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Boney M. is a reggae, funk and disco music group founded in 1974, who achieved popularity during the disco era of the second half of the 1970s. [1] The band was created by German record producer Frank Farian, who was the group's primary songwriter and singer.
"Rasputin" is a song by German-based pop and Eurodisco group Boney M. It was released in August 1978 as the second single from their third studio album Nightflight to Venus (1978). Written by the group's creator Frank Farian , along with George Reyam and Fred Jay, it is a song about Grigori Rasputin , a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II ...
"Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker" is a 1989 single by German band Boney M. The words and melody were written by Kevin Sharkey, [2] and the music was written by Pete Briquette. [3] It was recorded by original members Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, and Maizie Williams, and a new American member, Madeleine Davis, [4] and produced by ...
Eye Dance is the eighth and final studio album by the vocal group Boney M., released in 1985. The cover artwork was symbolic of the state the group was in at that time, as neither the famous "Boney M." logo nor the group members appeared on the cover, and were replaced by an anonymous drawing. Eye Dance was recorded with a number of session ...
on YouTube "Young, Free and Single" is a single by German band Boney M. , taken from their final album Eye Dance (1985). Only a modest hit, the single peaked at #49 in the German charts.
The first Boney M. recording "Baby Do You Wanna Bump" (1975) is based on Prince Buster's "Al Capone" (1967). " Motherless Child " (1977) is a rewrite of " Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child ". " Ma Baker " is a rewrite of a Tunisian traditional song, Sidi Mansur.
The album was finally released in May 1984 and was also Boney M.'s debut on the new compact disc format, followed by a ZDF TV-special airing in August. The single chosen to promote the finished album was the ballad "Somewhere in the World"; it became the fourth consecutive Boney M. single not to reach the German Top 40.
After Boney M.'s return to the charts with a cover of the Italian hit "Kalimba de Luna", producer Frank Farian rushed back into the studio to cover another Italian hit single. He invited Boney M.'s original dancer Bobby Farrell to join the group along with a group of children from Rhein-Main Air Base Elementary and Jr. High, credited as The ...