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The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a deal with Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, for “Put Your Records On.” Named for her signature hit and illustrated by Gillian Eilidh ...
The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain ...
Boney M’s four original members were Liz Mitchell (born July 12, 1952) and Marcia Barrett (born October 14, 1948) from Jamaica, Maizie Williams (born March 25, 1961) from Montserrat and Bobby ...
Several famous singers and bands have performed and recorded “Mary’s Boy Child”. Harry Belafonte was first, later Boney M, Nat King Cole, John Denver and many others. “Mary’s Boy Child” is written in ...
In 1978 Boney M's ‘Rivers of Babylon’, ‘Rasputin,’ and their Christmas earworm ‘Mary’s Boy Child – Oh My Lord’ all became No. 1 hits in many European markets. Boney M’s Vietnam “invasion,” however, ...
Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord – Boney M. Why settle for one Boney M ... perhaps the twenty first century’s embodiment of Christmas itself. His whole festive album (aptly named Christmas) belongs on ...
By 1978 Boney M were outselling ABBA, and went to on to sell over 100 million records. Rivers of Babylon, Brown Girl in the Ring and Mary's Boy Child still feature in the all-time UK best-selling ...
For many Boney M’s Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord has been a favourite ... Belafonte released it again the following year in 1957 on his album An Evening with Belafonte, using a different ...
Part of Phil Spector's legendary 1963 Christmas album, Darlene Love turns this ... no matter how grown up we pretend to be. Boney M - 'Mary's Boy Child/O My Lord' Boney M. - Mary's Boy Child ...
Mary's Boy Child, for Harry Belafonte (in 1957) and Boney M, mashed up with Oh My Lord (in 1978). None of them managed it in consecutive years, though. Last Christmas was originally released in ...