The Greatest Hits (Boney M. 1993)

The Greatest Hits is a 1993 greatest hits album by Boney M., the UK version of BMG's Gold - 20 Super Hits with alternate album art and a slightly diffefrent tracklisting, omitting songs like "Felicidad (Margherita)", "Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song" which never had been released as singles in the UK. Besides Boney M.'s best known hits like "Daddy Cool", "Ma Baker" and "Rivers Of Babylon" this fourteen track compilation also includes the 1993 remix of "Brown Girl In The Ring" (UK #38, 1 week) that was issued in both the UK and the rest of Europe as the follow-up single to the 1992 "Megamix". While still in overdubbed form, three tracks on this compilation, "Rasputin", "Ma Baker" and "No Woman No Cry" are also featured in their full length as opposed to the German BMG predecessor Gold - 20 Super Hits.
The Greatest Hits album itself was released by the now defunct Telstar Records while the singles "Megamix" and "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" were issued by Arista Records, which at this time was operating as a sublabel to BMG.
The Greatest Hits reached number 14 on the UK albums chart in early 1993, which made it their highest charting album since 1980's The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits.

Track listing

1. "Rivers of Babylon (Farian, Reyam) - 4:15
   • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
2. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:26
   • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
3. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 3:56
   • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
4. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:00
   • Remix '93, radio edit
5. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:43
   • 1992 overdub version, full-length. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
6. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:34
   • 1992 overdub version, full-length
7. "Still I'm Sad" (April, McCarty, Samwell-Smith) - 4:34
   • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
8. "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday" (Farian) - 3:55
   • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
9. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickette) - 3:16
   • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
10. "Belfast" (Billybury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:25
    • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
11. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:54
    • 1992 overdub version, full-length
12. "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 4:01
    • 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
13. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Huth, Jay) - 2:30
    • 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix ( - 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
14. "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) - 3:51
    • 1992 version, radio edit. ("Rivers of Babylon" / "Sunny" / "Daddy Cool" / "Ma Baker" / "Rasputin")

Personnel

• Liz Mitchell - lead vocals, backing vocals
• Marcia Barrett - lead vocals, backing vocals
• Frank Farian - lead vocals, backing vocals

Production

• Frank Farian - producer, remixer

Release history

• 1993 UK: Telstar TCD2656

Single Releases

UK

CD

• "Megamix" (Arista Records 74321 12512-2, 1992)
  1. "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:51
  2. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '92) - 3:58
  3. "Megamix" (Long Version) - 6:12

• "Brown Girl In The Ring (Remix '93)" (Arista Records 74321 13705 2, 1993)
  1. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Radio Version) - 3:58
  2. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Funny Girl Club Mix) - 5:35
  3. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Club Mix - Rap Version) - 5:35
  4. "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Remix '93) - 3:14

Sources and external links

• Rate Your Music, detailed discography
• Discogs.com, detailed discography
• Allmusic, biography, discography etc.