Boney M Daddy Cool Reaction

[@danielbritton8588]

I was sitting in a bar drinking a "Tuskers" beer in Mombasa, Kenya when I heard this song for the first time in 1977. I did not hear it again until 2019. But, I remembered it & sang it to myself throughout my life.

[@shatteredabby964]

Rivers of Babylon, Rasputin, and Ma Baker. All Boney M and well better in my opinion

[@Hi-kq1vi]

Sunny was phenomenal-better than the Bobby Hebb original.

[@personalcheeses8073]

Hi Phenomenal is is clearly overstating things

[@Earthrush]

I see Agree with You , I was on the stange with Boney and Sing Rivers of Babylon

[@myphatphiles7739]

When Americans critique something they can only critique it from their level of consciousness and experience I don't know how to read the time that this was the 70s that black people performing in Europe who came from the Caribbean were phenomenal. Boney M. was big all over Europe and in Russia till this day it's one of Russia's favourite groups. This is why Tina Turner left America she travelled and expanded her mind and that's why she had the notoriety but she had she would've never of got that by staying in America because most Americans don't realise how narrowminded they are.

[@Hologram_me]

Yes confirm It

[@masdojo]

🤣🤣🤣 your face during the "O" moment had me rolling in the floor laughing 🤣🤣

[@danfrost3043]

This was their first major hit all over Europe. They went onto have much bigger hits and became "Huge" They were the biggest selling act of 1978 in The UK. Often referred to as the "Black Abba" quite a fitting compliment as they were to Disco was ABBA was to Pop. Rivers Of Babylon was their biggest seller , reached no 33 in The US, No1 everywhere else in the world. Legendary Act.

[@Hologram_me]

I would like to note that this song was very popular in the USSR and is still popular in Russia on many radio stations and shows. And I do love it in this video From Russia ❤

[@sukie584]

Boney M were much more appreciated in Europe (they were formed in what was then W.Germany) who got the eccentricity.

[@Hi-kq1vi]

We lapped them up in the UK-they were huge here from 1976-1979. Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring is still the seventh biggest selling UK single ever with over 2 million copies sold & Mary's Boy Child the eleventh biggest selling ever with nearly 1.9 million copies sold.

[@sukie584]

@@Hi-kq1vi WOW!! I used to dance to them in the clubs in NYC in the 70s and worked in a record store so I loved them but they didn't get a lot of airplay here other than Rivers of Babylon..

[@rolfsvensson321]

@@sukie584 Very interesting. What was the general response towards them at that particular time period.After all this is the most successful black group of all time.Rivers of Babylon is probably worlds best selling single of the 1970's.

[@sukie584]

rolf svensson very little AirPlay on the radio but were played in the dance clubs. So most didn’t know them. Rivers of Babylon got the most airplay to my memory but not tons. It reached #30 in the us charts. Daddy Cool didn’t crack the top 40. They were not a band that made any noise hear at all except for real music aficionados

[@rolfsvensson321]

@@sukie584 Thanks for the reply!

[@chinyereugwu9431]

Boney m is fantastic. Love. Rivers of Babylon, Brown Girl in the Ring and Ma baker come to mind and Rasputin. my parents used to danced to this

[@matthewgibbs1366]

Chinyere Ugwu brown girl in the ring is fire makes you feel good when you hear it! 👊

[@youngThrashbarg]

They wrote the chorus and said that's it, doesn't need anything else.

[@Modern-Renaissance-Man]

🤣🤣🤣

[@purdyquibb]

Probably the most ballsy entertainer I’ve ever seen lol. His antics are waaay over the top.

[@corneliusantonius3108]

I so love your facial reactions and moments of pure disbelief 🤣

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Boney M was a lip sync group produced by the same guy who produced Milli Vanilli. The difference? He never made a secret of the fact that some members sang but many did not (including Bobby Farrell who was hired because he was an exotic dancer). He should never have kept it a secret with Milli Vanilli.

