Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88

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Greatest Hits Of All Times - Remix '88
Remix album by Boney M.
Released	October 1988
Recorded	1976-1979, 1988
Genre	R&B, Pop music, Disco
Length	49:00
Label	Hansa Records (FRG) Ariola Records (UK)
Producer	Frank Farian
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Boney M. chronology
The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II

Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 is a remix album by Boney M. released in 1988. Boney M.'s new manager at the time, Simon Napier-Bell, succeeded in persuading the four original members to briefly reunite and promote this remix album. The man employed to re-arrange the original hits and create new interest in the band was PWL's Pete Hammond who previously had remixed many of the Stock Aitken Waterman stable's chart-topping hits with Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley and Bananarama. Five of the tracks also feature new lead vocals by Liz Mitchell. The remix project spun off three fairly successful single releases, "Rivers of Babylon (Remix '88)", "Rasputin (Remix '88)" and the 1988 "Mega Mix", which would appear on the follow-up album issued a year later, and created the first wave of Boney M. nostalgia in Europe.
While producer Frank Farian have continued to release new recordings under the name Boney M. all through the 80's, 90's and 2000's, such as 1990 non-album single "Stories" (featuring both Liz Mitchell and Reggie Tsiboe), the four new recordings on compilation More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II in 1993 as well as "A Moment Of Love" on 2006's The Magic of Boney M., Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 was in fact the final album project to involve all four of the original Boney M. members; Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, Liz Mitchell and Maizie Williams.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Single releases 5 Sources and external links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 3:43
2. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:33
3. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 5:27
4. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:42
5. "Take the Heat off Me" (Bigazzi) - 3:53
6. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:23
7. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:44
8. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 3:36
9. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:01
10. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 4:40
11. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:49
12. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 4:22

only Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett were in the studio when Boney M.'s records were recorded.

[edit] Personnel

• Liz Mitchell - lead vocals (trk. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12), backing vocals
• Marcia Barrett - lead vocals (trk. 5), backing vocals
• Frank Farian - lead vocals, backing vocals

[edit] Production

• Frank Farian - producer
• Pete Hammond - remixer
• A PWL Production.
• Recorded at PWL Studios London.

[edit] Single releases

UK
7"

• "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '88) - 4:22 (Ariola Records 111 947, 1988)
• "Rasputin" (Remix '88 - Radio Edit) - 4:08 / "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 (Ariola Records 112 096, 1989)

12"

• "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 / "Rivers Of Babylon" (Remix '88) - 3:40 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '88) - 4:22 (Ariola Records 611 947 BB, 1988)
• "Rasputin" (Remix '88) - 5:25 / "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 (Ariola Records 612 096 BB, 1989)

Germany
7"

• "Rivers of Babylon" (Remix '88) - 3:43 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '88) - 4:22 (Hansa Records 111 825-100, 1988)
• "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 / "Rasputin" (Remix '88 - Radio Edit) - 4:08 (Hansa Records 111 973-100, 1988)

12"

• "Rivers of Babylon" (Acid House Mix) - 7:15 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord (Remix '88) - 4:22 / "Rivers of Babylon" (Remix '88) - 3:43 (Hansa Records 611 825-213, 1988)
• "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 / "Rasputin" (Remix '88) - 5:25 / "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 (Hansa Records 611 973-213, 1988)

CD

• "Rivers of Babylon" (Acid House Mix) - 7:15 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord (Remix '88) - 4:22 / "Rivers of Babylon" (Remix '88) - 3:43 (Hansa Records 661 825-211, 1988)
• "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 / "Rasputin" (Remix '88) - 5:25 / "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 (Hansa Records 661 973-211, 1988)

[edit] Sources and external links

• Rate Your Music, detailed discography
• Discogs.com, detailed discography
• All Music Guide, biography, discography etc.

v • d • e Boney M. Studio albums and main compilations (1976 – 1985) Take the Heat Off Me (1976) · Love for Sale (1977) · Nightflight to Venus (1978) · Oceans of Fantasy (1979) – The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits (1980) · Children of Paradise - The Greatest Hits of Boney M. - Vol. 2 (1981) · Boonoonoonoos (1981) · Christmas Album (1981) · Ten Thousand Lightyears (1984) · Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs (1984) · Fantastic Boney M. (1984) · Christmas with Boney M. (1984) · Eye Dance (1985) Main compilations and remix albums (1986 – 2008) The Best of 10 Years - 32 Superhits (1986) · The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs (1986) – Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 (1988) · Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '89 - Volume II (1989) · The Collection (1991) · Daddy Cool - Star Collection (1991) · The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World (1992) · Gold - 20 Super Hits (1992) – The Greatest Hits (1993) · More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II (1993) · Hit Collection (1996) · Best In Spain (1996) · The Best of Boney M. (1997) – Norske Hits (1998) · Ultimate (1999) · 20th Century Hits (1999) · 25 Jaar Na Daddy Cool (2000) · The Complete Collection (2000) – Their Most Beautiful Ballads (2000) · The Greatest Hits (2001) · The Magic of Boney M. (2006) · Hit Collection (2007) · Christmas With Boney M. (2007) · The Collection (2008) · Rivers Of Babylon (A Best Of Collection) (2008) Main single discography (1975-1990) Baby Do You Wanna Bump (1975) · Daddy Cool (1976) · Sunny (1976) · Ma Baker (1977) · Belfast (1977) · Rivers of Babylon / Brown Girl in the Ring (1978) · Rasputin (1978) · Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord (1978) · Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday (1979) · El Lute / Gotta Go Home (1979) · I'm Born Again / Bahama Mama (song) (1979) · I See a Boat on the River / My Friend Jack (1980) · Children of Paradise / Gadda-Da-Vida (1980) · Felicidad (Margherita) (1980) · Malaika / Consuela Biaz (1981) · We Kill the World / Boonoonoonoos (1981)) · Little Drummer Boy / 6 Years of Boney M. Hits (1981) · The Carnival Is Over / Going Back West (1982) · Zion's Daughter (1982) · Jambo - Hakuna Matata (No Problems) (1983) · Somewhere in the World (1984) · Kalimba de Luna (1984) · Happy Song (1984) · My Cherie Amour (1985) · Young Free and Single (1985) · Daddy Cool (Anniversary Recording '86) (1986) · Bang Bang Lulu (1986) · Rivers of Babylon (Remix) / Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord (Remix)´ (1988) · Megamix (1988) · The Summer Mega Mix (1989) · Malaika (Lambada Remix) (1989) · Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker (1989) · Stories (1990)