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― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You must have seen my profile somewhere to post this. I love them more than words can say.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No,Joe I had no idea. I was listening to a James De La Cruz of the Avalanches spin a mix and he threw some of it in there. Bought the cd and thought it was pretty damn cool.

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what is it? who are they? sounds like it could be good. more info please!

― gareth, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Disco rarely got more musically or lyrically sophisticated than on this self-titled debut album. Long before he took up the role of Kid Creole with the Coconuts, wordsmith August Darnell cushioned small, perfect truths--singer Cory Daye promises to get her "equivalency diploma" in love in "I'll Play the Fool"--in knowingly retro sounds. Stylish, honest, and completely one of a kind.

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

lifted that from amazon.

― Poops Mcgee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always thought the "disco" tag is a bit unfair. They are a 70's band that makes dance music, but they're not comparable to Chic. The bands made of 2 brothers who are obsessed with Tin Pan Alley styled songwriting. The drums come off closer to tribal or Brasilian. Corey Daye's voice set the template for Swing Out Sister or Basia later on. I advise getting their greatest hits as the enitire 1st album is on it, but you also get other gems. They also had a carnation as "Gichey Dan's Beechwood #9" that produced an incredible track. I do like Kid Creole but I find Dr. Buzzard to be far more enjoyable and rich.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weren't Disco Tex and The Sex-o-letts essentially the same folks?

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree Joe. The drums on Sunshower really have a tribal feel to them, very cool.

― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Weren't Disco Tex and The Sex-o-letts essentially the same folks?"

No, Disco Tex was Monti Rock III--hairdresser, cabaret performer, frequent Johnny Carson guest, the DJ (for a brief few seconds) in 'Saturday Night Fever'...nothing to do with Kid Creole/Dr. Buzzard, though.

More Monti Rock data here:

http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/010227/dreams.shtml

― s woods, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Weren't Disco Tex and The Sex-o-letts essentially the same folks?"

Nahh. Tex is from Miami and Darnell/Bowder are Native New Yorkers. Which ties "Odyssey" (who was 1 hit wonder with "Native New Yorker") & Disco Tex's "Get Dancing" together as both of those songs were Dr. Buzz rip-offs. I actually had a freind whose studio time was scheduled after Tex's in Miami so he chatted with him for a while. Corey Daye appeared briefly on the last Towa Tei alum!

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you SURE "Get Dancin" is a Dr. Buzzard rip? I'm at work and don't have any reference guides handy, but I seem to think "Get Dancin" is '74 or '75, while the first Dr. Buzzard album is (definitely) 1976. ? ?

― s woods, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah the Disco Tex LP is 74 or 75, on Chelsea. the key people behind it were Kenny Nolan and Bob Crewe (who wrote Lady Marmalade, among others)

― michael, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe Get Dancing isn't a DB rip...I was unawre of the years. I just reconized the '30-40s style melody in both.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I ALSO meant to bring up Bob Crewe in each of my posts but failed. I like to point out he's the man behind the Barbarella theme :)

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they're both pastiches of 20s/early 30s stuff done in a disco-ish style. you really need the whole of the Disco Tex LP to get the benefit of the thing, not just the Get Dancin' single. excellent fake crowd noises throughout!

― michael, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Similarities between Chic and Dr. Buzzards (making them not equal to Disco Tex but somewhat equal to mid-period Roxy Music): stylish, dapper, elegant, nostalgic! Abused terms they made (more than) the best of. Downside: Blue Rondo a la Turk.

― s woods, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just thought that August Darnell was involved in Disco Tex somehow.

btw, Do we need a seperate Kid Creole and The Coconuts thread?

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blue Rondo a la Turk=my favorite Dave Brubeck song!

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic.

BTW, I read an interview with Donald Fagen where he says "Glamour Profession" was written after listening to Dr Buzzard for a week.

― dave q, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But it's the band Blue Rondo I'm talking about! Which, consider yourself blessed if you know nothing about them (though "Klactoveesedstein" or whatever you call--I own the 45 somewhere--was almost the cat's pyjamas).

