Kid Creole and the Coconuts

My Male Curiosity (Promo 12")

Atlantic Records (US) / 1984 / DMD 750
12" Single Promotional - 33 1/3 RPM vinyl record
Genre: Dance

Few Deejays are so lucky, look on my profile and you can see that my favorite song is MY MALE CURIOSITY. So I get to post what I consider a DISCO CLASSIC, but may be the only one who does. There is quite a story behind this song, CLUB MYSTIQUE and myself. I got a copy of this in the mail in May of 1984, then got one in the record pool a few days later. It timed out at 120 BPM, and at the time 120 BPM was my very strong set. I played it in the middle of the set, and set the tone for the next year. MY MALE CURIOSITY became the BIGGEST SONG PLAYED THERE! I kept a written record of crowd reactions, and it was the number ONE song at MYSTIQUE every week for a solid year. Think about 1984-85. All the great HITS that were around, and this song blew them out of the water! What I soon found out, was that it only happened there!?!? NO-ONE ELSE was playing this song!?!? To this day I don't know why I was the only one, and why in MYSTIQUE it DOMINATED the way it did. I think that the way I mixed it in right from day one, in the middle of the strongest set, made it work. That and the REMIXES I gave it nightly. There is a profoundly strong KETTLE DRUM sound, that is featured throughout this song. I took full advantage of it, and exploited it in my mixes. That made it go great with the impressive light show that MYSTIQUE had, and the enthusiasm that I had, somehow transferred itself to the DANCE FLOOR. It was constantly being requested, and many came there, because of MY MALE CURIOSITY was played. I could write a lot more about MY all-time favorite DISCO CLASSIC, but Bernie needs the space. On my scale from 1-10, I give it 100!!!!!!

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