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The Greatest Hits (Boney M. 1993)

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Released
  
March 1993

Length
  
56:03

Release date
  
March 1993

Producer
  
Frank Farian

Recorded
  
1976-93

Artist
  
Boney M.

Genre
  
Disco

Label
  
Telstar Records

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The Greatest Hits (1993)
  
More Gold – 20 Super Hits Vol. II (1993)

Similar
  
Boney M albums, Disco albums

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 different track listing, 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.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Rivers of Babylon (Farian, Reyam) - 4:15
  2. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  3. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:26
  4. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  5. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 3:56
  6. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  7. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:00
  8. Remix '93, radio edit
  9. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:43
  10. 1992 overdub version, full-length. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
  11. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:34
  12. 1992 overdub version, full-length
  13. "Still I'm Sad" (April, McCarty, Samwell-Smith) - 4:34
  14. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  15. "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday" (Farian) - 3:55
  16. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
  17. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickette) - 3:16
  18. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  19. "Belfast" (Billybury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:25
  20. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  21. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:54
  22. 1992 overdub version, full-length
  23. "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 4:01
  24. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  25. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Huth, Jay) - 2:30
  26. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix ( - 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
  27. "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) - 3:51
  28. 1992 version, radio edit. ("Rivers of Babylon" / "Sunny" / "Daddy Cool" / "Ma Baker" / "Rasputin")

Personnel

  • Liz Mitchell - lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Marcia Barrett - lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Frank Farian - lead vocals, backing vocals

    • Production

  • Frank Farian - producer, remixer

    • Release history

  • 1993 UK: Telstar TCD2656

    • Single Releases

    UK

    CD

  • "Megamix" (Arista Records 74321 12512-2, 1992)
    1. "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:51
    2. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '92) - 3:58
    3. "Megamix" (Long Version) - 6:12
  • "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" (Arista Records 74321 13705 2, 1993)
    1. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Radio Version) - 3:58
    2. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Funny Girl Club Mix) - 5:35
    3. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Club Mix - Rap Version) - 5:35
    4. "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Remix '93) - 3:14

    • Songs

    1Rivers of Babylon4:17
    2Daddy Cool3:28
    3Sunny4:00

    References

    The Greatest Hits (Boney M. 1993) Wikipedia
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