Cre~Olé: The Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts | |
Type: | compilation |
Artist: | Kid Creole and the Coconuts |
Cover: | Cre~Olé The Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts.jpg |
Released: | September 1984 May 1993 (re-release) |
Recorded: | 1979–1983, 1993 |
Genre: | New wave, disco |
Length: | 50:11 |
Label: | Island |
Producer: | August Darnell, Andy Hernandez |
Prev Title: | Doppelganger |
Prev Year: | 1983 |
Next Title: | In Praise of Older Women... and Other Crimes |
Next Year: | 1985 |
Cre~Olé: The Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts is the first compilation album released by the American musical group Kid Creole and the Coconuts. It was released on LP and Cassette in 1984 and reached number twenty-one on the UK Albums Chart.[1] A CD edition was released in 1990. The compilation was the group's last record released by Island Records in the UK. The group's following two album's were released by Sire Records in the UK and the US. It includes the single "Don't Take My Coconuts".
In 1993, the compilation was re-released on CD and Cassette with new artwork and the additional track "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby (Brothers in Rhythm 7" Remix)". The song was also released as a single to promote the album.