Wow, I actually saw these guys live when I was a kid in Germany, with my parents! They were huge in Germany. This vid is so funny! My mom just asked me to find them on RUclips not long ago. The cheesiness is awesome!
Not only in Germany. They used to be huge even in Czechoslovakia, but our communist pigs did not give a permition for them to perform in CZCH even tho they were allowed to perform in Moscow
Boney M were huge in the late 70’s. I remember watching them as a kid and they were awesome. By The Rivers of Babylon was probably their biggest hit but there were a lot of great tracks. By the way, Love the T-Shirt!!
Yo! Your joke about the dance off with David Byrne had me laughing in my car. I keep saying I should play this for my kids then you remember the moaning part. Lol You gotta do Rasputin now. Peace!
ooh I was so excited when I saw you were reacting to Boney M.. a thoroughly European and unique group! I love them! The producer is the actual singer of the male parts and the man in the videos(Bobby Farrell) is a dancer and performer but not really a singer... Regardless, it's so deliciously 70s.. love it! They were not big in America. But those of us in the know knew them! YOu might also like Kid Creole and The Coconuts, Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band..
Loved this cheese back in the day...guilty pleasure for sure..Rasputin and Brown Girl In The Ring are also worth a watch.My (very) small claim to fame is that I was in the same English class as Duane,one of the girl’s sons..and he used to die of embarrassment whenever we sang one of their songs to him...good times😂
This brings me back to my childhood when my parents would play these disco albums with stuff like Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon , Village People-- IN THE NAVY at night when they had guests over. Worth the reaction if dont know them.
70's tastic or what! Love the chopping dance routines, it must have taken them at least 10 seconds to write these deep lyrics. If you want to watch other groups similar RRT check out Darts and Rocky Sharp and The Replays, you'll have a ball watching them.
You can think of Boney M as sort of the 70's Milli Vanilli. In fact, I think they might have been put together by the same person. The guy in this video is a model, not a singer. The male voice in this song is actually a white guy, Frank Farian
boney m was probably much bigger abroad than in the US. When I was a teeny tiny kid, they were huge in Japan, Iran, and Kuwait. Ma Baker another big song.
Hi RRT, first of all I'm good and peace! Hope you are too! Second, I've never heard of them. Thanks for putting something on here that we can react to. I loved them and this song. Definitely nostalgic! Brings me back to the era of time when people were dancing with the sparkling disco ball going round and round. I wonder if I was the only one dancing while listening to this. lol If you weren't getting with the groove to this, you must be dead, like some were in that audience. Haha! Anyway, this came out in 1976, and it's still cool af in 2018! Enjoyed playing roll reversal...we get to react. It was fun, and the song was dope! Stay well, and much peace!
Ahh yes, Boney M. Check out the A and B side tracks Nightflight to Venus/Rasputin. Those songs need to be heard together to really be appreciated. It's a trip for sure!
if you want the good(hahah) Boney M : Ma Baker also their tune Rasputin was in The WII game lets dance. Their music had heavy play in the Roller Rinks of the 70's
1. I love you for posting this. 2. I can't believe you had never heard these guys before. 3. That performance was one of the greatest displays of Blacktitude the 70's ever saw. 4. Yes. This guy and David Byrne. Just saw him. Same energy. Wow. Good call; let's call them up and promote a small tour. 5. Land of the lost? Shit man. So your...…….what, 48? 6. Cocaine? Probable.
LOL .... Cocaine Fueled Disco Era Afro Pimp Shit! XD Fuck. This shit is stuck in my head now. LOL The shit does have a certain feeling of the times, that hits you in your bones. I could see bumpin' that shit at night, cruisin' the strip in Vegas or some shit. Try this band: Down. Song name: Stone the Crow. Peace ....
Lmao! The Vid is hilarious, but the song for the time is fucking awesome! Love disco.. Haha... My Mom and Pops were awesome back in the day.. I remember about 1978-79 Daddy always let us roller skate in the big kitchen to disco... 😂✌
This band and all the male singing was done by German record producer Frank Farian of Milli Vanilli fame, some of the female singing was done by the women here but some songs were sung by session musicians.
