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The Greatest Hits (Boney M. 1993)
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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 (Margherita)", "Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song" which never had been released as singles in the UK. Besides Boney M.'s best known hits like "Daddy Cool", "Ma Baker" and "Rivers Of Babylon" this fourteen track compilation also includes the 1993 remix of "Brown Girl In The Ring" (UK #38, 1 week) that was issued in both the UK and the rest of Europe as the follow-up single to the 1992 "Megamix". While still in overdubbed form, three tracks on this compilation, "Rasputin", "Ma Baker" and "No Woman No Cry" are also featured in their full length as opposed to the German BMG predecessor Gold - 20 Super Hits
.
The Greatest Hits album itself was released by the now defunct Telstar Records
while the singles "Megamix" and "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" were issued by Arista Records
, which at this time was operating as a sublabel to BMG
.
The Greatest Hits reached number 14 on the UK albums chart in early 1993, which made it their highest charting album since 1980's The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
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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...
's Gold - 20 Super Hits
Gold - 20 Super Hits
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 -...
with alternate album art and a slightly diffefrent tracklisting, omitting songs like "Felicidad (Margherita)", "Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song" which never had been released as singles in the UK. Besides Boney M.'s best known hits like "Daddy Cool", "Ma Baker" and "Rivers Of Babylon" this fourteen track compilation also includes the 1993 remix of "Brown Girl In The Ring" (UK #38, 1 week) that was issued in both the UK and the rest of Europe as the follow-up single to the 1992 "Megamix". While still in overdubbed form, three tracks on this compilation, "Rasputin", "Ma Baker" and "No Woman No Cry" are also featured in their full length as opposed to the German BMG predecessor Gold - 20 Super Hits
Gold - 20 Super Hits
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 -...
.
The Greatest Hits album itself was released by the now defunct Telstar Records
Telstar Records
Telstar Records was a record label founded in 1982 by Sean O'Brien and Neil Palmer with a government loan of £120,000. It was founded as a specialist compilation marketing label and had hits with a range of compilation franchises such as the Deep Heat, Kaos Theory and 100% ranges...
while the singles "Megamix" and "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" were issued by Arista Records
Arista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
, which at this time was operating as a sublabel to 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...
.
The Greatest Hits reached number 14 on the UK albums chart in early 1993, which made it their highest charting album 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,...
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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...
(Farian, Reyam) - 4:15- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:26
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "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."...
" (Bobby HebbBobby HebbBobby Hebb was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his writing and recording of "Sunny".-Biography:...
) - 3:56- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:00
- Remix '93, radio edit
- "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) - 4:43- 1992 overdub version, full-length. Original 7" mix 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) - 4:34- 1992 overdub version, full-length
- "Still I'm Sad" (April, McCarty, Samwell-Smith) - 4:34
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday" (Farian) - 3:55
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickette) - 3:16
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "Belfast" (Billybury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:25
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
- 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "No Woman, No CryNo Woman, No Cry"No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers. The song first became known in 1974 through the studio album Natty Dread. The live version from the 1975 album Live! is perhaps best known — it was this version which was released on the greatest hits compilation Legend. The original...
" (Vincent FordVincent FordVincent Ford , known as "Tata", was a Jamaican songwriter best known for receiving writing credit for "No Woman, No Cry", the reggae song made famous by Bob Marley & The Wailers, as well as three other Bob Marley songs...
, 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...
) - 4:54- 1992 overdub version, full-length
- "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 from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
- 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Huth, Jay) - 2:30
- 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super HitsGold - 20 Super HitsGold – 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 -...
. Original 7" mix ( - 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
- 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
- "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...
")
- 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
Single Releases
UKCD
- "Megamix" (Arista RecordsArista RecordsArista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
74321 12512-2, 1992)- "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:51
- "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '92) - 3:58
- "Megamix" (Long Version) - 6:12
- "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" (Arista Records 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
- [ Allmusic, biography, discography etc.]