Boney M. - Oceans Of Fantasy. Collector's Edition
Hansa International  (2005)
Disco

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CD  67:02
14 tracks
   01   Let It All Be Music             05:31
   02   Gotta Go Home             05:05
   03   Bye Bye Bluebird             05:20
   04   Bahama Mama             05:15
   05   Hold On I'm Coming             05:45
   06   Two Of Us             03:15
   07   Ribbons Of Blue             04:06
   08   Oceans Of Fantasy             05:25
   09   El Lute             05:55
   10   No More Chain Gang             06:21
   11   I'm Born Again             04:21
   12   No Time To Lose             03:27
   13   The Calendar Song (January, February, March)             03:21
   14   Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday             03:55
Details
Country Germany
Original Release Date 1979
Cat. Number 200 888
Packaging Jewel Case
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Credits
Producer Frank Farian
Notes
Oceans of Fantasy is the fourth studio album by Boney M. Released in September 1979, Oceans Of Fantasy became the second Boney M. album to top the UK charts and features hits "Gotta Go Home", "I'm Born Again", "Bahama Mama" and "El Lute" (based on the life of Eleuterio Sanchez).

The album had been preceded in the spring of 1979 by double A-side single "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday" (based on American folksong Polly Wolly Doodle) / "Ribbons Of Blue", also one of the band's biggest hits. The A-side was surprisingly not included on Oceans Of Fantasy but the B-side was - if only in a heavily edited form. The original length of the track is 4:02 and songs like "Gotta Go Home" and "Bahama Mama" were also longer on 7" than on the actual album. As with the group's previous album, Nightflight to Venus, the original Hansa Records pressings of the album also included a range of different edits of certain tracks.
Several pressings also contained the wrong running order on cover & labels, incorrectly listing "El Lute" as the opening track on side 2, followed by "No More Chain Gang" and "Oceans Of Fantasy" - a very early and scarce pressing actually has this running order on vinyl. The same pressing also features "Let It All Be Music" and "Gotta Go Home" segued into a medley.
Oceans Of Fantasy also features a guest appearance by Eruption's lead singer Precious Wilson on "Let It All Be Music" as well as on the cover of Sam & Dave's "Hold On I'm Coming", which was also issued as Wilson's first solo single. The Argentinian pressing omitted "El Lute" in favour of "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday".

The album was the only Boney M. album to feature a full track-by-track vocal credits list which confirmed that only two of the four band members, Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, actually sang on the Boney M. records, and that producer Frank Farian sang the characteristic deep male vocal as well as high falsetto vocals (he even duetted with himself on the track "Bye Bye Bluebird"). Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell did not take any part in the studio sessions, though performed vocals at Boney M's live concerts.