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The Greatest Hits (Boney M. album)

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Released
  
2001

Label
  
BMG (UK)

Length
  
74:14

Producer
  
Frank Farian

Recorded
  
1976-1980, 1989, 1992, 2001

Genre
  
Eurodance, Pop, Euro disco

The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG in the United Kingdom in late 2001.

Contents

While the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark celebrated Boney M's 25 year anniversary with comprehensive double albums, BMG UK opted for a one disc release, The Greatest Hits, which is an updated version of 1992's Gold - 20 Super Hits containing a new remix of 1976 break-through single "Daddy Cool", also a Top 30 hit in the UK in 2001.
While most of the tracks of this hits package are the original album versions it contains three overdubbed or remixed versions dating from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II, Gold - 20 Super Hits and The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World.

In 2002 the compilation was issued in the United States by RCA, now a sub-label of Sony BMG, and it has also been released under the name Australia's Greatest Hits.

Track listing

  1. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:30
  2. Original album version
  3. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 4:22
  4. Original album version
  5. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:03
  6. Original album version
  7. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:36
  8. Original album version
  9. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:30
  10. N.B. Album version with cold start and fade-out. Full-length 5:51. Original 7" mix ( - 4:43) remains unreleased on CD.
  11. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 4:02
  12. Original album version
  13. "Belfast" (Billsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
  14. Original album version
  15. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:58
  16. 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
  17. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:12
  18. Original album version
  19. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 3:47
  20. Oceans of Fantasy album edit. Original 7" mix (- 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
  21. "Mary's Boy Child/ Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 5:09
  22. 1992 overdub edit from The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World.
  23. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:19
  24. 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  25. "El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 4:00
  26. 1989 remix from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II, edited
  27. "Nightflight to Venus" (Farian, Jay, Kawohl) - 3:51
  28. 1992 edited version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  29. "I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) - 4:10
  30. Original album version
  31. "My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) - 4:30
  32. Edited album version from The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits. Full length: - 4:56.
  33. "Daddy Cool 2001" (Farian, Reyam) - 5:19
  34. Jewels & Stone Club Mix
  35. "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) - 3:51
  36. 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
  • Jewels & Stone - remixers track 17

    • Release history

  • 2001 UK: BMG 74321 896142
  • 2001 Australia: Australia's Greatest Hits, BMG International 89614
  • 2002 US: RCA 65108

    • Single releases

    UK

    CD

  • "Daddy Cool 2001" (BMG 74321 91351 2)
    1. "Daddy Cool" (Jewels & Stone Radio Edit 2001) - 3:51
    2. "Daddy Cool" (Original Mix 1976) - 3:26
    3. "Daddy Cool (Jewels & Stone Club Mix 2001)" - 5:18

    References

    The Greatest Hits (Boney M. album) Wikipedia
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