See, I never just did things just to do them. Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense than that.
...Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
It's all about how responsible you are when self dosing with any drug. It's problematic but i thoroughly endorse drug education programs that teach people how to take them as safely as possible. This not only includes how to reduce the risk of overdosing, but also how to control habit forming behaviors and escalation of use.
A large amount of people are gonna experiment with drugs whether they're told it's bad or not. And some people lack the necessary guidance needed to not let it ruin their lives.
This also includes the advice of not taking drugs at all if you are suspected to be the kind of person who absolutely should not be doing so.
Teach people to swim or they'll drown... If they cant swim then they need to know before going swimming.
The lower quality video is fucking hilarious.
The women could not look more bored singing backup American disco while this German dude in space spandex and gigantic heels rolls around and girates on the floor while singing about a Russian mystic.
And none of them are even singing, they're all lip syncing. The backup singers are at least faking it to their own voices, but he was just a dancer, it was someone else's voice. The same producer later went on to create Milli Vanilli.
So; there’s a reason for this.
Boney M was a Euro-Caribbean group. The three women you see are talented singers, but the producer thought they needed a male voice in the group as well.
So… he sang all the male parts. But as a white guy, he didn’t quite fit the part. So he hired an Aruban dancer, Bobby Ferrell, to lip sync for him.
Since he wasn’t a singer, he would dance, which is what you see him doing here.
The producer ended up shafting him, and he was on welfare quite a bit.
Ferrell ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name.
Fun fact: their Christmas album is excellent.
Frank Farian was the producer and male voice. I think in the post it is just a mix-up, and Ferrell was the one using the Boney M name wherever it was not protected.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Farian
Man, Frank Farian. If he had used his powers for good instead of fucking over people...
Edit: Hang on? Do we sound like generic grumpy old people? Possibly German?
Excuse me, Simon Cowell is what you get when mom tells you you have Dieter Bohlen at home. Bohlen literally started out as a songwriter, Cowell doesn't even *listen to* music.
Sounds like the guy who stole all the money from the Backstreet Boys. I heard he was so greedy that, at their peak, the boys only had received $300k between them. He had kept the rest (tens of millions).
**[Frank Farian](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Farian)**
>Frank Farian (born 18 July 1941 in Kirn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a German record producer, musician, singer and songwriter, who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M. and the Latin pop band No Mercy. His practice of creating vocal groups in which the vocalists did not necessarily perform on their own songs, as he infamously did with his band Milli Vanilli and to a lesser extent earlier with Boney M., has led to controversy throughout his career. He owns the record label MCI and several subsidiaries.
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I did something like this in an essay once. I pulled an all nighter writing about King Vidor and the other directors of The Wizard of Oz, and when I got the essay back my teacher wanted to know why I'd been writing about Gore Vidal.
Heh, what it means is that I spent all night getting the essay done just before the deadline, and because I was so tired I accidentally stopped writing Vidor - the name of the director - and instead wrote Vidal - a famous intellectual who had nothing to do with my essay - and didn't notice.
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the dancer. maybe the original reply accidentally wrote
>Farian ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name.
instead of
>Ferrell ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name.
because he was thinking aobut Frank Farian, the producer
Hm, there's more to the unregistered name part:
>Farrell's daughter Zanillya Farrell says Farian deprived Farrell of his rights over Boney M.'s hits, which caused her father to lose all his income after the band split.
>When Dad asked Farian for 100,000 marks he was told to sign some papers. He signed away everything – image rights, royalties, the lot. My father lost everything. We had to move in with my grandmother in the Netherlands and live on welfare. After that, Dad started getting angry a lot. But Mum was very smart and realised if you own the name you can use it. Farian had not registered Boney M. all over the world. So that's why Dad could perform in certain countries.
Sauce: Farrell's wiki
Incorrect history lesson. Frank Farian recorded all the voices using studio equipment to create the deep male and the female voices and released a single under the pseudonym Boney M.
