Christmas Time (Boney M. album) Christmas Time (Boney M. album) Christmas Time is another Christmas compilation by Boney M., released 2008, containing most of the songs from their original 1981 "Christmas Album" plus a selection of songs recorded in 1984 for the album "Christmas with Boney M. (1984)". For the first time released on CD since the mid-1980s are both the full original 1981 versions of "White Christmas" and "Feliz Navidad". "Jingle Bells" is however presented here in a 30 seconds shorter version and "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" is an edited remix dating back to 1992. "Darkness Is Falling", "Oh Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)",
A Lively Christmas Eve that reminded him of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". He also noted that it was the only pre-1989 East German picture to make a satirical reference to the Stasi. Joe Perry, who researched the Christmas costumes in Germany, considered "Ach, du Fröhliche..." as an example to the SED's attempt to uphold the holiday's traditions as a time of familial bonding while completely rejecting any religious connotation. A "Socialist miracle" of reconciliation between oneself and the leading ideology replaced the Christian-inspired one. The film presented the Christmas costumes of East Germany, that were a readjustment of the old tradition: the fir