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Subject: Re: Night Flight to Venus?
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 21:41:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 21:41:27 1986
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>>I am looking for some songs that I heard between 7 and 9 years ago, and 
>>haven't heard since.  I have asked around at record stores, used record 
>>stores, radio stations, and so on, but no one locally seems to have heard 
>>of the group, the album or the songs.  
>>Do you know where I can get the album?

>The name of the group is Bonnie M.
Boney M
>
>Yes, they did release an album titled "Night Flight to Venus", along with
>a few others in the U.S. They were released on Sire Records (see,
>Seymour Stein didn't jump into the disco fold with Madonna). They didn't
>do much here (a couple of very minor dance hits, I think). But in Europe
>they were hot stuff: lots of hits and one mammoth one--"By the Rivers
>of Babylon". This all occurred in the late `70's. By the `80's they
>had walked the worn road to footnote heaven in Europe. And of course,
>they weren't ever much in the U.S. to begin with. There was a "best of"
>released in Europe (through K-Tel, I think), which might still be available
>somewhere. Otherwise check the used record bins. I've seen their stuff
>from time to time (too bad; I gave away my reviewer copies last year for
>nothing. If you'd only asked earlier...).

Believe it or not, I heard one of their songs on a Northern Wisconsin radio
station once ("By the Rivers of Babylon"?), and just recently I heard
"Rasputin" while shopping in a local (CA) GEMCO store.  I was also surprised
to see two of their CD's in Tower Records - "Best of ..." in Oregon, and
another in California (a Polygram label, I believe).  I haven't seen "Night
Flight" on CD.

Jon Udell
udell@su-shasta.arpa