The Greatest Hits (2001 Boney M. album)

The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG in the United Kingdom in late 2001.

For the Telstar UK 1993 release see, see The Greatest Hits (1993 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.
Released2001
Recorded1976-1980, 1989, 1992, 2001
GenreEurodance, Pop, Euro disco
Length74:14
LabelBMG (UK)
ProducerFrank Farian
Boney M. chronology
Their Most Beautiful Ballads
(2000)		 The Greatest Hits
(2001)		 The Magic of Boney M.
(2006)
Singles from The Greatest Hits
  1. "Daddy Cool 2001"
    Released: 2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

While the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark celebrated Boney M's 25 year anniversary with comprehensive double albums, BMG UK opted for a one disc release, The Greatest Hits, which is an updated version of 1992's Gold - 20 Super Hits containing a new remix of 1976 break-through single "Daddy Cool", also a Top 30 hit in the UK in 2001.
While most of the tracks of this hits package are the original album versions it contains three overdubbed or remixed versions dating from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II, Gold - 20 Super Hits and The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World.

In 2002 the compilation was issued in the United States by RCA, now a sub-label of Sony BMG, and it has also been released under the name Australia's Greatest Hits.

Track listing
  1. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:30
    • Original album version
  2. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 4:22
    • Original album version
  3. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:03
    • Original album version
  4. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:36
    • Original album version
  5. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:30
    • N.B. Album version with cold start and fade-out. Full-length 5:51. Original 7" mix ( - 4:43) remains unreleased on CD.
  6. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 4:02
    • Original album version
  7. "Belfast" (Billsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
    • Original album version
  8. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:58
    • 1992 overdub version from Gold - 20 Super Hits. Original 7" mix remains unreleased on CD.
  9. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:12
    • Original album version
  10. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 3:47
  11. "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 5:09
  12. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 4:19
    • 1992 overdub edit from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  13. "El Lute" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer, Kolonovits) - 4:00
    • 1989 remix from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II, edited
  14. "Nightflight to Venus" (Farian, Jay, Kawohl) - 3:51
    • 1992 edited version from Gold - 20 Super Hits
  15. "I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) - 4:10
    • Original album version
  16. "My Friend Jack" (The Smoke) - 4:30
    • Edited album version from The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits. Full length: - 4:56.
  17. "Daddy Cool 2001" (Farian, Reyam) - 5:19
    • Jewels & Stone Club Mix
  18. "Boney M. Megamix" (Farian, Reyam, Hebb, Jay) - 3:51

Personnel

Production

Release history
  • 2001 UK: BMG 74321 896142
  • 2001 Australia: Australia's Greatest Hits, BMG International 89614
  • 2002 US: RCA 65108

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[2] Gold 100,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References
  1. The Greatest Hits at AllMusic
  2. "British album certifications – Boney M – The Greatest Hits". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
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