Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Encyclopedia
Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an American
musical group created and led by August Darnell. Its music incorporates a variety of styles and influences, in particular "American and Latin American
, South American, Caribbean
, Trinidadian, Calloway
" and conceptually inspired by the big band
era. The Coconuts are a glamorous trio of female backing vocalists whose lineup has changed throughout the years.
on August 12, 1950, his mother was from South Carolina and his father from Savannah, Georgia. As an adult, Thom Browder began going by his two middle names as August Darnell.
Growing up in the melting pot of the Bronx, Darnell was exposed early on to all kinds of music". Darnell began his musical career in a band named The In-Laws with his brother, Stony Browder Jr, in 1965, which disbanded so Darnell could pursue a career as an English teacher. Darnell obtained a masters degree in English, but in 1974 again formed a band with his brother Stony Browder Jr under the name Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
. Their self-titled debut release was a Top 40-charting album which was certified gold and was nominated for a Grammy.
Together, the Browder boys defied convention to invent a new breed of music. Of convoluted and deliberately obfuscated racial heritage, the brothers decided to promote their pan-genetic Creole Creed: a better, brighter reality that ignores gender and colour restrictions.
Darnell began producing for other artists, such as Don Armando’s Second Avenue Rhumba Band and Gichy Dan’s Beachwood No.9, before adopting the name Kid Creole (adapted from the Elvis Presley
film King Creole
) in 1980. The persona of Kid Creole is described as:
Kid Creole was to be "the larger-than-life central figure in a multi-racial, multi-cultural musical carnival
." The co-founders of the band were, August and his Savannah Band associate vibraphone player Andy Hernandez, also known as his "trusty sidekick" Coati Mundi
, who serves as his on-stage comic foil, as well as his musical director and arranger and Darnell's former wife Adriana "Addy" Kaegi
who was the leader, choreographer and costume designer of the Coconuts, co-writer Peter Shott on Piano who co-wrote their first hit "I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby", drummer and band member David Span, bass player Carol Colman and legendary Jamaican drummer Winston Grennan
, 'Bongo Eddie' Folk on percussion as well as the Pond life horn section Charlie Lagond, Ken Fradley and Lee Robertson. The original Coconuts- backing vocalist/dancers Adriana Kaegi, Cheryl Poirier, Taryn Haegy (who was replaced by Janique Svedberg). This line-up remained in place throughout the band's heyday.
Their debut album Off the Coast of Me was critically well-received but not successful commercially. The second release Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
was a concept album matched with a New York Public Theatre stage production; it received rave reviews, and Darnell was recognized as a clever lyricist and astute composer, arranger and producer. They performed "Mister Softee" on Saturday Night Live during their promotional tour for the album. The album charted briefly, and subsequently Coati Mundi's early Latin RAP "Me No Pop I", though not originally on the album, became a Top 40 UK hit single.
Their breakthrough came with 1982's Tropical Gangsters
, which hit #3 in the UK and spun off three Top 10 hits with "Stool Pigeon", "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" and "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby", written by musical director Peter Schott. "Dear Addy" also made the Top 40. In the US the album was retitled Wise Guy and reached #145, and "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby" flirted with the R&B charts.
Darnell subsequently produced spin-off albums for the Coconuts. Coati Mundi also released his solo L P before the fourth Kid Creole and the Coconut's album in 1983; Doppelganger was a relative commercial disappointment, despite the single "There's Something Wrong in Paradise" reaching the Top 40.
Darnell and Kaegi divorced in 1985, though she remained with the band. She and Cheryl Poirier also formed their own group, Boomerang, with Perri Lister
, which released an album on the Atlantic label in 1986. Darnell continued Kid Creole and the Coconuts and in the mid to late 1980s contributed to various film soundtracks and other such projects. He appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival
in 1986 and in this period released the albums In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes and I, Too, Have Seen the Woods, neither of which charted despite the hit "Endicott". 1990s Private Waters in the Great Divide, described by the NME
as "a return to form with inspired lyrics and buckets of the type of sexual innuendo that Creole has made his own", had a hit with the single "The Sex of It", a song written by Prince
and recorded at Paisley Park Studios with Sheila E. It reached Top 40 in the US and UK and is to date one of his best-known songs.