Huge in Northern Europe, Italy, Eastern Europe, the UK and British Commonwealth. Rivers of Babylon was their biggest hit - #1 for 14 weeks in NZ and 12 weeks in the UK. They had 5 huge albums from 1976 to 1981.
Hahaha omg brings back some cool memories of mum and dad grooving down to boney m.that guy looks very familiar like someone, can't put my finger on it milli vanilli or someone.oh shit hes on acid🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Boney M is the most popular disco band dude.Try also from them the following: Ma Baker Rivers Of Babylon Rasputin Nightflight To Venus No More Chain Gang, Children Of Paradis Painter Man We Kill The World/Don't Kill The World Happy Song
DADDY IS KOOL AND HOT 🔥 AND SEXY AND WE KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN BACK IN THE SEVENTIES WE KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN AND THIS IS A GREAT MUSIC REMEMBER THAT DADDY IS KOOL AND HOT 🔥 😎 🎶 ❤ 😀 😍 🔥 😎 🎶 ❤ 😀 😍 THIS IS THE SEVENTIES YOU CAN STILL TAKE THIS SONG TO ANY DISCO CLUB'S AND PEOPLE WILL GET UP AND DANCE 💃 ❤ 🎶 ♥ 😀 😊 💃 ❤ 🎶 ♥ 😀
Not sure if this is true but i read somewhere that the audience were from then, the former Eastern block. Czechoslovakia I think it was. They had no idea what was was going on. Not only was the song in English but it was being sung by an all black group.
Bony M. sold 150Mio+ records and belong to the best-selling groups in music history. In the late 70s they shared the same fate with ABBA. Everybody bought there records but no one admitted it as they were seen as uncool. BtW there best songs: No more chain gang, Baby do you want a bump, He was a steppenwolf ..
Here in Spain was an authentic phenomenon. They went to all tv shows, all weeks was in a channel. Their albums solds millions. You must understand that after the dictatorship Spain began to recive all kind of artis, here only sang spanish singers and the importation was very strange. Was the first time a music band of black people and dancing of this way, was exotique and new, they caused a furor, in EEUU in music passed for all the styles, here only traditional spanish music and in the tear 75, all at once.
Can't knock them they sold 80 million albums 80 million let that sink in. Pantera it makes them disappear this is to make up for The Biohazard LOL. Much love
Randy Ward bass line is dope and this guys crazy moves should be the unifying dance of the world 😂 I believe the entire world should all be forced to dance like this all at once 😝
Yeah I cracked when you said dance off with him and talking heads lead. This guy also reminds me of steve martin on SNL do his 'king tut' live performance: ruclips.net/video/FYbavuReVF4/видео.html
The music is great.sadly,Bobby farrel passed away years ago.they were big around the world except usa.u would hear them in every disco around the world from 70s to early 80s.
This particular performance had absolutely nothing to do with east Germany and neither did Boney M. All of their recordings were made in west Germany. Yes, I'm fully aware that they were huge in the eastern block, but they were a western pop.dance group, with no connection to eastern europe whatsoever. This show was taped in a western German town called Bremen.The name of it was Musikladen, one of the most famous music tv shows of the 70's.
Massive in Europe in the late 70’s - did fuck all in the US though, probably to cheesy for their tastes. Some of their tunes were dope though (this one, Ma Baker, Rasputin) but you can’t take this shit seriously they were just a bit of fun
Boney M were YUUUGE in the late 70s, part of the disco revolution, Rasputin being their biggest and best known hit me thinks. Unfortunately there was some fakery with the band, Frank Farian (producer / song writer) sung on the record and the dude was just a dancer. Farian went onto to do more infamous fakery with Milli Vanilli 10 years later.
Nice reaction bro. Lol, I'm 35 and American homie, my mama introduced me to the groups music about 15 years ago. They were mostly popular in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. Not really the USA. Crazy right?
Its not as if their American record company didn't promote them,they really did, but their sound didn't fit what at that time period was US radio format.Your music had to be either black or white in order to receive any airplay and Boney Ms music was a mish-up of all styles and genres and sounded a bit schizophrenic to American radio dj's.When they were doing American TV shows at a short promotion tour in 1979, they were being presented as a disco reggae band. When the US radio format rules changed somewhere around 1983 it was already too late for Boney M to catch up for lost time.
