Boney M. – Discografia completa – Testi e traduzioni

Introduzione.

La discografia del gruppo disco tedesco Boney M. include 8 album studio, circa 25 singoli (pubblicati durante gli anni di attività del gruppo) e numerose raccolte.

Album in studio.

Take the Heat Off Me (1976)

1. Daddy Cool (testo e traduzione)
2. Take the Heat Off Me (G.Bella, G.Bigazzi) – 4:47
3. Sunny (testo e traduzione)
4. Baby Do You Wanna Bump (Zambi (Frank Farian)) – 6:53
5. No Woman, No Cry (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) – 4:59
6. Fever (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) – 4:00
7. Got a Man on My Mind (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 3:25
8. Lovin’ or Leavin’ (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 4:29

Love for Sale (1977)

1. “Ma Baker” (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) – 4:36
2. “Love for Sale” (Cole Porter) – 4:47
3. “Belfast” (Jimmy Bilsbury, Drafi Deutscher, Joe Menke) – 3:31
– Daddy Cool (U.S. edition only) (testo e traduzione)
4. “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” (John Fogerty) – 2:40
5. “Gloria, Can You Waddle” (Frank Farian, George Reyam) – 3:57
6. “Plantation Boy” (Fred Jay, King) – 4:27
7. “Motherless Child” (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) – 4:58
8. “Silent Lover” (Frank Farian, Keith Forsey, Fred Jay) – 4:14
9. “A Woman Can Change a Man” (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 3:33
10. “Still I’m Sad” (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 4:34

Nightflight to Venus (1978)

1. “Nightflight to Venus” (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, Dietmar Kawohl) – 4:46
2. Rasputin (testo e traduzione)
3. “Painter Man” (Eddie Phillips, Kenny Pickett) – 3:10
4. “He Was a Steppenwolf” (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, Stefan Klinkhammer) – 6:51
5. “King of the Road” (Roger Miller) – 2:35
6. Rivers of Babylon (testo e traduzione)
7. “Voodoonight” (Giorgio Sgarbi) – 3:31
8. Brown Girl in the Ring (testo e traduzione)
9. “Never Change Lovers in the Middle of the Night” (Mats Björklund, Keith Forsey, Fred Jay) – 5:32
10. “Heart of Gold” (Neil Young) – 4:00

Oceans of Fantasy (1979)

1. “Let It All Be Music” (W. S. van Vugt)
2. “Gotta Go Home” (Music by Frank Farian, Heinz Huth, Jürgen Huth – Lyrics by F. Jay)
3. “Bye Bye Bluebird” (Frank Farian, Fred Jay and George Reyam)
4. “Bahama Mama” (Music by Frank Farian, Lyrics by Fred Jay)
5. “Hold On I’m Coming” (Isaac Hayes, David Porter)
6. “Two of Us” (Lennon–McCartney[3])
7. “Ribbons of Blue” (Written by Keith Forsey, L. Andrew)
8. “Oceans of Fantasy” (Dietmar Kawohl, Didi Zill, Fred Jay) – 5:26
9. El Lute (testo e traduzione)
10. “No More Chain Gang” (Rainer Ehrhardt, Frank Farian and Fred Jay)
11. “I’m Born Again” (Written by Traditional, Helmut Rulofs and Fred Jay) – 4:08
12. “No Time to Lose” (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, Stefan Klinkhammer)
13. “Calendar Song (January, February, March …)” (Traditional, Frank Farian)

Boonoonoonoos (1981)

1. “Boonoonoonoos” (Frank Farian, Giorgio Sgarbi, Catherine Courage, Fred Jay) – 4:37
2. “That’s Boonoonoonoos / Train to Skaville” (Frank Farian, Larry Dillon, Rainer Maria Ehrhart) / “I Shall Sing” (Van Morrison) – 5:56
3. “Silly Confusion” (Frank Farian, Dietmar Kawohl, Mats Björklund, Harry Baierl, Catherine Courage) – 7:12
4. “Ride to Agadir” (Mike Batt) – 5:09
5. “Jimmy” (Frank Farian, Johan Daansen, Brad Howell) – 4:07
6. “African Moon” (Frank Farian, Helmut Rulofs, Liz Mitchell, Catherine Courage) – 2:55
7. “We Kill the World (Don’t Kill the World)” (Frank Farian, Giorgio & Gisela[1] Sgarbi) – 6:28
8. “Homeland Africa (Ship Ahoy)” (Kenneth Gamble, Frank Farian, Leon Huff) – 4:20
9. “Malaika” (Farian, Reyam, Traditional) – 3:27
10. “Consuela Biaz” (Farian, Courage, O’Hara) – 4:37
11. “Breakaway” (Kelvin James) – 4:18
12. “Sad Movies” (John D. Loudermilk) – 3:22
13. “Goodbye My Friend” (Farian, Rulofs, Courage) – 5:25

Christmas Album (1981)

