Although I already own the original version of Stool Pigeon and this remix version, the double pack pictured here looked like an even more attractive package. Regular readers will know that I'm a sucker for limited edition packages, and especially when they are cheap. Well this one was 'two singles for the price of one', and in the second hand market, even less than that.
However, the second single serves only as proof that Kid Creole and the Coconuts are not necessarily an attractive package as a live act. Perhaps the quality of these recordings are to blame, but I find these two tracks rather clunky. Oh well, you can't win them all.
My collection: 7" single no. 5429
Found: unknown
Tracks: 'Stool pigeon (remixed version)' / 'In the jungle (remixed version)' // 'He's not such a bad guy (after all) (live version)' / 'There but for the grace of god go I (live version)'
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Monday, 8 December 2014
Monday, 17 November 2014
Stool pigeon - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
I featured Stool Pigeon five years ago on this very blog, but the version featured here actually predates that one. That one was a remix of this one. What's more, this single also features another hit, 'I'm a wonderful thing, baby'. The former reached number 7 in the UK singles chart, whereas the latter got to number 4.
This copy was actually in very bad shape when I got it, with dirty stains on the vinyl. Cleaned it up with some dishwashing liquid, and the result is a pretty clean piece of vinyl.
My collection: 7" single no. 5473
Found: unknown
Tracks: 'Stool pigeon' / 'I'm a wonderful thing baby'
This copy was actually in very bad shape when I got it, with dirty stains on the vinyl. Cleaned it up with some dishwashing liquid, and the result is a pretty clean piece of vinyl.
My collection: 7" single no. 5473
Found: unknown
Tracks: 'Stool pigeon' / 'I'm a wonderful thing baby'
Sunday, 27 September 2009
The lifeboat party - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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The single reached number 49 in the UK singles chart, but did not chart in other territories. Still, it's a fine party song.
My collection: 7" single no. 4084
Found: Marktplaats.nl, received September 25, 2009
Cost: 1 euro
Tracks: 'The lifeboat party' / 'Gina Gina'
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Endicott - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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While the single did not chart in the UK, it reached number 21 in the Dutch Top 40.
My collection: 7" single no. 4083
Found: Marktplaats.nl, received September 25, 2009
Cost: 1 euro
Tracks: 'Endicott' / 'Doowopsalsoboprock'
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Stool pigeon - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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And that's the title of this era-defining song by Kid Creole and the Coconuts. With latin sounds and a rather wordy lyric, they set the charts alight in 1982. The single reached number 7 in the UK singles chart and number 17 in the Dutch Top 40.
My collection: 7" single no. 2824
Found: February 1, 1997
Cost: ?
Tracks: 'Stool pigeon' / 'In the jungle (remix)'
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Annie I'm not your daddy - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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Thomas August Darnell Browder, who renamed himself Kid Creole in 1980, described his persona as 'inspired by Cab Calloway and the Hollywood films of the Thirties and Fourties. The Kid fills out his colorful zoot suits with style and grace, dancing onstage with his inimitable, relentless and self-proclaimed cool'. Well, a line like 'If I was in your blood, then you wouldn't be so ugly' is decidedly icy.
My collection: 7" single no. 3857
Found: Record fair, Den Haag, July 18, 2009
Cost: 0,5 euro
Tracks: 'Annie I'm not your daddy' / 'You had no intention'
Monday, 20 April 2009
My male curiosity - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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However, it was played regularly on the local radiostation I always listened to in 1984, and so it became engraved in my memory.
My collection: 7" single no. 3661
Found: Record fair, Utrecht, April 18, 2009
Cost: 0,5 euro
Tracks: 'My male curiosity' (Kid Creole & the Coconuts) / 'Making a big mistake' (Mike Rutherford)
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