Boi-ngo explained

Boi-Ngo
Type:	Album
Artist:	Oingo Boingo
Cover:	BOI-NGO_album.jpg
Released:	March 2, 1987
Recorded:	August–December 1986
Studio:	Sound Factory (Hollywood) Sunset Sound (Hollywood)
Genre:	New wave pop rock
Length:	41:00
Label:	MCA
Producer:	Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek
Prev Title:	Dead Man's Party
Prev Year:	1985
Next Title:	Boingo Alive
Next Year:	1988

Boi-Ngo (stylized as BOI-NGO) is the sixth studio album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1987 by MCA Records.

Production

Boi-Ngo was the third Oingo Boingo album to be self-produced by Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek (including So-Lo). The tracks "Pain", "We Close Our Eyes" and "Not My Slave" were released as singles.

Several other songs, "Remember My Name," "Inside", "Mama" and "Find You", were recorded for the album but not included.^[1] An earlier song, "Cinderella Undercover", first performed in 1981, was also recorded but cut from release. "Mama" saw a limited release on a 7-inch vinyl box set edition of Boi-Ngo as the album's final track. New recordings of both "Cinderella Undercover" and "Mama" were subsequently featured on the "live in the studio" album Boingo Alive in 1988. The song "Happy" was also recorded in the album sessions for release on the Summer School soundtrack, under Danny Elfman's name.

Reissue

In 2022, Rubellan Remasters issued a remastered version of Boi-Ngo on both colored vinyl and CD, the latter as an expanded edition with six bonus tracks.^[2]

Personnel

Oingo Boingo

• John Avila – bass guitar, vocals
• Steve Bartek – guitars
• Mike Bacich – keyboards
• Danny Elfman – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Johnny (Vatos) Hernandez – drums, percussion
• Sam Phipps – tenor saxophone
• Leon Schneiderman – baritone saxophone
• Dale Turner – trumpet

Additional musicians

• Bruce Fowler – trombone
• Carmen Twillie – background vocals ("Pain")
• Maxine Waters – background vocals ("Pain")
• Michael Vlatkovich – trombone

Technical

• Danny Elfman – co-producer
• Steve Bartek – co-producer
• Bill Jackson – engineer; mixing ("Where Do All My Friends Go", "Elevator Man", "Not My Slave", "Outrageous")
• Michael Frondelli – mixing ("Home Again", "New Generation", "Pain")
• Humberto Gatica – mixing ("We Close Our Eyes", "My Life")
• John Avila – deputy vocal producer
• Laura Engel – studio production assistant
• David Knight – second recording engineer
• Jimmy Preziosi H.R.E. – second recording engineer, second mixing engineer (Sunset Sound)
• Judy Clapp – second mixing engineer (Capitol)
• Karen Siegal – second mixing engineer (Lion Share)
• Wally Traugott – mastering
• Vartan – art direction
• Mike Fink – design
• Aaron Rapoport – photography

Charts

Chart (1986/87)	Position
United States (Billboard 200)	77
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	98

Notes and References

1. Web site: - YouTube. YouTube.
2. Web site: Duquette . Mike . Rubellan Puts Flesh N' Blood Into Next Wave of Oingo Boingo Reissues on CD, Vinyl (UPDATED PRE-ORDER LINKS) . The Second Disc . November 5, 2022 . November 4, 2022.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 222.