The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat

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A1	Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme	1:54
A2	The Voice Of Cheese	0:27
A3	400 Days Of The Year	5:56
A4	Zolar Czakl	0:57
A5	Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague	5:51
A6	The Legend Of The Golden Arches	1:24
A7	Louie Louie (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London) Written-By – Richard Berry	2:28
A8	The Dog Breath Variations	1:36
B1	Sleeping In A Jar	0:49
B2	Our Bizarre Relationship	1:05
B3	The Uncle Meat Variations	4:40
B4	Electric Aunt Jemima	1:53
B5	Prelude To King Kong	3:24
B6	God Bless America (Live At The Whiskey A Go Go)	1:22
B7	A Pound For A Brown On The Bus	1:29
B8	Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen)	5:08
C1	Mr. Green Genes	3:10
C2	We Can Shoot You	1:48
C3	"If We'd All Been Living In California..."	1:29
C4	The Air	2:57
C5	Project X	4:47
C6	Cruising For Burgers	2:19
D1	King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio)	0:53
D2	King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)	1:15
D3	King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)	1:44
D4	King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)	6:17
D5	King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humour Trucks)	0:29
D6	King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival ... The Underwood Ramifications)	7:22

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Transatlantic Records Ltd.
• Published By – Frank Zappa Music
• Copyright (c) – Frank Zappa Music
• Licensed Through – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Licensed From – Reprise Records
• Recorded At – Apostolic Studios
• Overdubbed At – Apostolic Studios
• Overdubbed At – Sunset Sound Recorders
• Pressed By – CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton
• Printed By – MacNeill Press Ltd.
• Printed By – Hastings Printing Company

Credits

• Bass, Soprano Vocals [Pachuco Falsetto], Other [Cheeseburgers] – Roy Estrada
• Design [Package Designed By], Photography By [Book] – Cal Schenkel
• Drums – Billy (The Oozer) Mundi*, Jimmy Carl Black
• Drums, Timpani, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone, Bells, Percussion [Chimes, Wood Blocks] – Art Tripp
• Electric Piano, Other [Tarot Cards, Brown Rice] – Don (Dom De Wild) Preston*
• Engineer – Richard Kunc (Dynamite Dick)*
• Engineer [Sunset Sound] – Jerry Hansen
• Management [Business Production] – Herb Cohen
• Marimba, Vibraphone – Ruth Komanoff
• Organ [Electric Kalamazoo], Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta [Celeste], Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Copyist, Other [Special Assistance, Industrial Relations, Teen Appeal] – Ian Underwood
• Photography By [Book] – Ed Caraeff, Terry Moore
• Piccolo Flute, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bassoon – Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner*
• Producer – Frank Zappa
• Soprano Vocals [Harmonies] – Nelcy Walker (tracks: A5, B3)
• Technician [Apostolic] – Lou Lindauer
• Tenor Saxophone, Tambourine – Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood*
• Vocals – Ray Collins
• Vocals, Guitar, Percussion – Frank Zappa
• Voice – Pamela Zarubica (tracks: A2, B2)
• Written-By – Frank Zappa

Notes

This was the first UK release of "Uncle Meat".

Includes a large 16-page book (29 x 29,5 cm), printed by Hastings Printing Company, Drury Lane, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.

Track A3: Early issues of 'Uncle Meat' only had "400 Days Of The Year" as title on labels, as track-listed [see label images]. (Taken from a line in "Letter From Jeepers" on an FZ-produced Bob Guy single).
The sleeve art of this issue (and other country/later issues) gives the updated title "Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution"

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.

Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1
Transatlantic Records Limited, 120 Marylebone Lane, London, W.1.
Licensed from Reprise Records, U.S.A.

Published by Frank Zappa Music BMI
© 1968 all lyrics, music and arrangements of this material copyrighted for the world by Frank Zappa Music...
Licensed through Warner Bros. / Reprise Records, U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (A-Side run-out, stamped): STRA 197 A1
• Matrix / Runout (B-Side run-out, stamped): STRA 197 B1
• Matrix / Runout (C-Side run-out, stamped): STRA 197 C1
• Matrix / Runout (D-Side run-out, stamped): STRA 197 D1
• Rights Society: MCPS
• Rights Society: BMI

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
2MS 2024, 2024	The Mothers Of Invention*	Uncle Meat ‎(2xLP, Album, Aut)	Bizarre Records, Bizarre Records, Reprise Records	2MS 2024, 2024	US	1969
CDD ZAP3, CDDZAP 3	Frank Zappa	Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, RE, RM)	Zappa Records, Zappa Records	CDD ZAP3, CDDZAP 3	Europe	1987
RCD 10506/07	Frank Zappa / The Mothers Of Invention*	Frank Zappa / The Mothers Of Invention* - Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, RE, RM, RP)	Rykodisc	RCD 10506/07	US	Unknown
JPCD 2000141/42	Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention*	Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention* - Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, Unofficial)	Not On Label (Frank Zappa)	JPCD 2000141/42	Russia	2000
RCD 10064/65	Frank Zappa	Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, RE, RM)	Rykodisc	RCD 10064/65	US	1987

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