Nightflight to Venus is the third studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M.,and was released in June 1978. The album became a major success in continental Europe,Scandinavia,and Canada,topping most of the album charts during the second half of 1978 and also became their first UK number one album. In Canada,it received a nomination for a 1980 Juno Award in a category 'International Album of the Year'.
Gold –20 Super Hits is a 1992 greatest hits album by group Boney M. Shortly after record label PolyGram had acquired the rights to the ABBA back catalogue and had issued the multimillion-selling hits package Gold:Greatest Hits,BMG and producer Frank Farian followed suit with Boney M.'s Gold –20 Super Hits which resulted in their best chart entry in the UK and most other European countries since 1980's The Magic of Boney M. –20 Golden Hits.
Reggie Tsiboe is a Ghanaian-British entertainer,dancer and one of the singers of the disco group Boney M. between 1982 and 1986 and later between 1989 and 1990.
The Magic of Boney M. –20 Golden Hits is a greatest hits album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M.,issued in 1980,which contained all their biggest hits up until that point,including non-album singles "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" and "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday",album tracks from Take the Heat off Me,Love for Sale,Nightflight to Venus and Oceans of Fantasy as well as their most recent double A-side single release "I See a Boat On the River"/ "My Friend Jack".
Kalimba de Luna –16 Happy Songs is a compilation album by Boney M. released in late 1984. On the strength of two carbon-copy cover versions,"Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song" which gave Boney M. their first Top 20 hits in Germany in three years,this compilation was rush-released in November 1984. Besides the 12" versions of the two singles,the latter marking Bobby Farrell's return to the band but neither featuring Liz Mitchell or Marcia Barrett,the compilation includes 3-minute edits of tracks from albums Boonoonoonoos and Ten Thousand Lightyears as well as non-album singles "Children Of Paradise"/"Gadda Da Vida" (1980),"Felicidad (Margherita)" (1981),"Going Back West" (1982) and "Jambo - Hakuna Matata " (1983),as well as a new remix of "Calendar Song" from the Oceans Of Fantasy album. Just like in the case of 1980 compilation The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits,many of these edits were to re-surface on a number of hits compilations in the future,the latest being 2007 Sony-BMG release Hit Collection.
The "Happy Song" single was originally released under the name 'Boney M. with Bobby Farrell &the School-Rebels' and this compilation as 'Boney M. with Bobby Farrell'.
The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs is a compilation/remix album by Boney M. In 1986 producer Frank Farian took the master tapes from 1981's Christmas Album,added six recordings by Liz Mitchell,Reggie Tsiboe and two session singers from 1984,remixed them and created Die 20 schönsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt,internationally released as The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs. The 1986 version of the Boney M. Christmas album has since been re-issued as The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World (1992),A Wonderful Christmas Time (1998) and Christmas Party.
The Best of 10 Years –32 Superhits also known as 32 Superhits - Non-Stop Digital Remix is a remix album by Boney M. released in 1986.
More Gold –20 Super Hits Vol. II is a 1993 greatest hits album by Boney M. Producer Frank Farian issued More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II containing the remainder of Boney M.'s best known songs –again most of them appearing in remixed or overdubbed form but credited as the original versions –as well as four new recordings featuring lead singer Liz Mitchell. Two singles were released from the album in Europe,"Ma Baker Remix '93" and "Papa Chico",the latter credited as "Boney M. featuring Liz Mitchell" and released in early 1994.
The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG in the United Kingdom in late 2001.
The Magic of Boney M. is a greatest hits album of recordings by Boney M. released by Sony BMG in October 2006.
Greatest Hits of All Times –Remix '88 is a remix album by Boney M. released in 1988. Boney M.'s new manager at the time,Simon Napier-Bell,succeeded in persuading the four original members to briefly reunite and promote this remix album. The man employed to re-arrange the original hits and create new interest in the band was PWL's Pete Hammond,who previously had remixed many of the Stock Aitken Waterman stable's chart-topping hits with Kylie Minogue,Jason Donovan,Rick Astley and Bananarama. Five of the tracks also feature new lead vocals by Liz Mitchell. In early 2021,Hammond recalled the following about the '88 remix project,explaining the new vocals:"The 2inch 24 track multi-track tapes were sent to PWL by Frank Farian of Far Music. Apparently,they had lost some of the original recordings—four songs if I remember correctly—and had to record four new versions;they were musically incomplete but good enough for me to overdub and remix". The remix project spun off three fairly successful single releases,"Rivers of Babylon ","Rasputin " and the 1988 "Megamix",which would appear on the follow-up album issued a year later,and created the first wave of Boney M. nostalgia in Europe.
Eye Dance is the eighth and final studio album by the vocal group Boney M.,released in 1985. The cover artwork was symbolic of the state the group was in at that time,as neither the famous "Boney M." logo nor the group members appeared on the cover,and were replaced by an anonymous drawing.
The Best of Boney M. is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG UK's midprice label Camden in 1997.
Daddy Cool –Star Collection is a compilation of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG-Ariola's mid-price label Ariola Express in Germany in 1991.
The Complete Collection is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG/CMC Records in Denmark in late 2000.
Norske Hits is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG-Ariola in Norway in late 1998.
Christmas with Boney M. a.k.a. (New) Christmas with Boney M. is an aborted second Christmas album turned into a compilation. The album was exclusively released in South Africa where the group's popularity—contrary to the rest of the world—remained high during the early 80s. The album is a sought-after item for Boney M. collectors since it includes the original recording "Mother and Child Reunion" with Reggie Tsiboe and La Mama which was remixed and overdubbed with additional vocals for a 1985 charity single for Ethiopia,released by Frank Farian Corporation. The album has never been released on CD.
"Kalimba de Luna" is a 1982 single by Italian musician and drummer Tony Esposito. It was written by Esposito with his long-time collaborator Remo Licastro,pianist Giuseppe "Joe" Amoruso,keyboardist Mauro Malavasi and vocalist Gianluigi Di Franco. It was taken from Esposito's album Il grande esploratore. "Kalimba de Luna" was a European success and reached no. 12 in the Austrian chart,no. 6 in the Swiss charts and no. 14 in the Italian charts.
"Stories" is a 1990 single by German band Boney M. It peaked at #26 in Switzerland and #94 in the UK. The single was based on an instrumental 1989 underground favourite by Izit,which itself was a re-work of a 1972 recording by Belgian group Chakachas. With added lyrics by Peter Bischof-Fallenstein,"Stories" was released as a response to the withdrawn "Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker",released illegally under the group name by original members Marcia Barrett,Bobby Farrell,Maizie Williams and new singer Madeleine Davis. "Stories" launched a short-lived 'official' Boney M. line-up consisting of original lead singer Liz Mitchell and Reggie Tsiboe and two new girls,Sharon Steven and Patty Onoyewenjo. Never appearing on any studio album by the group,Stories was added as a bonus track on the remastered 2007 edition of the group's 1977 album Love for Sale. An unreleased 3:54 mix was used in the video clip for the track.
La Mama is a German pop and disco trio who worked in Frank Farian's studios in the first half of the 1980s. Adapting their name from New York theatre La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club,they released three singles and two albums and worked as backing singers on a number of recordings for other artists.