I've heard "Sunshower" sampled on at least two different hip-hop songs in the last year. Anyone know what they are? I'm racking my brain here.

― s woods, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"BTW, I read an interview with Donald Fagen where he says "Glamour Profession" was written after listening to Dr Buzzard for a week"

That's funny because I've always connected the 2 in some weird way also. I made a mixed tape when I first leaned of DB that was nothing but Steely Dan & DB.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I've heard "Sunshower" sampled on at least two different hip-hop songs in the last year. Anyone know what they are? I'm racking my brain here"

I didn't know about Sunshower being sampled...I know 1 of the Wutes (Wu-Tang) did a "kina-cover" of Chez Chez La Famme as did Lauren Hill on the 1st Funkmaster Flex commercially available mixed tape. Japanese acid jazz group UFO sampled Mister Love in their song LOVE. I can't recall any others yet.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Monte Rock III was another of my father's unusual acquaintances in the 70's. I wish I could remember the funny story about him...

― Sean, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Monte Rock III was another of my father's unusual acquaintances in the 70's. I wish I could remember the funny story about him... "

I can remember some funny stories about Rocky III...oh wait, no I can't. I'ma go listen to that Cornershop song again for a refresher course.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To me it's one of pop life's great injustices that Kid Creole and the Coconuts (and all their precursors and spinoffs, including Dr. B) are essentially a minor footnote. All they will be remembered for is the campy Endicott, despite producing some extraordinary work such Latin Music/Musica Americana. Did anyone else notice how much Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5 sounded like KC? Or how much the Spice Girls' Say You'll Be There sounded like the Coconuts?

― Paul Woods, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ghostface Killah of Wu Tang did a semi-cover of Cherchez La Femme, "Cherchez Le Ghost." His new album has a very similar semi- cover of "Sunshower" entitled "Ghostshower." I'm hoping he ends up covering the whole album eventually. I'll play the ghost, lemon in the ghost, We Ghost it Made, You're got Ghost, Lemon in the Ghost.
Wasn't Native New Yorker written or cowritten by August Darnell? That would explain the similarities.

― Chris H., Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't looked into if August Darnell co-wrote Native NYr...but your post was damned funny.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

From Salon.com: (don't blame me for the crack about Native New Yorker)
A pair of Haitians in the Bronx, Stony Browder Jr. and his brother Thomas (who renamed himself August Darnell), formed Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band in 1974 with singer Cory Daye as the centerpiece. Her voice was light and limber, given to tripping scat rather than roars and moans, and the group's music was an effortless blend of big-band swing, jump blues, show tunes, and Caribbean boogie. The album begins with Stony hissing "Zoot Suit city!" and Darnell has described the liberation he felt the first time he put on baggy yellow pants and a wide-brim hat. The outfit was the perfect mask to unleash the brothers' creativity, and "Dr. Buzzard's" was the first release in many years to suggest that the pop-music past was not dead, an object of nostalgia or ridicule, but held untapped freedom.
The debut album was an optimistic glimpse of a partytime society that never came to pass. The male and female revelers were happy chameleons who tried on cultures, romantic roles, and historic attitudes with childlike insouciance. Darnell sassed his lovers constantly, but he was such a layabout scamp ("Mr. Softee" was one later persona) that he never seemed brutish. And Cory Daye demolished every trouble with a smile, a sigh, or a shrug. She's such a joyful, confident ironist that it can be heartbreaking to hear the old sides now, because time has brought about a sad change.
Dr. Buzzard made a dull second record and never recovered airplay. The brothers had a falling out and Darnell went on to make wondrous albums all through the '80s as Kid Creole and the Coconuts. But he was lots bigger in Europe than here, and many tours were canceled. Now Darnell, like Daye and Browder before him, has fallen silent. The band's manager, mentioned in the first lines of "Cherchez la Femme," was Tommy Mottola, who went on to become the president of CBS Records and Mr. Mariah Carey -- not the sort of fellow associated with (as the song describes him) "blowing his mind on cheap grass and wine."
It would be a sin to lump Dr. Buzzard in with one-dimensional imitators like Odyssey ("Native New Yorker"), or worse, hapless campers like Tuxedo Junction ("Chattanooga Choo Choo") from the same era. Darnell, Browder, and Daye's cultural kaleidoscope is far too vivid and desirable to become another disco relic.

