BROWN
GIRL IN THE RING
BONEY
M.
SONGWRITERS: DP & FRANZ REUTHER
COUNTRY: EURO-CARIBBEAN
ALBUM: NIGHTFLIGHT TO VENUS
LABEL: HANSA RECORDS
GENRE: POP MUSIC
YEAR: 1978
Boney M. was a Euro-Caribbean vocal group
created by German record producer Frank Farian,
who was the group's primary songwriter. Originally based in West Germany, the
four original members of the group's official line-up were Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett from Jamaica, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell, a
performing artist from Aruba. The group was formed in
1976 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s. Since the 1980s, various line-ups of the band have
performed with different personnel.
The
band has sold around 80 million records worldwide and is known for
international hits including "Daddy Cool", "Ma Baker",
"Belfast", "Sunny", "Rasputin",
"Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord" and
"Rivers of Babylon".
Nightflight to Venus is the third studio
album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M., and was
released in July 1978. The
album became a major success in continental Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada,
topping most of the album charts during the second half of 1978 and also became
their first UK number one album. In Canada, it received a nomination
for a 1980 Juno Award in a
category 'International Album of the Year'.
Nightflight to Venus includes the worldwide
hits "Rivers of Babylon"
and "Brown Girl in
the Ring", a double A-sided single that topped
the UK singles chart and has sold over 2 million copies there. The follow-up
was another Boney M. classic, "Rasputin",
in most countries also a double A-side coupled with "Painter Man", a
cover of a 1966 hit by the band The Creation.
In the UK,
"Rasputin" and "Painter Man" were released separately as
A-sides by Atlantic Records, both reaching the Top 10. "Rivers
of Babylon", which peaked at Nº 30 on The Billboard Hot 100, became
their biggest US hit.
Brown girl in the
ring
Tra la la la la
There's a brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum
Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
Come on show me your
motion
Tra la la la la la
Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
I remember one
Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
I remember one Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
Beng-a-deng
Beng-a-deng
Brown girl in the
ring
Tra la la la la
There's a brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum
Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
Come on show me your
motion
Tra la la la la la
Show me your motion
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
I remember one
Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
I remember one Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
Beng-a-deng
Beng-a-deng
Brown girl in the
ring
Tra la la la la
See, brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum plum
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
All had water run dry
Got nowhere to wash my cloths
Brown girl in the
ring
Tra la la la la
Look that brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la la
Brown girl in the ring
Tra la la la la
She looks like a sugar in a plum
Plum! plum!
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