Kid Creole and the Coconuts discography
Studio albums14
Live albums1
Compilation albums7
EPs1
Singles27

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.

Studio albums

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
1981 Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places 180 40 99
1982 Tropical Gangsters
  • Labels: ZE, Island, Sire (released in the U.S. as Wise Guy)
145 43 9 18 6 18 6 22 3
1983 Doppelganger
  • Labels: ZE, Island, Sire
54 46 44 13 21
1985 In Praise of Older Women... and Other Crimes
  • Labels: Sire
1987 I, Too, Have Seen the Woods
  • Labels: Sire
1990 Private Waters in the Great Divide 56 39
1991 You Shoulda Told Me You Were...
  • Labels: Columbia
1993 KC2 Plays K2C
1995 To Travel Sideways
  • Labels: Hot Productions
Kiss Me Before the Light Changes
  • Labels: Hot Productions
1997 The Conquest of You
  • Labels: SPV Recordings
2001 Too Cool to Conga!
  • Labels: BMG Ariola München GmbH
2011 I Wake Up Screaming
  • Labels: Strut Records

Live albums

  • Oh! What a Night (Prism Platinum, 2000)

Compilation albums

  • 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

  • Christmas in B'Dilly Bay with Kid Creole and the Coconuts (Island, 1982)[B]

Singles

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]
"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]
"Don't Take My Coconuts"[D] 86 Cre~Olé - The Best of Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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)
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

Kid 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

Studio albums
Singles

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