Our male dancer, Bobby Farrell, had been the DJ in the same bar.Īfter Maizie, Bobby and I had mimed the song on Dutch TV, Frank said: ‘I want to do more of this.’ Maizie and Bobby couldn’t sing, so at my suggestion he recruited another singer, Liz Mitchell, who, like me, had been singing in Germany for many years. Only one of those people ended up becoming a genuine member of the band: Maizie Williams, who had been dancing topless in a bar in Hannover. He asked me if I knew any other black girls for the group, as it turned out he wanted three girls because he’d already had a publicity photo done with a guy and three girls in it.
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Retrieved April 25, 2018.Boney M were superstars in the Seventies, selling 80 million records and scoring enormous hitsįrank had produced a record on which he sang all the parts, called Baby Do You Wanna Bump? The song had become a surprise hit in Holland, the record company had booked ‘Boney M’ on to a TV show, and suddenly Frank needed his fictitious group to exist.
^ "British album certifications – Boney M. 
Retrieved Novem– via American Radio History.
^ "From The Music Capitols Of The World - Athens" (PDF). : Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help) ^ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Album 1977" (in Dutch). ^ "Jahreshitparade Alben 1977" (in German). 
Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.).
^ German release ( back cover) at Discogs. "Bobby Farrell: Dancer and frontman of the Euro-disco group Boney M". ^ a b Perrone, Pierre (January 1, 2011). ^ "5 Funny, Outrageous and Just Plain Awful Disco Album Covers". ^ Petridis, Alexis (January 16, 2006). ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. Recorded and mixed at Union Studios, Munich, and Europe Sound Studios, Offenbach. Stefan/Stephen Klinkhammer – arranger, conductor. The Black Beautiful Circus – performers on tracks A5 and B5. Linda Blake – voice of "Ma Baker" on A1. Frank Farian – lead vocals (A5), backing vocals. Marcia Barrett – lead vocals (tracks A3, B3), backing vocals. Liz Mitchell – lead vocals (tracks A2, A4, B1, B2, B4, B5), backing vocals. "Still I'm Sad" ( Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 4:34. "A Woman Can Change a Man" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 3:33. "Silent Lover" (Frank Farian, Keith Forsey, Fred Jay) – 4:14. " Motherless Child" (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) – 4:58. "Plantation Boy" (Fred Jay, King) – 4:27. "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Frank Farian, George Reyam) – 3:57. " Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" ( John Fogerty) – 2:40. edition only) from the previous album Take the Heat off Me – 3:27 " Belfast" (Jimmy Bilsbury, Drafi Deutscher, Joe Menke) – 3:31. " Ma Baker" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) – 4:36. The front cover of the South Korean vinyl edition features the band in one live performance, and the back cover of the edition features the band in a studio photo session. When they showed us the costumes, it was just heavy gold chains. They wanted to photograph us all totally naked in chains with standing over us like it was bondage I wept-trust me. One of the female group members, Liz Mitchell, told The Sydney Morning Herald: American label Atlantic Records found the cover "raunchy", so they used the standard back cover of a vinyl sleeve featuring the band wearing clothes as the alternative front cover of American and Canadian edition. The standard cover art features the male member Bobby Farrell "naked a futuristic golden thong" chaining female members, resembling African sexual slaves.
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