More Gold – 20 Super Hits Vol. II is a 1993

1993 in music

This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....

 greatest hits album by Boney M.. As PolyGram

PolyGram

PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...

 released More ABBA Gold in 1993 to follow up the highly successful Gold: Greatest Hits

ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits

Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album of recordings by Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released on September 21, 1992 through PolyGram, the first compilation to be released after the company had acquired Polar Music and thus the rights to the ABBA back catalogue. In 1998, PolyGram was in turn...

, BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

 and producer Frank Farian issued More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II containing the remainder of Boney M.'s best known songs - again most of them appearing in remixed or overdubbed form but credited as the original versions - as well as four new recordings featuring former lead singer Liz Mitchell.
More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II spun off two European single releases, "Ma Baker Remix '93" and "Papa Chico", the latter credited as 'Boney M. feat. Liz Mitchell' and released in early 1994.

1994 also saw the CD debut of eight of the original Boney M. albums; Take The Heat Off Me

Take the Heat Off Me

Take The Heat Off Me is the debut album by Boney M.. The album became a major seller outside of the United States, where the album just missed making the chart. Includes the hits "Daddy Cool" , "Sunny" and "Baby Do You Wanna Bump"...

, Love for Sale

Love for Sale (Boney M. album)

Love for Sale is the second album by Boney M. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" , and "Belfast"...

, Nightflight to Venus

Nightflight to Venus

Nightflight to Venus is the third album by the band Boney M, and was released in July 1978.The album became a major success in continental Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada, topping most of the album charts during the second half of 1978 and also became their first UK number one album...

, Oceans of Fantasy

Oceans of Fantasy

Oceans of Fantasy is the fourth studio album by Boney M. Released in September 1979, Oceans Of Fantasy became the second Boney M. album to top the UK charts and features hits "El Lute" based on Eleuterio Sánchez life, "I'm Born Again", "Bahama Mama" and "Gotta Go Home"...

, Boonoonoonoos

Boonoonoonoos

Boonoonoonoos is the fifth studio album by Boney M. It was released on November 1, 1981.Despite producer Frank Farian having announced that Boney M...

, Ten Thousand Lightyears

Ten Thousand Lightyears

Ten Thousand Lightyears is the seventh studio album by Boney M. and the first to feature new member Reggie Tsiboe who had taken over Bobby Farrell's role as the band's leading man in early 1982...

, compilation Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs

Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs

Kalimba de Luna – 16 Happy Songs is a compilation album by Boney M. released in late 1984. On the strength of two carbon-copy cover versions, "Kalimba de Luna" and "Happy Song" which gave Boney M...

and Eye Dance

Eye Dance

Eye Dance is the eighth and final studio album released under the Boney M. moniker and was released in the autumn of 1985. The cover artwork was significant of the state the group was in at that time : neither the famous "Boney M." logo nor the "singers" photograph did appear, replaced by an...

, all released by BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

 in collaboration with Frank Farian's own record label MCI.

Track listing

1. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter
   Cole Porter
   Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
   
   ) - 4:15
   • 1993 overdub edit.
2. "Bahama Mama" (Farian, Jay) - 3:16
   • 1993 overdub edit.
3. "I See a Boat on the River" (Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 4:30
   • 1993 overdub version.
4. "Children of Paradise" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 3:20
   • Edited version.
5. "The Calendar Song (January, February, March...)" (Farian) - 3:25
   • 1993 remix .
6. "We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World)" (Farian, Sgarbi) - 4:30
   • Album edit.
7. "Jimmy" (Farian, Howell, Daansen) - 2:55
   • 1982 Re-recording, 1993 overdub version
8. "I Shall Sing" (Van Morrison
   Van Morrison
   Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
   
   ) - 3:09
   • 1993 overdub version.
9. "Dreadlock Holiday
   Dreadlock Holiday
   -In popular culture:* The song is featured on the first episode, "Killeroo", of the first series of the British cult comedy The Mighty Boosh. Bob Fossil, head of the Zooniverse, dances to the first verse of the song while a confused Howard Moon looks on, before switching it off and explaining "And...
   
   " (Eric Stewart
   Eric Stewart
   Eric Stewart is an English musician, songwriter and record producer most known for his tenure with The Mindbenders in the 1960s, and 10cc from 1972 to 1995....
   
   , Graham Gouldman
   Graham Gouldman
   Graham Keith Gouldman is an English songwriter and musician who is a long-time member of British band 10cc.-Early life and 1960s pop career: 1946–1968:Gouldman was born in Broughton, Salford, England...
   
