FROM GERMANY WITH LOVE (Greatest Hits - Boney M)

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Product:	Greatest Hits - Boney M
Date:	18/03/03 (2118 review reads)
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BONEY M GOLD was release in February of 1999 was release in Germany and then by Tower Records in the UK. Frank Farian Produced it.

I'm sure that Frank Farian didn't know when he recorded , (under the pseudonym of Boney M.),"Baby Do You Wanna Bump" that this song would make him so famous.

The success of this song People who wanted to see what the Group Boney M. looked like. They appeared on Television and preformed live at least five times.

I think the songs of BONEY M will always be magical. I can't believe that it has been at least 25 years since they recorded their first Album. The Album "Boney M GOLD" shows the talent of the Boney M Group. This is a collection of 20 of their top songs.

Each song will show you why this Group once was the favourite of so many People.

THE SONGS:

Rivers of Babylon:

"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land..."


Daddy Cool:

"She's crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool

She's crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool
I'm crazy like a fool
What about it Daddy Cool..."


Sunny

Brown Girl in the Ring:

"Brown Girl in the Ring, Tra la la la, Brown Girl in the Ring Show me a motion..."

Rasputin:

"There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of tea
cher
Women would desire...."


Ma Baker

Hooray Hooray

Painter Man

Belfast

No Woman No Cry

Mary?s Boy Child & Oh My Lord

Gotta Go Home

Still I?m sad

Nightflight to Venus

Felicidad

El Lute

Baby Do you wanna Bump

Kalimba De Luna

Happy Song

The Mega Mix: "By The Rivers of Babylon","Sunny", "Daddy Cool", "Ma Bake" and "Rasputin".

MY REVIEW:

These 20 songs are all wonderful. Boney M's "Rivers Of Babylon","Brown Girl In The Ring" and "Mary's Boy Child were among the 100 best selling singles in the Top 10 list.

The songs like Rivers of Babylon and Mary?s Boy Child strike you for their use of vocals.

Rasputin, El Lute and Ma Baker moved me because the lyrics are based on real stories.

The songs like Nightflight to Venus and Belfast strike you for their different kind of sounds.

Hooray Hooray and Brown Girl are simple and sad.

The voice of Liz Mitchell will thrill you and endear you. You will feel her voice echoing through your bones.

Their Music introduced the various "Reggie", (the music of the Caribbean), beats to the World.

The bass line is strong but not loud. You hear the strings section throughout the songs and they enhance the beautiful music.

THE GROUP:

"A German Record Producer, Frank Farian needed a back-up Group for a single record called "'Baby Do You Wanna Bump?", (1947). He created Boney M to support the song. He brought in Marcia Barrett, Liz Mitchell, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell,(4 West Indian singers),who had been working in Germany.

By 1975 Dutch Disco's and TV Stations wanted Boney M to appear live. Katja Wolf was the Agent who brought Maizie Williams, Sheila Bonnick, Nathalie and
Mike, (the last two only used their first names). The Group has had a number of changes with their singers but today the Boney M singers are Marcia Barrett,(from Hamburg, Germany) Liz Mitchell, (from Jamaica), Maizie Williams, (from Jamaica) and Bobby Farrell, (from Aruba in the West Indies)."

If you would like to know more about them the link is:

http://www.groovecave.com/boneym/bio/farian.bi o.htm

IN CONCLUSION:


Boney M GOLD show the talent of the Boney M. Group. If you have never heard of them this Collection is a good place to hear the talent of this Group.

I loved every song on this Album. As I am typing this I can see them in their Satin Costumes. The Ladies some times they were trimmed in Fur. Bobby Farrell often wore a "bib style" Costume with no Shirt under it. They all wore their hair if "Afro Styles". When I played their songs I tried to do the dance routines that I had seen on TV.

Had it really ended? Does good music die? I don?t think so! The Boney M songs still create their magical trance whenever I hear them, even in 2003, twenty five years after they first took the world by storm.

If you don't own it yet what are you waiting for. Get your money and rush down to the nearest Record Store!

I paid $20.00 CAD for this Album. UPC: 743211257725

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