Kid Creole and The Coconuts have appeared in a number of films, such as Against All Odds (1984) and the Lambada
themed The Forbidden Dance
(1990); They also starred in a TV movie, "There's Something Wrong in Paradise" in 1984, based around their songs and produced for Granada Television
in the UK. Andy Hernandez has also made appearances in a number of films separately, and Adriana Kaegi produced and directed a documentary film about the band called Kid Creole and my Coconuts.
In 2008, for the last time, Kid Creole toured the UK starring in the stage show Oh! What a Night, a disco musical produced by Random Concerts.
Kid creole and the Coconuts new album entitled 'I WAKE UP SCREAMING' is due for worldwide release on September 13, 2011 on !K7/Strut records.
The single ' I DO BELIEVE' is out on July 19 available for download and at all surviving music stores throughout the U.K, Europe and the U.S.
Darnell has also been back in the studio, totally re-mixing and re-mastering his favourite Kid Creole songs spanning his whole back catalogue with Master ToKo and Lord highOwl from audio-visual electronica band [www.picturebookmusic.com].
Never released recordings are available http://reverbnation.com/augustdarnell
At the end of 2010 the Kid and his Coconuts toured Germany with The Night of the Proms
, also starring Boy George and Sir Cliff Richard. They previously appeared in the Night of the Proms in Holland and Belgium in 2007 with Chic, Macy Gray and Donna Summer.
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United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
musical group created and led by August Darnell. Its music incorporates a variety of styles and influences, in particular "American and Latin American
Latin American music
Latin American music, found within Central and South America, is a series of musical styles and genres that mixes influences from Spanish, African and indigenous sources, that has recently become very famous in the US.-Argentina:...
, South American, Caribbean
Caribbean music
The music of the Caribbean is a diverse grouping of musical genres. They are each syntheses of African, European, Indian and native influences, largely created by descendants of African slaves...
, Trinidadian, Calloway
Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer....
" and conceptually inspired by the big band
Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
era. The Coconuts are a glamorous trio of female backing vocalists whose lineup has changed throughout the years.
Career
Thomas August Darnell Browder was born in The Bronx, New York City, USAThe Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
on August 12, 1950, his mother was from South Carolina and his father from Savannah, Georgia. As an adult, Thom Browder began going by his two middle names as August Darnell.
Growing up in the melting pot of the Bronx, Darnell was exposed early on to all kinds of music". Darnell began his musical career in a band named The In-Laws with his brother, Stony Browder Jr, in 1965, which disbanded so Darnell could pursue a career as an English teacher. Darnell obtained a masters degree in English, but in 1974 again formed a band with his brother Stony Browder Jr under the name Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was a big band and swing influenced disco band, formed in the Bronx, New York. They are best known for their #1 US dance hit, "Cherchez La Femme"/C'est si bon, from their self-titled debut album....
. Their self-titled debut release was a Top 40-charting album which was certified gold and was nominated for a Grammy.
Together, the Browder boys defied convention to invent a new breed of music. Of convoluted and deliberately obfuscated racial heritage, the brothers decided to promote their pan-genetic Creole Creed: a better, brighter reality that ignores gender and colour restrictions.
Darnell began producing for other artists, such as Don Armando’s Second Avenue Rhumba Band and Gichy Dan’s Beachwood No.9, before adopting the name Kid Creole (adapted from the Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
film King Creole
King Creole
King Creole is a 1958 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The story was adapted from the Harold Robbins novel A Stone for Danny Fisher and featured Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. The film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed...
) in 1980. The persona of Kid Creole is described as:
Kid Creole was to be "the larger-than-life central figure in a multi-racial, multi-cultural musical carnival
Carnival
Carnaval is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February. Carnaval typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party...
." The co-founders of the band were, August and his Savannah Band associate vibraphone player Andy Hernandez, also known as his "trusty sidekick" Coati Mundi
Coati Mundi
Coati Mundi is the stage name of American musician Andy Hernandez, percussionist, notably playing the vibraphone, and member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, then of Kid Creole and the Coconuts. He scored the Top 40 UK hit "Me No Pop I" in 1981, just before the release of Tropical Gangsters...
