Eye Dance

Eye Dance
Studio album by Boney M.
Released October 1985
Recorded 1985
Genre Euro disco, rhythm and blues, reggae
Length 41:33
Label Hansa Records (FRG)
Producer Frank Farian
Boney M. chronology
Christmas with Boney M.
(1984)		 Eye Dance
(1985)		 The Best of 10 Years – 32 Superhits
(1986)
Singles from Eye Dance
  1. "My Cherie Amour"
    Released: May 1985
  2. "Young, Free and Single"
    Released: September 1985
  3. "Bang Bang Lulu"
    Released: June 1986
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Eye Dance is the eighth and final studio album by the vocal group Boney M., released in 1985. The cover artwork was significant of the state the group was in at that time, as neither the famous "Boney M." logo nor the group members appeared on the cover, replaced by an anonymous drawing.

Eye Dance was recorded with a number of session singers. Original group members Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett only appeared on a few of the tracks, the main focus being on Reggie Tsiboe. The singles "My Cherie Amour" and "Young Free and Single", promoted by Boney M. as a quintet with former group member Bobby Farrell back in the line-up, as well as the album were resounding failures both critically and commercially and in early 1986 the band and producer Frank Farian went their separate ways after a "10 Years Boney M." anniversary TV special.

The group's cover of 10cc's "Dreadlock Holiday" had been planned as the third single in January 1986 but was cancelled - instead "Daddy Cool '86" was released though this failed to chart anywhere. In the summer of 1986, after the members had gone their separate ways, Farian released "Bang Bang Lulu", and in 1987 Farian re-recorded "Dreadlock Holiday" with his own lead and backing vocals and released it as a single under the pseudonym Top Deck in Germany. The Farian solo version appears in remixed form on 1993 hits compilation More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II.

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Young, Free and Single" (Mary Susan Applegate, Frank Farian, Robert Rayen) - 4:10
  2. "Todos Buenos" (Mary Susan Applegate, Frank Farian) - 4:34
  3. "Give It Up" (Bernd Dietrich, Gerd Grabowski, Engelbert Simons) - 3:58
  4. "Sample City" (Rainer Maria Ehrhardt, Frank Farian) - 3:43
  5. "My Cherie Amour" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 4:04

Side B

  1. "Eye Dance" (Mary Susan Applegate, Frank Farian, Pit Löw) - 4:04
  2. "Got Cha Loco" (Mary Susan Applegate, Harald Baierl, Frank Farian, Robert Rayen) - 3:34
  3. "Dreadlock Holiday" (Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart) - 4:52
  4. "Chica da Silva" (Catherine Courage, Frank Farian, Hans-Jörg Mayer "Reyam") - 5:33
  5. "Bang Bang Lulu" (Trad., Frank Farian, Peter Bischof-Fallenstein) - 3:01

Personnel

Production

Release history

CD re-releases

Single releases

UK

7"

12"

Germany

7"

12"


"Blue Beach" is a voxless version of "Young Free and Single".

Sources and external links

  1. ↑ Eye Dance at AllMusic
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