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the other "Sunshower" sample (aside from Ghost's) is on De La Soul's AOI: Bionix

― M. Matos, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

by the way, anyone know where I can find a copy of Cory & Me, the 1979 Cory Daye solo album?

also, mad props must be given to Machine (another Darnell thang) for "There But for the Grace of God Go I"--ILM's theme song?

― M. Matos, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Gories do a great rock version of "There But For The Grace of God Go I" too. Never knew it was a Darnell song til today.

― fritz, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"by the way, anyone know where I can find a copy of Cory & Me, the 1979 Cory Daye solo album? "

CC me on this whoever answers with a way to get it! If anyone missed it, I did post earlier that she was on Towa Tei's track "Finest Turntable".

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

De La Soul--yes, thanks!

I never saw the Salon thing when it came out, but this line strikes me as odd (or maybe just stupid):

"The debut album was an optimistic glimpse of a partytime society that never came to pass."

Oh, so disco and the late '70s never actually happened?

― s woods, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Oh, so disco and the late '70s never actually happened? "

Well, maybe that line applies to the idea that they exaggerated the "art deco chic" of the retro 70's.

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

De La Soul also sampled "Hard Times" on "It Ain't Hip to be Labeled a Hippie," a great 3 Ft High & Rising era reworking of "Me Myself & I." It's a b-side, can't remember which single.

― Chris H., Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Hard Times" is a beautiful song.

― s woods, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

About Disco Tex: Why are they such a joke? They're pretty bad I guess, but why did Roir or whoever pick them to be the whipping boy of disco? God knows there's worse. I think that deep down Roir knows that the album is way better than most of the crap the put out free of ironic distance. What did they call is, sublimely bad or something? Not fair.

― giantwimp, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

revive. i listened to Hard times today.

― bulbs (bulbs), Monday, 18 October 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad has a record of this band. I didn't really want to touch it.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 18 October 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dance music so sophisticated you forget it's sophisticated.

― mucho, Monday, 18 October 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i usually find the trappings of "sophistication" turn me off. and this certainly bears those trappings. but somehow i like it.

― bulbs (bulbs), Monday, 18 October 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh heh. I wrote that Amazon review +/- ages ago. A sliver of time one morning after I made an executive decision that we needed some "content" on the record. Oddly, or not, I still don't own it on CD.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 18 October 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

"Sophisticated" or not, the record's just so *touching*.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 18 October 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Dr. Buzzard and the best-of are ones to start with, but good bits on all their albums (paying yardsale prices enhances this impression) I checked out the LP (doesn't seem to have been a CD?) of CORY AND ME, from my local library. Great, except for the sound quality. Could have been a bad pressing, but yknow some things just get *dated* and you can't go back that far. I took it back without taping, then thought again, but the library had sold off all their vinly to a dealer! Damn. Darnell linked the pop art ingenuity of P-Funk and the best disco to the uppity mad gossipy (pre-rap as "CNN of the ghetto) verses of calypso, plus other aspects of international pop, which he helped invent, to white American and some white UK ears. Like in some Brit zines and weeklies of the early 80s, when Kid Coconut seemed most sucessful, Darnell gets mentioned all the time, and although the English Beat and Specials were part of that too, and the jazzy aspect of post-punk and ska-related stufffinding not only Rip Rig & Panic but pop like Pigbag, Madness, and Beats International's LET THEM EAT BINGO, which wasn't as elliptically sardonic, word-wise, as Darnell's songs, but def. had that carnivlaesque mix of stlyistic elements. Def. also see the links to Steely Dan, Chic and Disco Tex (who had at least a couple more albums after GET DANCIN'; A PIECE OF THE ROCK being the best later effort, as I recall, tho def yardsale prices still the best enhancer).

