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* DolledUpInstallment: ''Tropical Gangsters'' was originally meant to be an August Darnell solo album called ''Wise Guy'', but ExecutiveMeddling forced him to release it under the Kid Creole banner. In America, it still retained the ''Wise Guy'' title.
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* TitleConfusion: "The Coconuts" refers to both the group in general, ''and'' the female backing singers specifically.
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* TitleConfusion: "The Coconuts" refers to both the group in general, ''and'' the female backing singers specifically.specifically.
* WrittenSoundEffect: The actual word "onomatopoeia" is sung repeatedly in the bridge of "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy".
* WrittenSoundEffect: The actual word "onomatopoeia" is sung repeatedly in the bridge of "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy".
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Played with in "Endicott", where the title character is presented as the ideal man ("Why can't you be like Endicott?") but there's also the suggestion that he's kind of boring.
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* PurityStu: In universe. The narrator of "Endicott" regards the title character as this and is mocked for failing to live up to the same standards.
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* PurityStu: PuritySue: In universe. The narrator of "Endicott" regards the title character as this and is mocked for failing to live up to the same standards.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Kid Creole and his Coconuts in 1982]]Kid Creole and the Coconuts are a long-running latin pop group from New York, revolving around singer/songwriter/producer August "Kid Creole" Darnell. Though critically acclaimed in their homeland, they achieved much greater success in Europe.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Kid Creole and his Coconuts in 1982]]Kid Creole and the Coconuts are a long-running latin pop group from New York, revolving around singer/songwriter/producer August "Kid Creole" Darnell. Already an experienced writer and producer, as well as a member of the BigBand-influenced {{Disco}} ensemble Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (with his brother Stony Browder and singer Cory Daye), Darnell and Dr. Buzzard percussionist Andy "Coati Mundi" Hernandez formed Kid Creole and the Coconuts in 1979, extending the eclectic musical stylings and clever humor that had been the trademarks of their previous band.
Though critically acclaimed in their homeland, they achieved much greater success in Europe.
Though critically acclaimed in their homeland, they achieved much greater success in Europe.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Kid Creole and his Coconuts in 1982]]Kid Creole and the Coconuts are a long-running latin pop group from New York, revolving around singer/songwriter/producer August "Kid Creole" Darnell. Though critically acclaimed in their homeland, they achieved much greater success in Europe.
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* EclipsedByTheRemix: ''Tropical Gangsters'' tracks "I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby", "Stool Pigeon" and "Annie I'm Not Your Daddy" were all substantially remixed for single release and are much better known in those versions.
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* EclipsedByTheRemix: ''Tropical Gangsters'' tracks "I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby", "Stool Pigeon" and "Annie I'm Not Your Daddy" were all substantially remixed for single release and are much better known in those versions.
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* PurityStu: In universe. The narrator of "Endicott" regards the title character as this and is mocked for failing to live up to the same standards.
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: This is how the storyline of ''Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places'' concludes.
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* TitleConfusion: "The Coconuts" refers to both the group in general, ''and'' the female backing singers specifically.
* TitleConfusion: "The Coconuts" refers to both the group in general, ''and'' the female backing singers specifically.
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Kid Creole and the Coconuts are a long-running pop group from New York, revolving around singer/songwriter/producer August "Kid Creole" Darnell. Though critically acclaimed in their homeland, they achieved much greater success in Europe.
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Kid Creole and the Coconuts are a long-running latin pop group from New York, revolving around singer/songwriter/producer August "Kid Creole" Darnell. Though critically acclaimed in their homeland, they achieved much greater success in Europe.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Their debut single "Mister Softee" is about a man making excuses for not being able to get it up.
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Most albums have at least one song with someone other than Darnell taking the lead vocal. When Andy Hernandez was in the band, he usually got a couple of lead vocals per album. Apart from the title track, the Coconuts album ''Don't Take My Coconuts'' was a whole LP of this for the female backing singers.
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* LatinLover: The Kid Creole character is portrayed as one, though with more self-deprecation than is typical for the trope.
