The Complete Collection

Infobox Album |
Name = The Complete Collection
Type = Compilation
Artist = Boney M.


Released = November 2000
Recorded = 1976-1986, 1989, 1992, 1993
Genre = Eurodance, Pop, Disco
Length = 158:14
Label = flagicon|Denmark BMG/CMC (Denmark)
Producer = Frank Farian
Reviews =
Last album = "25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool"
(2000)
This album = "The Complete Collection"
(2000)
Next album = "Their Most Beautiful Ballads"
(2000)

"The Complete Collection" is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG/CMC Records in Denmark in late 2000.

Just like the Dutch "25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool" this two disc forty track compilation celebrated the 25th anniversary of breakthrough single "Daddy Cool". "The Complete Collection" was the first Boney M. CD collection to include most of the original singles issued by the band between the years 1976 and 1986 in chronological running order, from the aforementioned "Daddy Cool" to final release "Bang Bang Lulu". The compilation also contains selected tracks from best-selling albums "Love For Sale", "Nightflight to Venus", "Oceans of Fantasy", as well as 1989 single "The Summer Mega Mix" and concludes with tracks from the Boney M. "Christmas Album".

"The Complete Collection" was a major commercial success in Denmark, peaking at #7 in the albums chart, which made it Boney M.'s best chart entry in the country since the late 1970s and the compilation was later awarded with a Platinum disc.

Track listing

Disc one

#"Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:29
#* Original album version
#"Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 4:03
#* Original album version
#"No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:21
#* 1992 overdub edit from "Gold - 20 Super Hits"
# "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:36
#* Original album version
# "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 4:47
#* Original album version
# "Belfast" (Hillsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
#* Original album version
# "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (John Fogerty) - 2:40
#* Original album version
# "Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) - 4:34
#* Original album version
#"Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 4:18
#*Original album version
#"Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:02
#* Original album version
#"Heart of Gold" (Neil Young) - 4:00
#* Original album version
#"Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:24
#* N.B. Album version with cold start and fade-out - full-length 5:51. Original 7" mix ( -4:43) remains unreleased on CD
#"Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:10
#* Original album version
#"Nightflight to Venus" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, Kawohl) - 3:50
#* 1992 edit from "Gold - 20 Super Hits"
#"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:56
#* 1992 overdub version from "Gold - 20 Super Hits" . Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD
#"El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 4:00
#* 1989 remix from "Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II", edited
#"Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 3:45
#* "Oceans of Fantasy" album edit. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
#"I'm Born Again" (Fred Jay, Helmut Rulofs) - 4:09
#* Original album version
#"Hold On I'm Coming" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 3:38
#* Performed by Precious Wilson. 1994 CD edit.
#"The Summer Mega Mix" (Bobby Hebb, Farian, Jay, Reyam, Klinkhammer, Amoruso, Esposito, Licastro, Malavasi) - 4:28
#* Radio edit. ("Sunny" / "Ma Baker" / "Gotta Go Home" / "Kalimba De Luna" / "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday" / "Summer A GoGo")

Disc two

#"The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Frank Farian) - 2:41
#* "Oceans of Fantasy" CD edit
#"Ribbons Of Blue" (Keith Forsey) - 2:00
#* "Oceans of Fantasy" album edit
#"I See a Boat on the River" (Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 4:31
#* Original album version from "The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits"
#"My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) - 4:28
#* Edited album version from "The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits"
#"Children of Paradise" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 3:18
#* Edited version from "More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II". Original 7" mix ( - 4:28) remains unreleased on CD.
#"Felicidad (Margherita)" (Conz, Massara) - 4:31
#* Original 7" version
#"Malaika" (Fadhili William Mdawida) - 3:26
#* Edited 7" version from "Boonoonoonoos" limited edition double album. Original 7" mix ( - 5:02) remains unreleased on CD.
#"We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World)" (Farian, Sgarbi) - 6:33
#* Original album version
#"I Shall Sing" (Van Morrison) - 3:28
#* 1993 overdub version from "More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II"
#"The Carnival Is Over (Goodbye True Lover)" (Chappell, Farian, Tom Springfield, Traditional) - 4:52
#* Original 7" version
#"Kalimba de Luna" (Amoruso, DiFranco, Esposito, Licastro, Malavas) - 4:13
#* 1992 overdub version from "Gold - 20 Super Hits"
#"Happy Song" (Abacab, Bacciocchi, Spagna) - 3:54
#* Original 7" version
#"Jambo - Hakuna Matata (No Problems)" (Bischof, Harrison) - 3:38
#* Original 7" version
#"My Cherie Amour" (Cosby, Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 4:04
#* Original album version
#"Young, Free and Single" (Applegate, Farian, Rayen) - 4:10
#* Original album version
#"Dreadlock Holiday" (Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart) - 4:52
#* Original album version
#"Bang Bang Lulu" (Farian) - 3:01
#* Original album version
#"Feliz Navidad" (José Feliciano) - 2:21
#* 1986 version from "The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs"
#"Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Farian, Hairston) - 5:09
#* 1992 overdub edit from "The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World"
#"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:21
#* 1986 edit from "The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs"

Release history

* 2000 Denmark: BMG/CMC Records 7432 1 81195 2 1

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

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.]