― don, Monday, 18 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The best writing on GET DANCIN' I've ever seen was by Frank Kogan, in an early issue of WHY MUSIC SUCKS (maybe it'll be in his book too). He brilliantly Sherlocked what the whole album was about, while having actually heard only two minutesof the title track, on a K-Tel comp at that. I knew how right he was cos I had the LP, so I sent it to him as a wedding present. Remember in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, Monti was also the judge of the disco contest, which Revolta realizes he won because it was rigged against Puerto Ricans. Might not recognize Monti, because he's got this huge mustasche, and a Superfly hat. I also saw hima few years ago on "The Howard Stern Show." He said he used to get beat up back in Puerto Rico, not for being gay, but for trying to get tough guys to take his preacher mom's pamphlets. Howard kept trying to grill him about being a hustler in 50s Nueva York.Monti:"They paid not to have sex with me! Because I couldn't shut up! It worked out great!" He also had steady hairdresser and DJ gigs in Miami (and Acapulco too, I think), when this show was taped,back in the 90s. My favorite story about him came from a book about Warhol, when this hustler from the Factory (who usually came on, "You want to meet Andy?") got hustled by a guy who asked, "You want to meet Monti?" The Factory dude was so disappointed, cos he thought he was gonna see MRIII, but only got Montgomery Clift!

― don, Monday, 18 October 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

A LOT OF GOOD HIP HOP SONGS SAMPLED THIS GROUP LIKE GHOSTFACE'S CHERCHEZ LE GHOST.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 18 October 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Don, Tony Toni Tone's "Dance Hall" reminds me a lot of Darnell's internationalist approach. There are maybe echoes of his distinct intelligence on some others 'Sons of Soul' cuts, too.

I never linked Kid Creole with the 2-Tone stuff and the other stuff you mentioned; Darnell's music seemed too much its own thing to be roped into a movement, but I can see what you're getting at.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Auguest Darnell + post- 2-Tone UK disco = Funkapolitan

And there's a whole other side of 2-Tone that's only tangentially related to Ska but comes out of the british post-punk funk scene, like the Higsons and the Appolonaires.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the first Dr. Buzzard record immoderately. Such a great, joyous album. The other two have their moments as well. I myself LOVE "Endicott, " and "Consequently," from "You Shoulda Told Me You Were..." This stuff always makes me smile.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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sort of embarrassed that i never listened to this band before but the s/t is fuckin magical

― max, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:26 (sixteen years ago)

Sort of embarrassed that I didn't go to see them thirty years ago at the Greek Orthodox Church on Northern Boulevard when I had the chance, but I was still benighted by the disco sux0r mentality.

― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)

Or maybe this is a false memory infected by an outtake of Summer Of Sam.

― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

ehh at this point you might as well just tell everyone you saw em, eventually youll convince yourself that you were there, and isnt that just as good

― max, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n54/n271007.jpg

― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

By which I mean to say, of course, that you are wise beyond your years.

― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:09 (sixteen years ago)

sort of embarrassed that i never listened to this band before but the s/t is fuckin magical

― max, Sunday, November 22, 2009 5:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its really the best thing ever imo

― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Monday, 23 November 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

no, second album is best thing ever. oh okay first album is best thing ever too.

― scott seward, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)

It never occurred to me to check out any of the other albums until I read this thread. I've just got the second album which is almost as good. I've got the third one on the way, I can't wait to hear it.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

it's great!

― scott seward, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)

Did you ever get the fourth album? I noticed there's a few on sale on ebay at the moment.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

no, not yet. it's only a matter of time. it's on my cratedigging radar.