@@rolfsvensson321 I disagree with the music sounding schizophrenic to American DJ's at the time. Lol. I believe It had more to do with Targeted International Promotion. Economics had alot to do with it aswell. Regardless, the music is still great. ✌🏼😎
@@PaidwithAlquino Maybe using the term schizophrenic was way out of line, my wrong. But what I initially meant was that according to the people responsible for Boney M:s promotional tour in the US (April 79),the response they received from radio people that had meeting with was merely lukewarm. They did acknowledge the fact that Boney M's music was very catchy but at the same time pointed out that it also was somehow being regarded as unorthodox for their radio programming and frankly didn't know what to do with it. I know it might sound strange in retrospective but it wasn't until early 90's that European dance pop finally caught up with the US audience. When it comes to what you're referring as Targeted International Promotion, it might generally be viewed as a valid point but I'm afraid not in this case. Their American record label at that time was Sire which basically was a part of WEA(Warner,Elektra,Atlantic), probably at that time the worlds biggest record company. A year earlier they managed to place a Boney M record into US Top 30. They were heavily influenced by the fact that their UK branch office managed to turn Boney M into the biggest selling act of 1978 in the UK with the highest year sales of the decade. They were also aware of the fact that Boney M were the first Western pop group that was allowed into USSR. An achievement that even received headlines in the US. By then Sire received a huge amount of financial support from WEA in order to promote Boney M in US ,so the economic aspect was never an issue.
Boney M were like the Black ABBA. They we're huge all over Europe, Australia & The UK. They we're the biggest selling act of 1978 in The UK. They had a string of classic hit's. Boney M we're the epitome of "Europop" which was never popular in America. Their highest charting song in America was "Rivers Of Babylon" which made No 33. Like ABBA (who did have more success there) they we're popular everywhere except America, which probably explains why you've never heard of them.
They were massive in Europe and Asia, sold 80 million records mostly over 6 years 1976-82. They were at the beginning of the Disco revolution, not bad for a band formed in Germany. Frank Farian was the genius producer and song writer that 'created' the band although he was a bit of a charlatan too, it's his voice you hear on the record (and all the Boney M records) and not the dancing dude who was just a dancer. Later Farian would infamously bring together Milli Vanilli, who didn't sing either!
No, they weren't big in Europe, they were fucking huge. And not only Europe, but everywhere except the USA. A very few american acts can match their sales figures. In fact they're the most successful black group of all time.
Their song "Rasputin" got a lot of air play. It's catchy ... pretty dope.
...in Europe
sunny is my favorite
@@mannymakarov2203 Sunny is the best.
Wow, I actually saw these guys live when I was a kid in Germany, with my parents! They were huge in Germany. This vid is so funny! My mom just asked me to find them on RUclips not long ago. The cheesiness is awesome!
They are actuall a German group but their songs are in english.
Not only in Germany. They used to be huge even in Czechoslovakia, but our communist pigs did not give a permition for them to perform in CZCH even tho they were allowed to perform in Moscow
This is a German group actually. Put together by mastermind Frank Farian. He also sang the male vocals. The dancer just mimes
Boney M were huge in the late 70’s. I remember watching them as a kid and they were awesome. By The Rivers of Babylon was probably their biggest hit but there were a lot of great tracks. By the way, Love the T-Shirt!!
Yo! Your joke about the dance off with David Byrne had me laughing in my car.
I keep saying I should play this for my kids then you remember the moaning part. Lol
You gotta do Rasputin now. Peace!
Lol...your reaction was gold!
I don't give a fuck how ridiculous this shit look comment had me in stitches.
