Kid Creole - Going Places - The August Darnell Years 1974-1983 flac album

Thomas August Darnell Browder was born in The Bronx, New York City, USA on August 12, 1950. His mother was from South Carolina with Caribbean and Italian parents and his father from Savannah, Georgia. As an adult, Thom Browder began going by his two middle names as August Darnell. By the second album they were accompanied by the Pond Life horn section Charlie Lagond, Ken Fradley, and Lee Robertson, as well as lead guitarist Mark Mazur. The album charted briefly, and subsequently Coati Mundi's early Latin rap "Me No Pop I", though not originally on the album, became a Top 40 UK hit single. Their breakthrough came with 1982's Tropical Gangsters, which hit in the UK and spun off three Top 10 hits with "Stool Pigeon", "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy" and "I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby. Liner Notes from "Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976–1983".

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Going Places captures his best moments in Kid Creole & the Coconuts and his endless array of side-gigs. The winner is Machine’s disco classic about white flight, There but for the Grace of God Go I, but Kid Creole’s wiseass funk on Going Places and their JBs ode, Double on Back, are nearly just as infectious. The camp sometimes boils too high; just cover your ears during I’m an Indian Too, unless Cher’s Half-Breed hits close to home. Going Places is yet another fine tourist brochure for Ed Koch’s New York.

Kid Creole & The Coconuts- Going Places (Zemix Version). 4. Cristina- Is That All There Is? 5. Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9- On a Day Like Today. August Darnell brother of Stony Browder of Doctor Buzzard's Savannah Band aka Kid Creole aka producer of Don Armando's Rhumba Band and the Aural Exciters proprieter of ZE Records the cult no-wave disco label that defined the 'Danceteria' sound starting in '79 before new wave was the norm, "Cherchez La Femme" was the Billboard pop hit in the 70's. sung by the genius Cory Daye. When you listen to this CD you know you're in the hands of a master.

Though the four cuts with Creole's name on them set the tone, it assembles side projects August Darnell oversaw for ZE, and double-damn if most don't hold up-Aural Exciters, Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band, Machine's fashionably charitable "There But for the Grace of God Go I," and the long-lost prize, Cristina's  . For longer than his dangerous lifestyle and surface success portended, Darnell was a visionary lyricist who considered all pop music his domain. He succeeded so well that even his rarities prove it. A