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Daddy Cool (single)

"Daddy Cool"
Boney M. - Daddy Cool (1976 single).jpg
Single by Boney M.
from the album Take the Heat off Me
Released 1976
Format
Genre Disco
Length 3:28
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Frank Farian
Boney M. singles chronology
"Baby Do You Wanna Bump"
(1975)
"Daddy Cool"
(1976)
"Sunny"
(1976)
"Baby Do You Wanna Bump"
(1975)
"Daddy Cool"
(1976)
"Sunny"
(1976)
"Daddy Cool -
Anniversary Recording '86"
Boney M. - Daddy Cool (Anniversary Recording '86) (1986 single).jpg
Single by Boney M.
Released 1986
Format
Length
  • 5:18 (7" mix)
  • 9:07 (12" mix)
Label Hansa Records (FRG)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Frank Farian
Boney M. singles chronology
"Young, Free and Single"
(1985)
"Daddy Cool -
Anniversary Recording '86
"
(1986)
"Bang Bang Lulu"
(1986)
"Young, Free and Single"
(1985)
"Daddy Cool (Anniversary Recording '86)"
(1986)
"Bang Bang Lulu"
(1986)
"Daddy Cool '99"
Boney M. 2000 - Daddy Cool '99 (1999 single).jpg
Single by Boney M.
from the album 20th Century Hits
Released 1999
Format
Label BMG Records (FRG)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Frank Farian
Boney M. singles chronology
"Ma Baker (Boney M. vs. Sash!)"
(1998)
"Daddy Cool '99"
(1999)
"Hooray! Hooray! (Caribbean Night Fever)"
(1999)
"Ma Baker (Boney M. vs. Sash!)"
(1998)
"Daddy Cool '99"
(1999)
"Hooray! Hooray! (Caribbean Night Fever)"
(1999)
"Daddy Cool 2001"
Boney M. - Daddy Cool 2001 (2001 single) (UK).jpg
Single by Boney M.
from the album The Greatest Hits
Released 2001
Format CD single
Label BMG Records (United Kingdom)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Frank Farian
Boney M. singles chronology
"Sunny (Remix)"
(2001)
"Daddy Cool 2001"
(2001)
"Sunny (Mousse T. Remix)"
(2006)
"Sunny (Remix)"
(2001)
"Daddy Cool 2001"
(2001)
"Sunny (Mousse T. Remix)"
(2006)

"Daddy Cool" is a song recorded by Boney M. and included on their debut album Take the Heat off Me. It was a 1976 hit and a staple in disco music, and became Boney M.'s first United Kingdom hit.

It was the second Boney M. single, released in 1976, without making any major impact at first. It wasn't until a spectacular performance on the Musikladen TV show in September that the single became a hit, topping most European charts. It reached number six in the United Kingdom charts and number 65 in the United States Billboard Hot 100. The single also topped the German charts and reached the Top 20 in Canada. It proved to be the major European breakthrough of the band.

"Daddy Cool" was a novelty gimmick record with an unusual, percussive intro by producer Frank Farian doing rhythmic tic-tic-tics and playing on his teeth with a pencil. Farian also did sing all male voice parts (Bobby Farrell always danced to full playback). His characteristic deep voice sings: "She's crazy like a fool..." and is answered by the bright voices of Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett: "...wild about Daddy Cool". This line has been misheard by listeners as "...what about it Daddy Cool", so much that the band started singing it that way during live performances. The bass riff kicks in and builds to the instrumental theme followed by the repetitive, nursery rhyme-like verse and chorus twice.

The song breaks down into a spoken passage by Farrell before it goes back into the bass riff and repeats the verse and chorus for the last time. With its slightly hypnotic, repetitive bassline and strings and likewise repetitive, bright female vocals, the track is highly typical of mid-1970's "Munich disco".

Originally, Hansa Records wanted Boney M.'s cover of Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" as the A-side of the single but Farian - seeing that his own song was the clear winner when testing both tracks in his discothèque in St. Ingbert – managed to persuade the record company to have it his way. In the US, Hungary and Japan (where the single wasn't released until November), the single was backed by the album track "Lovin' or Leavin'", in East Germany the record was released in 1977, backed by their next hit "Sunny".


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