[@wykkyd_og]

Hector's Mommy The guy singing this was an exotic dancer..... LMFAO 😳

[@hectorsmommy1717]

@@wykkyd_og He didn't sing. He lip synced. Frank Farian (the producer) actually did the singing.

[@onsesejoo2605]

Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett sang on the records. The story behind it perhaps helps...their first single Do You Wanna Bump - solely done by Farian himself under Boney M -became a hit in The Netherlands. So the Dutch Tv asked a live performance for a nonexisting group. Frank Farian hastily collected a group for the lip - synced Tv performance. Mitchell had been in Les Humphries Singers before Boney M.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

@@onsesejoo2605 All he really needed to keep the Milli Vanilli debacle from happening was "let it slip" that they were lip syncing before the Grammys. Their music would have still been played because it was fun, just like Boney M was fun. People wouldn't have felt as cheated.

[@harrypool71]

The Lead guy was originally a DJ when discovered

[@onepieceofgumleft]

Love this song , and love your channel cuz you do a variety. 😀👍🏼. Boney M "Rasputin" is a must.

[@virginityrocks5756]

Yes a must !!!! The live version

[@markjohnson9476]

Boney M are awsome. My fav Christmas song is Boney M's version of Mary's Boy Child. Absolutely love Rasputin!

[@Mitzi_and_Luna]

Mark Johnson me too!

[@personalcheeses8073]

70s Euro Disco Pop It’s was all about the music the lyrics obviously were immaterial. Really it’s just an instrumental track

[@susannewitt6112]

Germany 12 Points. lol You think Germans have no sense of humour, take this.

[@Mikael_Puusaari]

There is no such thing as "trying too much" when it was disco in the 70ies.. ofc sneezing it "too much" public attention in 2022 so in comparison expressing urself is a bit different today :D Daddy cool was just that, too cool for pretty much any1 today, that confidence dancing and enjoying themself as if there was no tomorrow, it is unheard of now, so ofc it feels crazy cringy :)

[@darkmischief1223]

😂😂😂 your reaction was priceless your just like what the f*** that song a bit crazy ma baker a good one from them.

[@A2Z83]

Never saw the original video. Heard this song through a cover by the band Placebo where they played it on guitar

[@rolfsvensson321]

Which in itself was a so so cover targeted at the more rock oriented audience. Compared to the Boney M original it's really nothing to write home about.

[@andimusicjunkie3990]

It's still a party hit in Germany. But no one takes it too seriously. The have also a couple of serious songs like "El Lute"..

[@rama417]

Don't say like that they had given massive hits like Rivers of Babylon, Mary's boy child , their Christmas album was very famous all over the world, Rasputin , daddy cool was massive hit all over the world. But underrated by some. Other groups and recent groups will be making noise and such songs will be given Grammy awards and it is pathetic. Americans has a lot of opposition against racism. They are highly partial and only like other countries. ABBA old group in 70s was good but lyrics was too long and they will be repeating the lyrics again and again. Donna summer was very good and impressive. I consider donna summer and Boney m best in 1970s

[@ColinsCity]

You will notice that the german crowds don't get amped up EVER, never dance to the songs or sing along rarely, they were huge in europe, germany specifically because the producer of all the songs was Frank Farian (who also created mini vinilli) and it's Frank's voice that is used as the man in the songs, Bobby was a stripper to he would always do similar moves in performing :D

[@lecu1967]

Boney M. are from Germany., produced by Frank Farian the mastermind and voice behind the lip-syncing group Milli Vanill

[@StevenQ74]

The guy doing the crazy dancing was Bobby Farrell, he actualy did not sing, but the producer of this group was Frank Farian , the same producer as Milli Vanilli.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Their best song is the Christmas song, "Mary's Boy Child"

[@Andreico650]

Was a nice band and Farrell play the fool. Maybe too much but who cares. Chuck Berry, Angus Young, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis did a lot of stupid things on stage and we all love them

[@TheGuerillapatriot]

That's how Europeans react, that's their style.

