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The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" and "Belfast". It also includes covers: "Love for Sale" (by Cole Porter), "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (by

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Artwork

The standard cover art features the male member

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a futuristic golden thong" chaining female members, resembling African sexual slaves. American label Atlantic Records found the cover "raunchy", 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. One of the female group members,

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Track listing

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Ma Baker "Ma Baker" is a song by disco group Boney M., released as a single in 1977. It was the first single off their second album '' Love for Sale'' and their third consecutive chart-topper in Germany. The song was a huge success in Europe and Lati ...

" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) – 4:36 # " Love for Sale" (

Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Born to ...

) – 4:47 # "

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" (Jimmy Bilsbury, Drafi Deutscher, Joe Menke) – 3:31 #: " Daddy Cool" (U.S. edition only) from the previous album ''

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) – 2:40 # "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Frank Farian, George Reyam) – 3:57 ;Side B # "Plantation Boy" (Fred Jay, King) – 4:27 # "

Motherless Child "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", also "Motherless Child", is a traditional Spiritual. It dates back to the era of slavery in the United States. An early performance of the song was in the 1870s by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. "Blue Ge ...

" (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) – 4:58 # "Silent Lover" (Frank Farian,

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, Fred Jay) – 4:14 # "A Woman Can Change a Man" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 3:33 # "Still I'm Sad" (

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) – 4:34

Personnel

– lead vocals (tracks A2, A4, B1, B2, B4, B5), backing vocals *

Marcia Barrett Marcia Barrett (born 14 October 1948) is a Jamaican-British singer and one of the original singers with the vocal group Boney M. Early years Barrett was born in Saint Catherine Parish, British Jamaica; her parents brought her to Croydon, Eng ...

– lead vocals (tracks A3, B3), backing vocals *

Frank Farian Frank Farian (born Franz Reuther; 18 July 1941) is a German record producer, musician, singer and songwriter, who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M., the Latin pop band No Mercy and the pop band Milli Vanilli. He frequently created vo ...

– 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 *

– drums * Todd Canedy – drums * Nick Woodland – guitar * Johan Daansen – guitar * Thor Baldursson – keyboards * The Black Beautiful Circus – performers on tracks A5 and B5

Production

– producer * Stefan/Stephen Klinkhammer – arranger, conductor * Christian Kolonovits – arranger * Johann Daansen – arranger * Thor Baldursson – arranger * Fred Schreier –

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* Hartmut Pfannmüller – sound engineer * John Lund – sound engineer * Michael Lammert – sound engineer * Recorded and mixed at Union Studios,

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, and Europe Sound Studios, Offenbach .

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

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

References

External links

Rate Your Music, detailed discography

Discogs.com, detailed discography
* Allmusic, biography, discography etc. {{DEFAULTSORT:Love For Sale (Boney M. Album) 1977 albums Boney M. albums Albums produced by Frank Farian Atlantic Records albums Hansa Records albums