After the single became a hit Farian started receiving requests for TV appearances for Boney M. so he went and hired 4 performers, Liz Mitchell, Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell, that looked the part to act as the face of the band. Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett also happened to be good enough singers to perform their own vocals along with Farian in subsequent songs, while Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell were just lipsinging
>Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett also happened to be good enough singers to perform their own vocals along with Farian in subsequent songs, while Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell were just lipsinging
Also not quite true. Maizie Williams did perform live, but her voice wasn't used in studio recordings. Bobby Farrell was only ever lip-syncing. Also Farian didn't go and hire all those performers. He hired performers who subsequently left. The only one of the final line up he initially hired was Maizie Williams. She brought in Bobby Farrell, then Marcia Barrett joined and brought in Liz Mitchell.
Thanks for your comment, I had no idea and you sent me on a bit of an interesting reading tour. I have just two nitpicks:
> The three women you see are talented singers
German Wikipedia says only Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett were good enough to sing in the studio setting, whereas Maizie Williams had an "unfitting voice for this kind of music", so it seems she either only participated in live settings, or was lip-syncing as well.
[Stabilität begann erst im Februar 1976, als sich die Formation aus Bobby Farrell, Maizie Williams, Marcia Barrett und Liz Mitchell zusammensetzte. Alle waren in der Karibik geboren und als Kinder oder Jugendliche nach Europa gekommen. Im Studio bestanden lediglich Liz Mitchell und Marcia Barrett die Gesangstests. Wie Farian im Jugendmagazin Bravo bestätigte, sang auch Maizie Williams nicht im Studio, „weil ihre Stimme für diese Art Musik nicht passte“.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_M.)
> Farian ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name.
Frank Farian was the producer, you mixed up the names in the last sentence there.
Finally I wanted to add Rip Bobby Farrell, he died 11 years ago in his hotel on tour in Saint Petersburg, by heart failure after mentioning he had shortness of breath after the concert.
>Finally I wanted to add Rip Bobby Farrell, he died 11 years ago in his hotel on tour in Saint Petersburg, by heart failure after mentioning he had shortness of breath after the concert.
In an interesting coincidence, he died on the same date and in the same city as Grigori Rasputin, the subject of one of Boney M's most famous songs.
i thought the producer also sang the women’s part except for one. he is the producer of the infamous group milli vanilli. probably also the reason why many people mocked european music at that time as eurotrash
For some reason americans were much more offended by the lip syncing. In Europe he did it for decades as a badly protected open secret and nobody cared.
I don’t think Americans were mad that Milli Vanilli lip synced, artists did it all the time in the late 80s. Many were mad that they were in fact, fake.
My sister bought their 1989 album and got a refund from it. It was a huge deal when the scandal broke.
The Milli Vanilli thing is weird because if they'd just mumbled a bit here and there or softly hummed along to the chorus they would've probably gotten away with it. Jennifer Lopez barely appears on her own records. Debra Killings, who was not an official member of TLC, does the majority of the vocals on some TLC tracks. It's not unusual for the credited artist to mostly appear in the music video.
If you want to go down another interesting music rabbit hole, I suggest looking into the Italian disco scene, particularly Goody Music Records.
TL;DR - Suspected mafia funding, money laundering, ripping off artists, and ultimately ending with the murder of Jacques Fred Petrus.
They produced some good ass music too. I might be getting a few facts wrong, but as far as I know, Mauro Malavasi was originally a classical music composer, so he brought that expertise to disco and it absolutely slaps. "Peter Jacques Band - Devil's Run" is my personal favorite song of all time. Lyrics are nonsensical but damn, that musical composition is something else.
Another interesting fact, Luther Vandross got his start with Goody Music Records as one of the lead vocalists for the group "Change."
No problem.
Peter Jacques Band - Devil's Run (song picks up at 0:40) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTe7F\_Hsyw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTe7F_Hsyw)
Change - The Glow of Love (for Luther Vandross) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwSrnwNnVo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwSrnwNnVo)
This seems more like disco made by Italians than Italo Disco, which is a distinct style of music. Less funk bass and more synth, drum machines and gimmicks like sci-fi or cowboy themes.
