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Tracklist A1Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme1:54 A2The Voice Of Cheese0:27 A3400 Days Of The Year5:56 A4Zolar Czakl0:57 A5Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague5:51 A6The Legend Of The Golden Arches1:24 A7The Mothers Play Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall In London)2:28 A8The Dog Breath Variations1:36 B1Sleeping In A Jar0:49 B2Our Bizarre Relationship1:05 B3The Uncle Meat Variations4:40 B4Electric Aunt Jemima1:53 B5Prelude To King Kong3:24 B6God Bless America (Live At The Whisky A Go Go)1:22 B7A Pound For A Brown On The Bus1:29 B8Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen)5:08 C1Mr. Green Genes3:10 C2We Can Shoot You1:48 C3"If We'd All Been Living In California . . . "1:29 C4The Air2:57 C5Project X4:47 C6Cruising For Burgers2:19 D1King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio)0:53 D2King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)1:15 D3King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)1:44 D4King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)6:17 D5King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)0:29 D6King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Zappa Ramifications)7:22

Companies, etc. Copyright (c) – Frank Zappa Music Distributed By – Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc. Credits Design [Package Designed By] – Cal Schenkel Drums – Jimmy Carl Black Drums [Some Tracks] – Billy (The Oozer) Mundi* Drums, Timpani, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone, Wood Block, Bells, Chimes [Small] – Art Tripp Electric Bass, Soprano Vocals [Pachuco Falsetto], Other [Cheeseburgers] – Roy Estrada Electric Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta [Celeste], Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Copyist, Other [Special Assistance, Industrial Relations, Teen Appeal] – Ian Underwood Electric Piano, Other [Tarot Cards, Brown Rice] – Don (Dom De Wild) Preston* Engineer – Richard Kunc (Dynamite Dick)* Engineer [Sunset Sound] – Jerry Hansen Guitar, Vocals [Low Grade], Percussion, Written-By, Producer – Frank Zappa Marimba, Vibraphone [Many Tracks, Special Thanks] – Ruth Komanoff Piccolo Flute, Clarinet, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bassoon – Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner* Soprano Vocals, Harmony Vocals – Nelcy Walker (tracks: A5, B3) Technician – Lou Lindauer Tenor Saxophone, Tambourine – Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood* Vocals – Ray Collins Voice [Uncredited, Voice Of Cheese, Suzy Creamcheese] – Pamela Zarubica Written-By [Uncredited] – Irving Berlin (tracks: B6), Richard Berry (tracks: A7) Notes Auto-coupled US first issue: Over-sticker on cover, with "The Mothers Of Invention" band name & "Two LPs And A Nifty 12-Page Book" text. Full-color paper-pasted gatefold (no internal glue tabs), with only "Bizarre" on spine. Warner '7Arts/Reprise' roundel logo on cover & 2024 cat#. "Printed in U.S.A." on back cover. "Made in U.S.A." inside cover.
Contains 12-page 30x30cm full-color book with photo-montages, illustrations & text.
2 auto-coupled vinyls (I/IV & II/III) cat# 2MS 2024 on blue/green Bizarre labels. Disc I, A3 is "400 Days Of The Year" (the later credit, "Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution" on sleeve inner spread). No visible track separation (no banding). Vinyl discs are stored in dark brown Bizarre (Zappa/Cohen imaged) liners with white text.
Distributed by; "Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc." on labels. "Reprise Records, A Division of Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc., 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California; 321 W. 44th Street, New York, New York." on r/h inner gatefold spread.
Recorded Oct 1967 through to Feb 1968. Many overdubs. Clarinets fed through 'Maestro' device, set at 'Oboe D'Amour' with variable speed oscillator [V.S.O.]. Two Pultec Filters, two Lang Equalizers & three Melchor Compressors built into console at Apostolic Studio, N.Y.C. Recorded on prototype Scully 12-track at 30 ips. Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound.
Other variations on track credits: Sleeve reads; A7 - "Louie Louie At The Royal Albert Hall In London" D6 - "King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Ramifications).
[The 2-disc tracklisting here gives what is printed on the labels. Later issues/CDs had title corrections]
"All lyrics & music copyrighted for the world by Frank Zappa Music, a Division of Third Story Music - BMI" Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, A-Side (I) label matrix): 30,871 Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, B-Side (II) label matrix): 30,872 Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, C-Side (III) label matrix): 30,873 Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, D-Side (IV) label matrix): 30,874 Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, A-Side (I) run-out, hand-etched): S 1 30871 MS 2024 A - 1B    A4 Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, D-Side (IV) run-out, hand-etched): ᔓ 1 30874 MS 2024 D - 1B    A3 Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, B-Side (II) run-out, hand-etched): S 1 30872 MS 2024 B - 1B    A1 Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, C-Side (III) run-out, hand-etched): S 1 30873 MS 2024 C - 1B    A2 Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, A-Side (I) run-out, hand-etched [variant 1]): ᔓ 1 30871 MS 2024A-1B A2 Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, D-Side (IV) run-out, hand-etched [variant 1]): S 1 30874 MS 2024D-1B Aµ Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, B-Side (II) run-out, hand-etched [variant 1]): ᔓ 1 30872 MS 2024B-1B A6 Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, C-Side (III) run-out, hand-etched [variant 1]): ᔓ 1 30873 MS 2024C-1E DJ A3 Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, A-Side (I) run-out, hand-etched [variant 2]): S 1 30871 MS 2024A-1B 0 A2 Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, D-Side (IV) run-out, hand-etched [variant 2]): S 1 30874 MS 2024D-1B 0 A11 Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, B-Side (II) run-out, hand-etched [variant 2]): ᔓ 1 30872 MS 2024B-1B 0 A3 Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, C-Side (III) run-out, hand-etched [variant 2]): ᔓ 1 30873 MS 2024C-1B 0 A4 Matrix / Runout (Machine stamped in runout of ALL sides [variant 1]): O Rights Society: BMI