Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday

"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday"
Single by Boney M
Released 26 March 1979
Format 7" single, 12" single
Recorded 1979
Genre Reggae, Euro disco
Length 3:56
Label Hansa Records (FRG)
Writer(s) Frank Farian, Fred Jay
Producer(s) Frank Farian
Boney M singles chronology
"Painter Man"
(1979)
"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday"
(1979)
"El Lute / Gotta Go Home"
(1979)
"(Hooray! Hooray!) It's a Cheeky Holiday!"
Single by Cheeky Girls
from the album Party Time
Released 2003
Genre Pop
Cheeky Girls singles chronology
"Take Your Shoes off" (Hooray! Hooray!) It's a Cheeky Holiday! "Have a Cheeky Christmas"

"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" is a 1979 single by Euro disco band Boney M. as an adaptation of nursery rhyme Polly Wolly Doodle. Despite breaking their row of 7 consecutive German #1 singles, peaking at #4, the single was a big hit all over Europe, peaking at #3 in the UK. The song and its B-side "Ribbons of Blue" were taken from the movie Disco Fever. Even though the single cover announced the arrival of the next Boney M. album Oceans of Fantasy, it would still be another six months before the album was released, and of the two songs, only "Ribbons of Blue" (penned by the group's drummer Keith Forsey) was included and just in a one- or two-minute edit, depending on the various pressings.

Single

Unlike other Boney M. singles, there appears to be no different mixes. In Germany, this was the first single to picture a specially designed label with a starspangled Boney M. logo on a blue background. In the UK, the single was released in a picture sleeve – it was also pressed on a Picture disc and a 12" clear yellow vinyl.

Cover versions

Releases

7" Singles

12" Single

Sources

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