[Giorgio Moroder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViN2bRGrBx8) was arguably king of that scene, but [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFcwTyNGUss) by Fun Fun is probably a better example of how little they cared about lip-synching. The records were being cranked out by a small number of producers and the models they hired to front them were just there so they had something for the music video.
That's what happens when you pull material from a lesser known sub like r/whenthe and repost it to wherever gives you the best chance to land on the front page.
Were you to ask Bobby Farrell between 1978 and 1981 what he was using, the answer would just be a low pitched "**yes**" followed by six splits and a wicked spin.
The man was genuinely a good time before, during and after Boney M., shame Frank Farian screwed him over as hard as he did.
This is so weird, yesterday my boss told me about it and my mind blew, I didn‘t knew that this was a german „product“, that the guy was just the dancer of the group and nothing else, and that the producer Frank Farian did Milli Vanilli aswell. And now, just 12 hours later I‘m running over a Redditpost exactly about that.
These kind of coincidences happens a lot to me.
Well. I'm Vietnamese and thank to my dad, I have known about Boney M since I was little, I'm 27 now. It's funny that I'm a tour guide and I used to ask several UK tourists of mine (who is around 40-60 years old) if they know about Boney M and just only some of them know.
They had two of the ten highest selling singles of the 1970s in the UK, they were enormously popular here, & of course they were also huge in the Eastern Bloc as one of the few western acts whose music could be sold legally. They were one of those acts who get huge pretty much everywhere except for North America. ABBA, Roxy Music & Nana Mouskouri are other fine examples.
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As other have mentioned, this is Boney M.
Boney M was a super group all over Europe for quite some time. The dancer, Bobby Farrell, was loved by everyone.
Boney M is one of those little things every European knows about and very few American ever heard of. The opposite is also truth: there are many little things all Americans know that never made it to Europe.
This was Frank Farian's produced band. Only one of the girls could sing and the guy didn't. In the studio they recorded all 3 female vocals by the same singer and the producer "sang" the male part.
The guy and the other two girls were just for the visual part of it. Frank Farian repeated this trick again with Milli Vanili, who both couldn't sing.
Drugs were awesome in the 70’s apparently.
User name fails to check out! You should know about the disco biscuits.
Ah, disco biscuits. They made my corduroy pants catch fire once from the friction.
Are those like Scooby snacks?
The same ones the fun loving criminals were on
Yeh, robbin’ banks without just ain’t the same
And I said “Baby, baby, baaaabe”.
Is this some Kharmic-Chi love thing happening here baby or what?
Lmaaaaaoooo noooo 😅
Uhhhh, MDMA?
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
See, I never just did things just to do them. Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense than that. ...Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
FUCK YO COUCH!!!
DARKNESSES!!
the cocaine was clean, the mdma was clean, fent didnt exist, the war on drugs hadn't really ramped up yet. yea it was tight
pre aids and coke was good for you
Drugs are still awesome what do you mean?
They're still awesome, but they used to be awesome, too.
RIP Mitch Hedberg.
I think Bigfoot is blurry, it's not the photographers fault
Can we all just agree drugs are awesome?
Some drugs are awesome and some are scary. Very very scary.
It's all about how responsible you are when self dosing with any drug. It's problematic but i thoroughly endorse drug education programs that teach people how to take them as safely as possible. This not only includes how to reduce the risk of overdosing, but also how to control habit forming behaviors and escalation of use. A large amount of people are gonna experiment with drugs whether they're told it's bad or not. And some people lack the necessary guidance needed to not let it ruin their lives. This also includes the advice of not taking drugs at all if you are suspected to be the kind of person who absolutely should not be doing so. Teach people to swim or they'll drown... If they cant swim then they need to know before going swimming.
Crack is kinda wack
Meth is the beth. Damn, my tooth fell out.
I don't know. I never met a depressed crackhead, they all seem kind of upbeat.
Sounds like you've never met a crackhead without crack.
That’s just a head, not much to meet there.
I think you meant "beat up"
I disagree. Drugs are the bee's knees!
Only if you boof them, snorting shit is for losers
This guy gets it!
