Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88

Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88
Remix album by Boney M.
Released	October 1988
Recorded	1976-79, 1988
Genre	R&B, reggae, Euro disco
Length	49:00
Label	Hansa Records (FRG) Ariola Records (UK)
Producer	Frank Farian
Boney M. chronology
The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs (1986) Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88 (1988) Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '89 – Volume II (1989)
Singles from Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88
"Rivers of Babylon (Remix)"/"Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord (Remix)" Released: October 1988

Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88 is a remix album by Boney M. released in 1988. Boney M.'s new manager at the time, Simon Napier-Bell, succeeded in persuading the four original members to briefly reunite and promote this remix album. The man employed to re-arrange the original hits and create new interest in the band was PWL's Pete Hammond who previously had remixed many of the Stock Aitken Waterman stable's chart-topping hits with Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley and Bananarama. Five of the tracks also feature new lead vocals by Liz Mitchell. In early 2021 Pete Hammond recalled the following about the ’88 remix project which explains the new vocals: “The 2inch 24 track multi-track tapes were sent to PWL by Frank Farian of Far Music. Apparently, they had lost some of the original recordings - 4 songs if I remember correctly - and had to record 4 new versions; they were musically incomplete but good enough for me to overdub and remix.” The remix project spun off three fairly successful single releases, "Rivers of Babylon (Remix '88)", "Rasputin (Remix '88)" and the 1988 "Megamix", which would appear on the follow-up album issued a year later, and created the first wave of Boney M. nostalgia in Europe.

While producer Frank Farian have continued to release new recordings under the name Boney M. all through the 80's, 90's and 2000's, such as 1990 non-album single "Stories" (featuring both Liz Mitchell and Reggie Tsiboe), the four new recordings on compilation More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II in 1993 as well as "A Moment Of Love" on 2006's The Magic of Boney M., Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix '88 was in fact the final album project to involve all four of the original Boney M. members; Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, Liz Mitchell and Maizie Williams.

Professional ratings

Review scores
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Track listing[]

1. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 3:43
2. "Daddy Cool" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:33
3. "Rasputin" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 5:27
4. "Ma Baker" (Farian, Jay, Reyam) - 4:42
5. "Take the Heat off Me" (Bigazzi) - 3:53
6. "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (Farian, Jay) - 3:23
7. "Rivers of Babylon" (Farian, Reyam) - 3:44
8. "No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford, Bob Marley) - 3:36
9. "Brown Girl in the Ring" (Farian) - 4:01
10. "Gotta Go Home" (Farian, Jay, Klinkhammer) - 4:40
11. "Painter Man" (Phillips, Pickett) - 3:49
12. "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian, Jay, Lorin) - 4:22

Personnel[]

• Liz Mitchell - lead vocals (tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12), backing vocals
• Marcia Barrett - lead vocals (track 5), backing vocals
• Frank Farian - lead vocals, backing vocals

Production[]

• Frank Farian - producer
• Pete Hammond - remixer
• A PWL Production.
• Recorded at PWL Studios London.

Single releases[]

UK
7"

• "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '88) - 4:22 (Ariola Records 111 947, 1988)
• "Rasputin" (Remix '88 - Radio Edit) - 4:08 / "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 (Ariola Records 112 096, 1989)

12"

• "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 / "Rivers Of Babylon" (Remix '88) - 3:40 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '88) - 4:22 (Ariola Records 611 947 BB, 1988)
• "Rasputin" (Remix '88) - 5:25 / "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 (Ariola Records 612 096 BB, 1989)

Germany
7"

• "Rivers of Babylon" (Acid House Mix - Radio Edit) - 3:43 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" (Remix '88) - 4:22 (Hansa Records 111 825-100, 1988)
• "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 / "Rasputin" (Remix '88 - Radio Edit) - 4:08 (Hansa Records 111 973-100, 1988)

12"

• "Rivers of Babylon" (Acid House Mix) - 7:15 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord (Remix '88) - 4:22 / "Rivers of Babylon" (Acid House Mix - Radio Edit) - 3:43 (Hansa Records 611 825-213, 1988)
• "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 / "Rasputin" (Remix '88) - 5:25 / "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 (Hansa Records 611 973-213, 1988)

CD

• "Rivers of Babylon" (Acid House Mix) - 7:15 / "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord (Remix '88) - 4:22 / "Rivers of Babylon" (Acid House Mix - Radio Edit) - 3:43 (Hansa Records 661 825-211, 1988)
• "Megamix" (Extended Version) - 7:02 / "Rasputin" (Remix '88) - 5:25 / "Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:54 (Hansa Records 661 973-211, 1988)

Sources and external links[]

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

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