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* BrutalHonesty: "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" has the narrator telling Annie in forthright fashion that she's the result of her mother's holiday fling. By the end, the honesty is getting brutal indeed:
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* BrutalHonesty: "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" has the narrator telling Annie in forthright fashion that she's the result of her mother's holiday fling. By Despite Annie's exhortation to "break it to me gently now / don't forget I'm just a child", by the end, end the honesty is getting brutal indeed:
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* SelfPlagiarism: The Coconuts song "Ticket to the Tropics" reuses the backing track from "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy".
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* ProductionPosse: Many people who Darnell worked with prior to forming the group also turn up on Kid Creole and the Coconuts records. At some point this has included every other member of his previous group Doctor Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and most of the musicians he worked with when he was an in-house producer at Ze Records in the late 1970s.
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* IHaveManyNames: The Kid's real name is Thomas August Darnell Browder, and out of character he's usually known as August Darnell, but he also goes by Tommy Browder. His stage persona is usually Kid Creole, but he's also used King Creole - and on some albums, he's credited for different roles under all four names.
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* ProductionPosse: Many people who Darnell worked with prior to forming the group also turn up on Kid Creole and the Coconuts records. At some point this has included every other member of his previous group Doctor Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and most of the musicians he worked with when he was an in-house producer at Ze Records in the late 1970s.
* RearrangeTheSong: Several songs that Darnell originally wrote for other artists were reworked for the early Kid Creole and the Coconuts albums, usually undergoing a GenreShift from disco to latin.
* RearrangeTheSong: Several songs that Darnell originally wrote for other artists were reworked for the early Kid Creole and the Coconuts albums, usually undergoing a GenreShift from disco to latin.
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Kid Creole and the Coconuts are a long-running pop group from New York, revolving around singer/songwriter/producer August "Kid Creole" Darnell. Though critically acclaimed in their homeland, they achieved much greater success in Europe.
!!Tropes in the work of Kid Creole and the Coconuts:
*BrutalHonesty: "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" has the narrator telling Annie in forthright fashion that she's the result of her mother's holiday fling. By the end, the honesty is getting brutal indeed:
-->Had mama left, and not confessed\\
Perhaps I'd love you too\\
...See if I was in your blood\\
Then you wouldn't be so ugly
* ConceptAlbum: ''Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places'' has a storyline about the Kid and his bandmates travelling around various fictional islands in search of his true love Mimi.
*MamasBabyPapasMaybe: "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" is about this and mentions the trope by name.
*TheStoolPigeon: The song "Stool Pigeon" is about a mobster who is convinced by the FBI to be [[HiddenWire wiretapped]] and chat with his old associates about the "good old days" in exchange for money and freedom. The plan succeeds, but the last verse states that the snitch is unable to enjoy his newfound riches with anyone as a result:
-->[[WitnessProtection He got a spanking new identity]]\\
And a condo down in Miami'\\
He bought a plane, a boat and jewelry\\
But he couldn't buy any company
!!Tropes in the work of Kid Creole and the Coconuts:
*BrutalHonesty: "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" has the narrator telling Annie in forthright fashion that she's the result of her mother's holiday fling. By the end, the honesty is getting brutal indeed:
-->Had mama left, and not confessed\\
Perhaps I'd love you too\\
...See if I was in your blood\\
Then you wouldn't be so ugly
* ConceptAlbum: ''Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places'' has a storyline about the Kid and his bandmates travelling around various fictional islands in search of his true love Mimi.
*MamasBabyPapasMaybe: "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" is about this and mentions the trope by name.
*TheStoolPigeon: The song "Stool Pigeon" is about a mobster who is convinced by the FBI to be [[HiddenWire wiretapped]] and chat with his old associates about the "good old days" in exchange for money and freedom. The plan succeeds, but the last verse states that the snitch is unable to enjoy his newfound riches with anyone as a result:
-->[[WitnessProtection He got a spanking new identity]]\\
And a condo down in Miami'\\
He bought a plane, a boat and jewelry\\
But he couldn't buy any company
