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1979

On Boney M's 1979 album "Oceans of Fantasy", Michael Cretu did arrangements as well and one of the songs on the album - "Hold On I'm Coming" - featured Precious Wilson, the lead singer from the group Eruption. Frank Farian also produced Eruption ; and Michael Cretu produced "We Are on the Race Track" around the same time. In 1994 BMG Ariola released a Gold Collection of Eruption's best tunes that contained the track produced by Cretu. A bootleg of greatest hits by Eruption also exists by the name "I Can't Stand the Rain" (74321 24930 2 PC 200), 1996 credited as made in the USA on First Town Records. Precious Wilson covered such standard soul and disco classics as "Car Wash" by Rose Royce,"Le Freak" by Chic, "Respect" by Aretha Franklin, and "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack.


Still in 1979, Michael Cretu co-wrote, produced and released his first solo effort, the LP "Moon, Light & Flowers" ( on Polygram Records ), also credited to Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg. The album was co-written with Dylan Cross, and co-produced with Michael Th. Omilian and arranged by Michael Cretu. Some of the names contributing to the LP would later continue to appear on several projects involving Michael Cretu :

• Dicky Tarrach played drums and was later a member of the Moti Special quartet on the LP, "CD Motivation" ( CD Teldec 8.26166ZP, 1985 ) and "Dancing for Victory", the reunion project for Moti Special that was missing "Cretu and Thiers" ( CD Polydor 841 625.2, 1990 )
  
  
• Ken Taylor co-wrote the lyrics for most of the songs on HUBERT KaH's 1986 album "Tensongs", including the rather unusual "Pogo the Clown". He also played bass on "Explain the World in a Word" - ( Tensongs: Intercord Ton GmbH, CD INT 845.515. )
  
  
• Johan Daansen played 12-string guitar on "Moon, Light & Flowers", he also was a co-arranger for Boney M.
  
  
• Bessy Besser played guitar, synthesizer and bass on "Wild River" in 1979 later co-wrote the song "Heartbeat" from Sandra's 1985 first solo album "The Long Play".
  
  

In an interview she had given to the German magazine Bravo, Sandra recounted how she met Cretu as he toured as a keyboard player with her girl-group Arabesque - ( source: The Voice of Enigma web page ) and that would probably be between 1981 - 1982 At the time he had already produced "Moon, Light & Flowers" and "Der Kafe ist Fertig" by Peter Cornelius.

Michael Cretu ~ "the best thing about the internet is that with all the nonsense people write about every day, you don't have to kill as many trees these days anymore."

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