Boney M.: Kalimba De Luna - 20 Happy Songs (Vol. 1) [1984]

The year of 1984 saw Boney M. return with the album 10,000 Lightyears after a 2½ year album break and Reggie Tsiboe replacing Bobby Farrell in the line-up. The new album was not the successful comeback that the group was hoping for. Farian started recording a new Christmas album over the summer of 1984 when he heard an Italian single, Kalimba De Luna, and decided to record this with Reggie Tsiboe. It was rushed out as a Boney M. single (despite neither Liz Mitchell nor Marcia Barrett singing on it) in August ’84 and soared to #13 in the German charts, Boney M.’s best chart placing in three years. Farian then reunited the group with Bobby Farrell for the follow-up single Happy Song, a title riding the italo-disco/breakdance wave. It peaked at #7 in Germany towards the end of the year. A compilation album was released for the Christmas market, naturally capitalising on these two new hits plus the group’s singles of the 80s, many of which had not been available on any album before. The pr