[@Hi-kq1vi]

They were massive in the UK-they still have two of the biggest selling UK singles ever-Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring & Mary's Boy Child-both from 1978. Now you know who inspired Prince.

[@char1737]

3:53 a golden moment in music history! YES GOD!

[@ramiromaia592]

The look on your face at the start priceless 🤣😂😂😂😂🤣

[@jcyt0511]

THIS song is probably the reason---presuming the moans by the ladies were not inserted after the fact---why the group was named Boney M.

[@boowonder888]

I was around when this song first came out in 1976. Great disco song but I never heard the moaning before. And this song is still around where Im from. Bobby died about 8 years ago. He was still performing, he had to.

[@benvinew6465]

There are multiple videos of this song being performed and in almost every one of them Bobby really struggles to get his shirt off.

[@Tubs34]

Boney M are legendary

[@benvinew6465]

Boney M. is that group, not a person. "Brown Girl in The Ring" is another popular one from them that I don't see listed by others in here. Bobby was doing his thing even at an advanced age even until 2010 and perhaps a little later than that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJa7kn6Dm9x1jq8 Also don't forget their song "Sunny"

[@abbacomtek]

Way ahead of their times my brother!!

[@chamberlainwonder369]

Bro we love ur channels period..best reaction....bonny m is the greatest ever happen in funk music business.

[@BlytheWorld1972]

and my reaction to you sir if you have never heard daddy cool Then what planet have you been living on ??

[@gailrobertson8959]

Sisters - Mom can we want to start a band.. Mom- Take your brother

[@petermizon4344]

German group. And on a german show were the audience very rarely clap or dance. Different times mate. This made no 1 in many countries. People were happier than today

[@zaftra]

"audiance was talking about them" That's just black paranoia, Boney M was HUGE in the 70's, we all liked the dancing antics on the man.

[@evertvanderhik5774]

This is legendary in the Netherlands.

[@OffRoad-jh1do]

Daddy cool is MRM's alter ego bahahaha

[@Modern-Renaissance-Man]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ksmileywaisnor9925]

Only one of the woman actually sang on their recordings. They are lip syncing. Studio musicians recorded their songs.The male was hired strictly to dance on stage. Love the music.

[@davemorrison8719]

Rivers of Babylon makes me stand up and dance. See if you can listen to it and remain seated. But then, sometimes I cry while listening to it too. But it's such an uplifting song. Please try it.

[@bennygraham847]

the performance was the half of it. the guy was lip synching. the producer, a white man, was the lead vocalist. and one of the women was not singing on the record. the black guy and that extra girl were only there for the live performance. but they are still one of the top european grops of all time.

[@Raider577]

Only two of the group sung on the records. One singing on nearly all of them. They had the same producer as Milli Vanilli Frank Farian.

[@oscarsusan3834]

Bass line you never forget.One of the first bands to employ mime in live performance.Disco baby! Huge!,Can't wait a string of Disco dance,Silver Convention,Disco Duck,Ain't Gonna Dance with No Fat Woman,BeeGees,CarWash! Barry White,ohhhhh so tempting and delicious!Whatever you do don't go there or you'll never come back.!

[@djpaul146]

I'm sure they have cut some out of this video I'm not really sure

[@philipcochran1972]

Bony M. Rivers of Babylon; Ma Baker; Brown girl in the ring; Rasputin

[@SteveShovlar]

This went to number one all over Europe. And they had many other big hits including the crazy Rasputin. You really have to see that! , Ma Baker, Mary’s boy child, etc.

[@rickandersen2284]

I like watching these...you bring a little sunshine...and... now you know disco!!!!

[@susannewitt6112]

For germans only! Fasten your seatbells and go ahead! Attention! My Boney is over the ocean. Thanks Frank Farian and thanks to Milli and Vanilli! ;_)

[@GibbyPlays]

“That boy’s good”...”hm, good and terrible”

[@robertwill23]

Almost every song from Boney M is a catchy hit. "Belfast" one of the best, imho. And less cheesy performance.

[@rolfsvensson321]

Yeah,they have this remarkable skill to turn nearly every track into a catchy dancefloor filler.

