Kid Creole & the Coconuts
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Kid Creole & The Coconuts was created and led by Thomas August Darnell Browder (aka August Darnel) of the Bronx. Darnel started his music career in the mid 1960's as a member of his brother's band, The In-Laws. Darnell left the band to purse an education in English, where he earned a Masters. By the mid 70's, he teamed up with his brother again in the band Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. Their music was different, and they put a spin on their racial heritage in an ambiguous way. It wasn't long before "Kid Creole" was born (named after the Elvis Presley film by the same name).
Kid Creole and the Coconuts debuted in 1980 with the album Off the Coast of Me. Their first songs to break the top 40 (dance charts) were "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby", "Stool Pigeon", and "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" from Tropical Gangsters (1982). Other noteworthy Kid Creole songs were "My Male Curiosity" from the Against All Odds movie soundtrack, "Endicott" from In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes (1985), and the songs "The Sex of It" and "I Love Girls" from the 1990 album Private Waters in the Great Divide.
Kid Creole and the Coconuts continued producing into the 1990's and beyond (a new album in 2011). Darnell also helped many of the members of his band with solo careers. At the time of this writing in 2013, Kid Creole and the Coconuts were still active in studio and on stage. The Kid Creole and the Coconuts Discography is as follows:
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- 1980: Off the Coast of Me
- 1981: Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
- 1982: Tropical Gangsters
- 1982: Christmas in B'Dilly Bay with Kid Creole and the Coconuts
- 1983: Doppelganger
- 1985: In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes
- 1987: I, Too, Have Seen the Woods
- 1990: Private Waters in the Great Divide
- 1991: You Shoulda Told Me You Were
- 1993: KC2 Plays K2C
- 1993: Cre~Olé: The Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts
- 1995: To Travel Sideways
- 1995: Kiss Me Before the Light Changes
- 1996: Haiti
- 1999: Classic Kid Creole & The Coconuts - The Universal Masters Collection
- 1997: The Conquest of You
- 2000: Wonderful Thing
- 2001: Too Cool to Conga!
- 2003: The Ultimate Collection
- 2008: Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983
- 2011: I Wake Up Screaming
- 2000: Oh! What a Night