The Greatest Hits (Boney M. album)

The Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Boney M.
Released	2001
Recorded	1976-1980, 1989, 1992, 2001
Genre	Eurodance, Pop, Euro disco
Length	74:14
Label	BMG (UK)
Producer	Frank Farian
Boney M. chronology
Their Most Beautiful Ballads (2000) The Greatest Hits (2001) The Magic of Boney M. (2006)
Alternative cover
Australian edition

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	[1]

The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG in the United Kingdom in late 2001.

While the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark celebrated Boney M's 25 year anniversary with comprehensive double albums, BMG UK opted for a one disc release, The Greatest Hits, which is an updated version of 1992's Gold - 20 Super Hits containing a new remix of 1976 break-through single "Daddy Cool", also a Top 30 hit in the UK in 2001.
While most of the tracks of this hits package are the original album versions it contains three overdubbed or remixed versions dating from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II, Gold - 20 Super Hits and The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World.

In 2002 the compilation was issued in the United States by RCA, now a sub-label of Sony BMG, and it has also been released under the name Australia's Greatest Hits.

Track listing

1. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:30
   • Original album version
2. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 4:22
   • Original album version
3. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:03
   • Original album version
4. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:36
   • Original album version
5. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:30
   • N.B. Album version with cold start and fade-out. Full-length 5:51. Original 7" mix ( - 4:43) remains unreleased on CD.
6. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 4:02
   • Original album version
7. "Belfast" (Billsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
   • Original album version
8. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:58
   • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
9. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:12
   • Original album version
10. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 3:47
    • Oceans of Fantasy album edit. Original 7" mix (- 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
11. "Mary's Boy Child/ Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 5:09
    • 1992 overdub edit from The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World.
12. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:19
    • 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
13. "El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 4:00
    • 1989 remix from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II, edited
14. "Nightflight to Venus" (Farian, Jay, Kawohl) - 3:51
    • 1992 edited version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
15. "I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) - 4:10
    • Original album version
16. "My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) - 4:30
    • Edited album version from The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits. Full length: - 4:56.
17. "Daddy Cool 2001" (Farian, Reyam) - 5:19
    • Jewels & Stone Club Mix
18. "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
• Jewels & Stone - remixers track 17

Release history

• 2001 UK: BMG 74321 896142
• 2001 Australia: Australia's Greatest Hits, BMG International 89614
• 2002 US: RCA 65108

Single releases

UK

CD

• "Daddy Cool 2001" (BMG 74321 91351 2)

1. "Daddy Cool" (Jewels & Stone Radio Edit 2001) - 3:51
2. "Daddy Cool" (Original Mix 1976) - 3:26
3. "Daddy Cool (Jewels & Stone Club Mix 2001)" - 5:18

Sources and external links

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

Boney M. Liz Mitchell Marcia Barrett Maizie Williams Bobby Farrell Reggie Tsiboe Studio albums and main compilations (1976–1985) Take the Heat off Me (1976) Love for Sale (1977) Nightflight to Venus (1978) Oceans of Fantasy (1979) The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits (1980) Children of Paradise - The Greatest Hits of Boney M. - Vol. 2 (1981) Boonoonoonoos (1981) Christmas Album (1981) Ten Thousand Lightyears (1984) Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs (1984) Fantastic Boney M. (1984) Christmas with Boney M. (1984) Eye Dance (1985) Main compilations and remix albums (1986–present) The Best of 10 Years - 32 Superhits (1986) The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs (1986) Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 (1988) Ma Baker (1989) Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II (1989) The Collection (1991) Daddy Cool - Star Collection (1991) The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World (1992) Gold - 20 Super Hits (1992) The Greatest Hits (1993) More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II (1993) Hit Collection (1996) Best in Spain (1996) The Best of Boney M. (1997) Norske Hits (1998) Ultimate (1999) 20th Century Hits (1999) 25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool (2000) The Complete Collection (2000) Their Most Beautiful Ballads (2000) The Greatest Hits (2001) The Magic of Boney M. (2006) Hit Collection (2007) Christmas With Boney M. (2007) The Collection (2008) Rivers of Babylon (A Best of Collection) (2008) Ultimate Boney M. - Long Versions & Rarities, Volume 1 (2008) Christmas Time (2008) The Complete Boney M. (2008) In the Mix (2008) The Magic of Boney M. - The Danish Collection (2008) Ultimate Boney M. - Long Versions & Rarities, Volume 2 (2009) Let It All Be Music - The Party Album (2009) Ultimate Boney M. - Long Versions & Rarities, Volume 3 (2009) Main single discography "Baby Do You Wanna Bump" (1975) "Daddy Cool" (1976) "Sunny" (1976) "Ma Baker" (1977) "Belfast" (1977) "Rivers of Babylon"/"Brown Girl in the Ring" (1978) "Rasputin" (1978) "Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord" (1978) "Painter Man" (1979) "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (1979) "El Lute"/"Gotta Go Home" (1979) "I'm Born Again"/"Bahama Mama" (1979) "I See a Boat on the River"/"My Friend Jack" (1980) "Children of Paradise"/"Gadda-Da-Vida" (1980) "Felicidad (Margherita)" (1980) "Malaika"/"Consuela Biaz" (1981) "We Kill the World"/"Boonoonoonoos" (1981) "The Little Drummer Boy"/"6 Years of Boney M. Hits" (1981) "The Carnival Is Over"/"Going Back West" (1982) "Zion's Daughter" (1982) "Jambo - Hakuna Matata (No Problems)" (1983) "Somewhere in the World" (1984) "Kalimba de Luna" (1984) "Happy Song" (1984) "My Cherie Amour" (1985) "Young, Free and Single" (1985) "Daddy Cool (Anniversary Recording '86)" (1986) "Bang Bang Lulu" (1986) "Rivers of Babylon (Remix)"/"Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord (Remix)" (1988) "Megamix" (1988) "The Summer Mega Mix" (1989) "Malaika (Lambada Remix)" (1989) "Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker" (1989) "Stories" (1990) "Christmas Mega Mix" (1992) "Megamix" (1992) "Brown Girl in the Ring (Remix)" (1993) "Ma Baker (Remix)" (1993) "Papa Chico" (1994) "Somebody Scream - Ma Baker" (1998) "Daddy Cool '99" (1999) "Hooray! Hooray! (Caribbean Night Fever)" (1999) "Sunny (Remix)" (2000) "Daddy Cool 2001" (2001) "Sunny (Mousse T. Remix)" (2006) "Felicidad America (Obama-Obama)" (2009) Book