😆😂😊✌️
Me too I literally spat my drink out 1 because its was a funny reaction, but secondly I can relate to him in some ways lmao 😅
I grew up listening to Boney M and have always LOVED ❤️❤️❤️ them. STILL DO 😉👍👍👍❤️🦋🦋🦋
Bobby Farrell....FANTÁSTICO...GRANDE ARTISTA...RECONHECIDAMENTE ....IMORTAL. BONEY M.☆☆☆☆☆
they were big in the UK in the 70s - Rasputin is all you need to know about the Russian Revolution :0D
Bro you have no idea! This is my jam. So stoked on this one. Thanks man.
ooh I was so excited when I saw you were reacting to Boney M.. a thoroughly European and unique group! I love them! The producer is the actual singer of the male parts and the man in the videos(Bobby Farrell) is a dancer and performer but not really a singer... Regardless, it's so deliciously 70s.. love it! They were not big in America. But those of us in the know knew them!
YOu might also like Kid Creole and The Coconuts, Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band..
Loved this cheese back in the day...guilty pleasure for sure..Rasputin and Brown Girl In The Ring are also worth a watch.My (very) small claim to fame is that I was in the same English class as Duane,one of the girl’s sons..and he used to die of embarrassment whenever we sang one of their songs to him...good times😂
I remember seeing this on TV as a kid when I was in Germany. This was like the #1 song that summer.
Ok I love this , my boy so ahead of his time. They were so popular come on man you were still in BagDad when this bro kicking up some best moves.
😂
They're fucking serious too! Thanks for the share mang! I actually enjoyed this.
I love this song and my boy kicking up some best legs like nobody bizz.
I luv Boney M. My parents music.
& their Christmas songs are timeless. ✌📻
This brings me back to my childhood when my parents would play these disco albums with stuff like Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon , Village People-- IN THE NAVY at night when they had guests over. Worth the reaction if dont know them.
I still think it's one of the most bad-ass bass lines out there
I fucking love this band
70's tastic or what! Love the chopping dance routines, it must have taken them at least 10 seconds to write these deep lyrics. If you want to watch other groups similar RRT check out Darts and Rocky Sharp and The Replays, you'll have a ball watching them.
I was remembering Darts as well.
they are pure legends in dance genre
You can think of Boney M as sort of the 70's Milli Vanilli. In fact, I think they might have been put together by the same person. The guy in this video is a model, not a singer. The male voice in this song is actually a white guy, Frank Farian
um false.....
Actually it's true..look it up
This is true, the guy in the video was a dancer and never sung on a record but would sign in live shows badly.. Same guy did indeed do Milli vanilli.
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Comedy video from the nineties explaining the whole thing..
both groups were put together by Frank Farian a German song writer and producer
boney m was probably much bigger abroad than in the US. When I was a teeny tiny kid, they were huge in Japan, Iran, and Kuwait. Ma Baker another big song.
They're touring the Uk in Nov!... just as cool as i remember them from the 70's
Hi RRT, first of all I'm good and peace! Hope you are too! Second, I've never heard of them. Thanks for putting something on here that we can react to. I loved them and this song. Definitely nostalgic! Brings me back to the era of time when people were dancing with the sparkling disco ball going round and round. I wonder if I was the only one dancing while listening to this. lol If you weren't getting with the groove to this, you must be dead, like some were in that audience. Haha! Anyway, this came out in 1976, and it's still cool af in 2018! Enjoyed playing roll reversal...we get to react. It was fun, and the song was dope! Stay well, and much peace!
starburstppl 😆 glad u liked it. I loved it 😃 peace ✌️
Yeah real 70s disco music! I like Boney M 😎
Ahh yes, Boney M. Check out the A and B side tracks Nightflight to Venus/Rasputin. Those songs need to be heard together to really be appreciated. It's a trip for sure!
if you want the good(hahah) Boney M : Ma Baker also their tune Rasputin was in The WII game lets dance. Their music had heavy play in the Roller Rinks of the 70's
Wow 🥰 loved it liked already subscribed 😁
😲😲😲wtf!!!now I've seen everyrthing. Lmao!! didnt see this one coming. Peace braugh✌✌✌
yeah we grew up with them but its almost like they have come back into fashion.... they did some good toe tapping disco and pop songs
A guilty pleasure of mine. It reminds me of my school days
This song is 🔥, and so is his dance 🕺moves.
