The Greatest Hits (Boney M. album)

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For Telstar UK 1993 release see The Greatest Hits (Boney M. 1993).

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For Hot Town Music/Paradiso 2001 release Greatest Hits see 25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool
The Greatest Hits
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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)Their Most Beautiful Ballads2000		 The Greatest Hits
(2001)		 The Magic of Boney M.
(2006)The Magic of Boney M.2006
Alternative cover
Australian edition
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [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
  9. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:12
    • Original album version
  10. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 3:47
  11. "Mary's Boy Child/ Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 5:09
  12. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:19
  13. "El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 4:00
  14. "Nightflight to Venus" (Farian, Jay, Kawohl) - 3:51
  15. "I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) - 4:10
    • Original album version
  16. "My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) - 4:30
  17. "Daddy Cool 2001" (Farian, Reyam) - 5:19
    • Jewels & Stone Club Mix
  18. "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) - 3:51

Personnel

Production

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

  1. ↑ The Greatest Hits at AllMusic
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