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Liebe Freunde des Wiener und wienerischen Liedes!

Es ist wieder soweit sich an eine neue Jahreszahl zu gewöhnen. Aber die Wiener Melange die in der Kooperation mit radiowienerled .at produziert und weltweit ihre Zuhörerschaft gefunden hat bleibt gleich. Das Motto lautet: ein bisserl von da und ein bisserl von dort, ein wenig alt und ein wenig neu, traditionelles und modernes, aber es dreht sich alles um Wien und wienerisches  und die damit verbundenen Lieder und Musik.

Auch diesmal habe ich wieder ein paar Wünsche zu erfüllen. Mit Peter Alexanders " Wenn's Wien nicht gäbe" ist ein Anfang gemacht, weiters mit Walter Heider und "Mei Muatterl war a Weanarin", dem Duo Beyer-Pelz "Wann die Welt amol stirbt" wobei die Interpreten von einem lieben Freund vorgegeben waren und dann noch ein paar andere, oder besser fast alle bis auf drei. Aber damit ist aber die Wunschliste vom vergangenen Jahr aufgearbeitet.

Also ist wieder Platz für Eure Wünsche, die ich dann in meine nächsten Sendungen einbauen werde. Schreibt mir einfach an die untenstehende E-mail Adresse, aber ich bin auch für Anregungen die die Sendungsgestaltung betreffen offen.

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Studio Album no 7 of Boney M was Ten Thousand Lightyears released in 1982

Studio album by Boney M.
Released May 21, 1984
Recorded 1982–84
Genre Eurodisco, synth-pop
Length 48:52
Label Hansa (FRG)
Producer Frank Farian

The CD was released with a ZDF TV-special, the album was finally released in May 1984 and was also Boney M.'s debut on the new compact disc format.

Personnel:

    Liz Mitchell - lead vocals (All tracks except "Dizzy", "Barbarella Fortuneteller" and "Kalimba de Luna"), backing vocals
    Frank Farian - backing vocals, rap on "Dizzy"
    Reggie Tsiboe - lead vocals "Wild Planet", "Barbarella Fortuneteller" and "Kalimba de Luna", backing vocals
    Marcia Barrett - lead vocal "Wild Planet", backing vocals
    La Mama ( Madeleine Davis , Patricia Shockley, Judy Cheeks) - backing vocals "Future World", "I Feel Good", "Barbarella Fortuneteller", "The Alibama" and "Kalimba De Luna".
    Amy Goff - backing vocals "10.000 Lightyears", "Dizzy" and "Kalimba de Luna"
    Elaine Goff - backing vocals "10.000 Lightyears", "Dizzy" and "Kalimba de Luna"
    Bill Swisher - narrator on "Wild Planet"
    Sandy Davis - lead vocals "Dizzy", "The Alibama" (promotional-only LP version)
    Mrs. Hanson and Children - additional vocals on "Exodus"
    Max Greger - keyboards
    Curt Cress - drums
    Bronwen Collins - bassoon
    Johan Daansen - guitar
    Mats Björklund - guitar
    Pit Löw - keyboards
    Christian Schneider - saxophone
    Kristian Schultze - keyboards
    Dino Solera - saxophone
    Munich String Orchestra - orchestra
    London Philharmonic Orchestra - orchestra

Italian disco music act Baby's Gang released in 1983   Happy Song . Happy Song hit the charts a year later when covered by German band Boney M.

Boney M original singers Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett did not participate in the recording. Session vocalists La Mama (Patricia Shockley, Madeleine Davis and Judy Cheeks) did the additional female vocals. The single gave the group their final German Top 10 hit single (#7), their first in nearly four years. 

Madeleine Davis wrote the lyrics for the new Precious Wilson single " I Don't Know "

Artist Precious Wilson
Type Single
Released May 1982

I captured your heart and then I went away
From the beginning I planned not to stay
What kind of love do I have it's a puzzle to me

You were possessive and jealous of me
You are the man, so you have to be free
What kind of love that we feel it's a puzzle to me

This strange kind of love that we feel it's a puzzle to me

I don't know why I treat you so bad
I don't know why you make me so sad
I don't know why we waste all our time
I don't know why our love is so blind
I don't know what it is that we have

I don't know
Said I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know

We met in a disco three years ago
You wanted to marry me but now I don't know
What kind of love do I feel it's a puzzle to me

This strange kind of love that we feel it's a puzzle to me

I don't know why I treat you so bad
I don't know why you make me so sad
I don't know why we waste all our time
I don't know why our love is so blind
I don't know what it is that we have

I don't know
Said I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know

The first song with new member Reggie Tsiboe on lead vocals was an uptempo cover version of a Jimmy Cliff track Going Back West. An early mix had only vocal group La Mama (Cathy Bartney, Patricia Shockley, Madeleine Davis ) on backing vocals.

Madeleine Davis , die in Columbus, Georgia, geboren wurde und aufgewachsen ist, begann ihre Karriere im Kindertheater am berühmten Springer Opera House, SOPHISTICATED LADIES und anderen Springer-Produktionen.

Sie hat in vielen Fernseh-, Film- und Theaterpräsentationen mitgewirkt, darunter:

GYPSY, A CHAINSAW CHORUS LINE XMAS CAROL, DIE HARVEY MILK SHOW, BABES IN ARMS, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, DIE 1940er RADIO STUNDE  und ARMED FORCES PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT.

Madeleine Davis wurde zur klassischen Sängerin ausgebildet und wurde Mitglied des ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS, unter der Leitung des inzwischen verstorbenen Robert Shaw.

Als sie immer weiter die Karriereleiter nach oben stieg, bot man Madeleine Davis Ende der 70er Jahre an, nach München zu ziehen, wo sie schnell zur gefragtesten Background-Sängerin/Arrangeurin in Europa wurde.

