Daddy Cool (Boney M. song)

Daddy Cool is the title of which appeared in 1976, the first great success of the Euro - disco vocal and dance group Boney M..

Genesis

In December 1974, the German producer Frank Farian had in Munich, Single Baby Do You Wanna Bump? recorded. All the votes were from him, both the deep sung melody supporting voice and the falsetto voices, each manipulated by studio technology. Farian was now looking over an artist's agency for a vehicle of this production and found the beginning of 1975 four native of the Caribbean dancer and singer with more or less experience. Soon after the first appearances came staffing fluctuations. Maizie Williams brought an exotic dancer from Aruba called Bobby Farrell. Singer Marcia Barrett came with reservations for Formation, and Claudja Barry left the group in February 1976 in favor of a solo career as a disco singer. For she gave Liz Mitchell, an unemployed singer of the former Les Humphries Singers, to the group.

Now human constancy was present, so Farian could begin shooting for the first album by Boney M., Take The Heat Off Me. From this it was released as a single and released before June 28, 1976, the LP came on the market on 31 May 1976, the tracks Daddy Cool / No Women No Cry. Composition and text of the A-side came from Farian and George Reyam. The song is also by Farian, together with the Boney M. - members Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett. In the B- side, it was a cover version of the reggae song No Woman No Cry, written by Bob Marley.

The single turnover was bad until TV producer Michael " Mike" Leckebusch the completely unknown Formation invited in the music program music store for 18 September 1976. The reception to this was overwhelming, because a week more than 100,000 singles were now sold a total of 800,000 copies throughout Europe. Worldwide the one million mark was exceeded, the first million seller for the group retort. The first gold record for the group was awarded on 11 December 1976.

Cover versions

From Daddy Cool, there are numerous cover versions, such as from placebo from 2003, by Vinylshakerz from 2006, and The Carburetors played 2008, a hard rock version of the song.

Musical

On 15 August 2006, the same name and inspired by the song celebrated musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London Premiere. Frank Farian processed in the musical many hits of Boney M. In spring 2007, the musical came to Berlin.