Motherless Child - Boney M

[Bastian78]

can anybody tell me the history of this song ?

Was this song released as single ? Was it in 1977 ?
Was it a hit ?

I found 2 different version on 2 different Boney M collection.

Was this song popularized bu any other artist ? Tom Jones did a cover of this song in his reload album, so i assume this song is quite popular, is that true ?

thanks

[shenkin2001]

:o
More info about literary analys of spirituals(incl.this song)
you can find on www.gwu.edu - it's very old song and was
arranged for us H.T.Barleigh.
Frank Farian used this song for second Boney M album
Love For Sale(1977 Hansa/Ariola<now BMG)- lead vocal by
Liz Mitchell.No charts.No singles.Also on :More Gold1994 CD(BMG)Hit Collection(3 CD/1996/BMG)...
More than 200 performers used this song - I like Martin
L.Gore(Depeche Mode/1 st solo EP) version and also Eric
Clapton,Ike&Tina Turner,Bobby Womack,Sarah Vaughen;
Peter,Paul & Mary....

[Bastian78]

But in the songwriter credit it was written Farian/Mitchell.

The album version is much better than the version found More Gold.