RasputinRasputin (song)"Rasputin" is a 1978 disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and disco group Boney M., the second single off their hugely successful album Nightflight to Venus. The song is a semi-biographical song whose subject and namesake is Grigori Rasputin, a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia...
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- 1992 version, radio edit. ("Rivers of Babylon
Personnel
- Liz MitchellLiz MitchellLiz Mitchell is a singer, best known as the former lead singer of the 1970s disco/pop band, Boney M.-Early life:...
- lead vocals, backing vocals - Marcia BarrettMarcia BarrettMarcia Barrett , is one of the original singers with the vocal group, Boney M.-The early years:...
- lead vocals, backing vocals - Frank FarianFrank FarianFrank Farian , is a German record producer and songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into the music industry...
- lead vocals, backing vocals - Reggie TsiboeReggie TsiboeReggie Tsiboe was born on 7 September 1950 in Kumasi was one of the lead singers of the disco group Boney M. between 1982-1986 and later between 1989-1990....
- lead vocals, backing vocals (tracks 18 & 19) - Bobby FarrellBobby FarrellRoberto "Bobby" Alfonso Farrell was an Aruban dancer and performer, best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M.-Early years:...
- vocals (track 19)
Single releases
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- "Megamix" (Radio Edit) -3:51 / "Bang Bang Lulu" - 3:01 (MCI/BMGBMGBertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
74321 12606-7, 1992)
12"
- "Megamix" (MCI/BMG 74321 12606-1, 1992)
Side A
- "Megamix (Long Version) - 6:12
- "Babysitter" (1983 recording - 1992 remix) - 3:48
Side B
- "Megamix" (Radio edit) - 3:51
- "Bang Bang Lulu" - 3:01
- "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" (MCI/BMG 74321 13705 1, 1993)
Side A
- "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Funny Girl Club Mix) - 5:35
- "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Remix '93) - 3:14
Side B
- "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Club Mix - Rap Version) - 5:35
- "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Radio Version) - 3:58
CD
- "Megamix" (MCI/BMG 74321 12606-2, 1992)
- "Mega Mix" (Radio Edit) - 3:51
- "Megamix" (Long version) - 6:12
- "Bang Bang Lulu" - 3:01
- "Babysitter" - 3:48
- "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" (MCI/BMG 74321 13705 2, 1993)
- "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Radio Version) - 3:58
- "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Funny Girl Club Mix) - 5:35
- "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Club Mix - Rap Version) - 5:35
- "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Remix '93) - 3:14
Sources and external links
- Rate Your Music, detailed discography
- Discogs.com, detailed discography
- [ All Music Guide, biography, discography etc.]