, who serves as his on-stage comic foil, as well as his musical director and arranger and Darnell's former wife Adriana "Addy" Kaegi
Adriana Kaegi
Adriana Kaegi and at 18 moved to New York City to learn the art of entertainment. She co-founded the band Kid Creole and the Coconuts together with August Darnell and Coati Mundi Adriana Kaegi (born in Switzerland) and at 18 moved to New York City to learn the art of entertainment. She co-founded...
who was the leader, choreographer and costume designer of the Coconuts, co-writer Peter Shott on Piano who co-wrote their first hit "I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby", drummer and band member David Span, bass player Carol Colman and legendary Jamaican drummer Winston Grennan
Winston Grennan
Winston Grennan was a Jamaican drummer, famous for session work from 1962 to 1973 in Jamaica as well as later in New York City through the 1970s and '80s.-Career:...
, 'Bongo Eddie' Folk on percussion as well as the Pond life horn section Charlie Lagond, Ken Fradley and Lee Robertson. The original Coconuts- backing vocalist/dancers Adriana Kaegi, Cheryl Poirier, Taryn Haegy (who was replaced by Janique Svedberg). This line-up remained in place throughout the band's heyday.
Their debut album Off the Coast of Me was critically well-received but not successful commercially. The second release Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
-Personnel:* Kid Creole* Coati Mundi* Peter Schott* Marc Mazur* Carol Colman* Andrew Lloyd* Winston Grennon* Yogi Horton* Lori Eastside* Adriana Kaegi* Cheryl Poirier* Don Arnone* Dutch Robinson* Beverly Britton Brown* Don Hamilton...
was a concept album matched with a New York Public Theatre stage production; it received rave reviews, and Darnell was recognized as a clever lyricist and astute composer, arranger and producer. They performed "Mister Softee" on Saturday Night Live during their promotional tour for the album. The album charted briefly, and subsequently Coati Mundi's early Latin RAP "Me No Pop I", though not originally on the album, became a Top 40 UK hit single.
Their breakthrough came with 1982's Tropical Gangsters
Tropical Gangsters
-Personnel:* Horns, Strings - Carlos Franzetti* Assistant Engineer - Bruce Buchalter, Michael Sauvage* Chief Engineer - Bob Blank, Michael Frondelli* Executive Producer - Michael Zilkha* Lyrics By - August Darnell...
, which hit #3 in the UK and spun off three Top 10 hits with "Stool Pigeon", "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" and "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby", written by musical director Peter Schott. "Dear Addy" also made the Top 40. In the US the album was retitled Wise Guy and reached #145, and "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby" flirted with the R&B charts.
Darnell subsequently produced spin-off albums for the Coconuts. Coati Mundi also released his solo L P before the fourth Kid Creole and the Coconut's album in 1983; Doppelganger was a relative commercial disappointment, despite the single "There's Something Wrong in Paradise" reaching the Top 40.
Darnell and Kaegi divorced in 1985, though she remained with the band. She and Cheryl Poirier also formed their own group, Boomerang, with Perri Lister
Perri Lister
Perri Lister , is an English actress, dancer, and singer. She featured in her first film in 1980, and has since appeared in films and television series...
, which released an album on the Atlantic label in 1986. Darnell continued Kid Creole and the Coconuts and in the mid to late 1980s contributed to various film soundtracks and other such projects. He appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva...
in 1986 and in this period released the albums In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes and I, Too, Have Seen the Woods, neither of which charted despite the hit "Endicott". 1990s Private Waters in the Great Divide, described by the NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
as "a return to form with inspired lyrics and buckets of the type of sexual innuendo that Creole has made his own", had a hit with the single "The Sex of It", a song written by Prince
Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
and recorded at Paisley Park Studios with Sheila E. It reached Top 40 in the US and UK and is to date one of his best-known songs.
Kid Creole and The Coconuts have appeared in a number of films, such as Against All Odds (1984) and the Lambada
Lambada
Lambada is a dance from Pará, Brazil. The dance became internationally popular in the 1980s, especially in Latin America and Caribbean countries...
themed The Forbidden Dance
The Forbidden Dance
The Forbidden Dance is a 1990 drama film starring former Miss USA Laura Harring...
(1990); They also starred in a TV movie, "There's Something Wrong in Paradise" in 1984, based around their songs and produced for Granada Television
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
in the UK. Andy Hernandez has also made appearances in a number of films separately, and Adriana Kaegi produced and directed a documentary film about the band called Kid Creole and my Coconuts.
