Video from the NDR show Die aktuelle Schaubude recorded on 30.10.1976
“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 sang 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 multilayered voices of Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett: “…wild about Daddy Cool”. This line has been misheard by listeners as “…what about Daddy Cool”, so much so that the band started singing it that way during live performances.[2] The bass riff kicks in and builds to the instrumental theme followed by the repetitive, nursery rhyme-like verse and chorus twice.
“Daddy Cool” is a song produced and co-written by Frank Farian who had founded the group Boney M. to visually perform to his songs on TV and while touring discos. Farian also provided the male voice parts on the record.
“Daddy Cool” – Single by Boney M. from the album Take the Heat off Me
B-side “No Woman, No Cry”
Released 31 May 1976
Songwriters Frank Farian, George Reyam
Producer Frank Farian
Charted No.65 US; No.6 UK; No.1 West Germany; No.1 NOrway; No.1 France; No.5 Australia; No.1 Belgium; No.1 Spain; No.1 Sweden; No.3 Italy.
