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"Stool Pigeon" is a 1982 song by Kid Creole & The Coconuts. It was the second single to be released from the group's third studio album Tropical Gangsters . It reached a peak of #7 on the UK Singles Chart and #25 on the US US Club Play Chart .
A stool pigeon is an informant. Stool Pigeon or The Stool Pigeon may refer to: The Stool Pigeon, a lost American film; Stool Pigeon, an American silent film; The Stool Pigeon, a Hong Kong-Chinese film; The Stool Pigeon, an independent UK music newspaper "Stool Pigeon" (song), by Kid Creole and the Coconuts (1982)
stool pigeon or stoolie [44] tell tale or tell-tale [45] [46] tattle-tale; tittle-tattle [44] tout – Northern Irish term for an informant, often one who informed on the activities of Irish paramilitary organizations during "the Troubles". [47] [48] trick [49] turncoat [22] weasel [22] X9 - A slang term in Brazil, possibly inspired by the ...
Their breakthrough came with 1982's Tropical Gangsters, which hit #3 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". "Dear Addy" also made the Top 40. In the US the album was retitled Wise Guy and reached #145, and "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby" flirted with the R&B charts
stool pigeon, stoolie police informer (UK: grass) (from the use of captive birds as hunting decoys) stop light (UK and US: traffic light) streetcar vehicle on rails for passenger transportation [DM] usually within a city; also called trolley [DM] or trolley car if electrically powered by means of a trolley (UK: tram) strep throat
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Cre~Olé: The Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts (ZE, Island, 1984) UK #21 [8] (Re-released in 1993 with a bonus track); Kid Creole Redux (Sire, London, Rhino, 1992); Haiti (Viceroy Music Europe, 1996) (Compilation of tracks from 1995's To Travel Sideways and Kiss Me Before the Light Changes)
Tropical Gangsters is the third album by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, released on May 10, 1982. [1] Originally conceived as a solo album by band leader August Darnell and titled Wise Guy, his label ZE Records pressured him to change it to a Kid Creole and the Coconuts record and to make it more commercial sounding in order to relieve the label's financial problems.