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The Magic of Boney M.
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Track Listing
- Daddy Cool
- Sunny
- Rivers of Babylon
- Lute
- No Woman No Cry
- Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday
- Rasputin
- Painter Man
- Belfast
- Brown Girl in the Ring
- Kalimba de Luna
- Happy Song
- Still I'm Sad
- Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord
- Baby Do You Wanna Bump
- Felicidad
- Gotta Go Home
- Ma Baker
- Sunny [Remix by Mousse T.][*]
- Moment of Love [*] - Boney M., Liz Mitchell
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #34904 in Music
- Released on: 2006-11-06
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: Import, Original recording remastered
Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Subtitled: 20 Golden Hits. Limited Edition digipak reissue of this compilation by the Europop quartet that scored dozens of chart hits worldwide, but only achieved brief, albeit minor, success in the U.S. at the tail end of the Disco era. 20 tracks including 'Rivers Of Babylon', 'Sunny', 'Daddy Cool', 'Ma Barker' and their popular holiday hit, 'Mary's Boy Child'. MCI. 2006.
Customer Reviews
Dance-pop delight
This collection contains the pop-disco group Boney M's greatest hits from their heyday in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The styles include hardcore disco (Daddy Cool, Sunny) and bouncy reggae like Rivers of Babylon (a remake of a Melodians song) and Brown Girl In The Ring. (As a 2-sided hit single, this was one of the biggest hits in the UK in 1978 and stayed on the charts for ages).
More buoyant reggae can be found on Hooray Hooray, No Woman No Cry and their lovely Christmas song Mary's Boy Child. There's also pure pop like Rasputin, Painter Man and El Lute. Besides the aforementioned songs, other great numbers include of course the brilliant Ma Baker (which tells the story of Chicago gangster Ma Barker) and the deceptively airy Belfast which commented upon the troubles in Ulster. (Disco music wasn't meant to be serious).
Like ABBA, Boney M made superb pop music. All the songs have aged well and it's good to hear dance music with personality again. Although the tracks are not arranged chronologically, this is a great compilation, well worth the price.
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