Stool Pigeon (song)

"Stool Pigeon" is a 1982 song by Kid Creole & The Coconuts. It was the 2nd single to be released from their album Tropical Gangsters. It reached a peak of 8 on the UK Singles Chart & 25 on the US Club Play Chart. August Darnell, the lead singer of Kid Creole & The Coconuts, was a great fan of the 1940's dress style, which for gangsters was double breasted pinstriped suits and hats. Stool Pigeon ,which Darnell wrote, was a tribute to this whole genre.

Track listing

7" Single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stool Pigeon"	3:25
2.	"In The Jungle"	4:27

12" Single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stool Pigeon (Remix)"	6:20
2.	"Double On Back"

Charts

Chart	Peak Position
Ireland	15
Netherlands	19
New Zealand	8
UK	7
US Club Play	25

External links

Kid Creole and the Coconuts

August Darnell Coati Mundi Fonda Rae Cory Daye Cheryl Poirier Adriana Kaegi Taryn Hagey Eva Tudor-Jones Jimmy Ripp (Rippetoe) Mark Anthony Jones Scott Johnson Peter Schott Carol Colman Winston Grennan Andrew Lloyd 'Bongo' Eddie Folk Simon 'Franco' Frost

Studio albums	Off the Coast of Me Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places Tropical Gangsters Doppelganger In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes I, Too, Have Seen the Woods Private Waters in the Great Divide You Shoulda Told Me You Were... KC2 Plays K2C To Travel Sideways Kiss Me Before the Light Changes The Conquest of You Too Cool to Conga! I Wake Up Screaming

Other albums	Oh! What a Night Cre~Olé: The Best of Kid Creole & the Coconuts Kid Creole Redux

Singles	"I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby" "Stool Pigeon" "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy"

Related articles	Discography

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