| "El Lute / Gotta Go Home" | ||||
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| Single by Boney M | ||||
| from the album Oceans of Fantasy | ||||
| Released | August 1979 | |||
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Genre | Pop, Disco | |||
| Label | Hansa Records (FRG) | |||
| Producer | Frank Farian | |||
| Boney M singles chronology | ||||
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"El Lute" / "Gotta Go Home" is a double A-side single by German band Boney M. It was the lead single off their fourth album Oceans of Fantasy (1979) and was the group's eighth and final number 1 single in the German charts. In the UK where "Gotta Go Home" was chosen as the main A-side, the single was their first one since their debut single not to reach the Top 10, peaking at number 12. Boney M. used the double A-side format over the next years, typically with the A1 being the song intended for radio and A2 being more squarely aimed at discos. The sides were usually switched on the accompanying 12" single.
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The ABBA-esque pop melody "El Lute" told the true story of Spanish outlaw Eleuterio Sánchez who was still in prison at the time the song was released. During a promotional visit in Spain, Boney M. met him and gave him a golden record for the sales of the single.
Margot Borgström translated the song into Swedish, as Swedish dansband Wizex covered the song on the 1979 album Some Girls & Trouble Boys.[1] The song became a Svensktoppen hit in late 1979.[2]-early 1980[3]
A fast-paced disco track, the song was re-written from a German single "Hallo Bimmelbahn" (1973) by Nighttrain with the brothers Heinz and Jürgen Huth, both also credited as co-writers on Boney M.'s version. Boney M. first promoted it in a few TV shows in its early version "Going Back Home". Several single versions featured a 4:40 version (timing on label 4:22), a slightly remixed edit of the full 5:04 version, and longer than the 3:45 album edit. Later single pressings featured a 4:00 edit. In 2010 "Gotta Go Home" was used extensively on the Duck Sauce track "Barbra Streisand".
"Gotta Go Home" was issued as an A-side in Canada, and was a Top 40 hit on the RPM Magazine charts there, peaking at #35 in late November 1979.
7" Single
12" Single