Present
Darnell now lives in Sweden and London, and still tours with the current Coconuts, Eva Tudor-Jones (Mama Coconut of 14 years from London), Jessica Forsman (From Finland, the newest member), Aimee Bramall (From London) and Bongo Eddie (the last standing original member). He is currently collaborating with writer/producer Peter Schott on a contemporary musical, to be produced by Son Of Kong Productions. The project features vocals/guitar by former Creole band member and rising star Mark Anthony Jones.In 2008, for the last time, Kid Creole toured the UK starring in the stage show Oh! What a Night, a disco musical produced by Random Concerts.
Kid creole and the Coconuts new album entitled 'I WAKE UP SCREAMING' is due for worldwide release on September 13, 2011 on !K7/Strut records.
The single ' I DO BELIEVE' is out on July 19 available for download and at all surviving music stores throughout the U.K, Europe and the U.S.
Darnell has also been back in the studio, totally re-mixing and re-mastering his favourite Kid Creole songs spanning his whole back catalogue with Master ToKo and Lord highOwl from audio-visual electronica band [www.picturebookmusic.com].
Never released recordings are available http://reverbnation.com/augustdarnell
At the end of 2010 the Kid and his Coconuts toured Germany with The Night of the Proms
Night of the Proms
Night of the Proms is a series of concerts held yearly in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Poland. Regularly there are also shows in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg...
, also starring Boy George and Sir Cliff Richard. They previously appeared in the Night of the Proms in Holland and Belgium in 2007 with Chic, Macy Gray and Donna Summer.
Best-known lineup
- August Darnell - vocals, guitar, bass
- Coati MundiCoati MundiCoati Mundi is the stage name of American musician Andy Hernandez, percussionist, notably playing the vibraphone, and member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, then of Kid Creole and the Coconuts. He scored the Top 40 UK hit "Me No Pop I" in 1981, just before the release of Tropical Gangsters...
- vibraphone, vocals - Cory DayeDr. Buzzard's Original Savannah BandDr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was a big band and swing influenced disco band, formed in the Bronx, New York. They are best known for their #1 US dance hit, "Cherchez La Femme"/C'est si bon, from their self-titled debut album....
- guest vocals - Cheryl Poirier - lead vocals
- Adriana Kaegi - vocals, choreography
- Taryn Hagey - vocals
- Eva Tudor-Jones - current Mama Coconut/choreographer
- Jimmy RippJimmy RippJimmy Rip is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer, who is known for his work with Jerry Lee Lewis, Mick Jagger, Michael Monroe and the former Television band leader Tom Verlaine.Rip began playing guitar at the age of six....
(Rippetoe) - guitar - Peter Schott - keyboards
- Carol Colman - bass
- Winston GrennanWinston GrennanWinston Grennan was a Jamaican drummer, famous for session work from 1962 to 1973 in Jamaica as well as later in New York City through the 1970s and '80s.-Career:...
- drums - Andrew Lloyd - percussion
- 'Bongo' Eddie Folk- percussion
- Simon 'Franco' Frost - Funk Bass
Studio albums
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| U.S. Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
U.S. R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
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| 1980 | Off The Coast Of Me
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| 1981 | Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places -Personnel:* Kid Creole* Coati Mundi* Peter Schott* Marc Mazur* Carol Colman* Andrew Lloyd* Winston Grennon* Yogi Horton* Lori Eastside* Adriana Kaegi* Cheryl Poirier* Don Arnone* Dutch Robinson* Beverly Britton Brown* Don Hamilton... Sire Records Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a... |
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| 1982 | Tropical Gangsters Tropical Gangsters -Personnel:* Horns, Strings - Carlos Franzetti* Assistant Engineer - Bruce Buchalter, Michael Sauvage* Chief Engineer - Bob Blank, Michael Frondelli* Executive Producer - Michael Zilkha* Lyrics By - August Darnell... |
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| 1983 | Don't Take My Coconuts
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| Doppelganger Doppelganger (Kid Creole and the Coconuts album) -Personnel:* The Boys In The Band - Adriana Kaegi, Bongo Eddie, Carol Colman, Charles Lagond, Cheryl Poirier, Coati Mundi, Dave Span, Ken Fradley, Kid Creole, Lee Robertson, Mark Mazur, Peter Schott, Taryn Hagey... |
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| 1985 | In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes
Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... |
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| 1987 | I, Too, Have Seen the Woods
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| 1990 | Private Waters in the Great Divide
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| 1991 | You Shoulda Told Me You Were
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| 1993 | KC2 Plays K2C
Kome Kome Club is a Japanese pop band formed in 1982. It is widely recognized as the only Japanese pop musical group which achieved commercial success by blending funk, soul and Latin musical styles. They also use the style of rakugo.-1982–1997: Commercial success:... ) |
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| 1995 | To Travel Sideways
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| 1996 | Haiti
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| 1997 | The Conquest of You
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| 2011 | I Wake Up Screaming
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Live albums
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| 2000 | Oh! What a Night
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| 2001 | Too Cool to Conga! Too Cool to Conga! Too Cool To Conga! is a studio album by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, released in 2001.-Track listing:All tracks composed by August Darnell# "Let's Jam!"# "Flip, Flop and Fly/My Gal's A Jockey"# "Man, Oh Man" # "Personal Assistant"... |
Compilation albums
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| 1984 | Cre-Olè: The Best of Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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| 1992 | Kid Creole Redux
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| 1993 | The Best of Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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| 2000 | Wonderful Thing
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| 2008 | Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983
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Singles
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| U.S. Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
U.S. Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs... |
U.S. R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
IRL Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... |
NL Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 1980 | "There But For The Grace Of God Go I" b/w "He's Not Such A Bad Guy (After All)" | — | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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| 1981 | "Going Places" / "In The Jungle" / "Table Manners" | Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places | – | 51 | – | – | – | – |
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| rowspan="3"| 1983
|align="left"| "Did You Have To Love Me Like You Did"
|align="left"| Don't Take My Coconuts
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|align="left"| "There's Something Wrong in Paradise"
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| rowspan="2"| 1984
|align="left"| "My Male Curiosity"
|align="left"| Against All Odds (soundtrack)
Against All Odds (soundtrack)
Against All Odds: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1984 film Against All Odds. The album includes the original score by Larry Carlton, as well as several tracks by artists popular at the time of the film's release...
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|align="left"| "Don't Take My Coconuts"
|align="left"| Cre~Olé - The Best Of Kid Creole And The Coconuts
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| rowspan="1"| 1985
|align="left"| "Endicott"
|align="left" rowspan="2"| In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes
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| rowspan="1"| 1986
|align="left"| "Caroline Was a Drop-Out"
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|align="left"| "Dancing at the Bain Douche"
|align="left"| I, Too, Have Seen The Woods
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|align="left"| "Hey Mambo" (with Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, and performer, best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana ."...
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|align="left"| Swing Street
Swing Street
Swing Street is an album by composer and singer Barry Manilow, released in 1987. Most of the tracks on the album featured Manilow in a duet with another singer. The tracks were recorded at various locations. The album only reached Gold, despite all the outside talent brought in to record it...
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|align="left"| "Pepito"
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| rowspan="2"| 1990
|align="left"| "The Sex of It"
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| rowspan="1"| 1991
|align="left"| "(She's A) Party Girl"
|align="left"| You Shoulda Told Me You Were...
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| rowspan="1"| 1993
|align="left"| "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby (Brothers In Rhythm
Brothers in Rhythm
Brothers In Rhythm is a house music duo consisting of producers / remixers and DJs Steve Anderson and Dave Seaman. As a duo and individually, they have remixed and/or produced tracks by Lulu, M People, Secret Life, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue, Garbage,...
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|align="left"| The Best Of Kid Creole And The Coconuts
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| rowspan="1"| 1997
|align="left"| "UFO"
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- A"Que pasa/Me No Pop I" is credited as Kid Creole and the Coconuts presents Coati MundiCoati MundiCoati Mundi is the stage name of American musician Andy Hernandez, percussionist, notably playing the vibraphone, and member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, then of Kid Creole and the Coconuts. He scored the Top 40 UK hit "Me No Pop I" in 1981, just before the release of Tropical Gangsters...
. - B"Dear Addy" is sometimes credited as the lead song on the EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
Christmas in B'Dilly Bay with Kid Creole and the Coconuts. - C"Did You Have To Love Me Like You Did" was credited to the bands side project The Coconuts.