― scott seward, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah I think I won't be far behind in getting that. I don't know why I never thought of getting the other albums, I love the debut which I first read about on here. At the moment I'm getting all my recommendations from ILM, I've been almost working my through the Full length disco albums thread you started. Some amazing albums I can't believe I've never of on there, I keep hoping someone will revive it soon.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

I just listened to the fourth album the other night. Every so often I pull it out and think (hope), "Maybe this time it will kick in for me." It never does. For completists only. And then only if you’re a total diehard.

― mottdeterre, Monday, 23 November 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

Main problem: the sound on it is just atrocious. The whole thing is drenched in this inexplicable reverb.

― mottdeterre, Monday, 23 November 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

I got the third album last week and I just love it. I'd say it's better than the second album but not quite as amazing as the first one but then not many albums are as perfect as that.

I really want to hear the Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band album does anyone know where it might be available online anywhere?

I probably should post this on the Kid Creole or Ze records thread but I heard the August Darnell compilation today and the track by Gichy Dan's Beachwood Band blew me away. Anyone know if the album is any good or available anywhere other than for 30 pounds on Ebay?

I'm totally obsessed with this sound at the moment I also just got the Aural Exciters album and ordered the Coati Mundi album.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:24 (sixteen years ago)

The Gichy Dan album is good, but I'd say just a notch less wonderful than the best of the OSB stuff. The Don Armando album is fantastic, super white hot! It's also worth hunting down the 12"-single extended versions of "Deputy of Love" and "I'm an Indian, Too" as both improve on the album versions. Another obscure world of August Darnell album worth hunting down:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eMdPAakixwM/Sr2gn59tIPI/AAAAAAAAAOM/4avGkM3QEsQ/s400/Coconuts+-+Don%27t+Take+My+Coconuts.jpg

― mottdeterre, Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

I have the title track of that on a compilation somewhere, I never knew there was an full album to go a long with it. That's another one for the list then. Cheers for the recommendation I just want more and more of this stuff.

I really wish they would put some of it out on CD. They did a great job on the reissues of the first four Kid Creole albums a few years back and there's been a few good Ze compilations recently but I would like some of the actual albums. Some of them are pretty expensive and I can't find many downloads of them anywhere either.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:12 (sixteen years ago)

This is a great place to start:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51c61uB4kGL._SS400_.jpg

― mottdeterre, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:29 (sixteen years ago)

xpost to Kitchen Person:

The entire Don Armando's 2nd Ave. Rhumba Band is available as a digital download on the Ze Records website, zerecords.com

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 4 December 2009 02:10 (sixteen years ago)

Other than finally owning a copy of Machine's "There But For the Grace of God Go I," that Darnelle comp paled beside the first four Kid Creole records.

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 December 2009 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

The Darnell comp is somewhat misleading: it's not meant to represent Dr. Buzzard or Kid Creole and the Coconuts. But it does collect together a lot of the Darnell-related ephemera that would cost you zillions to buy on eBay.

― mottdeterre, Friday, 4 December 2009 16:57 (sixteen years ago)

The entire Don Armando's 2nd Ave. Rhumba Band is available as a digital download on the Ze Records website, zerecords.com

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, December 4, 2009 2:10 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

Thanks for the tip off. The whole Ze website is pretty cool shame a lot of the stuff is out of stock. I'm looking forward to hearing that album.

I listened to that compilation, it's really good it's actually partly responsible for making me even more obsessed with this type of music. I'm so in love with that Gichy Dan song especially the last minute, it's beautiful.

I've ordered Coati Mundi's album and I downloaded the Coconuts album Mottdeterre mentioned. It's absolutely wonderful and it sounds better than Doppleganger from the same year which I'm not a massive fan of. I've also found the Cory Daye album which I'm looking forward to playing.

Ive searched for the Gichy Dan album and all I found was a broken link on a guys blog.

Are either of the Machine albums worth hearing?

― Kitchen Person, Friday, 4 December 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

Machine had one truly great moment: "There But for the Grace of God Go I," which is readily available. The rest is forgotten because it’s eminently forgettable.

