Boney M charted worldwide hits with such songs as " Daddy Cool ", " Ma Baker " and " Rivers of Babylon ".

* Claire Trevor as Ma Barker in episode 1. 2 " Ma Baker and Her Boys "

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The lyrics by Fred Jay were inspired by the story of legendary 1930s outlaw Ma Barker, although the name was changed into " Ma Baker " because " it sounded better ".

With a structure similar to Boney M .' s breakthrough single " Daddy Cool " with the same gimmick percussion, alternating answer-back vocals, a spoken mid-part, the song also opened with a snarling " Freeze, I'm Ma Baker, put your hands in the air!

A sample of " Ma Baker ", particularly the chorus, is prominent in the 2008 RedOne-produced electropop international chart-topper " Poker Face ", by the American pop singer Lady Gaga.

Although the LP cover would also list the timing 4: 47 of " Ma Baker ", it was the much more common second single mix 4: 33 that was included in the album.

It was soon repressed with " Ma Baker " as the correct A-side and the album front cover photo for the artwork.

In Hungary, " Ma Baker " was backed with the follow-up single " Belfast ".

Just as in the case of " Ma Baker ", " Rivers of Babylon " established what was to become a habit of Boney M. singles, namely that the original pressings featured an early version that was soon replaced by a more widely available mix.

Its earliest star performers included singers Ethel Waters, Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Minto Cato, and Adelaide Hall ; comedian Tim Moore with his Chicago Follies company ( which included his wife Gertie ); the Whitman Sisters and their Company ; musicians Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Joe " King " Oliver, and Duke Ellington ; comics Sandy Burns, Salem Whitney Tutt, and Tom Fletcher ; future Paris sensation Josephine Baker ; songwriter and pianist Perry Bradford, the mime Johnny Hudgins ; dancers U. S. Thompson, Walter Batie, Earl " Snakehips " Tucker, and Valaida Snow ; comic monologuist Boots Hope ; and many others.

Over the years, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, Anita Baker, The Ballet Russe, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Lucrezia Bori, Dave Brubeck, Sandip Burman, Montserrat Caballé, Glen Campbell, Pablo Casals, Chicago, Van Cliburn, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Aaron Copland, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Doobie Brothers, Jackie Evancho, Horacio Gutierrez, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Dorothy Dandridge, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Renée Fleming, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, Jose Greco, Buddy Guy, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jascha Heifetz, John Houseman, Jennifer Hudson, Janis Joplin, The Judds, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yo-Yo Ma, Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Mandy Patinkin, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Peter, Paul & Mary, Robert Plant, Bernadette Peters, Oscar Peterson, Bonnie Raitt, David Sanborn, Beverly Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern, Sting, Elaine Stritch, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Clara Ward, Orson Welles, Frank Zappa and Denis Matsuev.

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On 22 June 2012, it was announced that McDonald is to star in the 2012 tour of the West-End musical Daddy Cool ( musical ) as Ma Baker.

He meets and falls in love with Rose who is the daughter of notorious East End club owner Ma Baker who is also the mother of Benny who is the leader of rival group the Blades.

# Ma Baker

*" Ma Baker ", song by Boney M

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

The Presto Ma non assai of the first trio of the scherzo is taken literally and may shock you, as the real Allegro con Spirito of the finale is likely to bring you to your feet.

The Tasmanian Seaway separates East Antarctica and Australia, and is reported to have opened to water circulation 33. 5 Ma.

The timing of the opening of the Drake Passage, between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula, is more disputed ; tectonic and sediment evidence show that it could have been open as early as pre 34 Ma, estimates of the opening of the Drake passage are between 20 and 40 Ma.

There is also a Syriac quarter outside of the old city, whose inhabitants originate from Midyat and Ma ' asarte in Turkey.

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359. 2 ± 2. 5 Ma ( million years ago ), to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299. 0 ± 0. 8 Ma.

The Cretaceous (, ), derived from the Latin " creta " ( chalk ), usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide ( chalk ), is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ( Ma ) ago.

The Cenozoic Era ( or ; also Cænozoic or Cainozoic ; meaning " new life ", from Greek kainos " new ", and zoe " life ") is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 65. 5 Ma to the present.

The Ma ' ans chose for their abode the Chouf District in south-western Lebanon ( southern Mount Lebanon Governorate ), overlooking the maritime plain between Beirut and Sidon, and made their headquarters in Baaqlin, which is still a leading Druze village.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a long book devoted to language and translation, especially poetry translation, and one of its leitmotifs is a set of some 88 translations of " Ma Mignonne ", a highly constrained poem by 16th-century French poet Clément Marot.

