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"Rivers of Babylon/"Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" is a 1988 remix single by German band Boney M., issued to launch the group's reunion, having been split since their 10th anniversary, 1986. The double A-side single contained new mixes of the band's two very most successful single releases ever.
The B-side of the German single, a remix of the group's 1978 hit "Rasputin", was issued as an A-side in the UK where the Megamix was backed with a remix of their 1978 chart-topper "Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord".
"Rivers of Babylon"/"Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" is a 1988 remix single that was issued to launch the group's reunion. (Boney M. had split up in 1986, their 10th anniversary.) The double A-side single contained new mixes of both songs. Although the remix album from which both sides of the single were taken sold well, the single failed to chart.
1988 PWL remix from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '88 "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Farian, Jester Hairston) - 4:25 1988 PWL remix from Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '88 "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:12 Edited version from The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits.
"Mega Mix" is a 1992 single by German band Boney M. It returned the group to the UK Top 10 for the first time since 1979, peaking at #7, and was also a hit single in the rest of Europe and launched a Boney M. revival with the subsequent compilation album Gold – 20 Super Hits (in the UK: The Greatest Hits).
One of the best-known cover versions of the song is from the German-based disco-group Boney M. from 1978, "Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord." [13] This version returned the song to the top of the UK chart. [6] It is one of the best-selling singles of all time in the UK, and has sold 1.87 million copies as of November 2015. [11]
A second remix album Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '89 – Volume II was released but fared poorly. 1992 saw a renewed interest in Boney M.'s music with the Boney M. Megamix single returning the group to the UK Top 10 for the first time since 1980, and a subsequent Greatest Hits album, Gold – 20 Super Hits , reaching the UK Top 20 in 1993.
The album includes the million-selling 1978 Christmas number one "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" and it yielded two further single releases, "Little Drummer Boy" in 1981, which became a Top 20 hit in Germany.