He dances like he has no fucks left to give.😂🤣😂
1. I love you for posting this. 2. I can't believe you had never heard these guys before. 3. That performance was one of the greatest displays of Blacktitude the 70's ever saw. 4. Yes. This guy and David Byrne. Just saw him. Same energy. Wow. Good call; let's call them up and promote a small tour. 5. Land of the lost? Shit man. So your...…….what, 48? 6. Cocaine? Probable.
TheOriginalFILIBUSTA no not 48 😔 😆 I love this song.
Reliving Dance Fever days!!! Love it.
LOL .... Cocaine Fueled Disco Era Afro Pimp Shit! XD
Fuck. This shit is stuck in my head now. LOL
The shit does have a certain feeling of the times, that hits you in your bones. I could see bumpin' that shit at night, cruisin' the strip in Vegas or some shit. Try this band: Down. Song name: Stone the Crow.
Peace ....
you didn't know Boney M??? they are legendary. "Sunny" one of my favorite songs
1. daddy cool 2. Ma Baker 3.Rasputin 4.Sunny 5. Gotta Go Home 6. Calimba de Luna is my success list for Boney M
I love all those songs. 😊 I was just playing most of those for my family 👋✌️
Lmao! The Vid is hilarious, but the song for the time is fucking awesome! Love disco.. Haha... My Mom and Pops were awesome back in the day.. I remember about 1978-79 Daddy always let us roller skate in the big kitchen to disco... 😂✌
This band and all the male singing was done by German record producer Frank Farian of Milli Vanilli fame, some of the female singing was done by the women here but some songs were sung by session musicians.
Huge in Northern Europe, Italy, Eastern Europe, the UK and British Commonwealth. Rivers of Babylon was their biggest hit - #1 for 14 weeks in NZ and 12 weeks in the UK. They had 5 huge albums from 1976 to 1981.
Huge in every single European country, and everywhere, except the US. Still as of today, the most successful black group of all time.
Hahaha omg brings back some cool memories of mum and dad grooving down to boney m.that guy looks very familiar like someone, can't put my finger on it milli vanilli or someone.oh shit hes on acid🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Boney M is the most popular disco band dude.Try also from them the following:
Ma Baker
Rivers Of Babylon
Rasputin
Nightflight To Venus
No More Chain Gang,
Children Of Paradis
Painter Man
We Kill The World/Don't Kill The World
Happy Song
In Europe biggest disco/dance names of the 70's thru 90s were:
Bee Gees
Boney M
Abba
CC Catch
Modern Talking
Snap
DJ Bobo
...and others
Definitely should check out Abba.
Obvious starting points are Dancing Queen and their Eurovision winning performance of Waterloo.
Yes, the 70's was a strange time. That guys's dance moves are what sell it for sure. ;)
Love boney m !
Daddy be cool🤘
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Bro a lot of folks fell Same way too...this song n act can bring back life
They were HUGE in Europe in the late 70's and early 80's ...most of their songs are good...
DADDY IS KOOL AND HOT 🔥 AND SEXY AND WE KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN BACK IN THE SEVENTIES WE KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN AND THIS IS A GREAT MUSIC REMEMBER THAT DADDY IS KOOL AND HOT 🔥 😎 🎶 ❤ 😀 😍 🔥 😎 🎶 ❤ 😀 😍 THIS IS THE SEVENTIES YOU CAN STILL TAKE THIS SONG TO ANY DISCO CLUB'S AND PEOPLE WILL GET UP AND DANCE 💃 ❤ 🎶 ♥ 😀 😊 💃 ❤ 🎶 ♥ 😀
They have many songs that are great 😊
michael jackson stole some of this dudes moves , pls look at boney m Ma Baker video
You could definitely sample lots of parts of this song, and make a killer hip hop track
hoorany hooray Its a holi holiday
i mean hooray not Hoonrany
Not sure if this is true but i read somewhere that the audience were from then, the former Eastern block. Czechoslovakia I think it was. They had no idea what was was going on. Not only was the song in English but it was being sung by an all black group.
Kings of the Dance💯💯💯💯
He got my reaction lol
Bony M. sold 150Mio+ records and belong to the best-selling groups in music history. In the late 70s they shared the same fate with ABBA. Everybody bought there records but no one admitted it as they were seen as uncool. BtW there best songs: No more chain gang, Baby do you want a bump, He was a steppenwolf ..
