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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]
"Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" [nb 1] is a 1978 Christmas single by Boney M., a cover of Harry Belafonte's 1956 hit "Mary's Boy Child", put in medley with the new song "Oh My Lord". The single had its premiere on 2 November 1978 on the German TV-show "Starparade" (Episode 44) which aired on ZDF.
"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.
In certain territories the album was given the alternate title Christmas with Boney M. 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.
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".
One of the most apt and unquestioned honorific nicknames in popular music is the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the early ’70s, much like hip-hop itself. By the ...
Kidder offered Hairston financial assistance to study music at Tufts University, [7] [3] from which he graduated in 1929. [1] [6] [8] He was one of the first black students admitted to Tufts. [9] [a] Later he studied music at the Juilliard School. [7] [12] Hairston pledged the Chi chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in 1925. He worked as ...
It was just six years ago when pink-haired, earnest-faced 9-year-old Avery Jackson made history by becoming the first transgender person to grace the cover of National Geographic magazine — not ...