1979
Label: Songbirds - BLP 6821 • Format: Vinyl LP, Compilation • Country: Malaysia • Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop • Style: Disco

Another song from the same sessions, "Breakaway", ended up on Boonoonoonoos as a Boney M. New recording sessions took place in the spring of The band flew to Jamaica in May to record a TV special, perform live in concert with Rita Marleyshoot photos for the album cover, and one of the final songs "Silly Confusion" was King Of The Road - Boney M.

- Greatest Hits (Vinyl in Bob Marley 's Tuff Gong studios in Kingston. Boonoonoonoos — originally intended to be released as a double-album — was subsequently trimmed to a one disc, thirteen track release. A limited edition double album was however issued in Germany, France and the UK, containing slightly longer versions of certain songs, but with the same number of tracks. The single was not released in the UK.

It peaked at 12 in the German charts and was their first UK Top 40 entry in two years 39 after some disappointing placings of their previous two singles "Children Of Paradise" 66 and "My Friend Jack" 57but the single went to 1 in both Spain and South Africa. The Boonoonoonoos album came with a picture innersleeve and a large fold-out poster with the lyrics on the back.

When the LP was released in Germany in September, the album was immediately withdrawn after pressure from singer Liz Mitchell who was unhappy with a photo on the innersleeve, picturing the band in soaked clothes in the Ocho Rios waterfall. The innersleeve was redesigned with a photo of the band LP) a canoo, and the LP finally released on November 1, Boonoonoonoos hit the 1 spot in Spain where the group had just done a big promotion tour but failed to crack the UK Top 75 after three consecutive 1 LPs.

The album peaked at 16 in Germany, and while still a healthy seller, it was becoming obvious that the band, like so many of their contemporaries, was being affected by the so-called " anti-disco backlash ". Having previously only mimed to Frank Farian's vocals on TV but having sung live in the group's concertsFarrell was featured on the track "Train To Skaville" as a rapper. He also did the spoken intro on "We Kill The World".

Boney M. Vocal group La Mama Cathy Bartney, Patricia Shockley, and Madeleine Davis had originally been hired as backing singers for Precious Wilson's first album but since Farian also used them to do demos, their vocals were in some cases kept in the final mix, King Of The Road - Boney M. - Greatest Hits (Vinyl. Even though the record sleeve credits "other children", Brian Paul and his friend Brian Sletten eventually sang all of the children's vocals themselves.

They also appeared with the group in a number of TV shows when they promoted the song. Soon after the release of Boonoonoonoos band member Bobby Farrell was fired from the group by producer Frank Farian, leaving the group unavailable to promote the album. Christmas Album - originally planned as a Liz Mitchell solo album — was rushed out three weeks after "Boonoonoonoos".

Atlantic UK planned to release a new version of "Jimmy" as a single in April but those plans were King Of The Road - Boney M. - Greatest Hits (Vinyl shelved.

Both cd releases contain the versions from the one disc vinyl album release and not the slightly longer mixes from the 2 disc vinyl album.

The LP) album were released in no less than 10 different pressings as well as a unique test pressing, omitting "Malaika" and "Consuela Biaz" from the track listing. Two pressings featured these two tracks in reverse order, i. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Redirected from Boney M For Dancin'. Nightflight to Venus also became Boney M. Frank Farian real-name: Franz Reuther is from Germany and was a top-producer and singer of Euro-Disco during the s. In the early years he created several songs with a "black" soundas he was unsure to promote these songs properly he recruited Bobby Farrell, Marcia Barrett and Liz Mitchell to form the disco band: "Boney M. This proved to be a great success formula for Farian as well as "Boney M.

Note: The images on King Of The Road - Boney M. - Greatest Hits (Vinyl page are photos of the actual album.

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