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Released
  
November 1998

Norske Hits (1998)
  
Ultimate (1999)

Release date
  
November 1998

Label
  
Ariola Records (Norway)

Length
  
73:37

Artist
  
Boney M.

Producer
  
Frank Farian

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Recorded
  
1976-1980, 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993

Genres
  
Pop music, Euro disco, Eurodance

Similar
  
Boney M albums, Disco albums

Norske Hits is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG-Ariola in Norway in late 1998.

Contents

The compilation includes Boney M.'s greatest hits from a Norwegian perspective: singles "Daddy Cool"/"No Woman No Cry" (#1, 1976), "Sunny" (#4, 1977), "Ma Baker" (#1 1977), "Rivers Of Babylon"/"Brown Girl In The Ring" (#1, 1978), "Rasputin" (#10, 1978), "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holiday" (#2, 1979), "Gotta Go Home"/"El Lute" (#4, 1979), "My Friend Jack" (#6, 1980), "The Summer Megamix" (#3, 1989) as well as 1984's "Kalimba de Luna" and selected tracks from their best-selling albums Take The Heat Off Me (#2, 1977), Love For Sale (#2, 1977), Nightflight to Venus (#1, 1978) and Oceans Of Fantasy (#1, 1979).

Norske Hits spent 12 weeks on the Norwegian charts in late 1998 and early 1999, peaking at #17.

Track listing

  1. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:26
  2. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  3. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:07
  4. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  5. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 4:15
  6. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  7. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:00
  8. Remix '93, radio edit
  9. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:55
  10. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
  11. "The Summer Mega Mix" (Bobby Hebb, Farian, Jay, Reyam, Klinkhammer, Amoruso, Esposito, Licastro, Malavasi) - 4:28
  12. Radio edit. ("Sunny" / "Ma Baker" / "Gotta Go Home" / "Kalimba De Luna" / "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday" / "Summer A GoGo")
  13. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 3:56
  14. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  15. "El Lute" (Blum, Farian, Jay) - 4:00
  16. 1989 remix from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II, edited
  17. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Huth, Jay) - 2:30.
  18. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix ( - 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
  19. "My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) - 4:28
  20. Original album version from The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
  21. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:26
  22. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix ( - 4:43) remains unreleased on CD.
  23. "Nightflight to Venus" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, Kawohl) - 3:50
  24. 1992 edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  25. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:10
  26. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  27. "Bahama Mama" (Farian, Jay) - 3:13
  28. 1993 overdub edit from More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  29. "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Farian) - 3:25
  30. 1993 remix from More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II
  31. "No Woman, No Cry" (Bob Marley) - 4:20
  32. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  33. "Belfast" (Billybury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:25
  34. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  35. "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) - 4:00
  36. Original album version
  37. "Kalimba de Luna" (Amoruso, DiFranco, Esposito, Licastro, Malavas) - 4:13
  38. 1992 overdub 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

    • Production

  • Frank Farian - producer, remixer

    • Songs

    1Daddy Cool3:28
    2Ma Baker4:06
    3Rivers of Babylond4:16

    References

    Norske Hits Wikipedia
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