Boney M. songs (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 24. Chapters: The Little Drummer Boy, Sunny, Rivers of Babylon, Daddy Cool, Ma Baker, Rasputin, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Mary's Boy Child ¿ Oh My Lord, Two of Us, Malaika, Jambo Bwana, We Kill the World / Boonoonoonoos, My Cherie Amour, Megamix, Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday, Sad Movies, I See a Boat on the River / My Friend Jack, Children of Paradise, 6 Years of Boney M. Hits, Consuela Biaz, Kalimba de Luna, Bang Bang Lulu, Belfast, Mega Mix, Happy Song, I'm Born Again / Bahama Mama, Young, Free and Single, Painter Man, Zion's Daughter, Somewhere in the World. Excerpt: "The Little Drummer Boy," originally known as "Carol of the Drum," is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer/teacher Katherine K. Davis in 1941. It was recorded 1955 by the Trapp Family Singers and further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry Simeone Chorale. This version was re-released successfully for several years and the song has been recorded many times since. In the lyrics the singer relates how, as a poor young boy, he was summoned by the Magi to the nativity where, without a gift for the infant Jesus, he played his drum with the Virgin Mary's approval, remembering "I played my best for him" and "He smiled at me". The song was originally titled "Carol of the Drum" and was published by Davis as based upon a traditional Czech carol. Davis' interest was in producing material for amateur and girls' choirs: her manuscript is set as a chorale, the tune in the soprano with alto harmony, tenor and bass parts producing the "drum rhythm" and a keyboard accompaniment "for rehearsal only". It is headed "Czech Carol freely transcribed by K.K.D", these initials then deleted and replaced with "C.R.W. Robinson", a name under which Davis sometimes published. Although Davis did search far and wide for suitable material, the Czech original has never been identified, though the style is comparable with the Czech "Rocking Carol", a lullaby collected in the early 20th century by a Miss Jacubickova as "Hajej, nynjej" and given English words by Percy Dearmer for The Oxford Book of Carols in 1928. It appealed to the Austrian von Trapp singers, who first brought the song to wider prominence when they recorded the "Carol of the Drum" in 1955, shortly before they retired: their version was credited solely to Davis and published by Belwin-Mills. In 1957 it was recorded, with a slightly altered arrangement, by The Jack Halloran Singers for a record to be released on Dot Records but was not in time for Christmas and was not released. Dot's Henry