I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby

Album: Tropical Gangsters (1982)
Charted: 4
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Songfacts®:

  • When he appeared on the BBC Breakfast news program on September 14, 2011, Kid Creole/August Darnell said he always liked to be the center of attention, which might make him sound extremely vain, but when he performed this song dressed in a yellow suit looking like the comic book character The Mask and boasting of his conquests, it was impossible to take him seriously, which was obviously the point. Darnell produced the song, and co-wrote it with Peter Schott; it was released in 1982 backed by "Table Manners." >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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