This extinction event lasted perhaps as long as 20 Ma, and there is evidence for a series of extinction pulses within this period.

These are proposed species names for fossils from about 1. 9 – 1. 6 Ma, whose relation to Homo habilis is not yet clear.

Often the early phase, from 1. 8 to 1. 25 Ma, is considered to be a separate species, Homo ergaster, or it is seen as a subspecies of Homo erectus, Homo erectus ergaster.

* H. antecessor is known from fossils from Spain and England that are dated 1. 2 Ma – 500 ka.

Nearly all modern non-African humans have 1 % to 4 % of their DNA derived from Neanderthal DNA, and this finding is consistent with recent studies indicating that the divergence of some human alleles dates to one Ma, although the interpretation of these studies has been questioned.

There is some evidence that the australopithecines ( 4 Ma ) may have used broken bones as tools, but this is debated.

There is no known evidence that any " Homo " specimens appeared by 2. 5 Ma.

Tsing Ma Bridge, part of Route 8 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 8, is List of longest suspension bridges | the world's longest rail and road suspension bridge s.

Although Abu Ma ' shar al-Balkhi | Abu Ma ' shar believed Ptolemy to be one of the Ptolemaic dynasty | Ptolemies who ruled Egypt after the conquest of Alexander the Great | Alexander the title ‘ King Ptolemy ’ is generally viewed as a mark of respect for Ptolemy's elevated standing in science.

Ma ' adkarib Ya ' fur's long title puts its truthfulness in doubt, however.

The 1982 August Wilson play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom took its title from her song of the same name recorded in December of 1927, which ostensibly refers to the Black Bottom dance of the time.

Metamagical Themas was also published in French, under the title Ma Thémagie ( InterEditions, 1988 ), the translators being Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, Jean-Luc Bonnetain, and Lise Rosenbaum.

The translation was published by InterEditions, in 1988, under the title Ma Themagie.

Liu Bei appointed Ma Chao as " General Who Pacifies the West " ( 平西將軍 ) and put him in charge of Linju, which befitted Ma Chao's previous title of " Marquis of Duting ".

In 221, Ma Chao was appointed " General of Agile Cavalry " ( 驃騎將軍 ) and governor of Liang Province, and received the title of " Marquis of Lixiang " ( 斄鄉侯 ).

Ma Chao was granted the posthumous nobility title of " Marquis Wei " ( 威侯 ) and the title was inherited by his son, Ma Cheng.

The Missa Caput is almost certainly an early work, since it follows on an anonymous English mass of the same title dated to the 1440s, and his late masses may include the Missa Ma maistresse and Missa Fors seulement, in view of both his innovative treatment of the cantus firmus, and his tendency to write more and more homogeneous textures later in his life.

The title Masnavi-I Ma ' navi means " Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning.

At this point, territories that Liu Xiu controlled were already impressive, compared to any other regional power in the empire broken apart by civil war — but he still carried just the title Prince of Xiao ( which Emperor Gengshi had created him ) and still ostensibly was controlling those territories as Emperor Gengshi's deputy, even as he was already engaging militarily against some generals ( e. g. Xie Gong-謝躬 ) loyal to Emperor Gengshi ( During this incident, Liu Xiu succeeded to persuade Ma Wu ( 馬武 ), who was the deputy of Xie Gong, to join him .).

With Ma dead and unable to defend himself, Emperor Guangwu stripped Ma of his marquess title and denounced him posthumously.

* Meor is a title inherited by the male issue of a Syarifah and non-Syed father and for female the first letter of the name comes with ' Ma ' as in " Ma Mastura ".

He also held his father's title of Great Chief of the Ma or Meshwesh, which is an Egyptian word for Berbers of Libya.

In direct address, a woman with the title Mrs. may be addressed Mrs., or with the stand alone Madam or Ma ' am, though these are most often used for all adult women regardless of marital status in modern conversation.

# A treatise on Resurrection under the Hebrew title " Iggeret " or " Ma ' amar Tehhiyath ha-Metim ";

# Three smaller treatises of Averroes, under the title " Sheloshah Ma ' amarim " ( edited by J. Herez, with German translation: " Drei Abhandlungen über die Conjunction des Separaten Intellects mit den Menschen von Averroes, aus dem Arabischen Uebersetzt von Samuel ibn Tibbon ," Berlin, 1869 ).