The same thing accured at my homeyard. Everyone knew perfectly who they were but no one was willing to admit that they were awesome.
I think you were right about the cocaine. Thats how it was in the 70's though. Good fun video, enjoyed it.
Here in Spain was an
authentic phenomenon. They went to all tv shows, all weeks was in a channel. Their albums solds millions. You must understand that after the dictatorship Spain began to recive all kind of artis, here only sang spanish singers and the importation was very strange. Was the first time a music band of black people and dancing of this way, was exotique and new, they caused a furor, in EEUU in music passed for all the styles, here only traditional spanish music and in the tear 75, all at once.
They were soo big in Europe. Nobody was offended and everybody's chilling at the time...
Can't knock them they sold 80 million albums 80 million let that sink in. Pantera it makes them disappear this is to make up for The Biohazard LOL. Much love
2 things:
1) Never make fun of a white guy dancing ever again!
2) I dig the base line.
Randy Ward bass line is dope and this guys crazy moves should be the unifying dance of the world 😂 I believe the entire world should all be forced to dance like this all at once 😝
Yeah I cracked when you said dance off with him and talking heads lead. This guy also reminds me of steve martin on SNL do his 'king tut' live performance: ruclips.net/video/FYbavuReVF4/видео.html
The music is great.sadly,Bobby farrel passed away years ago.they were big around the world except usa.u would hear them in every disco around the world from 70s to early 80s.
The Doors - The Unknown Soldier Live at Hollywood Bowl 68
WTF did I just watch? Dude looks like a character from the Chappelle Show. Lmfao
how old are you? Lmao
I grew up with their music in Romania ,that was east Germany i supposed where they had the performance ,at that time we were under comunusm
This particular performance had absolutely nothing to do with east Germany and neither did Boney M. All of their recordings were made in west Germany.
Yes, I'm fully aware that they were huge in the eastern block, but they were a western pop.dance group, with no connection to eastern europe whatsoever. This show was taped in a western German town called Bremen.The name of it was Musikladen, one of the most famous music tv shows of the 70's.
fucking love Boney M
Thanks
Massive in Europe in the late 70’s - did fuck all in the US though, probably to cheesy for their tastes. Some of their tunes were dope though (this one, Ma Baker, Rasputin) but you can’t take this shit seriously they were just a bit of fun
That song was used in countless movies, tv shows, youtube videos, I'm surprised you've never heard it
Every grain of cocaine in his brain 😂😂💀
That man went skiing ⛷️ 😂
looks like Jim Kelly's Karate movies went downhill
-that was actually kind of fun. Maybe some Kraftwerk reaction one day?
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Autobahn, Trans...Europe...Express.
Massive influence on Hip hop n rap.
German group, 70's and everyone danced to them.
I feel like childish Gambino got his “this is america” look from Boney M
Boney M were YUUUGE in the late 70s, part of the disco revolution, Rasputin being their biggest and best known hit me thinks. Unfortunately there was some fakery with the band, Frank Farian (producer / song writer) sung on the record and the dude was just a dancer. Farian went onto to do more infamous fakery with Milli Vanilli 10 years later.
😂 great reaction
1:35 You when you're home alone. 😊
Krrrimmi 😂 fact!!!!
Also Lady Gaga uses parts of Ma Baker in Poker Face, and she stole parts of Rasputin for Bad Romance
Recycled, revamped, reimagined?
It's a studio audience, a false crowd brought in only for the benefit of the TV cameras, they are given instructions on how to behave.
Ha Ha Love That Intro 'WTF Was That"
Me being bored 😐 😂
They were class...and there music is timeless floor fillers...
Nice reaction bro. Lol, I'm 35 and American homie, my mama introduced me to the groups music about 15 years ago. They were mostly popular in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. Not really the USA. Crazy right?
Insane 😂
Its not as if their American record company didn't promote them,they really did, but their sound didn't fit what at that time period was US radio format.Your music had to be either black or white in order to receive any airplay and Boney Ms music was a mish-up of all styles and genres and sounded a bit schizophrenic to American radio dj's.When they were doing American TV shows at a short promotion tour in 1979, they were being presented as a disco reggae band. When the US radio format rules changed somewhere around 1983 it was already too late for Boney M to catch up for lost time.
