Ma Baker (album)

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Ma Baker
Greatest hits album by
Boney M.
Released1989
Recorded1976-1984
Genre Pop, disco
Label Hansa Records (FRG)
Producer Frank Farian
Boney M. chronology
Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88
(1988)
Ma Baker
(1989)
Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II
(1989)
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Ma Baker is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by budget label Ariola Express in Germany, 1989. The CD is basically a revised edition of the 1984 CD compilation "Fantastic Boney M." - while omitting several hit singles "Daddy Cool", "Rivers of Babylon" and "Rasputin", it premiered rare single versions of "Baby Do You Wanna Bump", "Dancing in the Streets" and "Children of Paradise".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 3:14
  2. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 3:44
  3. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:11
  4. "I See a Boat on the River" (Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 3:09
    • Edited version
  5. "Baby Do You Wanna Bump" (Zambi) - 3:40
    • Original 7" version
  6. "Kalimba de Luna" (Amoruso, DiFranco, Esposito, Licastro, Malavas) - 4:31
    • Original 7" mix
  7. "Belfast" (Billsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 2:25
  8. "We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World)" (Farian, Sgarbi) - 5:12
    • 7" version, fade-out
  9. "El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 4:24
  10. "Felicidad (Margherita)" (Conz, Massara) - 4:31
    • Original 7" mix
  11. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 4:31
  12. "Children of Paradise" (Farian, Reyam, Jay) - 5:19
    • Original 12" mix
  13. "Somewhere in the World" (Davis, Grohe, Keilhauer) - 3:01
    • Edited version
  14. "He Was a Steppenwolf" (Farian, Klinkhammer, Jay) - 6:51
    • Original album version
  15. "Dancing in the Streets" (Farian) - 3:57
    • Original single version
  16. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 3:04

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