• Goombay Dance Band is a German band created in 1979 by Oliver Bendt, named after a small bay on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. Their music has a...
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    performed at the Nassau International Airport for many years. The Goombay Dance Band help to popularise the musical style in the West in the early 1980s...
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  • Sun of Jamaica (category Goombay Dance Band songs)
    "Sun of Jamaica" is a song performed by German group Goombay Dance Band, written by Ekkehard Stein and Wolfgang Jass. The song was released at the end...
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  • Seven Tears (song) (category Goombay Dance Band songs)
    "Seven Tears" is a song by the Goombay Dance Band, released in 1981. It was released as the only single from their third studio album, Holiday in Paradise...
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  • Sun of Jamaica (album) (category Goombay Dance Band albums)
    of the Caribbean), is the debut studio album by the German group Goombay Dance Band, released in 1980 by CBS Records. The album achieved commercial success...
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  • a genre of electronic dance music Dance Band, a 1935 British musical film Goombay Dance Band, a German-based band of the 1970s This disambiguation page...
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  • Croatian-language covers of "Sun of Jamaica" and "Seven Tears", respectively, by Goombay Dance Band. Since his retirement from music in 1989, Domijan has been working...
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    the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. Here he had the idea for the Goombay Dance Band, which brought him his greatest successes in 1979/1980. The greatest...
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  • ongoing addiction to heroin, just a few days prior to the release of the band's Combat Rock album. He is replaced by original Clash drummer Terry Chimes...
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  • Dorado," a 2016 song by Marillion from FEAR "Eldorado", a 1980 song by Goombay Dance Band "El Dorado", a song by EXO "El Dorado", a 1988 song by Restless Heart...
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    Aloha ʻOe (category Goombay Dance Band songs)
    evidently added later: "Composed at Maunawili 1878. Played by the Royal Hawaiian Band in San Francisco August 1883 and became very popular." The first known recording...
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    lived and died there Oliver Bendt (born 1946), singer and founder of Goombay Dance Band, lives there Uwe Seeler (1936–2022), footballer, lived and died there...
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  • ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved May 10, 2023. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Goombay Dance Band)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 12 December...
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    a song from the album Holiday in Paradise (1981) by the German band Goombay Dance Band. The video game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors contains a six-chapter...
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    Club made up the top five. Singles by Musical Youth, Eddy Grant, Goombay Dance Band, Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder, and The Jam were also in the top...
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  • 1994 - L.M. Project in the album Dance in Italy Vol. 2 (Prandi Sound Records – CD - 002). 1995 - Goombay Dance Band, single (Columbia Records – COLSAMP...
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  • sestry 1991 Sun Of Jamaica Goombay Dance Band 1979 Léto je léto Helena Vondráčková Pavel Žák 1980 Sun Of Jamaica Goombay Dance Band 1979 Slunce života Jezinky...
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    band, had great critical and commercial success with their album Neon Golden. Boney M. Chilly Dschinghis Khan Mike Mareen Fancy Silent Circle Goombay...
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    Soufrière, Saint Lucia, Knoch is the daughter of Oliver Bendt, founder of Goombay Dance Band. Her mother is from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. Knoch grew...
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  • decision to make a dance-pop album with prominent disco influences at the height of American backlash against the latter genre renders the band a pariah in the...
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    to Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" being released at the same time. In addition, a new version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid...
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  • ISBN 9783030170349. Retrieved 2 March 2023. Waschko, Roman (8 May 1982). "Goombay LP Poland's Top Seller". Billboard. p. 57. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2...
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  • the 1970s and then later covered by various pop artists including Goombay Dance Band and Boney M. The Skadows from England released a version of the song...
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  • at number 13. The 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid was the best-selling single of the decade, and also became the biggest...
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  • charts. The song was a reworking of "Sun of Jamaica" by the German band Goombay Dance Band. Holiday subsequently hosted several music programs on television...
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  • Horner Child of the Sun, a song from the 1980 album Land of Gold by Goombay Dance Band. Children of the Sun (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Jürgens" Andrea Jürgens 14 January 21 January "Sun of Jamaica" † Goombay Dance Band "The Wall" † Pink Floyd 28 January 4 February "Another Brick in the...
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    Barkley United States "Crazy" 2006 9 Biggest selling single of 2006 Goombay Dance Band Germany "Seven Tears" 1982 3 GoonRock United States "Party Rock Anthem"...
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  • Schlümpfe", the German version of "The Smurf Song"), Nana Mouskouri, the Goombay Dance Band and many others. Dostal came to international fame as a co-writer...
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  • List of performers on Top of the Pops (category Lists of bands)
    (11 February) Toni Basil (18 February) The Associates (25 February) Goombay Dance Band (4 March) Pluto (11 March) Classix Nouveaux (18 March) Foster and...
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