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Love for Sale (Boney M. album)

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Released
  
May 2, 1977

Artist
  
Boney M.

Producer
  
Frank Farian

Length
  
41:17

Release date
  
2 May 1977

Label
  
Atlantic Records

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Recorded
  
August 1976 – March 1977

Love for Sale(1977)
  
Nightflight to Venus(1978)

Genres
  
Disco, Pop music, Euro disco, Reggae, Contemporary R&B

Similar
  
Boney M.albums, Disco albums

Boney m love for sale full album 1977


Love for Sale is the second studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" (#96 on the Billboard Hot 100, #31 on the Club Play Singles chart), and "Belfast". It also includes covers: "Love for Sale" (by Cole Porter), "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (by Creedence Clearwater Revival), and "Still I'm Sad" (by The Yardbirds). It has been released in vinyl and then CD.

Contents

Artwork

The standard cover art features the male member Bobby Farrell "naked [with] a futuristic golden thong" chaining female members, resembling African sexual slaves. American label Atlantic Records found the cover "raunchy", so they used the standard back cover of a vinyl sleeve featuring the band wearing clothes as the alternative front cover of American and Canadian edition. One of female group members, Liz Mitchell, told The Sydney Morning Herald:

They wanted to photograph us all totally naked in chains with [band member Bobby Farrell] standing over us like it was bondage[...] I wept—trust me. When they showed us the costumes, it was just heavy gold chains.

The front cover of the South Korean vinyl edition features the band in one live performance, and the back cover of the edition features the band in another live performance.

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Ma Baker" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) – 4:36
  2. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 4:47
  3. "Belfast" (Jimmy Bilsbury, Drafi Deutscher, Joe Menke) – 3:31
  4. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (John Fogerty) – 2:40
  5. "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Frank Farian, George Reyam) – 3:57
Side B
  1. "Plantation Boy" (Fred Jay, King) – 4:27
  2. "Motherless Child" (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) – 4:58
  3. "Silent Lover" (Frank Farian, Keith Forsey, Fred Jay) – 4:14
  4. "A Woman Can Change a Man" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 3:33
  5. "Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 4:34

Personnel

  • Liz Mitchell – lead vocals (tracks A2, A4, B1, B2, B4, B5), backing vocals
  • Marcia Barrett – lead vocals (tracks A3, B3), backing vocals
  • Frank Farian – lead vocals (A5), backing vocals
  • Linda Blake – voice of "Ma Baker" on A1
  • Bill Swisher – speaker voice on A1
  • The Rhythm Machine – musicians
  • Gary Unwinn – bass guitar
  • Keith Forsey – drums
  • Todd Canedy – drums
  • Nick Woodland – guitar
  • Johan Daansen – guitar
  • Thor Baldursson – keyboards
  • The Black Beautiful Circus – performers on tracks A5 and B5

    • Production

  • Frank Farian – producer
  • Stefan/Stephen Klinkhammer – arranger, conductor
  • Christian Kolonovits – arranger
  • Johann Daansen – arranger
  • Thor Baldursson – arranger
  • Fred Schreier – sound engineer
  • Hartmut Pfannmüller – sound engineer
  • John Lund – sound engineer
  • Michael Lammert – sound engineer
  • Recorded and mixed at Union Studios, Munich, and Europe Sound Studios, Offenbach.

    • Single releases

    UK

    7"

  • "Ma Baker" – 4:32 / "Still I'm Sad" – 4:36 (Atlantic Records K10965, 1977)
  • "Belfast" – 3:30 / "Plantation Boy" – 4:03 (Atlantic K11020, 1977)
    • U.S.

    7"

  • "Ma Baker" 4:32 / "Gloria Can You Waddle" (Atlantic SD 19145, 1977)
    • German

    7"

  • "Ma Baker" (Early version) – 4:47 /"Still I'm Sad" – 4:36 (Hansa Records 17 888 AT (17 888 A-4/77 B-1/77), 1977)
  • "Ma Baker" – 4:32 / "Still I'm Sad" – 4:36 (Hansa 17 888 AT, 1977)
  • "Belfast" – 3:30 / "Plantation Boy" – 4:03 (Hansa 11 537 AT, 1977)
  • "Love for Sale" (Edit) – 4:15 / "Gloria, Can You Waddle" – 4:00 (Cancelled single release 11 809 AT)

    • Charts

    Album
    Single
    Certifications

    Songs

    1Ma Baker4:37
    2Love for Sale4:47
    3Belfast3:31

    References

    Love for Sale (Boney M. album) Wikipedia
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