Love for Sale (Boney M. album)

Infobox Album
Name = Love for Sale
Type = Studio
Artist = Boney M.


Released = May 1977
Recorded = 1977
Genre = R&B, Pop music, Disco
Length = 41:17
Label = flagicon|United Kingdom Atlantic Records (UK)
flagicon|United States Atlantic Records (USA)
flagicon|West Germany Hansa Records (FRG)

Producer = Frank Farian
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfoxql5ldhe link]
Last album = "Take the Heat Off Me"
(1976)
This album = "Love for Sale"
(1977)
Next album = "Nightflight to Venus"
(1978)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Studio


Lower caption = US edition

"Love for Sale" is the second album by Boney M.. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" (#96 on the Billboard Hot 100, #31 on the Club Play Singles chart), "Belfast", "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" and "Still I'm Sad".

Track listing

Side A
# "Ma Baker" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) - 4:36
# "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 4:47
# "Belfast" (Hillsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
# "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (John Fogerty) - 2:40
# "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Frank Farian, George Reyam) - 3:57

Side B
# "Plantation Boy" (Fred Jay, King) - 4:27
# "Motherless Child" (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) - 4:58
# "Silent Lover" (Frank Farian, Keith Forsey, Fred Jay) - 4:14
# "A Woman Can Change A Man" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) - 3:33
# "Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) - 4:34

Alternative album editions

* US, track A3: "Daddy Cool" - 3:27

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.

Release history

* UK: Atlantic Records K50385.
* US: Atlantic SD 19145.
* Germany: Hansa Records 28 888 OT.

CD releases

* Germany 1994: BMG 74321 21270 2.
* EU & US 2007: Sony-BMG Sony-BMG 88697-08261-2. Bonus tracks: "Ma Baker - Somebody Scream" (Sash! radio edit) (1999) - 3:23, "Stories" (radio mix) (Boney M. Feat Liz Mitchell 1990) - 4:16.

ingle 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)
US
7"

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

Charts

;Album;Single

ources and external links

* [http://rateyourmusic.com/search?searchterm=boney+m&searchtype=a Rate Your Music, detailed discography]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Boney+M., Discogs.com, detailed discography]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:a9foxqr5ldte~T1, All Music Guide, biography, discography etc.]