The Greatest Hits (Boney M. album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Greatest Hits
Type = greatest hits
Artist = Boney M.


Released = 2001
Recorded = 1976-1980, 1989, 1992, 2001
Genre = Eurodance, Pop, Disco
Length = 74:14
Label = flagicon|UK BMG (UK)
Producer = Frank Farian
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:anfrxq90ld6e link]
Last album = "Their Most Beautiful Ballads"
(2000)
This album = "The Greatest Hits"
(2001)
Next album = "The Magic of Boney M."
(2006)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = greatest hits


Lower caption = Australian edition

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

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

#"Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:30
#* Original album version
#"Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 4:22
#* Original album version
#"Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:03
#* Original album version
#"Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:36
#* Original album version
#"Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:30
#* N.B. Album version with cold start and fade-out. Full-length 5:51. Original 7" mix ( - 4:43) remains unreleased on CD.
#"Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 4:02
#* Original album version
#"Belfast" (Billsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
#* Original album version
#"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:58
#* 1992 overdub version from "Gold - 20 Super Hits". Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
#"Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:12
#* Original album version
#"Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 3:47
#* "Oceans of Fantasy" album edit. Original 7" mix (- 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
#"Mary's Boy Child/ Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 5:09
#* 1992 overdub edit from "The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World".
#"No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:19
#* 1992 overdub edit from "Gold - 20 Super Hits"
#"El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 4:00
#* 1989 remix from "Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II", edited
#"Nightflight to Venus" (Farian, Jay, Kawohl) - 3:51
#* 1992 edited version from "Gold - 20 Super Hits"
#"I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) - 4:10
#* Original album version
#"My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) - 4:30
#* Edited album version from "The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits". Full length: - 4:56.
#"Daddy Cool 2001" (Farian, Reyam) - 5:19
#* Jewels & Stone Club Mix
#"Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) - 3:51
#* 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)
#"Daddy Cool" (Jewels & Stone Radio Edit 2001) - 3:51
#"Daddy Cool" (Original Mix 1976) - 3:26
#"Daddy Cool (Jewels & Stone Club Mix 2001)" - 5:18

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.]