25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool

25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool
Compilation album by Boney M.
Released September 28, 2000
Recorded 1976-1985, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000
Genre Eurodance, Pop, Disco
Length 156:36
Label BMG (Netherlands)
Producer Frank Farian
Compiler Peter Moree, Casper Janssen
Boney M. chronology
20th Century Hits
(1999)		 25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool
(2000)		 The Complete Collection
(2000)
The Ultimate Collection (2000)
Compilation album by Boney M.
Released 2000
Greatest Hits (2001)
Compilation album by Boney M.
Released 2001

25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG in the Netherlands in 2000. The album includes a number of rare versions.

Contents

History

The two disc thirty-eight track compilation which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the release of breakthrough single "Daddy Cool" was a co-production between BMG Netherlands and The Liz Mitchell Fan Club and is generally regarded as one of the best Boney M. collections among fans of the group since it gathers the longest versions of the band's best known songs available in digital format, instead of the many short edits used on previous compilations, as well as the most recent remix hits at the time. 25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool also saw the CD debut of six rare tracks, single B-sides "New York City" and "Strange" from 1976 and 1980 respectively and the unedited versions of 1982 single "The Carnival Is Over" and Oceans of Fantasy track "Ribbons Of Blue", originally the B-side of single "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday". As special bonuses it contained a 1999 remix of "Going Back West" previously only available in South Africa, as well as an exclusive new remix of 1978 hit "Rivers of Babylon" by Regi of Belgian band Milk Inc., also issued as a single in the Netherlands in late 2000.

In Belgium the compilation was released by BMG as The Ultimate Collection and in late 2001 it was re-issued twice by another Belgian label, Hot Town Music-Paradiso; the first edition as a double disc release entitled Greatest Hits and the second as a single disc containing CD one only and then renamed The Best of Boney M. – Original Hits.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) – 4:36
    • Original album version
  2. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) – 4:03
    • Original album version
  3. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) – 3:29
    • Original album version
  4. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) – 4:18
    • Original album version
  5. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) – 4:26
  6. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) – 3:10
    • Original album version
  7. "Belfast" (Hillsbury, Deutscher, Menke) – 3:31
    • Original album version
  8. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) – 4:59
    • Original album version
  9. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) – 4:02
    • Original album version
  10. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) – 3:56
  11. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) – 3:45
    • Oceans of Fantasy album edit. Original 7" mix ( – 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
  12. "Consuela Biaz" (Courage, Farian, O'Hara) – 4:37
    • Edited 7" version from Boonoonoonoos limited edition double album. Original 7" mix ( – 4:57) remains unreleased on CD.
  13. "I See a Boat on the River" (Farian, Jay, Rulofs) – 4:31
  14. "Felicidad (Margherita)" (Conz, Massara) – 4:31
    • Original 7" version
  15. "Baby Do You Wanna Bump" (Zambi) – 3:09
    • Edited version
  16. "El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) – 5:55
    • Original 12" version
  17. "I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) – 3:57
  18. "Children of Paradise" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) – 3:18
  19. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Farian, Hairston) 4:30

Disc two

  1. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) – 4:00
    • Remix 2000 featuring Regi (Milk Inc.)
    • N.B. Second edition and subsequent reissues: "Ma Baker" (Remix 1999) – 4:31
  2. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) – 4:18
  3. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Reyam) – 4:31
    • Remix 1999, remixed by Sash! from 20th Century Hits
    • N.B. Second edition and subsequent reissues: "Daddy Cool" (1999 Latino Club Mix) – 3:34
  4. "Going Back West" (Jimmy Cliff) – 3:43
  5. "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) – 3:51
  6. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) – 4:02
    • Remix '93, radio edit
  7. "Happy Song" (Abacab, Bacciocchi, Spagna) – 3:54
  8. "Kalimba de Luna" (Amoruso, DiFranco, Esposito, Licastro, Malavas) – 4:31
    • Original 7" version
  9. "Papa Chico" (Esposito) – 4:43
  10. "We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World)" (Farian, Sgarbi) – 6:33
    • Original album version
  11. "Bahama Mama" (Farian, Jay) – 3:17
  12. "New York" (Farian, Klinkhammer, Reyam) – 3:41
    • B-side of 1976 single "Sunny", previously unreleased on CD
  13. "The Carnival Is Over (Goodbye True Lover)" (Chappell, Farian, Tom Springfield, Traditional) – 4:52
    • 1982 single, previously unreleased on CD
  14. "Strange" (Dobson) – 3:28
    • B-side of 1980 single "Felicidad (Margherita)", A-side in the Netherlands, previously unreleased on CD
  15. "My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) – 4:28
  16. "Malaika" (Farian, Traditional) – 3:26
    • Edited 7" version from Boonoonoonoos limited edition double album. Original 7" mix ( – 5:02) remains unreleased on CD.
  17. "Ribbons of Blue" (Forsey) – 4:06
    • Original 7" version, previously unreleased on CD
  18. "Jambo – Hakuna Matata (No Problems)" (Bischof, Harrison) – 3:38
    • Original 7" version
  19. "Gadda-Da-Vida" (Doug Ingle) – 2:59

Release history

Alternate album editions

Personnel

Production

Single releases

Sources and external links

Boney M.
Studio albums and
main compilations
(1976–1985)
Main compilations
and remix albums
(1986–present)
Main single
discography
Book:Boney M.