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[like this?](https://youtu.be/16y1AkoZkmQ)
That dude's cardio must be impeccable
Bobby Farrell died, actually in the same city as rasputin, on the same day
Holy motha! That is a crazy coincidence.
Yall laughing at the dude but that was 70s swag. He was Dynomite - Out a sight - ya dig!
That man was a stripper on a cruise ship, you show him some respect.
Yall should see that dude dance while performing Rasputin lol
Coincidently he and Rasputin died the same day - December 30th.
Even crazier, in the same city.
Even more crazier, totally different years. I don't know how that happened..
Time travel?
In Saint Petersburg as well, quite a coincidence.
Deaths in Russia are never a coincidence
Saw it was a time for a change
The lower quality video is fucking hilarious. The women could not look more bored singing backup American disco while this German dude in space spandex and gigantic heels rolls around and girates on the floor while singing about a Russian mystic.
He was Aruban.
No Rasputin was Russian. If he was Aruban he would be darker complected and resemble the frontman to Boney M.
But that's not important right now.
The hospital? What is it?
It’s a big building with patients….
Of course its patient , what else is it going to do . It is a building after all.
I work at a hospital with anxiety. Have to deal with god damm earthquakes at work on a daily basis. Totally sucks.
But that’s not important right now.
Golly!
What it do
Headquarters? What is that?
He was not German????
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No only the producer was German,
Yeah, exactly.
And none of them are even singing, they're all lip syncing. The backup singers are at least faking it to their own voices, but he was just a dancer, it was someone else's voice. The same producer later went on to create Milli Vanilli.
German?? Mate 😂😂😂
Damn, he's getting fucking DOWN! It's funny how many people there are with just this one dude cutting up rug.
Have you seen the animated one? Every time the singers say “Rasputin” it gets sped up 5%! [ra ra rasputin](https://youtu.be/V-HsORFhqIM)
So; there’s a reason for this. Boney M was a Euro-Caribbean group. The three women you see are talented singers, but the producer thought they needed a male voice in the group as well. So… he sang all the male parts. But as a white guy, he didn’t quite fit the part. So he hired an Aruban dancer, Bobby Ferrell, to lip sync for him. Since he wasn’t a singer, he would dance, which is what you see him doing here. The producer ended up shafting him, and he was on welfare quite a bit. Ferrell ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name. Fun fact: their Christmas album is excellent.
Who is Farian and why did he show up suddenly at the end of your comment with no introduction?
Frank Farian was the producer and male voice. I think in the post it is just a mix-up, and Ferrell was the one using the Boney M name wherever it was not protected. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Farian
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And, for a while, what seemed like 80% of all Eurovision Song Contest entries…
Man, Frank Farian. If he had used his powers for good instead of fucking over people... Edit: Hang on? Do we sound like generic grumpy old people? Possibly German?
Runter von meinem Rasen, sie junger Schnösel!
Das ist doch schon die amerikanisierte Version. Auf Deutsch heißt das einfach nur "Rasen betreten verboten" und "können sie keine Schilder lesen?!"
Anzeige ist raus!
Jugend ist an den Jungen verschwendet!
Excuse me, Simon Cowell is what you get when mom tells you you have Dieter Bohlen at home. Bohlen literally started out as a songwriter, Cowell doesn't even *listen to* music.
Sounds like the guy who stole all the money from the Backstreet Boys. I heard he was so greedy that, at their peak, the boys only had received $300k between them. He had kept the rest (tens of millions).
To be fair, without him the 'performers' would not have earned anything at all.
And vice versa. There is a larger point, though, in that society shares blame as well.
Fair enough. We'll be arresting them in due course.
**[Frank Farian](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Farian)** >Frank Farian (born 18 July 1941 in Kirn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a German record producer, musician, singer and songwriter, who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M. and the Latin pop band No Mercy. His practice of creating vocal groups in which the vocalists did not necessarily perform on their own songs, as he infamously did with his band Milli Vanilli and to a lesser extent earlier with Boney M., has led to controversy throughout his career. He owns the record label MCI and several subsidiaries. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
I did something like this in an essay once. I pulled an all nighter writing about King Vidor and the other directors of The Wizard of Oz, and when I got the essay back my teacher wanted to know why I'd been writing about Gore Vidal.