[@arnapetursdottir7489]

They had so many good songs

[@EarlJohn61]

He certainly had some moves... I just hope he didn't give himself a hernia.

[@yardoom42]

Those face impressions are priceless

[@oscarsusan3834]

Disco at its finest!,and it was all mime!

[@diptyajitbanerjee4935]

For rock and metal music, you headbang front and back. For Boney M, you headbang side to side.

[@henrikechers9995]

Same guy that made this group, was behind the group Milli Vanilli

[@benvinew6465]

This might have been one I recommended awhile back. Now I get to see MRM react to Bobby fighting invisible ninjas fueled by massive amounts of cocaine!

[@wongedwardtuckhoe4284]

This is around 70s,try their el lute,no woman no cry beflast,river of babylon

[@stefanzantes8818]

So funny your reaction. But Boney M. may not have that big success in the US but they were so huge in Europe and West Germany and so much loved! They also were big in Russia, behind the iron curtain at that time, they were paid in Oil! Their music still fills dancefloors all over the world! You just need to know that the male voice was not the voice from the performing dancer but from the producer of Boney M., Frank Farian, a white guy by the way. In most Boney. M. songs, Liz Michell the lady in the golden skirt took the Lead, she was the main original voice in Boney M. I love them still... The audience was just a normal German TV audience at the time, always a little taken back and not fully concentrated in the Performance, independent Who tue performer was ...

[@bramilan]

This is a glimpse of the non-rock scene of the 70's... But this song is more about fun than about music. Rasputin is definitely a much better song. They sold more than 60 million albums! Could you react to Motion Device "Thick Skin"? As a KZbinr, you will surely connect to the lyrics. Thanks!

[@onsesejoo2605]

If listening their albums, there certainly were some musically more ambitious songs. Usually it was the opening track that was sort of theme song..Nightflight To Venus, Oceans Of Fantasy, Love For Sale and so on.

[@herrbonk3635]

Non-rock!? Never heard that term before. This was usually considered disco. (Other genres were pop, schlager, folk, jazz, classical, and so on.)

[@bramilan]

@@herrbonk3635 You are right, this was definitely disco.

[@11dsw]

Disco

[@xenophon343]

I actually saw them live in the 70s when I was a kid and my parents took me. LOL

[@modder1975]

3:42 Probably one of sexiest part inside a song ever made in my opinion:)

[@A2Z83]

Slip It In by Black Flag took it even further. If you listen to the full version

[@BlytheWorld1972]

the reaction of the geman people is always like that go and do your homework the germans loved boney m after this performance sir the band were at number one in the german charts .

[@bernmcnicholl8345]

Best Song was their Christmas Song Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord

[@fryskomuttens]

Listen to Lea- the cats a tribute from the band to one of there first fans who died in an accident

[@gidosteinert8931]

Bony M. "No more chain gang" and "Baby, do you want a bump"! I appreciate that you do a broad spectrum! The mans voice is not on stage, it´s west-german producer Frank Farian.

[@headmiscreant7165]

They also do a wonderful version of By the Rivers of Babylon.

[@Earthrush]

Dude in the old days ppl did sit down when at a concert

[@kennethv5250]

DID YOU KNOW: the real reason the crowd wasnt reacting to the song... the singers were actually lip syncing the whole time. the producer who got them together also put together milli vanilli, so it shouldnt be a surprise to any one.. the people you see on stage are there just to 'front' for the actual band that sang the songs from backstage "the very concept of a real Boney M is inherently bogus. This band was gloriously fake right from the start: a funky Frankenstein's monster stitched together by German record producer Frank Farian after his 1976 single Baby, Do You Wanna Bump? hit the charts in Holland and Belgium. No oil painting himself, Farian needed more photogenic youngsters to lip-synch his music in public, so he hired session singers Marcia Barrett and Liz Mitchell from Jamaica, model Maizie Williams from Monserrat and the late Bobby Farrell, a dancer from Aruba. [www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/73054216/will-the-real-boney-m-please-stand-up#:~:text=And%20of%20course%2C%20the%20very,charts%20in%20Holland%20and%20Belgium.]