1. “Little Drummer Boy” (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) – 4:21
2. “White Christmas” (Irving Berlin) – 4:19
3. “Feliz Navidad” (José Feliciano) – 3:07
4. “Jingle Bells” (James Lord Pierpont, Frank Farian) – 2:53
5. “Winter Fairy-Tale” (Instrumental) (Harald Baierl) – 2:58
6. “Mary’s Boy Child – Oh My Lord” (Jester Hairston, Hela Lorin, Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 5:10
7. Christmas Medley: “Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht)”/ “Snow Falls Over The Ground (Leise Rieselt Der Schnee)” / “Hear Ye the Message” (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr, Eduard Ebel, Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 6:20
8. “Petit Papa Noël” (Martinet, Vincy) – 1:41
9. “Zion’s Daughter (Tochter Zion)” (Traditional, George Frideric Handel, Frank Farian, Fred Jay, Helmut Rulofs) – 3:51
10. “When a Child Is Born” (Fred Jay, Zacar) – 3:20
11. “Darkness Is Falling” (Fred Jay, Helmut Rulofs) – 3:02
12. I’ll Be Home for Christmas (testo e traduzione)

Ten Thousand Lightyears (1984)

1. “Exodus (Noah’s Ark 2001)” (Davis, Farian, Kawohl) – 5:19
2. “Wild Planet” (Bischof, Farian; written as “Wild Jlanet” on the version issued by Music Box Records in Greece) – 4:06
3. “Future World” (Bischof, Farian) – 3:48
4. “Where Did You Go?” (Bischof, Kawohl) – 4:09
5. “10.000 Lightyears” (Bischof, Bjorklund, Farian, Kawohl) – 4:32
6. “I Feel Good” (Bischof, Farian, Barzscht) – 3:05
7. “Somewhere in the World” (Davis, Grohe, Keilhauer) – 4:38
8. “Bel Ami” (Bischof, Farian, Rainford) 3:12
9. “Living Like a Moviestar” (Bischof, Farian, Kawohl) – 3:04
10. “Dizzy” (Tommy Roe, Weller) – 3:28
11. “The Alibama” (Davis, Farian, Reyam) – 3:11
12. “Jimmy” (Farian, Howell, Daansen, L. Mitchell) – 3:02
13. “Barbarella Fortuneteller” (Davis, Farian, Kawohl) – 2:58

Eye Dance (1985)

1. “Young, Free and Single” (Mary Susan Applegate, Frank Farian, Robert Rayen) – 4:10
2. “Todos Buenos” (Mary Susan Applegate, Frank Farian) – 4:34
3. “Give It Up” (Bernd Dietrich, Gerd Grabowski, Engelbert Simons) – 3:58
4. “Sample City” (Rainer Maria Ehrhardt, Frank Farian) – 3:43
5. “My Cherie Amour” (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) – 4:04
6. “Eye Dance” (Mary Susan Applegate, Frank Farian, Pit Löw) – 4:04
7. “Got Cha Loco” (Mary Susan Applegate, Harald Baierl, Frank Farian, Robert Rayen) – 3:34
8. “Dreadlock Holiday” (Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart) – 4:52
9. “Chica da Silva” (Catherine Courage, Frank Farian, Hans-Jörg Mayer “Reyam”) – 5:33
10. “Bang Bang Lulu” (Trad., Frank Farian, Peter Bischof-Fallenstein) – 3:01

Singoli.

1975. “Baby Do You Wanna Bump”
1976. “Daddy Cool”
1976. “Sunny”
1977. “Ma Baker”
1977. “Still I’m Sad”
1977. “Belfast”
1978. “Rivers of Babylon” / “Brown Girl in the Ring”
1978. “Rasputin”
1978. “Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord”
1979. “Dancing in the Streets”
1979. “Painter Man” (UK/Ireland and Netherlands only)
1979. “Voodoonight”
1979. “Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday”
1979. “Gotta Go Home” / El Lute
1979. “I’m Born Again” / “Bahama Mama”
1980. “I See a Boat on the River” / “My Friend Jack”
1980. “Children of Paradise” / “Gadda-Da-Vida”
1980. “Felicidad (Margherita)”
1981. “Malaika” / “Consuela Biaz”
1981. “We Kill the World (Don’t Kill the World)”
1981. “Little Drummer Boy”
1982. “6 Years of Boney M. Hits”
1982. “The Carnival Is Over” / “Going Back West”
1982. “Zion’s Daughter”
1983. “Jambo – Hakuna Matata (No Problems)”
1984. “Somewhere in the World”
1984. “Kalimba de Luna”
1984. “Happy Song” (with Bobby Farrell)
1985. “My Chérie Amour”
1985. “Young, Free and Single”
1986. “Daddy Cool ’86”
1986. “Bang Bang Lulu”
1988. “Rivers of Babylon (Remix ’88)”
1988. “Megamix”
1989. “The Summer Mega Mix”
1989. “Malaika (Lambada Remix)”
1989. “Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker”
1990. “Stories”
1992. “Megamix”
1993. “Brown Girl in the Ring (Remix)”
1993. “Ma Baker (Remix ’93)”
1994. “Papa Chico” (feat. Liz Mitchell)
1999. “Ma Baker (Somebody Scream)” (vs. Horny United/Sash!)
1999. “Daddy Cool ’99” (feat. Mobi T.)
1999. “Hooray! Hooray! (Caribbean Night Fever) 2000”
2000. “Sunny (Remix) 2000”
2001. “Daddy Cool 2001”
2006. “Sunny (Mousse T. Remix)”
2007. “Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord” (feat. Daddy Cool Kids)
2009. “Felicidad America (Obama-Obama)” (feat. Sherita O. & Yulee B.)
2021. “Rasputin” (Majestic x Boney M)

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