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Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters (1982) [2002, Remastered with Bonus Tracks]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 26 Jan 2022 22:26:34

"Tropical Gangsters" is the 3rd album by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, released on May 10, 1982. Originally conceived as a solo album by band leader August Darnell and titled Wise Guy, his label ZE Records pressured him to change it to a Kid Creole and the Coconuts record and to make it more commercial sounding in order to relieve the label's financial problems. Despite the tensions this caused within the band and Darnell's complaint that the subsequent record was a "cop-out", the more dance-pop oriented sound helped it reached #145 on the Billboard 200 album chart, representing the group's commercial breakthrough in their home country. However, to the surprise of Darnell and his record company Tropical Gangsters was a huge success in Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and in particular the UK, where the album peaked at #3 in the UK Albums Chart and yielded three Top 10 singles. Tropical Gangsters made Darnell a worldwide star, and the album remains both his and the ZE label's most successful record by far.

~Wikipedia

Tropical Gangsters was the third album by Kid Creole & the Coconuts, released in the U.S. under the title Wise Guy, Kid Creole being the on-stage persona of August Darnell, the Latin Lothario dressed in a sharp suit and wide-brimmed hat backed by a troupe of female singers dressed for a Caribbean holiday, which included his wife, Adriana Kaegi. It was the thumping bassline and irresistible beat of the song "I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby" that finally broke him through to the big time, but even better was to come as Kid Creole released two of the better fun pop songs of 1982, "Stool Pigeon" and "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy," totally irresistible, danceable, easy to sing along to, and guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of pop dominated at the time by synthesizers and good-looking young men who looked more like girls. Darnell brought a cool sense of style to the charts of 1982, hitting number three with the album Tropical Gangsters and remaining in the Top Ten for 11 weeks. Unfortunately, the Coconuts are given little to do, although the female sassiness came through on the track "Loving You Made a Fool Out of Me." When it was finally released on CD in 2002, six extra tracks were added to the album, although these were mostly the 12" remixed versions of the hit singles and the track "Double Back," originally the B-side of "Stool Pigeon."

~Review by Sharon Mawer

Release of this album: 1982, May, 10 [LP Sire, ZE Records, Cat.# SRK 3681, USA]
Release of this CD: 2002, July, 30 [CD Island Records (EU), Cat.# 586 461-2, UPC: 731458646129]
℗&© 2002 Universal Island Records Ltd.
Made in the EU

Credits:

Arranged By [Horns, Strings] – August Darnell (tracks: 1, 3 to 11, 13 to 14), Carlos Franzetti (tracks: 1, 3 to 11, 13 to 14)
Artwork [Shell Drawings] – Gill Thompson
Conductor [Pond Life Orchestra] – Carlos Franzetti
Coordinator [Reissue] – Andy Street
Design [Repackaging] – The Whole Hog
Design [Sleeve Design] – Bruno Tilley
Engineer [Assistant] – Bruce Buchalter, Michael Sauvage
Engineer [Chief] – Bob Blank, Michael Frondelli
Executive-Producer – Michael Zilkha
Featuring – Andrew Lloyd , Angelica De La Luna, Charlie Lagond, Cheryl Poirier, Chris Wilshire, Clarence Banks, Dave Spann, Dutch-Robinson, Eugene Grey, Floyd Fisher, Jay Stovall, Lori Eastside, Mark Mazur, Perri Lister, Ronnie Rodgers, Sam Turner, Stephanie Fuller, Taryn Haegi, Winston Grennan, Yogi Hortan
Guest [Special Guest], Performer – Cory Daye
Lyrics By – August Darnell (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 14)
Music By – August Darnell (tracks: 1, 3, 5 to 14)
Other [Hair And Make-up] – Lori Barbaria
Other [Wardrobe] – Nouveaux Classix, Screaming Mimi's, Tropical Gangsters
Performer [Co-starring] – Adriana Kaegi, Carol Colman*, Jimmy Rippetoe, Peter Schott
Photography By – George DuBose
Producer – August Darnell
Remastered By – Keiron McGarry
Research, Compiled By [Compilation], Liner Notes – Daryl Easlea

Tracklist:

01. Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy (06:17)
02. I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby (05:16)
03. Imitation (04:12)
04. I'm Corrupt (04:11)
05. Loving You Made a Fool Out Of Me (04:51)
06. Stool Pigeon (05:01)
07. The Love We Have (05:14)
08. No Fish Today (04:56)
Bonus Tracks:
09. Christmas On Riverside Drive (From A Christmas Record) (04:21)
10. You Had No Intention (B-side Of Annie I'm Not Your Daddy) (04:48)
11. Annie I'm Not Your Daddy (Remix) (06:27)
12. I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby (Original 12" Mix) (06:13)
13. Stool Pigeon (12" Mix) (06:22)
14. Double On Back (B Side Of Stool Pigeon 12") (04:28)

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