Artist: Boney M Title Of Album: Boney M - Let It All Be Music: The Party Album Year Of Release: January 6, 2009 Label: Sony Genre: Disco, Pop Quality: APE Bitrate: lossless-image +cue +log +SCANS Total Size: 1.03 GB Although they never had much success in America, the Euro-disco group Boney M. was a European phenomenon during the '70s. After German record producer Frank Farian (born in 1942) recorded the single "Baby Do You Wanna Bump?" (which was successful in Holland and Belgium), he created Boney M to support the song, bringing in four West Indian vocalists who had been working as session singers in Germany — Marcia Barrett (born on October 14, 1948, St. Catherines, Jamaica), Liz Mitchell (born on July 12, 1952, Clarendon, Jamaica), Maizie Williams (born on March 25, 1951, Monserrat, West Indies), and Bobby Farrell (born on October 6, 1949, Aruba, West Indies). "Daddy Cool" reached the U.K. Top Ten in February 1977, followed in April by a remake of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny." In July, "Ma Baker" just missed the U.K. number one spot, and "Belfast" hit the Top Ten in December. In 1978, Boney M. was at the height of their popularity with "Rivers of Babylon"/"Brown Girl in the Ring," which became the second-biggest selling single in U.K. chart history. "Rivers of Babylon" also was Boney M.'s only U.S. Top 40 hit. Boney M's album, Nightflight to Venus, also topped the U.K. charts. In October 1978, "Rasputin" became another U.K. Top Ten hit, followed by the seasonal chart-topper "Mary's Boy Child"/"Oh My Lord," which became the fifth-biggest selling single in U.K. history. In March 1979, "Painter Man" hit the U.K. Top Ten, followed in May by "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday." In September, the album Oceans of Fantasy hit number one. Their music continues to sell well in Europe, with a compilation hitting the U.K. Top Ten in 1994. Farian went on to create the late-'80s dance sensation Milli Vanilli. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Let It All Be Music [Alternate Album Version] - Boney M., Kolonovits 2. Gotta Go Home [Alternate Album Version] - Boney M., Farian 3. Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holli-Holiday - Boney M., Farian 4. Daddy Cool - Boney M., Farian 5. Belfast - Boney M., Bilsbury 6. A Woman Can Change a Man - Boney M., Farian 7. Rivers of Babylon [7" Version] - Boney M., Dowe 8. Bahama Mama [12" Version] - Boney M., Farian 9. Brown Girl in the Ring - Boney M., Farian 10. Ma Baker - Boney M., Farian 11. King of the Road - Boney M., Miller 12. Painter Man - Boney M., Phillips 13. Ribbons of Blue [7" Version] - Boney M., Andrew 14. Sunny - Boney M., Hebb 15. Plantation Boy - Boney M., Jay 16. Bye Bye Bluebird - Boney M., Farian 17. Silent Lover - Boney M., Bjorklund 18. Rasputin [12" Version] - Boney M., Farian
Disc: 2 1. Felicidad (Margherita) [7" Version] - Boney M., Conz 2. Happy Song [7" Version] - Boney M., Abacab 3. Kalimba de Luna [7" Version] - Boney M., Amoroso 4. Dreadlock Holiday - Boney M., Gouldman 5. Going Back West [7" Version] - Boney M., Cliff 6. Malaika [7" Version] - Boney M., Farian 7. I See a Boat on the River [7"VERSION] - Boney M., Farian 8. Got Cha Loco - Boney M., Applegate 9. Barbarella Fortuneteller - Boney M., Davis 10. Bang Bang Lulu [7" Version] - Boney M., Bischof-Fallenstein 11. African Moon [Long Album Version] - Boney M., Courage 12. Young, Free and Single [7" Version] - Boney M., Applegate 13. My Friend Jack [7" Version] - Boney M., Smoke 14. Sample City - Boney M., Ehrhardt 15. The Alibama - Boney M., Davis 16. Edodus (Noah's Ark 2001) [7" Version] - Boney M., Davis 17. Kalimba de Luna [Dub Version] - Boney M., Amoroso 18. Felicidad America (Obama - Obama) (Long English Version) - Boney M., Conz |