Artist: Boney M: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop Dance Dance: Pop Discography: Christmas Party Year: 1999 Tracks: 7 Eye Dance Year: 1994 Tracks: 10 Gold. 20 Super Hits Year: 1993 Tracks: 20 Remix '89 Year: 1989 Tracks: 20 Happy Christmas Year: 1989 Tracks: 16 Remix '88 Year: 1988 Tracks: 10 Die 20 Schonsten Weihnachtslieder Year: 1986 Tracks: 16 Kalimba de Luna Year: 1985 Tracks: 16 Ten Thousand Lightyears Year: 1984 Tracks: 13 10 000 Light Years Year: 1984 Tracks: 13 Boonoonoonoos Year: 1981 Tracks: 13 Oceans Fo Fantasy Year: 1979 Tracks: 13 Nightflight To Venus Year: 1978 Tracks: 8 Love For Sale Year: 1977 Tracks: 9 Take The Heat Off Me Year: 1976 Tracks: 7 Although they ne'er had practically winner in America, the Euro-disco grouping Boney M. was a European phenomenon during the '70s. After German record producer Frank Farian (born in 1942) recorded the individual "Baby Do You Wanna Bump?" (which was successful in Holland and Belgium), he created Boney M to living the song, bringing in four West Indian vocalists wHO had been running as session singers in Germany -- Marcia Barrett (born on October 14, 1948, St. Catherines, Jamaica), Liz Mitchell (born on July 12, 1952, Clarendon, Jamaica), Maizie Williams (natural on March 25, 1951, Monserrat, West Indies), and Bobby Farrell (born on October 6, 1949, Aruba, West Indies). "Daddy Cool" reached the U.K. Top Ten in February 1977, followed in April by a remaking of Bobby Hebb's "Cheery." In July, "Ma Baker" merely missed the U.K. number unitary spot, and "Capital of Northern Ireland" score the Top Ten in December. In 1978, Boney M. was at the height of their popularity with "Rivers of Babylon"/"Brown Girl in the Ring," which became the second-biggest marketing single in U.K. graph history. "Rivers of Babylon" besides was Boney M.'s only U.S. Top 40 hit. Boney M's criminal record album, Nightflight to Venus, besides topped the U.K. charts. In October 1978, "Grigori Efimovich Rasputin" became some other U.K. Top Ten hit, followed by the seasonal chart-topper "Mary's Boy Child"/"Oh My Lord," which became the fifth-biggest selling single in U.K. history. In March 1979, "Painter Man" hit the U.K. Top Ten, followed in May by "Hurrah! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday." In September, the album Oceans of Fantasy happen off figure 1. Their music continues to trade easily in Europe, with a compiling hitting the U.K. Top Ten in 1994. Farian went on to make the late-'80s dance sensory faculty Milli Vanilli. |