Their Most Beautiful Ballads

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Their Most Beautiful Ballads
Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 2000
Recorded1977-1985, 2000
Genre Eurodance, pop, Euro disco
Length78:02
Label MCI/BMG (GER)
Producer Frank Farian
Boney M. chronology
The Complete Collection
(2000)
Their Most Beautiful Ballads
(2000)
The Greatest Hits
(2001)
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Review scores
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Their Most Beautiful Ballads is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by MCI/BMG in late 2000.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Carnival Is Over (Goodbye True Lover)" (Traditional, Chappell, Tom Springfield, Farian) - 3:45
    • Edited version
  2. "El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 3:59
    • Edited version
  3. "Somewhere in the World" (Davis, Grohe, Keilhauer) - 4:11
    • 2000 Remix
  4. "Where Did You Go?" (Bischof, Kawohl) - 3:38
    • 2000 Remix
  5. "Heart of Gold" (Neil Young) - 3:35
    • 2000 Remix
  6. "10,000 Light Years" (Bischof, Björklund, Farian, Kawohl, Towers) - 4:24
    • 2000 Remix
  7. "Still I'm Sad" (McCarty, Samwell-Smith) - 3:50
    • 2000 Remix
  8. "Jimmy" (Farian) - 3:01
    • 2000 Remix
  9. "Consuela Biaz" (Courage, Farian, O'Hara) - 4:19
    • 2000 Remix
  10. "Goodbye My Friend" (Courage, Farian, Rulofs) - 4:38
    • 2000 Remix
  11. "I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:34
    • 2000 Remix
  12. "Sad Movies" (Loudermilk) - 3:22
    • 2000 Remix
  13. "Time to Remember" (Bischof, Farian, Kawohl) - 3:31
    • 2000 Remix
  14. "Ribbons of Blue" (Keith Forsey) - 2:40
    • 2000 Remix
  15. "When a Child Is Born" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:21
    • 2000 Remix
  16. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Davis, Onorati, Simeone) - 4:13
    • 2000 Remix
  17. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 4:26
    • 2000 Remix
  18. "Two of Us" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:11
    • 2000 Remix
  19. "My Cherie Amour" (Cosby, Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 3:40
    • 2000 Remix
  20. "I See a Boat on the River" (Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 3:05
    • 2000 Remix
  21. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:27
    • Edited version

Personnel

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