Love for Sale (Boney M. album)
1977 studio album by Boney M.
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Love for Sale is the second studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" and "Belfast". It also includes three covers: "Love for Sale" (by Cole Porter), "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (by Creedence Clearwater Revival), and "Still I'm Sad" (by The Yardbirds).
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| Love for Sale | ||||
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Standard edition album cover | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 2, 1977 | |||
| Recorded | August 1976 – March 1977 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 41:17 | |||
| Label | ||||
| Producer | Frank Farian | |||
| Boney M. chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Love for Sale | ||||
This was the last Boney M. album without different edits on LP and cassette like Nightflight to Venus and Oceans of Fantasy.
Artwork
The standard cover art features the male member Bobby Farrell "naked [with] a futuristic golden thong"[2] chaining female members, resembling African sexual slaves.[3][4] American label Atlantic Records found the cover "raunchy",[5] so they used the standard back cover of a vinyl sleeve featuring the band wearing clothes as the alternative front cover of American and Canadian edition.[5] One of the female group members, Liz Mitchell, told The Sydney Morning Herald:[6]
They wanted to photograph us all totally naked in chains with [band member Bobby Farrell] standing over us like it was bondage[...] I wept—trust me. When they showed us the costumes, it was just heavy gold chains.
The front cover of the South Korean vinyl edition features the band in one live performance, and the back cover of the edition features the band in a studio photo session.[7]
Track listing
- Side A
- "Ma Baker" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) – 4:36
- "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 4:47
- "Belfast" (Jimmy Bilsbury, Drafi Deutscher, Joe Menke) – 3:31
- "Daddy Cool" (U.S. edition only) from the previous album Take the Heat off Me – 3:27
- "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (John Fogerty) – 2:40
- "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Frank Farian, George Reyam) – 3:57
- Side B
- "Plantation Boy" (Fred Jay, King) – 4:27
- "Motherless Child" (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) – 4:58
- "Silent Lover" (Frank Farian, Keith Forsey, Fred Jay) – 4:14
- "A Woman Can Change a Man" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 3:33
- "Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 4:34
Personnel
- Liz Mitchell – lead vocals (tracks A2, A4, B1, B2, B4, B5), backing vocals
- Marcia Barrett – lead vocals (tracks A3, B3), backing vocals
- Frank Farian – lead vocals (A5), backing vocals
- Linda Blake – voice of "Ma Baker" on A1
- Bill Swisher – speaker voice on A1
- The Rhythm Machine – musicians
- Gary Unwinn – bass guitar
- Keith Forsey – drums
- Todd Canedy – drums
- Nick Woodland – guitar
- Johan Daansen – guitar
- Thor Baldursson – keyboards
- The Black Beautiful Circus – performers on tracks A5 and B5
Production
- Frank Farian – producer
- Stefan/Stephen Klinkhammer – arranger, conductor
- Christian Kolonovits – arranger
- Johann Daansen – arranger
- Thor Baldursson – arranger
- Fred Schreier – sound engineer
- Hartmut Pfannmüller – sound engineer
- John Lund – sound engineer
- Michael Lammert – sound engineer
- Recorded and mixed at Union Studios, Munich, and Europe Sound Studios, Offenbach.
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications and sales
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Canada combined sales with first album |
— | 48,000[24] |
| Denmark & Sweden | — | 250,000[25] |
| Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[26] | Gold | 26,218[26] |
| France | — | 250,000[27] |
| Germany (BVMI)[28] | Platinum | 500,000^ |
| Greece (IFPI Greece)[29] | Gold | 50,000^ |
| Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[30] | Platinum | 20,000* |
| Israel[31] | 2× Gold | 40,000[32] |
| Netherlands | — | 100,000[33] |
| Spain combined sales with first album |
— | 300,000[25] |
| Sweden (GLF)[34] | Gold | 50,000^ |
| United Kingdom (BPI)[35] | Gold | 100,000^ |
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* Sales figures based on certification alone. | ||
Reissued
- 1994: CD, BMG 74321 21270 2
- 2007: CD, Sony BMG Music Entertainment 88697082612
- 2011: Boney M. Original Album Classics, 5 CD, Sony Music 88697928702
- 2017: Boney M. Complete, 9 LP, Sony Music 88985406971