# Oh, Annie, I'm not your daddy!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-annie-im-not-your-daddy/603086>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 16, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-annie-im-not-your-daddy/603086 "2011-11-16T03:10:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-annie-im-not-your-daddy/603086/1 "2011-11-16T03:10:10Z")

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You see, if I was in your blood, then you would not be so ugly.

For whatever reason, my random play has kicked out four songs of the last seven off the one Kid Creole and the Coconuts album that I own.

Why can’t you be like Endicott?

I think I’m going to have to buy some more.

[Tell me what we gonna miss the most of all,  
Roman Colosseum or the Berlin Wall,  
Some little village or some cafe,  
Westminster Alley or the Champs-Élysées.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szUbUwWyvuE&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLC7DDD102170D9F0A)

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**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-annie-im-not-your-daddy/603086/2 "2011-11-16T04:31:04Z")

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I discovered the Kid about 8 years ago, with an album called “You Should Have Told Me You Were…” and went off looking for anything at all I could find by him. At the time there was almost nothing “in print” apart from the “Redux” greatest hits collection.

Now almost everything has been re-released, but there are also dozens of dubious live albums and repackaged greatest hits albums. I don’t have any firm recommendations, but recommend avoiding the albums “Too Cool to Conga” and “Private Waters In the Great Divide” (although it does have one great song, Laughing With Our Backs Against the Wall).

If you want to buy some digital songs ala carte, these are some good ones that aren’t on Redux:  
_No Fish Today_ (great. from Tropical Gangsters aka Wiseguys)  
_Consequently_ (from You Shoulda Told Me)  
_Madison Avenue_ (from You Shoulda Told Me)  
_You Shoulda Told Me You Were Catholic_ (from To Travel Sideways)  
_Haiti_ (Kiss Me Before the Light Changes)  
_Table Manners_ (Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places)

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**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-annie-im-not-your-daddy/603086/3 "2011-11-16T09:24:43Z")

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Also look out for August Darnell’s previous incarnation as Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, I think a ‘best of’ can be got on itunes - well worth it. I’ll Play The Fool and Cherchez la Femme are outstanding songs.

MiM