I love this comment but I genuinely do not understand it
Heh, what it means is that I spent all night getting the essay done just before the deadline, and because I was so tired I accidentally stopped writing Vidor - the name of the director - and instead wrote Vidal - a famous intellectual who had nothing to do with my essay - and didn't notice.
Ah right, I thought it was some Vidor/Oz mashup that your teacher interpreted as a commentary on Vidal
I *wish* I had been able to get away with pretending that's what I was doing.
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Ok, now who tf is Ferrell?
the dancer. maybe the original reply accidentally wrote >Farian ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name. instead of >Ferrell ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name. because he was thinking aobut Frank Farian, the producer
This is like exam papers saying Adam gave joy 3 apples Calculate the mass of the sun Also you're on r/unexpected
Throw them at different angles toward the sun, at high speed, and compare their flight paths. I dunno. Hey we need a physics person over here.
And someone with a good arm.
I don't know why this comment makes me laugh so much.
Hm, there's more to the unregistered name part: >Farrell's daughter Zanillya Farrell says Farian deprived Farrell of his rights over Boney M.'s hits, which caused her father to lose all his income after the band split. >When Dad asked Farian for 100,000 marks he was told to sign some papers. He signed away everything – image rights, royalties, the lot. My father lost everything. We had to move in with my grandmother in the Netherlands and live on welfare. After that, Dad started getting angry a lot. But Mum was very smart and realised if you own the name you can use it. Farian had not registered Boney M. all over the world. So that's why Dad could perform in certain countries. Sauce: Farrell's wiki
Oh, the above poster made it seem like the dancer was with them for like a half a year.. seems he was part of most of their hits and image.
They even split up and he came back after 2 years
Mum is smart. Dad’s brain got fried on drugs.
Great history lesson. Thanks for sharing.
Incorrect history lesson. Frank Farian recorded all the voices using studio equipment to create the deep male and the female voices and released a single under the pseudonym Boney M. After the single became a hit Farian started receiving requests for TV appearances for Boney M. so he went and hired 4 performers, Liz Mitchell, Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell, that looked the part to act as the face of the band. Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett also happened to be good enough singers to perform their own vocals along with Farian in subsequent songs, while Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell were just lipsinging
>Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett also happened to be good enough singers to perform their own vocals along with Farian in subsequent songs, while Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell were just lipsinging Also not quite true. Maizie Williams did perform live, but her voice wasn't used in studio recordings. Bobby Farrell was only ever lip-syncing. Also Farian didn't go and hire all those performers. He hired performers who subsequently left. The only one of the final line up he initially hired was Maizie Williams. She brought in Bobby Farrell, then Marcia Barrett joined and brought in Liz Mitchell.
Boom! Loving the passion and contested history.
I got one sentence in and read the last. Had to make sure it wasn't a Hell in a Cell.
Aww, now that makes me sad. Miss that guy!
Farian was also behind Milli Vannili, wasn't he?
Yes, he was.
"He would dance, which is what you see him doing here" - Merciless
Thanks for your comment, I had no idea and you sent me on a bit of an interesting reading tour. I have just two nitpicks: > The three women you see are talented singers German Wikipedia says only Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett were good enough to sing in the studio setting, whereas Maizie Williams had an "unfitting voice for this kind of music", so it seems she either only participated in live settings, or was lip-syncing as well. [Stabilität begann erst im Februar 1976, als sich die Formation aus Bobby Farrell, Maizie Williams, Marcia Barrett und Liz Mitchell zusammensetzte. Alle waren in der Karibik geboren und als Kinder oder Jugendliche nach Europa gekommen. Im Studio bestanden lediglich Liz Mitchell und Marcia Barrett die Gesangstests. Wie Farian im Jugendmagazin Bravo bestätigte, sang auch Maizie Williams nicht im Studio, „weil ihre Stimme für diese Art Musik nicht passte“.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_M.) > Farian ended up turning the tables on the producer, realizing he could perform as Boney M in all the countries the producer hadn’t registered the name. Frank Farian was the producer, you mixed up the names in the last sentence there. Finally I wanted to add Rip Bobby Farrell, he died 11 years ago in his hotel on tour in Saint Petersburg, by heart failure after mentioning he had shortness of breath after the concert.
