can someone recomend a good cd? Something new wave-ish and funky!

"Stool Pigeon" is the joint. I don't got a whole album of theirs to recommend though

i also vaguely remember a song called "endicott". it was good from what i can remember.

dancerella said:

oh riiiiight! I think that's their biggest hit

There's a CD called Kid Creole: Redux, a greatest hits CD that has songs like "Endicott", and "I'm A Wonderful thing" on it....

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Another good track is "Annie I'm Not Your Daddy". It's got a nice Caribbean, Funk/New Wave flavor to it.

"Why can't you be like Endicott?"

"Im a wonderful thing bayyyyybayyyyy"

seems like they have an interesting sound. new wave, funk, carribean....

dancerella said:

new wave???

CinisterCee said:

Agreed. And Endicott as well.

[quote]new wave???


alright, sorry, sheesh....

TheRealFiness said:

Classic stuff!!! "Stool Pigeon"....is on the same album. I've got it on vinyl.

August Darnell had mad hits up his sleeve. Remember Machine's "There But For the Grace of God Go I"?

abierman said:

Yes, New Wave.

I wouldn't call them New Wave; they were far more eclectic than that term would suggest. Nonetheless, I am a fan of Kid Creole. "I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby" is my favorite song by him. "Endicott" is a favorite as well.

Anyone remember "Male Curiosity"?


Another girl's arousing my...curiosity
Another girl's arousing my...male curiosity
And there's not a thing that I can do

SteamForest said:

Yep -- great song! He was also responsible for Odyssey's "Native New Yorker".

He and his brother did some great stuff as the songwriting duo behind Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band as well.

How about that song 'Take Me For A Night In New York', was that him or how was he involved? Certainly wouldn't want to call it new wave.....

paligap said:

this is a good point to start

todd305 said:

Odyssey's "Native New Yorker," like "Good Times" so quintessentially disco in its urbane attitude, was nonetheless totally unconventional in its lack of a 4-4 stomp, and it was singular in its accomplishment as a pop record. The song was produced by Sandy Linzer and Charles Callello and written by Denny Randell and Linzer, all noted for their long association with The 4 Seasons. Louise Lopez, Tony Reynolds, and lead singer Lillian Lopez had been introduced to them by Benny Benjamin, writer of "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire." Randell, who'd moved to the West Coast and returned to New York to be a songwriter, says the song was "one of the most heartfelt, emotional songs I ever wrote." It expresses both the sentimentality and unsentimentality of big city life in a touching, humane, realistic way: "No one opens the door -- no, sir -- for a native New Yorker." The Odyssey album was a kaleidoscopic urban portrait with clever, warm homages to the doo-wop era, the calypso craze, and traditional pop crooning, all meshed together with eclectic music and poignant, utterly contemporary lyrical themes -- in Randell's words, "a playground in which to bring jazz to pop and dance. That touch of jazz represents a part of New York -- sophisticated, yet you feel the street. Honesty and the street, that's what Lillian put into it."

abierman said:

Elbow Bones and The Racketeers...yes..I think he was involved in that one. Great song....not many people remember that one! I"m STILL trying to find that.

There's a great album,I don't know the title anymore,with a black cover and yellow letters.I think it's the first Kid Creole album.
It's got songs like "Yo no comprendo la musica Americana",and "If you want to stay happy for the rest of your life,never make a pretty woman your wife".That's a very good album!
I've seen a concert in '83 in Rotterdam,Holland:Absolutely great!!Talkin' about great front men...