Sie arbeitete für namenhafte Produzenten wie Ralph Siegel, Michael Kunze, Tony Monn, Giorgio Moroder, Sylvester Levay, Frank Farian und vielen anderen.

Madeleine Davis war als Backgroundsängerin auf Tourneen mit Peggy March, Michael Schanze, Hoyt Axton, Penny McLean, Klaus Doldinger, La Bionda, Claudja Barry, Rick Astley, Dusko Lokin, Amanda Lear, Englebert, Barclay James Harvest, Precious Wilson, Terence Trent D'Arby, Chilly, Sydney Rome, Roberta Kelly, Joan Orleans, Michael Holm, Michael Schanze, Heino , Roberta Kelly.

1981 gründete Madeleine Davis zusammen mit Patricia Shockley, Kathy Bartney und Rhonda Heath die Gruppe LaMama, die vor allem durch ihre Singles "Elephant Funk", "In And Out", „Chanson D´Amour", "Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi (Lady Marmelade)" bekannt wurde. Während seiner Zeit in der Gruppe LaMama bat Frank Farian (Produzent von Milly Vanilli, Boney M., La Bouche) LaMama, sich an neuen Songs für Boney M. auszuprobieren.

LaMama wirkte bei vielen Boney M.- Songs als Backgroundsänger mit -  darunter auch bei „Going Back West“, „I Feel Good“, „Barbarella Fortuneteller“, „The Alibama“, „ Happy Song “, „Todos Buenos“ und „Give It Up“.

1989 wurde Madeleine Davis von den Mitgliedern der Gruppe Boney M (Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams und Bobby Farrell) kontaktiert und ihr wurde angeboten,   die Stelle der Leadsängerin Liz Mitchell zu übernehmen.

Heute – über 30 Jahre später – tourt Madeleine Davis  noch immer durch die Welt.

2020 unterzeichnete Boney M. featuring Madeleine Davis eine exklusive Vereinbarung mit Nene Musik Productions, Llc. "Ich freue mich sehr, Boney M. featuring Madeleine Davis zu vertreten. Seit Jahren bin ich mit „La Bouche“ unterwegs und nun haben sich die Wege mit Madeleine und uns gekreuzt. Sie ist eine großartige Sängerin und Entertainerin -  und wir freuen uns, eine weitere Legende in unserer musikalischen Familie zu haben“, sagt Ruben Dario Martinez (CEO von Nene Musik).

Wenn Madeleine Davis nicht auf Tournee ist (sie ist auch Jazz und Blues-Sängerin) , gibt sie Klavier- und Gesangsunterricht, ist zudem auch Vorsitzende des Ma Rainey International Blues Festival in Columbus, Georgia.

La Mama commenced work in 1981 on their first album, produced by Dietmar Kawohl and Mats Björklund. The Double A-side single "Elephant Funk" / "In and Out" was released in February 1982 ("In and Out" being the A-side on the 12" single) followed by a cover version of "Chanson D'Amour" a few months later. 

The single was released in December 1982, a cover of Labelle's "Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi (Lady Marmelade)". The group's LP Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec La Mama was released in January 1983.

During this time Madeleine Davis contributed lyrics for Precious Wilson's single "I Don't Know", the group also did backing vocals on Boney M.'s "Going Back West". 

Frank Farian had Madeleine Davis and Patricia Shockley of La Mama together with Judy Cheeks record a medley of contemporary hits for an Aerobics album Aerobic Fitness Dancing with instructions by Sydne Rome - the album topped the German charts early 1983.

During 1983, La Mama contributed again uncredited backing vocals to Boney M.'s seventh album Ten Thousand Lightyears on the tracks "I Feel Good", "Barbarella Fortuneteller" and "The Alibama". By the end of the year, Precious Wilson's final album for Hansa, Funky Fingers - a medley-album of popular R&B, soul and disco classics - was released. The first edition of the album credited just Precious Wilson while the second edition credited Precious Wilson & La Mama.

During 1984, La Mama backed Boney M. on the single "Happy Song" and participated as a part of Frank Farian Corporation on the benefit single "Mother and Child Reunion" early 1985. At this time ex-Silver Convention member Rhonda Heath stepped in for session work on Boney M.'s final album Eye Dance on which Madeleine Davis and Patricia Shockley of La Mama also took part. They sang the choruses on the tracks "Todos Buenos" and "Give it Up".

". Before the group finally split, Patricia Shockley and Rhonda Heath furthermore sang additional backing vocals on Far Corporation's hit single, a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven". 

In 1989, Madeleine Davis received a phone call by Boney M. member Maizie Williams who invited her to take the place of original lead singer Liz Mitchell who had just left the group. Davis appeared in the group's official video of "The Summer Mega Mix", toured extensively with the group and also sang on their 1989 single "Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker".

La Mama a German pop and disco trio who has been active in the first half of the 1980s. Their name had been adapted from New York theater La Mama Experimental Theater Club.

La Mama released three singles and two albums and worked as backing singers on a number of recordings for other artists e.g., Boney M.

Original members of La Mama where Madeleine Davis , Patricia Shockley and Kathy Bartney, all girls where from the USA and settled in Germany in the late 1970s.  

Frank Farian, Boney M founder, was impressed with the harmonies produced by Madeleine Davies Patricia Shockley and Kathy Bartney used La Mama to demo new songs for Boney M. - including doing one Boney M. recording, " Gadda-Da-Vida " with La Mama and himself doing all the vocals. Also several tracks on Boney M.'s 1981 album Boonoonoonoos (" Silly Confusion " in particular, " Don't Kill the World " and "Malaika") featured La Mama's unaccredited backing vocals.