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Released
  
1996

Hit Collection (1996)
  
Best in Spain (1996)

Release date
  
4 March 1996

Recorded
  
1975-93

Artist
  
Boney M.

Producer
  
Frank Farian

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Label
  
Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Genres
  
Disco, Pop music, Euro disco, Eurodance, Rhythm and blues, Reggae

Similar
  
Boney M albums, Euro disco albums

Hit Collection is a 3-CD box set of recordings by Boney M. issued by BMG-Ariola in 1996.
The forty-two track release contains tracks from the seven Boney M. studio albums as well as edited or remixed versions of the band's hits from compilations The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits, Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs, Gold - 20 Super Hits, The Greatest Hits and More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II.
The three discs of the box set have also been available separately as Happy Songs, Daddy Cool and Painter Man.

Contents

Disc one - Happy Songs

  1. "Happy Song" (Abacab, Bacciocchi, Spagna) - 3:30
  2. Edited 7" version
  3. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian) - 3:55
  4. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
  5. "Kalimba De Luna" (Amoruso, Esposito, Licastro, Malavasi) - 4:11
  6. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  7. "Children of Paradise" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 2:50
  8. Edited version from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs. Original 7" mix ( - 4:23) remains unreleased on CD.
  9. "Brown Girl in the Ring (Farian) - 3:03
  10. Remix '93, edited version
  11. "Felicidad (Margherita)" (Conz, Massara) - 2:52
  12. Edited version from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs
  13. "Malaika" (Farian, Traditional) - 3:28
  14. Edited 7" version from Boonoonoonoos limited edition double album. Original 7" mix ( - 5:02) remains unreleased on CD.
  15. "Take The Heat Off Me" (Bigazzi) - 4:47
  16. Original album version
  17. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian) - 3:45
  18. Oceans of Fantasy album edit. Original 7" mix ( - 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
  19. "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Farian) - 2:24
  20. 1984 remix version from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs
  21. "My Cherie Amour" (Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy) - 3:55
  22. 1993 overdub edit from More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  23. "Barbarella Fortuneteller" (Davis, Farian, Kawohl) - 2:58
  24. Original album version
  25. "Jambo - Hakuna Matata (No Problems)" (Bischof, Harrison) - 2:49
  26. Edited version from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs
  27. "Bang Bang Lulu" (Farian) - 3:01
  28. Original album version

Disc two - Daddy Cool

  1. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:27
  2. Original album version
  3. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 4:03
  4. Original album version
  5. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 4:15
  6. 1993 overdub version from More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  7. "Motherless Child" (Farian, Mitchell) - 4:15
  8. 1993 remix version from More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  9. "No Woman, No Cry" (Ford, Bob Marley) - 3:30
  10. Edited version
  11. "Dreadlock Holiday" (Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman) - 4:20
  12. 1993 remix from More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  13. "Fever" (Cooley, Davenport) - 4:00
  14. Original album version
  15. "Hold On I'm Coming" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 3:37
  16. Performed by Precious Wilson, 1994 Oceans Of Fantasy CD edit
  17. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:59
  18. Edited version from The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
  19. "Boonoonoonoos" (Courage, Farian, Jay, Sgarbi) - 2:12
  20. Edited version from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs
  21. "Voodoonight" (Sgarbi) - 3:31
  22. Original album version
  23. "I Feel Good" (Bischof, Farian) - 3:05
  24. Original album version
  25. "Bel Ami" (Bischof, Farian, Rainford) - 3:12
  26. Original album version
  27. "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:57
  28. Original album version

Disc three - Painter Man

  1. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:10
  2. Original album version
  3. "Belfast" (Hillsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
  4. Original album version
  5. "Living Like a Moviestar" (Bischof, Farian, Kawohl) - 3:04
  6. Original album version
  7. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:05
  8. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  9. "Plantation Boy" (Jay, King) - 4:27
  10. Original album version
  11. "King of the Road" (Roger Miller) - 2:36
  12. Original album version
  13. "Going Back West" (Jimmy Cliff) - 3:11
  14. Edited version from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs. Original 7" mix ( - 4:05) remains unreleased on CD.
  15. "Bahama Mama" (Farian, Jay) - 3:16
  16. 1993 overdub version from More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  17. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:24
  18. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits . Original 7" mix ( - 4:43) remains unreleased on CD.
  19. "Got a Man On My Mind" (Farian, Jay) - 3:25
  20. Original album version
  21. "The Alibama" (Davis, Farian, Reyam) - 3:11
  22. Original album version
  23. "I See a Boat on the River" (Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 3:55
  24. Edited version
  25. "Gadda-Da-Vida" (Doug Ingle) - 2:59
  26. Edited version from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs. Original 7" mix ( - 4:58) remains unreleased on CD.
  27. "Nightflight To Venus" (Farian, Jay, Kawohl) - 3:49
  28. 1992 edited version from Gold - 20 Super Hits

Personnel

  • Liz Mitchell - lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Marcia Barrett - lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Frank Farian - lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Reggie Tsiboe - lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Bobby Farrell - vocals

    • Production

  • Frank Farian - producer, remixer

    • Release history

  • 1996 Germany: Ariola Express 74321 61562 2.

    • Songs

    1Happy Songs3:31
    2Hooray Hooray3:39
    3Kalimba de Luna3:49

    References

    Hit Collection (Boney M. 1996) Wikipedia
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