The Greatest Hits (1993 Boney M. album)

The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Boney M., released in 1993. It is the UK version of BMG's Gold – 20 Super Hits, with alternate album art and a slightly different track listing.

For the Sony BMG 2001 release, see The Greatest Hits (2001 Boney M. album). For the Hot Town Music/Paradiso 2001 release, see 25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool.
The Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Boney M.
ReleasedMarch 1993
Recorded1976–93
Genre
Length56:03
LabelTelstar (UK)
ProducerFrank Farian
Boney M. chronology
The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World
(1992)		 The Greatest Hits
(1993)		 More Gold – 20 Super Hits Vol. II
(1993)

Content

Besides Boney M.'s best known hits like "Daddy Cool", "Ma Baker" and "Rivers of Babylon", this fourteen track compilation also includes the 1993 remix of "Brown Girl in the Ring" (UK #38)[1] that was issued in both the UK and the rest of Europe as the follow-up single to the 1992 "Megamix" (UK #7).[1] While still in overdubbed form, three tracks on this compilation, "Rasputin", "Ma Baker" and "No Woman, No Cry" are also featured in their full length, as opposed to the versions on the German BMG predecessor Gold – 20 Super Hits. The Greatest Hits omits songs like "Felicidad (Margherita)", "Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song", which had never been released as singles in the UK.

The Greatest Hits was released by the now defunct Telstar Records, while the singles "Megamix" and "Brown Girl in the Ring (Remix '93)" were issued by Arista Records, which at the time was operating as a sublabel to BMG.

Commercial performance

The Greatest Hits reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart in early 1993,[1] which made it Boney M.'s highest charting album since 1980's The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits.[1]

Track listing
  1. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) – 4:15
  2. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) – 3:26
    • 1992 overdub version from Gold – 20 Super Hits
  3. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) – 3:56
    • 1992 overdub version from Gold – 20 Super Hits
  4. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) – 4:00
    • Remix '93, radio edit
  5. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) – 4:43
    • 1992 overdub version, full-length.
  6. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) – 4:34
    • 1992 overdub version, full-length
  7. "Still I'm Sad" (April, McCarty, Samwell-Smith) – 4:34
    • 1992 overdub version from Gold – 20 Super Hits
  8. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian) – 3:55
  9. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickette) – 3:16
    • 1992 overdub version from Gold – 20 Super Hits
  10. "Belfast" (Bilsbury, Deutscher, Menke) – 3:25
    • 1992 overdub version from Gold – 20 Super Hits
  11. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) – 4:54
    • 1992 overdub version, full-length
  12. "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) – 4:01
    • 1992 overdub edit from Gold – 20 Super Hits
  13. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Huth, Jay) – 2:30
    • 1992 overdub edit from Gold – 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix ( – 4:40) remains unreleased on CD.
  14. "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) – 3:51

Personnel

Production

Release history
  • 1993 UK: Telstar TCD2656

Single Releases

UK

CD

  • "Megamix" (Arista Records 74321 12512-2, 1992)
    1. "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:51
    2. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '92) - 3:58
    3. "Megamix" (Long Version) - 6:12
  • "Brown Girl in the Ring (Remix '93)" (Arista Records 74321 13705 2, 1993)
    1. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Radio Version) - 3:58
    2. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Funny Girl Club Mix) - 5:35
    3. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Club Mix - Rap Version) - 5:35
    4. "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Remix '93) - 3:14
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References
  1. "BONEY M - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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