The discography of American musical group Kid Creole and the Coconuts created and led by August Darnell includes fourteen studio albums, one live album, seven compilations, one extended play and twenty-seven singles. The small discography of The Coconuts – Kid Creole's backing singers – consisting of two studio albums and three singles is included on this page.
| Kid Creole and the Coconuts discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 14 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 7 |
| Singles | 27 |
Studio albums
edit| Year | Title | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US R&B [1] |
FR | GER [2] |
NL [3] |
NOR [4] |
NZ [5] |
SWE [6] |
SWI [7] |
U.K. [8] | |||
| 1980 | Off the Coast of Me
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| 1981 | Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
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180 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 40 | – | 99 | |
| 1982 | Tropical Gangsters
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145 | 43 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 22 | – | 3 | |
| 1983 | Doppelganger
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– | – | – | 54 | 46 | – | 44 | 13 | – | 21 | |
| 1985 | In Praise of Older Women... and Other Crimes
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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
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| 1995 | To Travel Sideways
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Kiss Me Before the Light Changes
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| 1997 | The Conquest of You
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| 2001 | Too Cool to Conga!
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| 2011 | I Wake Up Screaming
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Live albums
edit- Oh! What a Night (Prism Platinum, 2000)
Compilation albums
edit- Cre~Olé: The Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts (ZE, Island, 1984) UK #21[8] (Re-released in 1993 with a bonus track)
- Kid Creole Redux (Sire, London, Rhino, 1992)
- Haiti (Viceroy Music Europe, 1996) (Compilation of tracks from 1995's To Travel Sideways and Kiss Me Before the Light Changes)
- Classic Kid Creole & The Coconuts - The Universal Masters Collection (Island, 1999)
- Wonderful Thing (Spectrum Records, 2000)
- The Ultimate Collection (CCM, 2003)
- Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983 (Strut Records, 2008) (Compilation of August Darnell's work with Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and production work)
- Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Anthology Vols. 1 & 2 (Rainman Records/RED, 2009) (Compilation of remixed and/or re-imagined Kid Creole and Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band selections)
- Nothin' Left But The Rest (2C2C, 2021) (Reissue of August Darnell's 1996 solo album The Kid and I, with bonus tracks. This compilation was issued under the Kid Creole & The Coconuts band name, despite no musical participation from the Coconuts.)
Extended plays
edit- Christmas in B'Dilly Bay with Kid Creole and the Coconuts (Island, 1982)[B]
Singles
edit| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US Club Play [10] |
US R&B [10] |
AUS[11] | FR [12] |
GER [13] |
IRL [14] |
NL [3] |
NZ [5] |
UK [8] | |||
| 1980 | "He's Not Such a Bad Guy (After All)" | – | 53 [A] |
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| "There But For the Grace of God Go I" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| "Maladie D'Amour" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Off the Coast Of Me | ||
| "Que Pasa" / "Me No Pop I"[B] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 48 | – | 32 [15] |
Mutant Disco: A Subtle Discolation of the Norm | |
| 1981 | "Latin Music" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places |
| "I Am" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 76[16] | ||
| "Going Places" [C] | – | 51 [C] |
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| 1982 | "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby" | – | 18 [E] |
44 | 82 | – | – | – | 21 | 49 | 4 | Tropical Gangsters/Wise Guy |
| "Stool Pigeon" | – | 25 | – | – | – | – | 15 | 19 | 8 | 7 | ||
| "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" | – | 18 [E] |
– | 89 | – | 45 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 2 | ||
| "Dear Addy" [F] | – | – | – | – | – | – | 22 | – | – | 29 | Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places | |
| 1983 | "There's Something Wrong in Paradise" | – | – | – | – | – | – | 29 | – | – | 35 | Doppelganger |
| "If You Wanna Be Happy" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| "The Lifeboat Party" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 49 | – | 49 | ||
| 1984 | "My Male Curiosity" | 110 | 23 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 83 | Against All Odds (soundtrack) |
| "Don't Take My Coconuts"[D] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 86 | Cre~Olé - The Best of Kid Creole and the Coconuts | |
| 1985 | "Caroline Was a Drop-Out" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes |
| "Endicott" | – | 21 | – | – | 28 | – | – | 28 | – | 80 | ||
| 1987 | "Dancing at the Bain Douches" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | I, Too, Have Seen The Woods |
| 1988 | "Hey Mambo" (with Barry Manilow) | 90 | – | – | – | – | 20 | – | 16 | – | – | Swing Street (Barry Manilow album) |
| "Pepito" | – | – | – | – | 24 | – | – | – | – | – | — | |
| 1989 | "People Will Talk" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | New York Stories (soundtrack) |
| 1990 | "The Sex of It" | – | 19 | 85 | – | – | – | – | 31 | – | 29 | Private Waters in the Great Divide |
| "I Love Girls" | – | 29 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1991 | "(She's A) Party Girl" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | You Shoulda Told Me You Were... |
| 1993 | "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby (Brothers In Rhythm Remix)" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 60 | Cre~Olé - The Best of Kid Creole and the Coconuts (Re-issue) |
| 1997 | "UFO" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | — |
| 2011 | "I Do Believe" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | I Wake Up Screaming |
- Notes
- A^ "He's Not Such a Bad Guy (After All)", "There But For the Grace of God Go I" and "Maladie D'Amour" charted together as a triple-sided single on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
- B^ "Que pasa" / "Me No Pop I" is credited as 'Kid Creole and the Coconuts presents Coati Mundi'. It was originally released in 1980 on Antilles Records before being re-released on ZE/Island and charting in the summer of 1981.
- C^ "Going Places (Zemix)" charted as a triple-sided single on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart together with "In the Jungle" and "Table Manners".
- D^ "Don't Take My Coconuts was originally released in 1983, on the Coconuts album "Don't Take My Coconuts", before being released as a single in 1984, to promote the compilation Cre~Olé - The Best of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
- E^ "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby", "I'm Corrupt" and "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" charted together on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
- F^ "Dear Addy" is sometimes credited as the lead song on the EP Christmas in B'Dilly Bay with Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
The Coconuts
editKid Creole wrote and produced an album for his backing singers 'The Coconuts' in 1983. The three-piece consisted of Adriana Kaegi, Cheryl Poirier and Taryn Hagey. A second album was released in Japan in 1991.
- Studio albums
- Don't Take My Coconuts (EMI America, 1983)
- Killer Bees (Creole/Nippon Columbia, 1991)
- Singles
- "Did You Have to Love Me Like You Did" b/w "Hats Off to Citizen K" (1983) UK #60[17]
- "Ticket to the Tropics" b/w "Kriminal-Tango" (1983)
- "If I Only Had a Brain" b/w "Indiscreet" (1983) US #108
August Darnell as producer
edit- Studio albums
- Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band – Meets King Pennett (RCA, 1978) (associate producer)
- Aural Exciters - Spooks in Space (ZE, 1979)
- Gichy Dan's Beachwood # 9 - Gichy Dan's Beachwood # 9 (RCA, 1979)
- Machine - Machine (RCA, 1979)
- Cristina - Cristina (aka Doll in the Box) (ZE, 1980)
- Funkapolitan - Funkapolitan (London, 1982)
- The Coconuts - Don't Take My Coconuts (EMI America, 1983)
- Elbow Bones and the Racketeers – New York At Dawn (EMI America, 1983)
- Singles
- James White and The Blacks - "Contort Yourself" (ZE, 1979)
- Cristina - "Is That All There Is?" (ZE, 1980)
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