@@rolfsvensson321 I disagree with the music sounding schizophrenic to American DJ's at the time. Lol. I believe It had more to do with Targeted International Promotion. Economics had alot to do with it aswell. Regardless, the music is still great. ✌🏼😎
@@PaidwithAlquino Maybe using the term schizophrenic was way out of line, my wrong. But what I initially meant was that according to the people responsible for Boney M:s promotional tour in the US (April 79),the response they received from radio people that had meeting with was merely lukewarm. They did acknowledge the fact that Boney M's music was very catchy but at the same time pointed out that it also was somehow being regarded as unorthodox for their radio programming and frankly didn't know what to do with it. I know it might sound strange in retrospective but it wasn't until early 90's that European dance pop finally caught up with the US audience. When it comes to what you're referring as Targeted International Promotion, it might generally be viewed as a valid point but I'm afraid not in this case. Their American record label at that time was Sire which basically was a part of WEA(Warner,Elektra,Atlantic), probably at that time the worlds biggest record company. A year earlier they managed to place a Boney M record into US Top 30. They were heavily influenced by the fact that their UK branch office managed to turn Boney M into the biggest selling act of 1978 in the UK with the highest year sales of the decade. They were also aware of the fact that Boney M were the first Western pop group that was allowed into USSR. An achievement that even received headlines in the US. By then Sire received a huge amount of financial support from WEA in order to promote Boney M in US ,so the economic aspect was never an issue.
What u talking about bro...u can not go wrong with bonny m....common. pretty funk as what...great classic
You know Vanilla ice-ice ice baby ?
Keep bring it back bro
Boney M were like the Black ABBA. They we're huge all over Europe, Australia & The UK. They we're the biggest selling act of 1978 in The UK. They had a string of classic hit's. Boney M we're the epitome of "Europop" which was never popular in America. Their highest charting song in America was "Rivers Of Babylon" which made No 33. Like ABBA (who did have more success there) they we're popular everywhere except America, which probably explains why you've never heard of them.
Rasputin kicks ass & has an amazing intro.
Never saw this at all, looks like 70's Disco?
Disco on acid? lol
They were massive in Europe and Asia, sold 80 million records mostly over 6 years 1976-82. They were at the beginning of the Disco revolution, not bad for a band formed in Germany. Frank Farian was the genius producer and song writer that 'created' the band although he was a bit of a charlatan too, it's his voice you hear on the record (and all the Boney M records) and not the dancing dude who was just a dancer. Later Farian would infamously bring together Milli Vanilli, who didn't sing either!
Now this is music! Now do the live performance of nut bush city limits with Ike and Tina turner
Chris I’ll check it out thanks
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Gotta admit it’s pretty catchy, surprised the axe chop never caught on! Pure 70’s porn soundtrack
LOL THE AX CHOP IS BANANAS! definitely porn vibe
Im too sexy for this song Thank you for this For some reason i think of Right Said Fred when he lip sings
Robert Niederlander yea he does have that vibe lol
1:33 This is you when you're home alone. 🏠😊
^^ i was a kid when this was new. Boney M was nice....as a kid....but today? No, i dont need them :-O
Only one person on stage sings in real. Question to you: Which one?
Susanne Witt i want to say the lady that was moaning? I know I’m answering late 😐
I love rock but I dig the shit outta boney m also check out some abba songs if you have the chance
dude seriously whaT the fuCK? thAts the perfecT 4 in the morNing on LSD finD
lol this is how we should up everyday.... idk lol
iM still singing it FUCK
1975, when women were fools and daddies were cool. Boy have things changed 🤣😂
The genius was the producer and writer of all the songs. The lead singer never sang a song in his life - just a prop. Band was super cheesy cool.
they where BIG in Europa , dont think they where soo big in usa , I know I was on the stage and dance and sing with them
No, they weren't big in Europe, they were fucking huge. And not only Europe, but everywhere except the USA. A very few american acts can match their sales figures. In fact they're the most successful black group of all time.