Gold – 20 Super Hits


Gold – 20 Super Hits is a 1992 greatest hits album by group Boney M. Shortly after record label PolyGram had acquired the rights to the ABBA back catalogue and had issued the multimillion-selling hits package Gold: Greatest Hits, BMG and producer Frank Farian followed suit with Boney M.'s Gold – 20 Super Hits which resulted in their best chart entry in the UK and most other European countries since 1980's The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits.
Producer Farian controversially edited most of the tracks and also overdubbed them with synthesized 1990s percussion such as disco hi-hats, sampled tambourines and handclaps specifically for this release. These mixes have since appeared on various Boney M. hit collections issued in the 1990s and 2000s, most notably 2006's The Magic of Boney M., which featured nearly all of the tracks that appeared on this release in this form.
Gold – 20 Super Hits/''The Greatest Hits'' included a new "Boney M. Megamix", also issued as a single, which reached #7 in the UK in December 1992 and gave the group their tenth UK Top 10 entry.

Track listing

  1. "Rivers of Babylon" – 4:15
  2. * 1992 overdub version of single version. Replaced by a pitched-up version of the same mix on later German issues.
  3. "Daddy Cool" – 3:26
  4. * 1992 overdub version.
  5. "Sunny" – 3:56
  6. * 1992 overdub version.
  7. "Brown Girl in the Ring" – 4:00
  8. * 1992 overdub version. Replaced by the Remix '93 Radio Edit on later German issues.
  9. "Rasputin" – 4:24
  10. * 1992 overdub edit of single version. Full-length version available on The Greatest Hits (1993).
  11. "Ma Baker" – 4:05
  12. * 1992 overdub edit. Full-length version available on The Greatest Hits (1993).
  13. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" – 3:55
  14. * 1992 overdub version.
  15. "Painter Man" – 3:16
  16. * 1992 overdub version.
  17. "Belfast" – 3:25
  18. * 1992 overdub version.
  19. "No Woman No Cry" – 4:20
  20. * 1992 overdub edit. Full-length version available on The Greatest Hits (1993).
  21. "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" – 4:01
  22. * 1992 overdub edit of Christmas Album version. Full-length version available on The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World.
  23. "Gotta Go Home" – 2:30
  24. * 1992 overdub edit of Oceans of Fantasy album version.
  25. "Still I'm Sad" – 4:24
  26. * 1992 overdub edit. Full-length version available on The Greatest Hits (1993).
  27. "Nightflight To Venus" – 3:49
  28. * 1992 edited version.
  29. "Felicidad (Margherita)" – 2:50
  30. * 1984 edited version from Kalimba de Luna – 16 Happy Songs, overdubbed.
  31. "El Lute" – 3:58
  32. * 1989 remix version from Greatest Hits Of All Times – Remix '89 – Volume II, edited.
  33. "Baby Do You Wanna Bump" – 2:25
  34. * 1992 overdub edit.
  35. "Kalimba De Luna" – 4:11
  36. * 1992 overdub edit.
  37. "Happy Song" – 3:56
  38. * Edited 7" version.
  39. "Boney M. Megamix" – 3:51
  40. * 1992 version, radio edit.

Personnel

Production

Release history

  • 1993 EU: MCI / BMG 74321 12577 1
  • 1993 EU: MCI / BMG 74321 12577 2
  • 1993 EU: BMG Ariola 74321 126052 7

Single releases

EU
7"
  • "Megamix" – 3:51 / "Bang Bang Lulu" – 3:01


12"
  • "Megamix"
Side A
  1. "Megamix – 6:12
  2. "Babysitter" – 3:48
Side B
  1. "Megamix" – 3:51
  2. "Bang Bang Lulu" – 3:01
Side A
  1. "Brown Girl in the Ring" – 5:35
  2. "The Calendar Song " – 3:14
Side B
  1. "Brown Girl in the Ring" – 5:35
  2. "Brown Girl in the Ring" – 3:58


CD
  • "Megamix"
  • # "Mega Mix" – 3:51
  • # "Megamix" – 6:12
  • # "Bang Bang Lulu" – 3:01
  • # "Babysitter" – 3:48
  • "Brown Girl In The Ring "
  • # "Brown Girl in the Ring" – 3:58
  • # "Brown Girl in the Ring" – 5:35
  • # "Brown Girl in the Ring" – 5:35
  • # "The Calendar Song " – 3:14

''The Greatest Hits'' (1993 UK Release)

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.
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" that was issued in both the UK and the rest of Europe as the follow-up single to the 1992 "Megamix". 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 were not hits in the UK.
The Greatest Hits was released by the now defunct Telstar Records, while the singles "Megamix" and "Brown Girl in the Ring " were issued by Arista Records, which at the time was operating as a sublabel to BMG.
The Greatest Hits reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart in early 1993, which made it Boney M.'s highest-charting album since 1980's The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits.