Kid Creole And The Coconuts : Complete

Submitted by julesyoung on Fri, 03/30/2007 - 10:40
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  1. Kid Creole and the Coconuts Pictures, Images and Photos
  2. Kid Creole and the Coconuts are an American band created and led by August Darnell. Their music incorporates styles like big band jazz, disco, and in particular Caribbean/Latin American salsa. The Coconuts are a glamorous trio of female backing vocalists whose lineup changes throughout the years.
  3. Thomas August Darnell Browder (aka August _Darnell, aka Kid Creole) was born in Montreal, Canada, on 12 August 1950, and was raised in the Bronx.
  4. Darnell began his career in a band named The In-Laws with his half-brother in 1965, which disbanded so August could pursue a career as an English teacher. He obtained a masters degree, but in 1974 again formed a band with his half-brother under the name Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. They played to some initial success, reaching a gold and Top 40-charting album with their debut release, but could not match this on subsequent releases.
  5. Darnell began producing for other artists before adopting the name Kid Creole (from the Elvis Presley film King Creole) in 1980, and forming The Coconuts, a trio of female backing vocalist/dancers, including his wife Adriana Kaegi, and a band including vibraphone player Andy Hernandez aka Coati Mundi and legendary Jamaican drummer Winston Grennan. Cheryl Poirier joined that year as lead vocalist of the Coconuts, followed by Taryn Hagey as "Coconut #3" on background vocals in 1981. This line-up remained in place throughout the band's heyday. Hagey left the group in 1985 and was replaced by Janique Svedberg. Among the recurring Coconuts is Danish actress and musical star Gry Bay, who made headlines with her starring role in the feature film All About Anna (2005).
  6. Their debut album was the heavily disco-influenced Off the Coast of Me, which 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. The album charted briefly, and subsequently Coati Mundi's "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. 1983's Doppelganger was a relative commercial disappointment, despite the single "There's Something Wrong in Paradise" reaching the Top 40.

  7. CD's

  8. Off The Coast Of Me & bonus tracks 1980
  9. Off The Coast Of Me & maxi singles CD-R 1980
  10. Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places & bonus tracks 1981
  11. Tropical Gangsters 1982
  12. Tropical Gangsters & bonus tracks 1982
  13. Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places / Tropical Gangsters 2 CD
  14. Doppelganger & bonus tracks 1983
  15. In Praise Of Older Women And Other Crimes CD-R 1985
  16. I Too Have Seen The Woods CD-R 1987
  17. Private Waters In The Great Divide 1990
  18. You Shoulda Told Me You Were 1991
  19. To Travel Sideways 1995
  20. Haiti ( same as KISS ME BEFORE THE LIGHT CHANGES) 1995
  21. The Conquest Of You 1997
  22. Live And More ( same as Oh8 What A Night)2000
  23. Too Cool To Conga! (10 tracks) 2001
  24. Too Cool To Conga! (13 tracks) 2001
  25. Too Cool To Conga! (11 tracks) digipack 2001
  26. I Wake Up Screaming 2011
  27. COMPILATIONS
  28. Stool Pigeon (Live 9 tracks)
  29. Live (same as Stool Pigeon but 10 tracks)
  30. Cre-ole & maxi singles
  31. THE BEST OF
  32. 18 HITS
  33. Annie I'm Not Your Daddy (13 tracks)
  34. Annie I'm Not Your Daddy (17 tracks)
  35. Don't Take My Coconuts (9 tracks)
  36. Classic Universal Collection (18 tracks)
  37. The Ultimate Collection 3 CD SET
  38. The Coconuts & maxi singles (17 tracks) CD-R
  39. Coati Mundi - Little The Former 12 Year Old Genius CD-R
  40. CD SINGLES
  41. Anniversary Melody
  42. I Got My Handy On