1986 in British music cover of the disco song "Don't Leave Me This Way". The band included singer Jimmy Somerville who had previously enjoyed success with Bronski Beat, and later started a solo career. The Christmas number one single was something of a surprise, a re-issue of Jackie Wilson's 1957 single "Reet Petite". Wilson had died in 1984, but the song been re-issued after being used in a television advert for Levi's, with a new video made of a Claymation version of Wilson. Having first been released 29 years earlier, it broke the record for the longest time between a single being released and
The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs is a compilation/remix album by Boney M.. In 1986 producer Frank Farian took the master tapes from 1981's "Christmas Album", added six recordings by Liz Mitchell, Reggie Tsiboe and two session singers from 1984, remixed them and created "Die 20 schönsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt", internationally released as "The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs". The 1986 version of the Boney M. Christmas album has since been re-issued as "The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World" (1992), "A Wonderful Christmas Time" (1998) and "Christmas Party" (1998 and 2003). Side A Side B