What do you do when driving to work?  If you’re Liz Mitchell, the lead singer of Boney M, you sing your next big hit for the first time.  This is the story behind…Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord!

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For this episode, Drew Savage sat down with Boney M’s original lead singer, Liz Mitchell! Liz Mitchell walks us through the history of the song, and some fun facts behind the hit.

Mary’s Boy Child Oh My Lord this was about as instant a hit as you could get. Mary’s Boy Child was recorded originally in 1956 by Harry Belafonte and Oh My Lord was written later by Frank Farian from Boney M.

Liz Mitchell explains that the first time she ever sang Mary’s Boy Child was in the car ride on the way to the studio to work out how it would sound.

Liz Mitchell talks about the video and the white fur coats, and where they came from - and that Boney M performed Mary’s boy child, in the coats outside in the red square in Moscow.

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