[@rolfsvensson321]

Please check out your research before commenting

[@gyloir]

You should react to "Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - Je t'aime... moi non plus," it was a hit back in 69 in the UK and other places where it hit #1.

[@mrmoola3970]

This is what happens when your coke does meth before you do the coke

[@remyazharyyosef1811]

I know right! That looked as if he was possessed!

[@Krrrimmi]

1:20 You when you're home alone. 😊

[@pamelascott5702]

Could you react to “Hot Child in the City “ by Nick Gilder?

[@pamelascott5702]

It was my roller skating song.

[@chamberlainwonder369]

Ooooh we can wait to see this too....Don't mess bonny m folks...bonny is the main thing in funk musical bussiness

[@strawberryliscious]

Boney M is actually a great band. This is not the best introduction to them in my opinion. Rivers of Babylon, Rasputin are far better

[@ilmaba1756]

Boney M have one of the best EVER Christmas albums.

[@delmarae100]

hahaha awesome reaction, its all in the eyes hehehe

[@Modern-Renaissance-Man]

Thank you 😁

[@Meeshusa]

You should watch their original video of Ma Baker from mid 1970's

[@phohead]

European Blacks doing (ADOS) -American descendants of Slavery- or if you prefer African American Disco. Very different take. Very cool... entertaining. They're from West Germany.

[@rolfsvensson321]

They're definitely not European Blacks. All four of them are of Caribbean origin, born and raised in Jamaica, Aruba and Montserrat, respectively. But they were stationed in what at that time was called West Germany. But I do agree with you that their sound was very different and cool compared to their contemporary colleagues.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

Aaaah the German African band that sings Russian style music.

[@susanmckay695]

I just was watching your face all the time…hilarious! Try by the rivers of Babylon.😊

[@zaklina.4822]

I'm very surprised about Americans who don't know great artists like ABBA or Boney M...

[@B4cch4nte]

Gotta love 70s pop! :D

[@cbilky2914]

ohhh lord Disco era...LOLOLOL..I lived in Germany for 10 years and even in the early 80s this song was still all over the place over there..LOL

[@mickhawford4745]

Loved Bobby .What an entertainer .

[@BlytheWorld1972]

Daddy cool was there first single all the other big hits were so much better ... but saying that daddy cool is a disco classic .

[@IQ-gj3bk]

That song was made by Frank Farian from Germany. The dancer was not the singer. When this get knowleged later it was a big scandal.

[@IQ-gj3bk]

@MUSIC WORLD VISION / the dancer do a fake singing / the male voice is also from Frank Farian

[@matthewgibbs1366]

well now that you've experienced Boney m. you might as well step up to A cat named Afric Simone. the music video Ramaya. it's really catchy. I loved the song right when the first verse kicked. Even though I don't know the language. but I dig it alot. Plus the guy is epic! it's definitely worth a reaction. it's been awhile since I jammed it.

[@Spitfirethedragon]

You do get weird ones during the Disco era. you should do Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots doing Disco Duck.

[@freddbarragan9635]

Rivers of Babylon is from the book of psalm

[@matthewgibbs1366]

damn you already got the Bony M it's too bad you didn't check out the other Daddy Cool live performance from Moscow it's 100% better. but at least this is a good introduction to them. you got to check out Ma Baker it's also from the Moscow Festival! the dude's got some moves! I'm so glad somebody else told you about this dude they got all kinds of good songs!

[@xyr3s]

boney m is the bomb diggity lol. they were before my time but thanks to my uncles, i became a boney m man. and that guy's super deep voice was fucking awesome lol.

[@lauracosby7382]

It's disco time!

[@stadiumgirl17]

Don't forget the version of Mary's Boy Child.

[@TheAresian]

This reaction is just as funny the second time around. It reminds me of the times when I would be watching something on TV that I shouldn't have been watching and my mom would walk through the room.