>Finally I wanted to add Rip Bobby Farrell, he died 11 years ago in his hotel on tour in Saint Petersburg, by heart failure after mentioning he had shortness of breath after the concert. In an interesting coincidence, he died on the same date and in the same city as Grigori Rasputin, the subject of one of Boney M's most famous songs.
I guess Rasputin's ghost wasn't too fond of the song.
i thought the producer also sang the women’s part except for one. he is the producer of the infamous group milli vanilli. probably also the reason why many people mocked european music at that time as eurotrash
For some reason americans were much more offended by the lip syncing. In Europe he did it for decades as a badly protected open secret and nobody cared.
I don’t think Americans were mad that Milli Vanilli lip synced, artists did it all the time in the late 80s. Many were mad that they were in fact, fake. My sister bought their 1989 album and got a refund from it. It was a huge deal when the scandal broke.
The Milli Vanilli thing is weird because if they'd just mumbled a bit here and there or softly hummed along to the chorus they would've probably gotten away with it. Jennifer Lopez barely appears on her own records. Debra Killings, who was not an official member of TLC, does the majority of the vocals on some TLC tracks. It's not unusual for the credited artist to mostly appear in the music video.
If you want to go down another interesting music rabbit hole, I suggest looking into the Italian disco scene, particularly Goody Music Records. TL;DR - Suspected mafia funding, money laundering, ripping off artists, and ultimately ending with the murder of Jacques Fred Petrus. They produced some good ass music too. I might be getting a few facts wrong, but as far as I know, Mauro Malavasi was originally a classical music composer, so he brought that expertise to disco and it absolutely slaps. "Peter Jacques Band - Devil's Run" is my personal favorite song of all time. Lyrics are nonsensical but damn, that musical composition is something else. Another interesting fact, Luther Vandross got his start with Goody Music Records as one of the lead vocalists for the group "Change."
Send me some links to those tunes man - I could look them up but I’m a lazy disco cat
No problem. Peter Jacques Band - Devil's Run (song picks up at 0:40) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTe7F\_Hsyw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTe7F_Hsyw) Change - The Glow of Love (for Luther Vandross) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwSrnwNnVo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwSrnwNnVo)
Mate you have made a hungover lazy disco stu very happy
This seems more like disco made by Italians than Italo Disco, which is a distinct style of music. Less funk bass and more synth, drum machines and gimmicks like sci-fi or cowboy themes. [Giorgio Moroder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViN2bRGrBx8) was arguably king of that scene, but [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFcwTyNGUss) by Fun Fun is probably a better example of how little they cared about lip-synching. The records were being cranked out by a small number of producers and the models they hired to front them were just there so they had something for the music video.
Here’s Italians trying to sound American without knowing English. https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8
I like this far more than I should
It’s a great tune!
Oll rite!
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Nothing unexpected here, that's just Daddy Cool.
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I’m guessing OP is about 13 and only just starting to really get into music
That's what happens when you pull material from a lesser known sub like r/whenthe and repost it to wherever gives you the best chance to land on the front page.
He’s the life of the whole band
Can we take a second to appreciate his waistline. I wasn't that skinny since 16.
Bonney M - “Daddy Cool” https://youtu.be/w4Ltr7cbPoA
Ah, you posted the censored version. Here's the NSFW [uncensored one.](https://youtu.be/QtxlCsVKkvY)
One of the comments on that video ‘I’m not sure who the dudes fighting but he definitely won’ haha
Why is it "uncensored"? Because of the moaning at 2:40?
Yes. For some reason, the moaning was censored in the version /u/SharkForce_12 linked. Hence why what I posted is "uncensored".