   ) - 4:20
   • 1993 remix of 1987 Top Deck version. Lead vocals: Frank Farian.
10. "Oceans of Fantasy" (Kawohl, Jay, Zill) - 5:05
    • 1993 overdub edit.
11. "Ribbons of Blue" (Keith Forsey
    Keith Forsey
    Keith Forsey is an English soundtrack composer, drummer, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:Forsey's first recordings were as the younger member of the group The Spectrum, better known for the end title theme for Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet, but hit makers across Europe in their own...
    
    ) - 4:02
    • 1993 overdub version.
12. "Motherless Child
    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is a traditional Negro 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. An early performance of the song dates back to the 1870s by the Fisk Jubilee...
    
    " (Farian, Mitchell) - 4:15
    • 1993 remix.
13. "I'm Born Again" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:30
    • Edited version.
14. "My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder
    Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
    
    , Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy) - 3:55
    • 1993 overdub version.
15. "Going Back West" (Jimmy Cliff
    Jimmy Cliff
    Jimmy Cliff, OM is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences...
    
    ) - 3:10
    • 1993 overdub edit.
16. "Ma Baker
    Ma Baker
    "Ma Baker" is a 1977 disco hit single by German disco band Boney M. It was the first single of 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 .-The song:Frank Farian's...
    
    " (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:00
    • Remix '93, radio edit.
17. "Time to Remember" (Farian, Kawohl, Farian, Bischof Fallenstein) - 4:00
    • 1993 recording featuring Liz Mitchell
      Liz Mitchell
      Liz Mitchell is a singer, best known as the former lead singer of the 1970s disco/pop band, Boney M.-Early life:...
      
      .
18. "Da La De La" (Kerim Saka, Mike Wonder, M. Hanler Correl) - 4:00
    • 1993 recording featuring Marlon B. and Liz Mitchell.
19. "Papa Chico" (T. Esposito
    Tony Esposito (musician)
    Antonio "Tony" Esposito is an Italian musician, singer-songwriter and drummer from Italy.-Career :Esposito was born in Naples.He is well known for his 1984 hit single "Kalimba de Luna" from his album Il grande esploratore....
    
    ) - 4:05
    • 1993 recording featuring Liz Mitchell.
20. "Lady Godiva" (Farian, Bischof) - 3:40
    • 1993 recording featuring Liz Mitchell.

Personnel

• Liz Mitchell
  Liz Mitchell
  Liz Mitchell is a singer, best known as the former lead singer of the 1970s disco/pop band, Boney M.-Early life:...
  
   - lead vocals (1 - 5, 7 - 8, 11 - 13, 17 - 20), backing vocals
• Marcia Barrett
  Marcia Barrett
  Marcia Barrett , is one of the original singers with the vocal group, Boney M.-The early years:...
  
   - lead vocals (6), backing vocals (except tracks 17-20)
• Frank Farian
  Frank Farian
  Frank Farian , is a German record producer and songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into the music industry...
  
   - lead vocals (9 - 10), backing vocals
• Reggie Tsiboe
  Reggie Tsiboe
  Reggie Tsiboe was born on 7 September 1950 in Kumasi was one of the lead singers of the disco group Boney M. between 1982-1986 and later between 1989-1990....
  
   - lead vocals (14 - 15)
• Marlon B. - vocals on track 18

Production

• Frank Farian
  Frank Farian
  Frank Farian , is a German record producer and songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into the music industry...
  
   - producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , remixer

Single releases

Germany




12"

• "Ma Baker (Remix '93)" (BMG
  BMG
  Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
  
  74321 15940 1, 1993)

Side A

1. "Ma Baker (Remix '93)" (Bonnie & Clyde mix) - 5:25
2. "The Most Wanted Woman" - 3:30

Side B

1. "Borsalino (Trainee Mix)" - 4:55
2. "Ma Baker (Remix '93)" (Radio Edit) - 3:58

CD

• "Ma Baker (Remix '93)" (BMG 74321 15940 2, 1993)

1. "Ma Baker (Remix '93)" (Radio Edit) - 3:58
2. "Ma Baker (Remix '93)" (Bonnie & Clyde mix) - 5:25
3. "Borsalino (Trainee Mix)" - 4:55
4. "The Most Wanted Woman" - 3:30

• Boney M. feat Liz Mitchell: "Papa Chico" (BMG 74321 20364 2, 1994)

1. "Papa Chico" (Radio Version) - 3:52
2. "Time to Remember" - 3:15
3. "Papa Chico" (Club Mix) - 4:22
4. "Papa Chico" (Rap Version) - 4:43

Sources and external links

• Rate Your Music, detailed discography
• Discogs.com, detailed discography
• [ Allmusic, biography, discography etc.]