Love for Sale (Boney M. album)

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Track listing

1. "Ma Baker
   Ma Baker
   
   "Ma Baker" is a 1977 disco hit single by German disco band Boney M.. It was the first single off their second album Love for Sale and their third consecutive chart-topper in Germany and their best yet placing in the UK, peaking at #2 although only a minor single in the US ....
   " (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) - 4:36
2. "Love for Sale
   Love For Sale (Cole Porter song)
   
   "Love for Sale" is a song by Cole Porter, from the musical The New Yorkers which opened on Broadway theatre on December 8, 1930 and closed in May 1931 after 168 performances....
   " (Cole Porter
   Cole Porter
   
   Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
   ) - 4:47
3. "Belfast
   Belfast (Boney M. song)
   
   "Belfast" is the second single off disco band Boney M.'s 1977 album Love for Sale . "Belfast" was the first Boney M. single to feature lead vocals by Marcia Barrett and became their 4th consecutive German chart-topper although it wasn't as successful in the UK as previous singles ....
   " (Hillsbury, Deutscher, Menke) - 3:31
4. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
   Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
   
   "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" is a song written by John Fogerty and released in 1970 on the album Pendulum of American roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival....
   " (John Fogerty
   John Fogerty
   
   John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
   ) - 2:40
5. "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Frank Farian, George Reyam) - 3:57

1. "Plantation Boy" (Fred Jay, King) - 4:27
2. "Motherless Child
   Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
   
   "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is a traditional Spiritual . The song dates back to the era of slavery in the United States when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents....
   " (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) - 4:58
3. "Silent Lover" (Frank Farian, Keith Forsey
   Keith Forsey
   
   Keith Forsey is an British people soundtrack composer, drummer, songwriter and record producer.As drummer and long-time associate of producer Giorgio Moroder, Forsey can be heard on several Donna Summer albums until 1981....
   , Fred Jay) - 4:14
4. "A Woman Can Change a Man" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) - 3:33
5. "Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty
   Jim McCarty
   
   Jim McCarty is a UK musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance ....
   , Paul Samwell-Smith
   Paul Samwell-Smith
   
   Paul Samwell-Smith is best known as a Founder and bassist of the 1960s England band, The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page, of Led Zeppelin fame, and as a youth, attended Hampton Grammar School with The Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty....
   ) - 4:34

Alternative album editions

• US, track A3: "Daddy Cool" - 3:27

Personnel

• Liz Mitchell
  Liz Mitchell
  
  Elizabeth Rebecca Mitchell was the lead singer of the 70's disco band Boney M.The Mitchell family moved to London in 1963. By the end of the decade, the young Liz Mitchell auditioned for Hair and eventually moved to Berlin for the German cast where she took the place of a young Donna Summer....
   - lead vocals (tracks A2, A4, B1, B2, B4, B5), backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. In some cases, a backing singer may sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry....
  
• Marcia Barrett
  Marcia Barrett
  
  Marcia Barrett , was one of the original singer with the prominent Pop music vocal group, Boney M....
   - lead vocals (tracks A3, B3), backing vocals
• Frank Farian
  Frank Farian
  
  Franz Reuther , better known as Frank Farian, is a Germany music producer and singer-songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into the music business....
   - lead vocals (A5), backing vocals
• Linda Blake - voice of "Ma Baker" on A1
• Bill Swisher - speaker voice on A1
• The Rhythm Machine - musicians
• Gary Unwinn - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  
  The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  
• Keith Forsey
  Keith Forsey
  
  Keith Forsey is an British people soundtrack composer, drummer, songwriter and record producer.As drummer and long-time associate of producer Giorgio Moroder, Forsey can be heard on several Donna Summer albums until 1981....
   - drums
  Drum kit
  
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  
• Todd Canedy - drums
• Nick Woodland - guitar
  Guitar
  
  The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
  
• Johan Daansen - guitar
• Thor Baldursson - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  
  A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
  
• The Black Beautiful Circus - performers on tracks A5 and B5

Production

• Frank Farian - producer
  Record producer
  
  In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
  
• Stefan/Stephen Klinkhammer - arranger, conductor
• Christian Kolonovits - arranger
• Johann Daansen - arranger
• Thor Baldursson - arranger
• Fred Schreier - sound engineer
• Hartmut Pfannmüller - sound engineer
• John Lund - sound engineer
• Michael Lammert - sound engineer
• Recorded and mixed at Union Studios, Munich, and Europe Sound Studios, Offenbach.

Release history

• UK: Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records
  
  Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
   K50385.
• US: Atlantic SD 19145.
• Germany: Hansa Records
  Hansa Records
  
  Hansa Records was a record label founded in the 1960s based in Berlin, Germany. The label's most successful act commercially was German based band Boney M....
   28 888 OT.

CD releases

• Germany 1994: BMG
  BMG
  
  Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
   74321 21270 2.
• EU & US 2007: Sony-BMG Sony-BMG 88697-08261-2. Bonus tracks: "Ma Baker - Somebody Scream" (Sash!
  Sash!
  
  Sash! is a Germany Disc jockey / Record producer team, fronted by Sascha Lappessen , who works in the recording studio with Ralf Kappmeier and Thomas "Alisson" L?dke....
   radio edit) (1999) - 3:23, "Stories" (radio mix) (Boney M. Feat Liz Mitchell 1990) - 4:16.

Single releases

• "Ma Baker" - 4:32 / "Still I'm Sad" - 4:36 (Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records
  
  Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
   K10965, 1977)
• "Belfast" - 3:30 / "Plantation Boy" - 4:03 (Atlantic K11020, 1977)

• "Ma Baker" 4:32 / "Gloria Can You Waddle" (Atlantic SD 19145, 1977)

• "Ma Baker" (Early version) - 4:47 /"Still I'm Sad" - 4:36 (Hansa Records
  Hansa Records
  
  Hansa Records was a record label founded in the 1960s based in Berlin, Germany. The label's most successful act commercially was German based band Boney M....
   17 888 AT (17 888 A-4/77 B-1/77), 1977)
• "Ma Baker" - 4:32 / "Still I'm Sad" - 4:36 (Hansa 17 888 AT, 1977)
• "Belfast" - 3:30 / "Plantation Boy" - 4:03 (Hansa 11 537 AT, 1977)

Charts

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