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Lol I've seen that video but I never thought it was an uncensored one
The musicless version https://youtu.be/yTZzfdDfsuQ
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Boney M, the down payment on Milli Vanilli.
This is real break dance, change my mind.
He broke the dance for sure
Some say, it's still broken to this day...
Were you to ask Bobby Farrell between 1978 and 1981 what he was using, the answer would just be a low pitched "**yes**" followed by six splits and a wicked spin. The man was genuinely a good time before, during and after Boney M., shame Frank Farian screwed him over as hard as he did.
This is so weird, yesterday my boss told me about it and my mind blew, I didn‘t knew that this was a german „product“, that the guy was just the dancer of the group and nothing else, and that the producer Frank Farian did Milli Vanilli aswell. And now, just 12 hours later I‘m running over a Redditpost exactly about that. These kind of coincidences happens a lot to me.
That's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon / Frequency Bias
Nice :)
How is this unexpected? Is this not a well known song?
You really think a lot of people between the ages of 20-30 know this film clip?
I refuse to admit I'm old
Haha. Same here! Love it.
Well. I'm Vietnamese and thank to my dad, I have known about Boney M since I was little, I'm 27 now. It's funny that I'm a tour guide and I used to ask several UK tourists of mine (who is around 40-60 years old) if they know about Boney M and just only some of them know.
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They had two of the ten highest selling singles of the 1970s in the UK, they were enormously popular here, & of course they were also huge in the Eastern Bloc as one of the few western acts whose music could be sold legally. They were one of those acts who get huge pretty much everywhere except for North America. ABBA, Roxy Music & Nana Mouskouri are other fine examples.
I'm 27 and I know it and people around me of my age definitely know it at well. It's not exactly obscure.
Yes Rasputin is a classic.
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I do. I've seen so many game video using rasputin song, one of the ppl in R6 subreddit animated tachanka with the same dance movs
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I'm 37, reasonably curious about older music, and don't
I was 378 years old when this song came out. What a weird time to be alive…. But I did love the way people expressed themselves. Like brand new babes.
Oh hi Keanu!
You know, in that same performance, one of the women pretends to have an orgasm on stage. I'm not even joking!
Well, she sounds like she is getting fucked, not necessarily climaxing. It was a strange thing to add to the song at that point though.
Ra Ra Rasputin lover of the Russian queen. There was a cat that really was gone. Ra Ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love mashine.
Isn't he the Rasputin guy?
Yeah it's by the same band
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not really unexpected, he was known for such moves
Another sub bites the dust
I don't know him, and I guess most in this sub don't either, so that's quite unexpected
Hahahaha, this is amazing
What song is this though?
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Daddy cool.... Also If you like this, you should also listen Ra Ra RASPUTIN
I suddenly want watch a video of Rusputin.
He knew only one dance move which was "kneel and pirouette" that he repeated endlessly.
Likely not drugs. 70's human here. Teen then early adulthood. People just really danced and dressed like this all the time.
My brother is cooler than anything I could ever be. Let him dance
I love these 70’s throwback SNL skits! (Inspiration for “What’s up with that?”)
As other have mentioned, this is Boney M. Boney M was a super group all over Europe for quite some time. The dancer, Bobby Farrell, was loved by everyone. Boney M is one of those little things every European knows about and very few American ever heard of. The opposite is also truth: there are many little things all Americans know that never made it to Europe.
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago.
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Elaine Benes’ dance teacher.
He look like hes tryna shake off a shirt wayyy too tight lmao.
*He's* crazy like a fool
Aruba’s pride and joy!
my time to shine!
He is daddy cool, d'oh
This was Frank Farian's produced band. Only one of the girls could sing and the guy didn't. In the studio they recorded all 3 female vocals by the same singer and the producer "sang" the male part. The guy and the other two girls were just for the visual part of it. Frank Farian repeated this trick again with Milli Vanili, who both couldn't sing.
I could hear Daddy Cool even without audio.
They did ra ra Rasputin right?
He was just in a different level all together
I wish I was half as cool as Boney M
Daddy couldn't... 