― mottdeterre, Friday, 4 December 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

Flipping through the booklet in the Hall & Oates box set, I was surprised to see Darnell compliment Daryl Hall's voice and songwriting (Hall returns the compliment by admitting that he stole the chord sequence of a Kid Creole song)

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 December 2009 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha43A6agYZw

― fat ass idiot butt munch (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 26 February 2010 04:22 (sixteen years ago)

WHOA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF4qdIrgG2A

― fat ass idiot butt munch (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 26 February 2010 13:39 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

you did themambothechahabolerotherhumbathetangothecongathediscothesamba

― d4n, d4n, d4n (yaosah, yaosah, yaosah) (The Reverend), Monday, 23 August 2010 04:06 (fifteen years ago)

august darnell, you fucking genius

― d4n, d4n, d4n (yaosah, yaosah, yaosah) (The Reverend), Monday, 23 August 2010 05:55 (fifteen years ago)

starting to think DBOSB Goes to Washington might be their best

― king boy swag (The Reverend), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

hearing them sing

Stonio, Augustino
Corio, Andio, Mickio

so joyously in unison at the end of their last record is such a bittersweet ending. like really, is that supposed to be the sound of a band-ending rift developing?

― king boy swag (The Reverend), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

the yankee stumblebum neonazi

― king boy swag (The Reverend), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)

Love these albums. Need to relisten to 'em.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Bored, so I decided fuck the fuck of it to create an 8 tracks account and create a playlist.

I used August Darnell to test it out. Here're 8 Dr. Buzzard related tracks, chosen by me:

http://8tracks.com/pappawheelie/august-company

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:47 (fourteen years ago)

haha good thing i checked your mix first, was literally just about to post 'rainy day boy' for the fun of it

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

solution: play weird schmaltzy stuff instead of beardo disco

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 05:36 (2 years ago) Bookmark

why oh why will no one heed this sage wisdom

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KqndcpjQSek/S0OSQBH1vmI/AAAAAAAAW8g/GlxjWaMeX4g/s400/Cory+Daye+-+Cory+%26+Me.jpg

WAU this sleeve!!

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:12 (fourteen years ago)

!!! amen !!!

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

Whoa. Am I the last to know about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpgQRnTulqY

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 September 2011 12:54 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeGqKYHZ8X0

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 September 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

On Dinah Shore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLQwvh4hDdI

― Cal Jeddah (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 25 September 2011 14:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://carolcooper.org/music/kidcreole-83.php

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 September 2011 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ circa 1983, about Browder & Darnell working together post Dr. Buzzard.

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 September 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)

Also, 1994:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFtxjJKU-4

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 September 2011 16:43 (fourteen years ago)

i bought the elbow bones album just last weekend! productionwise not as dope as dr. buzzard (live drums would suit better i think), but good songs. i like it.

'cory and me' is very cool. the cover is super nice as noted - airbrush mania! and i cannot get enough of cory's voice!!

― spacemindy, Monday, 26 September 2011 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

think i have played 'hard times' maybe 15 or 20 times now

something about the luxuriant spaciousness of this track, a large room without too much furniture

― Maggishos soyfriend. Wins. (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 19 October 2013 12:04 (twelve years ago)

seven years pass...

OH I'M SORRY DID SOMEONE SAY ALLTIME CLASSIC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbGWBmInrvA

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:28 (five years ago)

Man, I have a tasty beverage and a few discs I want to listen to (currently Wilson Pickett’s last, It’s Harder Now) but now I’m distracted, thinking I could be listening to Dr. Buzzard.

― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:42 (five years ago)

Forgot about this thread! Here's one we were back on last year---some overlap of course, but not too much repetition: Kid Creole & the Coconuts: C o' D, S 'n' D

― dow, Friday, 5 March 2021 04:55 (five years ago)

Revisiting Daft Punk's last album Random Access Memory recently it struck me that the later movements of "Touch", which IIRC has a strong following on this site, has a very Dr Buzzard vibe

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