Love for Sale (Boney M. album) explained

Love for Sale
Type:Studio
Artist:Boney M.
Cover:Boney M. - Love For Sale (1977).jpg
Caption:Standard edition album cover
Released:May 2, 1977
Recorded:August 1976 – March 1977
Length:41:17
Producer:Frank Farian
Prev Title:Take the Heat off Me
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Nightflight to Venus
Next Year:1978

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).

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"[1] chaining female members, resembling African sexual slaves.[2] [3] American label Atlantic Records found the cover "raunchy",[4] 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.[4] One of the female group members, Liz Mitchell, told The Sydney Morning Herald:[5]

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.[6]

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Ma Baker" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay, George Reyam (Hans-Jörg Mayer)) – 4:36
  2. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 4:47
  3. "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

  1. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (John Fogerty) – 2:40
  2. "Gloria, Can You Waddle" (Frank Farian, George Reyam) – 3:57
Side B
  1. "Plantation Boy" (Fred Jay, King) – 4:27
  2. "Motherless Child" (Frank Farian, Liz Mitchell) – 4:58
  3. "Silent Lover" (Frank Farian, Keith Forsey, Fred Jay) – 4:14
  4. "A Woman Can Change a Man" (Frank Farian, Fred Jay) – 3:33
  5. "Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 4:34

Personnel

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1977–79)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Argentinian Albums[7] 5
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[8] 27
Belgian Albums (HUMO)[9] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[10] 1
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[11] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1977)! scope="col"
Position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[12] 3
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[13] 10
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[14] 19
Chart (1978)Position+ 1978 year-end chart performance for Love for SaleGerman Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[15] 40

Reissued

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Alexis . Petridis . January 16, 2006 . Comedy doesn't go with our music . . January 22, 2014 .
  2. Web site: Boney M . January 22, 2014 . Bad Record Covers and Others .
  3. Web site: 5 Funny, Outrageous and Just Plain Awful Disco Album Covers. July 26, 2013 .
  4. News: Pierre . Perrone . January 1, 2011 . Bobby Farrell: Dancer and frontman of the Euro-disco group Boney M . . January 22, 2014 .
  5. News: Disco infernal . August 30, 2002 . . January 22, 2014 .
  6. http://farianmania.blogspot.com/2011/05/rare-editions-of-boney-m.html (South Korean release: front, back)
  7. 1 April 1978. International Best Sellers. Cash Box. 69. 0008-7289.
  8. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 41.

  9. 2 July 1977. Hits of the World. Billboard. 74. 0006-2510.
  10. Book: Nyman, Jake. 2005. Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja. 1st. Tammi. Helsinki. 951-31-2503-3. fi.
  11. Book: Racca, Guido. M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019. it. 2019. Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us . 978-1094705002.
  12. Web site: Jahreshitparade Alben 1977 . Hung Medien . de . 21 October 2021 .
  13. Web site: Jaaroverzichten – Album 1977 . . nl . 21 October 2021 .
  14. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts . . de . 21 October 2021 .
  15. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts . . de . 21 October 2021 .