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Mary Had a Little Boy

"Mary Had a Little Boy"
Mary Had a Little Boy Snap.jpg
Single by Snap!
from the album World Power
B-side Remix
Released December 10, 1990
Format CD Single
CD Maxi
Genre Eurodance
Length 3:41 (radio edit)
Label Logic Records
Writer(s) John "Virgo" Garrett III
Durron Butler
Penny Ford
Benito Benites
Producer(s) Benito Benitez
John "Virgo" Garrett III
Snap! singles chronology
"Cult of Snap"
(1990)
"Mary Had a Little Boy"
(1990)
"Megamix"
(1991)
Music video
"Mary Had a Little Boy" on YouTube

"Mary Had a Little Boy" is a song recorded by German Eurodance group Snap!. It was released as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album, World Power in December 1990. The song's lyrics are based on the nineteenth century Nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb. The chorus includes the line "Mary a little boy, little did she know and everywhere that Mary went, the little boy was sure to go".

The song was re-recorded and included on their in 2003, remix album, "The Cult of Snap!" featuring Milky & 2NF.

A music video was released to promote the song. Filmed at Westway Studios in London it was directed by James Hudson and produced by Nick Verden for Radar Films.

“Mary Had a Little Boy” peaked in the top 5 in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands.

List of RPM number-one dance singles of 1991

Former professional tennis player, Yannick Noah recorded a single in 1991, called Saga Africa and the song uses a sample of "Mary Had a Little Boy".


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